After i realised I only finished reading one book last year (The Best Democracy Money Can Buy) I decided to get more bukes into me this year.
So far this year:
The Plot Against America: Really, really good alternative history of a Jewish family in WWII America after FDR loses the election to an anti-semitic Charles Lindbergh.
Freakonomics: Read this one on the plane to New York. Very interesting / funny, but waaayyy too short.
See No Evil: Memoirs of an extremely bitter ex-CIA agent. Good stuff, but words / sentences / paragraphs are occasionally blacked out cos the CIA gets to censor everything their ex-employees write (the author chose to leave in the redacted material). The plot of the movie Syriana, which was also excellent, was apparently 'suggested' by this book.
So far this year:
The Plot Against America: Really, really good alternative history of a Jewish family in WWII America after FDR loses the election to an anti-semitic Charles Lindbergh.
Freakonomics: Read this one on the plane to New York. Very interesting / funny, but waaayyy too short.
See No Evil: Memoirs of an extremely bitter ex-CIA agent. Good stuff, but words / sentences / paragraphs are occasionally blacked out cos the CIA gets to censor everything their ex-employees write (the author chose to leave in the redacted material). The plot of the movie Syriana, which was also excellent, was apparently 'suggested' by this book.