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CaucasianAsian
Korea (South)11593 Posts
On August 13 2007 16:33 CustomXSpunjah wrote: didnt read through the whole thread but if it already came up this is another reason to read it: ![[image loading]](http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/37/410/523/0374105235.jpg) an excellent book, by the first page i was almost brought to tears AMAZING BOOK! | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14908 Posts
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
Education Of A Felon - Eddie Bunker ![[image loading]](http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/x1/x5344.jpg) | ||
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[IrIs]YellOw
Sweden91 Posts
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BroOd
Austin10833 Posts
![[image loading]](http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/13060000/13066717.jpg) Finishing right now. Getting ready to read George RR Martin because Hot_Bid is a bully. | ||
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gLyo
United States2410 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.nothing.com/nada.jpg) Chuck Klosterman looks good though. Maybe I'll read something of his. Also, I never knew people read so much non-fiction. | ||
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BroOd
Austin10833 Posts
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fusionsdf
Canada15390 Posts
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EpiK
Korea (South)5757 Posts
On August 13 2007 14:15 Vigilante wrote: Here's a few books I personally enjoyed that I'd recommend for pretty much everyone. ![[image loading]](http://www.survivalarts.com/images/book_cover_front_1984_blog.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/3/31/Atlas_shrugged_cover.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://www.turtletrader.com/images/fountainhead.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WKWV3RHNL.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://objectivist.union.rpi.edu/0451147952_l.gif) Great recommendations... 1984 is probably one of my favorite books. | ||
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draeger
United States3256 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.copperpenney.com/reading/images/story_b.jpg) | ||
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So no fek
United States3001 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n29/n148421.jpg) Then ![[image loading]](http://halo.bungie.org/images/valentines_exile_amazon_cover.jpg) And just started ![[image loading]](http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51usIaYjIPL._AA240_.jpg) I'm loving it, and I know I'm going to be sad after I finish Resolve, as the next book isn't due out until the summer of 08. I'll likely finish it (even though I'm only about 40 pages in  ) a couple hours after I wake up. I'd continue reading now, but I'm beat.I'd recommend the series to anyone who likes Science-Fiction/Fantasy, or anyone who enjoys reading in general. The other books, in order are Way of the Wolf Choice of the Cat and Tale of the Thunderbolt | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
On August 12 2007 22:59 FrozenArbiter wrote: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami ![[image loading]](http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/murakami/images/kafka_on_the_shore.jpg) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i've never heard anyone mention that book until now. If you want to discuss i'm here. There was a Murakami short story in the new yorker a few years back that's also good. His stories are like shinto-jungian esque, very good writer. | ||
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TheFoReveRwaR
United States10657 Posts
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
On August 12 2007 15:15 kNyTTyM wrote: I'm reading a couple of books for highschool which starts on Monday. Finished The Great Gatsby a few days ago, Frankenstein Yesterday, and Oedipus Cycle like a week ago. Now I'm reading Heart of Darkness. The Great Gatsby alone took me an entire semester, numerous papers, and a lot of will strength to finish | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
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FirstBorn
Romania3955 Posts
On August 18 2007 22:37 TheFoReveRwaR wrote: I'm reading this: "What are you reading right now?" Damn you !!!. | ||
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Rotodyne
United States2263 Posts
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IzzyCraft
United States4487 Posts
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Tadzio
3340 Posts
![[image loading]](http://last-straw.net/wp-content/uploads/book-failed_states.jpg) The part I just finished reading was about US intervention in Kosovo, which is widely held in the intellectual west to be an "illegal but legitimate" action. According to these intellectuals, the action was legitimate because diplomatic avenues had been exhausted and further Serbian atrocities would've been witnessed had NATO not bombed promptly. Chomsky shows that there were still diplomatic actions available to Western powers in dealing with Milosovic and the Serbs, and that the Serbian atrocities, while bad, were made worse, not better, as the result of the bombings. As evidence to this assertion, Chomsky cites Milosovic's war crimes charges, as most of the atrocities he was charged with occurred after the NATO bombing. Chomsky also cites detailed studies: In the year leading up to the NATO bombings, 2000 people were killed in Kosovo as the result of conflicts between the Serbs and the KLA (Albanian guerrillas). According to Nicholas Wheeler's study (which happened to support the NATO bombing), only a disappointing 500 of these 2000 murders could be attributed to the Serbs. After the NATO bombing, as many as 800,000 Kosovars were forcibly deported, among other atrocities. Chomsky concludes that the NATO bombing of Kosovo was not a humanitarian action that happened to break international law, but a fully illegal action with no legitimate justifications, unless you ascribe to the belief that might makes right. He goes beyond this assertion to posit that the bombing wasn't even a failed attempt at humanitarian intervention, but was in fact "to assure 'the credibility of NATO,' meaning the United States". To further underline this point, Chomsky recalls that the US and NATO did not intervene in East Timor, where Indonesians were committing genocide in efforts to convince the Timorese to acquiesce to their annexation attempts. Chomsky implies that had the NATO bombing of Kosovo been done for humanitarian reasons, NATO should also have bombed Indonesia as a matter of principle. From the chapter's conclusion: "Few questions are more important today than the propriety of the use of force. No doubt one can imagine, perhaps even find, genuine cases of humanitarian intervention. But there is, always, a heavy burden of proof. And the historical record should give us pause. We might recall, for example, the observations of one of the major scholarly studies of humanitarian intervention. The author finds three examples of such intervention between the 1928 Kellogg-Briand pact outlawing war and the UN Charter in 1945: Japan's invasion of Manchuria and northern China, Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia, and Hitler's takeover of parts of Czechoslovakia. Not, of course, that he regards these as genuine examples, but rather that they were depicted as such, and evidence was provided, which, however grotesque, was regarded with some ambivalence-- and sometimes support-- by the United States and Britain. [...] It tends to support the measured judgment of the World Court, in 1949, that 'the Court can only regard the alleged right of intervention as the manifestation of a policy of force, such as has, in the past, given rise to the most serious abuses and such as cannot, whatever be the defects in international organization, find a place in international law ...; from the nature of things, [intervention] would be reserved for the most powerful states, and might easily lead to perverting the administration of justice itself.'" So that's what I'm reading. | ||
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