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Grand Eccentrics: Dayton and the Inventing of America
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I was going to say cougarguard, but I decided I had made enough really stupid jokes today.
(this is funnier if you think of Carlin's routine about When is Now).
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Wild Swans by Jung Chang, a really interesting memoir about three generations of Chinese women. The grandmother was a concubine, the mother was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao.
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just finished All Quiet on the Western Front.
Excellent and disturbing. just started Fahrenheit 451.
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Reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand right now. So far so good. I'm noticing alot about myself when reading about Peter Keating. Kind of a wake up call.
Books I own that are next up: The Road Atlas Shrugged Rough Stone Rolling |
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I'm also very interested to read this book. Jung Chang wrote "Mao: The Unknown Story" which is one of the best biographies I've read. The history of Communist China is fascinating to me. Please let us know how you like it.
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A similar book is "Red China Blues" by Jan Wong. "Red Star Over China" by Edgar Snow is an interesting inside look at Mao's early appeal. "Eldest Son" by Han Suyin is a good Zhou Enlai bio. Do you have any other suggestions along these lines? |
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