What are you reading right now (II)?

[Padreruf]

Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. The basis for the show "Irrational" on NBC, with similarities to Dan Ariely's life ( burn victim) and his work in Behavioral Psychology (he's a.professor @ Duke in the business school.

We think we humans are rational and logical -- he proves we are far from that most of the time.

 

[Bodhisattva]

The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan

 

[dayhiker]

The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan

Brushing up on what's to come? Sorta blue font.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

 

[dayhiker]

On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides

It's about the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. I'm enjoying it so far. He makes you want to throat punch MacArthur and Almond.

 

[UAH]

On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides

It's about the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. I'm enjoying it so far. He makes you want to throat punch MacArthur and Almond.

The same people who did the Great War on Youtube and World War ll are now doing a weekly on the Korean War. MacArthur should have never been placed in command or certainly should have been relieved when he continued to clamor for bombing inside China. Ridgeway was able to stabalize the rout after the Chinese entered and avoid UN troops being pushed off the Peninsula which had become a practical certainty under MacArthur.

 

[Bodhisattva]

The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss

 

[Bodhisattva]

Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire that Ended a Dynasty by Anthony A. Barrett

 

[Bodhisattva]

Pox Romana: The Plague that Shook the Roman World by Colin Elliott

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell.

One of the great thinkers of our time. He’s 94, so read him now.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss

 

[Bodhisattva]

Moscow X by David McCloskey

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Meltdown by Duncan Mavin. The rise, decline and fall of Credit Suisse.

Just started it, but I’m thinking I’ll like it a lot.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Nothing but Blue Skies by Thomas McGuane

 

[Bodhisattva]

The Seventh Floor by David McCloskey

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Red Dragon Thomas Harris. I have been wanting to start the Hannibal Lecter series. Finally getting around to it.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

"Fight" by Allen and Parmes, the story of replacing Biden with Harris, dropped this morning so before my job interview this afternoon I'm checking it out.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek

 

[Bodhisattva]

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline, a former colleague of mine at GW.

 

[dayhiker]

Slow Horses by Mick Herron