What is the last book you read? What book are you reading right now? and How often?

Rereading Love in the Time of Cholera again, maybe the third time or so. One of my favorites of Gabriel Garcie Marquez. Such a beautiful book, like most of his. It doesn't hold a candle to 100 Years of Solitude, but it's still a masterpiece.

Here's one I would strongly recommend to the adventurers and politicos out there of any stripe: The Long Walk / The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Tawicz. While I've read everything about Shackleton over the years, this is one of the most amazing accounts of human endurance and the desire to be free that you will ever find. It's also an indictment of Soviet communism, and communism in general, which should no longer need indicting, but there are new useful idiots born every day.

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Applied Linear Statistical Models, fifth edition.

C'mon, ldd, you're just supposed to name the authors when you refer to a text like that.

I also just finished both "Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan. Thought "Dilemma" was better, IMO. As stated before, will definitely make you think about what you are eating and where it is coming from.

Some Thicht Thacht Nhan just before that. "Peace is Every Step." Would recommend to anyone.

Currently on PJ O'Rourke's "On the Wealth of Nations." Not too bad. It has it's ups and downs.

Up next, a re-read of "Letters to a Young Contrarian" by Christopher Hitchens. Great book.

Just finished The Value of X by Poppy Z. Brite.

It's the prologue novella to her Liquor/Prime/Soul Food trilogy of cooking/restaurant/mystery novels featuring the gay cooking duo of Rickey and G-Man, two New Orleans restaurantuers.

I've just started John Dies At The End, a snarky horror novel written by some cat who is the editor of Cracked (you know, the weaker knock-off of Mad), wrote the book, tossed it up online and based on the traffic he scored a book deal (I bought the actual book as there was no way I could read a 200 page book online).

George Pelicanos's Soul Circus - fiction about DC drug/gun trade, good stuff. If you liked the TV show the Wire check out Pelicanos as he was also a writer for the show.

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Just finished The Value of X by Poppy Z. Brite.

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Poppy Z. Brite? In the words of John McEnroe "You cannot be serious!"

A Practical Guide To Racism By G. H. Dalton if you like the Chappel show u will love this