What Are You Currently Reading?

Got it for christmas and am already 200 pages in. Has made me feel quite sick in parts (I couldn't stand reading parts of it after I'd smoked a joint, it made me feel quite unwell, so poor old sensitive me had to put it down a while heh) and tackles some quite nasty subjects, ideas and people but is a gripping read thus far. All about Milton Friedman's laissez faire Chicago School of Economics and its influence over Latin America; Bolivia, Pinochet's Chile, Peru, Brazil etc during brutal military dictatorships put in place by the CIA and western corporations (including Brighton favs ITT) to create the world's first unregulated free markets by overthrowing the democratically elected left/marxist leaning governments. The idea of economic shock therapy as well as physical and psychological shock and torture on those who disagreed with these Chicago influenced economic policies being used to coerce entire nations into running free market economies, destroying welfare provisions and imposing police states is pretty mental, as is deliberately causing recessions during power struggles- done by both the left and the right..

It's not yet gone on a lot about disaster capitalism (turning natural- tsunami, New Orleans etc- and manmade- 9/11, Iraq, etc- disasters into cash cows) which I quite look forward to reading though so far it's great.

I enjoyed No Logo very much and this is definitely as strong and is more sickening in some ways, maybe because I'm not as clued up on some of this relatively contemporary history as I am on some of the subjects covered in NL.

Read it. Says he, despite not having finished it.

 

I am reading(studying actually) Ayurvedic Medicine. Does anyone know any good Ayurvedic books ??

 

Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett

 

I've got both I Am Legend and The Forever War out, can't decide which to start first.

 

Thanks for the review, sounds like a good read

 

stoner and spaz http://www.amazon.com/Stoner-Spaz-Ron-Koertge/dp/0763616087

 

The Walking Drum by Louis L'amour. One of the few that the man wrote that isn't a western. It's set in the 12th century, mostly in Spain, but Kerbouchard, the narrator, also travels to the Middle East and Constantinople.

Basic premise of the story is thus: Kerbouchard goes on a quest to find out if his father is alive after his home is burnt to the ground by a rival of his father.

Amazing read, I think this is my 8th or 9th time re-reading it. Never gets old!

 

I should probably start reading a few of these.

 

wolves eat dogs.

 

A Painted House - John Grisham

For about the 4th time. :]

 

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

 

Walt Whitman - The Complete Poems
Dani Cavallaro - Cyberpunk and Cyberculture

 

AngelSlayer (the winnowing war) by Michael Wright

 

I just finished reading the twilight series, now back to ann rice.

 

This lullaby - Sarah Dessen... Again...

Pretty much my favourite book

Peace
Akai-Chan

 

i'm reading the catcher in the rye and also 'this book will save your life ' by AM Homes

 

Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
Black House by Stephen King

 

Ten Zen Questions by Susan Blackmore

 

i've just finished 'riding the magic carpet' and am starting 'two feet, four paws'

 

finished 2feet4paws, now reading Shantaram. realy digggggin it.