What are you reading tonight DU? Me, I'm still on the biography of Mordecai Richler by Charles

[applegrove]

Foran. Really great read if you are canadian because he was such a friend to so many talented people in Canada...they are all throughout the book. The love story is very refreshing too. Certainly a slow read, because there are so many details, but I highly recommend it.

[Incitatus]

1. DU

[applegrove]

2. LOL!

[Maine-ah]

3. holy shit! me too!

[MilesColtrane]

4. "Louis Kahn: Essential Texts"

[Ptah]

5. Prairie Nocturne by Ivan Doig.

His series of novels overlap my youth and the
homesteading by my grandparents.

[pscot]

6. I'm on a Neal Stephenson jag

I just finished Snow Crash and now I'm reading Diamond Age. He bends your mind.

[haf216]

7. Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer

[applegrove]

8. I love Jon Krakauer. What is the book about?

[haf216]

9. Pat Tillman

It's about Tillman's life and the cover up of the friendly fire that killed him. The only reason I picked it up was that it was a Krakauer book.

[Lionel Mandrake]

10. "Hitler's Uranium Club" by Jeremy Bernstein

This book reveals a lot about the character of Werner Heisenberg (the author of the uncertainty principle). Heisenberg had led the effort to build nukes for the Nazis during World War Two. He and several other physicists were arrested in May, 1945 and held incommunicado until the end of the year. Their conversations were secretly taped by the British. The tapes were transcribed and translated into English. What they reveal contradicts many of Heisenberg's subsequent claims about what he had done during the war.

[struggle4progress]

11. Tocqueville's The Ancien Regime and the Revolution (1856)

"... a large number of constitutional laws and customs from the Ancien Regime disappeared suddenly in 1789 only to resurface a few years later, just as certain rivers plunge underground only to re-emerge a little further on ..."