What are you currently reading?

[Dan]

Great infographic about both dystopia:
http://m.9gag.com/gag/5196073

I've seen that years ago. :)

But both dystopia are as strongly there.

Want to see Orwell's the two minute hate? Watch US news.

People trying to change language so there are concepts you simply won't be able to think? Check.

Unable to do anything at all without being seen by big brother? Yup.

Anyone with the power to make you an unperson? Facebook when they ban your account.

Organisation that tell you what to think, love and hate? Churches, Apple, political parties...

[R]

I agree with you at some aspects.

I don't know American news. I know that American media are trying to set people against Muslims. I know few Americans, who were saying sad thing about Muslims, even when they didn't know one...
But Polish news are rather making people dumb. They don't show important things, they show stupid, unnecessary informations like 'superstar xyz was catched with drugs'. This things are even on governament TV...

I've never heard of this language project, could you post a link? But I do not believe in most of conspiracy theories.

I agree with that paragraph, cameras on the streets, google and cookies really are unpleasant.

I don't think that ban of Facebook account makes someone unperson. I know many people who do not have FB and they not complain about it.

I agree with that paragraph. In Poland church have very big influence on people. But most of them are 60+. In fact I think that most of people hate thinking. They just choose authority to think for them...

[Riley_Gautier]

Still reading The Hunger Games. I think it is a brilliant book so far

[Billy]

I'm reading Scoouwa, Its a story about early Ohio life among the Native Americans

[RudiMentaer]

Im currently reading "Un train de glace et de feu" written by Ramon Chao, father of famous worldmusician Manu Chao. Its a travel report about his band Mano Negra through Columbia. Their intention was to bring hope to the people.

[Mark]

I've just finished Let The Right One In. I wasn't sure what to think at first, but by the end, I was completely hooked.

[brandon]

My Beloved World by U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

She faced enormous challenges growing up... an alcoholic father who died when she was young, prejudice, health issues, poverty, life in a dangerous public housing project in New York, cluelessness about a lot of middle class cultural things, but went on to a very successful career as a prosecutor, a lawyer, and a judge.

If you wondered if she got the Supreme Court appointment mainly to provide cultural diversity on the court, you may come away with a different opinion.

[nakedrobot]

 Reading Enders Game. Very excited that the movie is coming out soon

I know in some other thread there were posts about naturism in books. Ender and his companions in the barracks all sleep in their "skins" which is slang for naked.

[Dan]

Reading Enders Game. Very excited that the movie is coming out soon

It's a very disturbing book when you stop to think about its implications.

[Dan]

Currently reading Le livre noir du Canada anglais by Normand Lester. It's a very interesting book that was created as a response to Heritage Minutes (60 seconds propaganda pieces paid for by the federal government to whitewash its history) and shows the dark, bloody and genocidal history of Canada.

I barely started the first tome but so far, it's very good.

[AMC1987]

At the moment, I'm reading two books.  The first is a biography of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany by Charlotte Zeepvat.  He was a hemophiliac and the youngest son of Queen Victoria.

The other is Political Poison, a murder mystery by Mark Richard Zubro.  He's written 23 mysteries so far I believe and I'm working my way through the series.  (Its actually two series of mysteries, mostly in alternating volumes.)  Political Poison is the 6th book.

[naturallynude]

The Pursuit of Italy - David Gilmour

[funnytannednudist]

i am currently reading a bookcalled low level hell - its a book written by a pilot in the vietnam war,its a very good book and opens your eyes to the dangers of war.

[dedanax]

I'm reading now The Mirror of Cassandra by Bernard Werber.

This book is about a girl, who has the ability to see into the future, but cannot remember anything before the bomb which killed both her parents.

[Dan]

I'm reading now The Mirror of Cassandra by Bernard Werber.

I have a love-hate relationship with his books. All the little "facts" he stops the story to tell are utter and complete bullshit. He starts with the truth and distords it, stretches it or simplifies it to the point where it turns absolutely false.

Lots of his story are brilliant, except when he tries to put too much philosophy in them, then it sucks.

I loved Les fourmis, and Les thanatonautes. I absolutely hated the follow up he gave to Les thanatonautes. Le père de nos père was pretty much bullshit too. He wrote a neat short stories book.

So, how much philosophy is there in this latest one? If it's barely none, it goes on my to read list. :)

As for me, I'm reading Le livre noir du Canada 2, by Norman Lester. It's the sequel to the one I read before, more of the bloody and bigoted history of Canada, concentration on the 20th century. There's a third one that about recent history too. I'll read it when I'm done with this one.