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esmenetMy dear friends and relations, it is That Time Of The Year again. And by That Time Of The Year, I mean that these twenty nonfiction books scattered around me that I haven't read yet and ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
leftoverresearchquarterly are clearly not enough to get my nerdly/writerly synapses going again and I NEED NONFICTION RECS LIKE BURNING.
(Also, I adore reading other people's research notes. Or notes about research. Or posts like this, with all the awesome comments.)
Nonfiction/non-music podcast recs would be nice, too. I love the history of the Roman Empire, but when I can, off the top of my head, name more than twenty rulers of Rome, their good points, their bad points, and their causes and suspected causes of death, it's probably time to find a podcast about ancient China or something instead.
leftoverresearchquarterly are clearly not enough to get my nerdly/writerly synapses going again and I NEED NONFICTION RECS LIKE BURNING. (Also, I adore reading other people's research notes. Or notes about research. Or posts like this, with all the awesome comments.)
Nonfiction/non-music podcast recs would be nice, too. I love the history of the Roman Empire, but when I can, off the top of my head, name more than twenty rulers of Rome, their good points, their bad points, and their causes and suspected causes of death, it's probably time to find a podcast about ancient China or something instead.
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Date: 2010-07-30 01:53 am (UTC)Also in the humor/trivia line, the Uncle John's Bathroom Readers are always full of weird and interesting factoids.
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Date: 2010-07-30 03:25 am (UTC)I really Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. It's a humorous weekyl quiz show on the news on NPR.
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Date: 2010-07-30 12:39 am (UTC)First, I know you mentioned recs about Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America (I think?). I've finally managed to think up of a couple:
A Vietcong Memoir by Truong Nhu Tang (http://www.amazon.com/Vietcong-Memoir-Account-Vietnam-Aftermath/dp/0394743091/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280449136&sr=8-1)
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild (http://www.amazon.com/King-Leopolds-Ghost-Heroism-Colonial/dp/0618001905/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280449210&sr=1-1)
Playing Indian by Phil Deloria (http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Indian-Yale-Historical-Publications/dp/0300080670/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280449566&sr=1-1) -- yes, this isn't South America, but I'd still rec it because I think there are interesting parallels to be made. It's theory, but it's not as dry as you'd expect.
Also, ancient China, you say? I don't have a podcast, but I do have The Complete History of China by J.A.G. Roberts (http://www.amazon.com/Complete-History-China-J-Roberts/dp/0750931922/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280449774&sr=1-1). Could be dry, but for research purposes it could be good.
As for stuff I have been reading, well, there's always White Like Me and Lies My Teacher Told Me and Guns, Germs, and Steel, but something tells me they're too basic or otherwise not quite what you're looking for. (Though Guns, Germs, and Steel might be good as a jumping-off point to learn more about Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, and non-Western cultures/civilizations in general, however problematic it may be.) Unless you want me to start reccing stuff about current foreign affairs and the portrayal of Native Americans in white American society and boring environmental policy texts.
I have an idea: Why don't you make a comment in
I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this post, as I also hope good stuff comes out of it. ^_^;
(BTW, what are the twenty nonfiction books you haven't gotten around to yet, exactly? And do you mind reccing me anything regarding Japanese history, both current and modern? I have A History of Japan by Mason and Caiger (http://www.amazon.com/History-Japan-R-H-Mason/dp/080482097X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280450312&sr=1-1), but I don't know how good that is.)
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Date: 2010-07-30 12:39 am (UTC)Erik Larsen has a couple of interesting recent history books if you like that sort of thing.
Also:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128462652
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128588187
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Date: 2010-07-30 01:15 am (UTC)Speaking of him, I recently finished a book called Machiavelli's Children by Richard Samuels, which is kind of painfully one of those books written by an academic for other academics, but it's full of awesome information. It's a sort of compare/contrast of Japan and Italy coming into and out of World War II. And now I'm going to have to hunt down Benito Mussolini's autobiography, because I had no idea how sincerely crazy that man was. Whoa. Berlusconi's sort of...following in the footsteps. More than I knew.
More WWII: Masters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts. I haven't actually read it yet, but I picked it up because I suspected the title might be a geeky reference to Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander (I was right. ^_^). Then it made me laugh out loud within the first ten pages. (Apparently the PM of Australia sent Churchill a stuffed platypus at one point. He was so gleeful about it that he completely destroyed a day's worth of meetings by showing off his platypus to absolutely everyone. XD)
...Let's see. I've been reading a lot about organized crime, are you into that? And war, now I think about it. Organized crime and war. And war crimes. Um. o_O *searches brain for other topics*
Ah! Anything by Joan Didion, because she's awesome. Slouching Toward Bethlehem or The White Album, especially. I have foolish daydreams of learning to write prose as beautifully as she does.
:D Good luck!
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