what books are you reading?
 

I just finished reading

An Illustrated History of the Mafia and The Last Godfather, Arthur Thomspsons autobiograpgy (worth a read even if you;'ve never heard of the guy).

Looking for the Ferris conspiracy now. I'll admit my inner dleinquent seems to like reading non-fiction crime stuff especially if it's got to do with Glasgow or the UK but I should probably broaden my horizons. Anything I should check out? fiction. non fiction, crime, or not.

Bearing in mind the only fiction I've read in the past 5 or 6 years has been the harry potter books, angels and demons and the da vinci code.

I read The Chronicles Of Narnia last week, pretty good, written for children but I still found them good and they will make a cool set of films I think, hopefully Disney will make them all.

I've got lots of books here, mostly film and tv ones, mostly Star Wars, James Bond and X-Files, I don't really read much else.

The last book I read was The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
Granted it was for a test but i still thought it was a good book.

I just finished Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat". I would recommend it to anyone who has an open mind and a willingness to look at the status of globalization - excellent book.

Kathleen

cool got a bit more nfo on it?

My 2nd term politics essay was on globalisation so I've got a better idea of it than your average muppet to think coca cola + GAP + McDolnalds - fairness and equality = globalisation and I wouldn't mind a read if it sounds interesting.

some book about soundgarden.

I'm re -reading Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar". After this, I'm planning to read her diaries, which was a present for my birthday.

At last, I finished reading Pride and Preducide yesterday and have to say I totally loved it (Keeper you were right again :D and btw, I fell in love with Mr Darcy, lol).

And, I took some recommendations from my last post here and started already reading Middlesex by J. Eugenides - it seems to be quite interesting!. I will follow with Contest by M. Reilly which I got as late birthday present.

Thomas L. Friedman - The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century. Here is blurb from the Amazon site:

What Friedman means by "flat" is "connected": the lowering of trade and political barriers and the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution have made it possible to do business, or almost anything else, instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet. This in itself should not be news to anyone. But the news that Friedman has to deliver is that just when we stopped paying attention to these developments--when the dot-com bust turned interest away from the business and technology pages and when 9/11 and the Iraq War turned all eyes toward the Middle East--is when they actually began to accelerate. Globalization 3.0, as he calls it, is driven not by major corporations or giant trade organizations like the World Bank, but by individuals: desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world (but especially in India and China) who can compete--and win--not just for low-wage manufacturing and information labor but, increasingly, for the highest-end research and design work as well. (He doesn't forget the "mutant supply chains" like Al-Qaeda that let the small act big in more destructive ways.) Friedman tells his eye-opening story with the catchy slogans and globe-hopping anecdotes that readers of his earlier books and his New York Times columns will know well, and also with a stern sort of optimism. He wants to tell you how exciting this new world is, but he also wants you to know you're going to be trampled if you don't keep up with it. His book is an excellent place to begin. --Tom Nissley

Kathleen

Star By Pammy . iknow its taking me along time but i dont get much time to read