Books

[Wobblz]

I’m working a job that allows me to read, so I’ll smash out about one history book a week. If anyone’s interested in any particular period, I can maybe recommend something.

Any decent (ancient) Armenian history book you've read, by any chance?

 

[Materazzi_23]

I’m working a job that allows me to read, so I’ll smash out about one history book a week. If anyone’s interested in any particular period, I can maybe recommend something.

I've started to read SPQR a history of ancient Rome from Mary Beard only yesterday. Did you read it? If yes what are your thoughts about it?

 

[Raul Duke]

Any decent (ancient) Armenian history book you've read, by any chance?

Ancient? Not really.

“They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else” by the historian Ronald Grigor Suny is a fantastic book about the genocide. It very lightly touches on ancient history, but the meat of the book is focussed on mid nineteenth to early twentieth century.

I've started to read SPQR a history of ancient Rome from Mary Beard only yesterday. Did you read it? If yes what are your thoughts about it?

Actually I’ve picked it up and I was tossing up if I should read that next, a bio on Napoleon or Anne Applebau’s history of The Gulags. I guess I’ll read SPQR next, just for you. I did actually start Edward Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall” but I can’t justify reading six volumes of outdated history.

 

[wera]

If you like Fantasy, start with the Farseer trilogy. It's barely fantasy, even less than A song of ice and fire. But very good read, some of my fav. characters and fantasy moments are in it

 

[Materazzi_23]

Actually I’ve picked it up and I was tossing up if I should read that next, a bio on Napoleon or Anne Applebau’s history of The Gulags. I guess I’ll read SPQR next, just for you. I did actually start Edward Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall” but I can’t justify reading six volumes of outdated history.

Haha that's the next book which is on my list, the problem i'm having sometimes with books about Roman history is the overwhelming deluge of information about dates, names and military legions, cohorts etc. Last month i've started to read Daniel Varga's '''The Roman wars in Spain'' and i just had to stop because there was so much information giving about legions, cohorts names etc that it felt like i had to write everything down to remember. But the serie books of Harry Sidebottom called Warrior of Rome was fantastic to read!

Thank you, i'm curious to see your opinion on the book.

 

[Mino]

A Primate's Memoir, by the great Robert Sapolsky.

 

[Mad Biscione]

I’m working a job that allows me to read, so I’ll smash out about one history book a week. If anyone’s interested in any particular period, I can maybe recommend something.

anything good about Dutch East India Company

80% of my reading is history as well 15% are classics 5% random

 

[Raul Duke]

A Primate's Memoir, by the great Robert Sapolsky.

Sapolsky's fantastic. I'm pretty sure his Stanford lectures are still available on YouTube.

anything good about Dutch East India Company

80% of my reading is history as well 15% are classics 5% random

Don't know about the Dutch East India Company, though Niall Ferguson's "Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World" is a brilliant account of the British side of things. From the many good things to the outright genocidal.

That's more or less the ratio I've been rocking for a while.

 

[Mino]

Yeah i watched most of them. Gold
I highly recommand the Book if you like Sapolsky.
Made me laugh outloud many times in the train. It was also very informative

 

[Raul Duke]

I think I will check it out

 

[Devious]

I love books.

 

[Rasha]

stick to your cats bro...

 

[Anne Marie]

If one like to start with some serious history:

The rise and and fall of the Great Power, Paul Kennedy
The clash of civilizations, Samuel Huntington
Nationalism, five roads to modernity, Leah Greenfeld
Five centuries before the west, David Kang
Political Order and Political Decay, Francis Fukuyama, this one has two volumes and is one of few magnum opus out there about the history of modern states
Great Tradition and Great Transformation, John K. Fairbank

 

[brehme1989]

Five centuries before the west, David Kang

This one looks very appealing to me. Gonna give it a go but I still have a shitload of books to finish first. Currently reading 'Silk Roads' from Peter Frankopan.

 

[Anne Marie]

Actually the Silk Road and Five centuries are constrasting stories. The former gives u a sense of dynamic interaction across regions, the latter put them in boxes.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

I’m working a job that allows me to read, so I’ll smash out about one history book a week. If anyone’s interested in any particular period, I can maybe recommend something.

What is that job?

 

[Raul Duke]

What is that job?

Back at uni and working a retail job that lets me read lots and gives me the hours I want.

 

[Dave54]

Any decent (ancient) Armenian history book you've read, by any chance?

History of Armenia by Moses of Khoren, 5th century AD.

Sebeos' History.

Herodotus.

Xenophon.

Plutarch.

Etc.

 

[Dave54]

Seriously... why do we have a "Books" thread on FIF? I mean, really... reading books? What's next, learning how to sew?

Reading a book... pfff... what a unmanly thing to do. Only gays & queers read tbh, which says a lot about the people who have posted in this thread so far, & I'm really surprised that Han himself even opened the thread... I don't even know what to think anymore.

The only books I'd bother to look at if it was the last thing I'd do on earth, are books with pictures & coloring areas.

:work:

Coloring books sounds great for you.

 

[Ethor]

Reading two books currently:

Gustav Mahler: An Introduction to his Music by Deryck Cooke.
Waking The Tiger by Mark Wightman. It's a murder mystery set in Singapore in 1939.