What are you reading?

[sweetnpetite]

*Me: Everything by Charles de Lint that I can get my hands on. Currently The Ivory and the Horn.

I love YA fiction, particularly fantasy. Sometimes I like Young Adult fantasy fiction more than I like adult fantasy fiction. Even my librarian noticed this!

 

[lustybard]

Sewer, Gas & Electric, Matt Ruff. Weird, even for sci-fi, but pretty interesting so far. He gets compared to Vonnegut, but Vonnegut always wrote directly to the point -- I'm not sure yet that Ruff has a point.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm reading a biography of Adolf Hitler. It is so fucking amazing at how he changed following WW1. He was a nice guy, he had Jewish friends, people recalled him as decent sort of guy. Makes you wonder.

When he was murdering Jews all over Europe he protected his old Jewish friends. Fucking amazing.

 

[shereads]

For a quick mood pick-me-up, I recommend The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History by John M Barry.

Basic premise: If you aren't vomiting up a kidney, life is pretty good.

 

[CharleyH]

I'm reading a biography of Adolf Hitler. It is so fucking amazing at how he changed following WW1. He was a nice guy, he had Jewish friends, people recalled him as decent sort of guy. Makes you wonder.

When he was murdering Jews all over Europe he protected his old Jewish friends. Fucking amazing.

Actually this is intriguing. I have always wondered how otherwise sane and intelligent human beings transform into mass murderers. I have not probably read the book you speak of, but what more does it say?

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I'm reading fucking 'Breaking Dawn'.
My brother left it over here and while I was bedridden, curiosity got the best of me.
Someone please kill me.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

CHARLEY

I'm up to about 1921 in his life. But all the old-timers who left recollections of him indicated that women found him very attractive, and he had a couple of serious infatuations that didnt result in anything much happening. He was kinda Platonic with women. Probably asexual in terms of arousal.

He was very brave in combat. Captured prisoners by himself. Rescued comrades in grave danger. The regiment dog loved Adolf. He was very generous with what he had but refused gifts if he couldnt reciprocate. When his mother died he was a poor school boy, often living on the street, but he gave his share of his inheritance, plus the stipend he gor from the government, to his minor sister for her keep. Friends said he was very decent when it came to helping others. And some of his political enemies said his gift of oratory was incredible, he could convince you of anything.

People ridicule him because he was a lowly corporal, but his commanding officer said Hitler was too valuable to promote and risk losing, mostly because he volunteered to do the most dangerous tasks and was always happy to spare a comrade of the danger.

I have no idea what flipped him into a mad man. I suspect something happened after the war that turned him. I mean, what would change a sweet guy into a monster? He never said, and no one seems to know. But I wonder if he wasnt castrated by Jewish communists in those violent years immediately after the war. The books says all kinds of atrocities occurred, even Red Cross girls were shot down on the street.

 

[SlickTony]

I'm reading Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold.

 

[OneLustyWench]

Re-reading Shelter From The Storm by our own Litizen Molly Wens before her radio interview tomorrow.

 

[Frank Noir]

Just finished Julian Barnes' latest, "Nothing to be Frightened of" (Brilliant!)
Now reading "Darwin, a Life in Science" by White and Gribbin.