Books

[Forceuser]

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"In this visionary work of contemporary history, Timothy Snyder shows how Russia works within the West to destroy the West;
by supporting the far right in Europe, invading Ukraine in 2014, and waging a cyberwar during the 2016 presidential campaign and the EU referendum.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in the creation of Donald Trump, an American failure deployed as a Russian weapon.
But this threat presents an opportunity to better understand the pillars of our freedoms and face the choices that will determine the future:
equality or oligarchy, individualism or totalitarianism, truth or lies."

[TheNightShift]

Not sure if this one has been posted but

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston.

It's a non fiction about an Ebola outbreak and how the virus was barely contained in the US
I bought it merely because it was in English when I was very young and its one of the most anxiety inducing things I've ever had the pleasure to read
Much more scary now during these times





Julie.

[IDF2]

Blew my mind.

A must read along with this

The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 by our very own Irish author Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan.

The truth is much stranger then all the conspiracy theory's!

If you want a serious peace of journalism read like the above from the same author, read his book on Madeline McCann.
But get ready to be seriously depressed.

[IDF2]

A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance.

Without doubt, The Best Book I Have Ever Read.

But harrowing in places.

[Forceuser]

Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies

"Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China.

All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure.

But, according to socialism's adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were "real socialism". This book documents the history of this, by now, standard response. It shows how the claim of fake socialism is only ever made after the event. As long as a socialist project is in its prime, almost nobody claims that it is not real socialism.

On the contrary, virtually every socialist project in history has gone through a honeymoon period, during which it was enthusiastically praised by prominent Western intellectuals. It was only when their failures became too obvious to deny that they got retroactively reclassified as "not real socialism".

[joggon]

[IDF2]

Just finished.



I have read some terrible books.

I went mad reading about serial killers in my late teens.

But this book was the second most disturbing I have ever read.

It really made me question humanity and the depravity of us all!

Yes All!!

A must read but only for those that already know that humans are depraved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide

[Rockerman]

I'm currently re-reading Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian is one of the most violent books of fiction there ever was. I'm nearly finished it... again.

[IDF2]

I'm currently re-reading Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian is one of the most violent books of fiction there ever was. I'm nearly finished it... again.

Thanks for the recommendation.

I don't really read fiction but 1984 by Gorge Orwell, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Heart of Darkness by Joesph Conrad, and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. by John le Carré are all brilliant and a page tuners.

[Rockerman]

Thanks for the recommendation.

I don't really read fiction but 1984 by Gorge Orwell, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Heart of Darkness by Joesph Conrad, and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. by John le Carré are all brilliant and a page tuners.

1984 is brilliant, but fucking depressing...Orwell a legend. I read Heart Of Darkness...it was a short story - Apocalypse Now...fuck me. Never read the others. Um...you might like Blood Meridian!