Books You Have Read Lately

[MastanKhan]

Hi,

I just would like to start up this book section to see what me and you are reading.


I just finished reading two books.

First by Dale Brown---Executive intent

I used to like his earlier books a lot---till he went into techno stuff. The problem is that the techno stuff maybe a reality---in the research stage----but tells you alot where american warfare technology is headed.

Dale Brown is a retd bomber navigator---so all his stuff reveloves around air force.

The second one was by Andy Mcnab---Firewall

A suspense thriller---Andy Mcnab is one of the highest decorated SAS personale---so obviously his books deal with the sas stuff.

See you in a few days.

 

[sam27]

"A Problem from Hell" by Samantha Power. Really intuitive and a must read.

 

[Markus]

Five Point Someone – What not to do at IIT by Chetan Bhagat.

I completely believe the movie 3 Idiots has definitely been picked up from this book.

 

[humblehobbes]

History of Medieval India - Satish Chandra
all you chair bound Two Nation theory debaters must read this.

India Unbound - Gurcharan Das

 

[TailChoppers]

Actually the last book that I read was Andy McNab's Bravo Two Zero. Its an account of the SAS patrol that he led behind enemy lines during the Gulf War. It was an excellent book. no bullshit, just war from a soldier's point of view.

 

[gambit]

Highly recommend...

Amazon.com: A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis…

From Publishers Weekly
"Over time, the penis has been deified, demonized, secularized, racialized, psychoanalyzed, politicized and, finally, medicalized," declares freelance journalist Friedman in a serious yet entertaining book that weaves together an enormous amount of material. In the Greek and Roman worlds, statues of figures with erections were commonplace, he observes, though by the Christian era, the penis had become a source of evil and weakness. Doctors and scientists from da Vinci onward "deflat[ed] the religious rhetoric" and scrutinized the male organ sometimes with untoward results, as when American "semen science" led to the creation of antimasturbation products such as Graham crackers. Western man's fear of the African phallus undergirded colonialism and slavery, and resonates to this day, Friedman argues, as was evident in the case of Clarence Thomas. If some of Freud's case histories might be questioned, Friedman notes how the psychoanalytic interpretation enduringly places the penis and associated anxieties at the fulcrum of society. The rise of feminism put the penis in its place, as The Hite Report pointed out the limits of conventional intercourse in moving women to orgasm, and as Andrea Dworkin exposed penile pathology though the author concludes that male sexuality arises more out of evolutionary strategy than misogyny. His final and liveliest chapter concerns the medicalization of the penis, culminating in Viagra. Even though Friedman quotes a (female) sex therapist on the limits of such drugs, he concludes optimistically that "the erection industry" has performed a paradigm shift, allowing man to impose his will below his belt. The book has a few gaps -- there's little about the gay penis -- but it should reign as the seminal treatment of this topic (and inspire many more puns).

Gents...This is a 'must read'...

 

[Pride]

I am reading currently 2 books (depends on my mood i pick anyone of them)...

1) The laws of Spirit world by Khorshed Bhavnagari- This book is about spirits of both sons of author telling to the world what exactly happens in their world.

2) Autobiography of Banabhatta (Hindi):- In this book, Banabhatta a Brahmin of last hindu emperor Harshavardhana describing about the society/culture/rules at that time followed by kings in India.

Before above mentioned books, I read "Stay Hungry, Stay foolish" which collects stories and struggle of Indian enterpreneurs passed from IIM Ahmedabad.

 

[Currywurst]

Snow by Orhan Pamuk.. A novel that is good reflection of the cultural and political realignment happening in Turkey today
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller.. A novel set in communist Romania following the life and times of the young in a totalitarian state..

 

[SpArK]

the Righteous men by Sam Bourne

 

[MastanKhan]

Hin,

Since Tom Clancy came out with his techno thriller The Hunt For the Red October and shook the foundations of russian navy undersea warfare---not too many writers ventured into that field--.

JOE BUFF takes the game of naval warfare to a totally new level. Extremely shocking capabilities of late 20th century and the early 21 st technology---where suddenly the naval warfare has switched over to tactical nukes---.

You will be shocked and surprised where the undersea warfare is headed.

 

[Vasily Zaytsev]

"Endurance" by Alfred Lansing

Highly Recommended

 

[KillBill]

See MIPS run Linux, 2nd ed

Awesome book for all platform wannabes.

 

[nightcrawler]

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[Kompromat]

Windmills of God

 

[MastanKhan]

Prime Suspect by Steve Martini