Books for this year's Christmas List

[Morgenstern]

Christmas is coming around and I like to buy and receive stuff around this time like many people. Surprisingly, I'm actually considering getting books which isn't like me usually. So I was wondering what are some good books to get that are harder to get at a library (due to not having) or not easily available online (No Marx or such since that's all online). So far my list includes Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnagut, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, and Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre.

Please give good titles that you find to be good reads, regardless how it stands on the political spectrum. A good read is a good read regardless of what's on the inside cover. Preferably I'm trying to educate myself here but if it's entertaining I'm all for that too. Some of my top favorite books include Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four by Orwell, Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Thanks for any advice some readers could give. :)

[Il Medico]

Stephen Fry- Star's Tennis Balls & Hippopotamus

[Hoipolloi Cassidy]

and I trust the following doesn't go beyond the bounds of the acceptable.

Paul Werner is the author of "Museum, Inc.: Inside the Global Art World," (Prickly Paradigm, University of Chicago), a scathing critique of the way culture has fallen prey to global capitalism which the critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer called "relentlessly brilliant, hilarious, dead-on and hyperwitty." (It's been translated into French and Italian, as well.) He's just come out with a sequel, "The Red Museum: Art, Economics and the Ends of Capital," which is scathinger, and a much more thorough Marxist analysis of the economics of the art world. It's also full of obscure philosophical jokes and, yes, full color illustrations designed by the author. Also, because the author wishes to put his publishing where his heart is, it's available directly from the producer with a flexible price range, all the way from "free, including shipping" for bloods in the jails or brothers on the rez or third-world libraries, to $150.00 if you fall into the category "Rich Asshole."

Even if you don't fall into either category, you can still contact the author at: werner[at]theorangepress.com and negotiate a fair price.

[freepalestine]

Christmas is coming around and I like to buy and receive stuff around this time like many people. Surprisingly, I'm actually considering getting books which isn't like me usually. So I was wondering what are some good books to get that are harder to get at a library (due to not having) or not easily available online (No Marx or such since that's all online). So far my list includes Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnagut, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, and Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre.

Please give good titles that you find to be good reads, regardless how it stands on the political spectrum. A good read is a good read regardless of what's on the inside cover. Preferably I'm trying to educate myself here but if it's entertaining I'm all for that too. Some of my top favorite books include Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four by Orwell, Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Thanks for any advice some readers could give. :)

http://www.revleft.com/vb/beware-small-states-t145551/index.html

also

http://www.revleft.com/vb/noam-chomsky-ilan-t145550/index.html

[MarxSchmarx]

Please give good titles that you find to be good reads, regardless how it stands on the political spectrum. A good read is a good read regardless of what's on the inside cover. Preferably I'm trying to educate myself here but if it's entertaining I'm all for that too.It sounds like you are looking for political books nonetheless? In these areas, I would recommend Lakoff's Moral politics, Sen's Development as Freedom, Graeber's Anarchist Anthropology, and Chang's Bad Samaritans.

And I wouldn't get Being and Nothingness. It is a chore to read and is excessively jargonfilled and long. If you want to get a good book on philosophy, get A J Ayer "Language Truth and Logic." Although that might be available online, I am not sure.

In the fiction arena I would recommend "The Last town on earth" by Thomas Mullen.