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Hunger for knowledge · (#151 (**permalink**))

"The Prince" & "The Art of War"
by
NiccolÃ² Machiavelli

NomadaNare · (#152 (**permalink**))

Failed States by Noam Chomsky and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

nsogbu1562 · (#153 (**permalink**))

I've almost finished reading Destruction of Black Civilisation: Great Issues of a Race from 4500BC to 2000ADby Chancellor Williams. An excellent book. Not only does it go through African history (I'd never heard of the Mossi states or Shyaam theKing ofKubabefore) but it also provides real insightinto the source of problems experienced by Africans today and suggests solutions to some of these problems.

Taysense · (#154 (**permalink**))

Two Books:

Freakonomics.

Foundations trilogy by Asimov.

CA95616 · (#155 (**permalink**))

we need to talk about Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. brilliant!

Shemsi en Tehuti · (#156 (**permalink**))

CA95616 wrote:

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we need to talk about Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. brilliant!

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Start a new thread then if we need to talk about it...

CeeCee · (#157 (**permalink**))

Shemsi,

I'm currently reading Twilight people by David Houze Jr. This book is about an African-American( I say that literally because he is of mixed cultures)man who discovers that his South African mother had left there daughter without him knowing and he goes beack and try to find it. Going back to his land of birth also has questioned answered about his sister's far as his mother leaving them behind for 25 years and disucuuing his his reunion with his sisters and his mentally challeged brother. There are other topic that are somewhat unrelated to hisattempts to understand racism in the Mississippi( where he was raised) and South Africa and with the politics of Race with the " Coloureds", Black Africans and Whites in South Africa. He laso disucusses about his African American father and his origins.

So far, I'm liking this book because of his parallelisms that he makesabout race in this book. Reading his autobiography, I see him as a tragic figure. It also a part history lesson when he talk about the "Coloureds' Position there( and I have to agreewith Davidwith That, They were raised in a environmentwhere the governmenthas been using them up for years). This book is one that may leave you angry, confused, sad and even some humor in it. To me , it a pretty good book by him.

name · (#158 (**permalink**))

I'm not properly reading this book since it's more of a Coffee table type'a thing. But I got myself a book called Caribbean Style. Basically talking about and displaying the various architectural styles found on a good section of Caribbean islands. It has a little explanation of the ideas behind the buildings, including their introduction to the island in question and functionality.

bubz · (#159 (**permalink**))

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we need to talk about Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. brilliant!

yep i agree. read that book last year and would call itthe most entertaining book i read all year. it had me staying up late, unable to put it down.

Shemsi en Tehuti · (#160 (**permalink**))

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we need to talk about Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. brilliant!

yep i agree. read that book last year and would call itthe most entertaining book i read all year. it had me staying up late, unable to put it down.

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What's do damn special about this book? What kind of book is it, fiction, nonfiction, sci-fi, historical fiction, history, anthropological, what??? It is rude to talk about it, yet at the same time keep everyone reading in the dark.

bubz · (#161 (**permalink**))

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we need to talk about Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. brilliant!

yep i agree. read that book last year and would call itthe most entertaining book i read all year. it had me staying up late, unable to put it down.

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What's do damn special about this book? What kind of book is it, fiction, nonfiction, sci-fi, historical fiction, history, anthropological, what??? It is rude to talk about it, yet at the same time keep everyone reading in the dark.

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lol! calm down ! i think you may be a little confused...the title of the novel is 'we need to talk about kevin' and its written by lionel shriver. i dont know if it is the kind of book you would usually read but i found itgripping, totally absorbing.

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here's a little more info: http://www.harpercollins.com/global_...sbn=006072448X

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Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about both motherhood in general and Kevin in particular. How much is her fault? Lionel Shriver tells a compelling, absorbing, and resonant story while framing these horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as metaphors for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose.

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Prizes: Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction (2005), Shortlisted for the British Book Awards: Crime Thriller of the Year (2006) Related subjects: Modern fiction

http://www.foyles.co.uk/foyles/displ...p;TAG=&CID=

CA95616 · (#162 (**permalink**))

you need to go and buy the book. you wont regret it. I dont want to give too much away but its narrated by the mother of a boy who kills 9 people at his school.