[lbo-talk] What are you reading now?

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Robert Graves', I, Claudius
A book on the Borgias by some 60's Italian historian
Machiavelli's Prince and the Discoursi on Livy (random
selections as I read along with the Borgias)
Plan to start a book on the Medici next
Gary Wills' Venice: the Lion City
Just finished: Ross King, Brunelleschi's Dome and
Michelangelo and The Pope's Ceiling (along with the
very good guide illustrated to Mike & Raphael you get
in the Vatican, for the pix)Plan to start Tony
Grafton's book on Alberti: Master Builder of the
Renaissance, just bought this to follow up on the
Brunelleschi
May take Graves' Claudius the God as my next train
reading
Plan to restart Pynchon's Against the Day, read aloud
with la Espouza
Various books and papers on class actions for a paper
I'm writing
Various texts on federal civil procedure for a course
I'm teaching
Recently finished the new Harry Potter (eh, a real
disappointment)
Manera's Borgia series, Blood for the Pope and Incest
and Power (classy or any way well drawn
semi-historical pornographic comix)
Some recent Serpieri Druuna books (more classy or any
way well drawn sci fi pornographic comix)
At my kids' instigation I read through (again Thomas
Harris Hannibal Lecter books, except for Hannibal
Rising) ("I'll eat you up, I love you so.")

--- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:


> Palazzi of Rome - Cresti, Rendina, Listri -- a
> bigger than a coffee
> table book found at the library. Mostly this is just
> for looking at
> the pictures.
> 
> Life, Death and Entertainment in the Roman Empire --
> Potter &
> Mattingly -- just a collection of essays... the
> details of the
> importation of food to Rome are especially
> interesting.
> 
> Violence and Republican Rome by Lintott
> 
> The wonderful John Nunn book Understanding Chess
> Move by Move.
> 
> The Season 8 comic books of Buffy the Vampire
> Slayer.
> 
> Just finished a biography of Ava Gardner and another
> of Barbara
> Stanwyck in tandem with Heidegger's "What is Called
> Thinking".  When I
> got angry or frustrated with Heidegger I switched to
> reading about Ava
> Gardner and then Barbara Stanwyck.  Both are  more
> enjoyable than
> Heidegger.
> 
> I read poetry every morning, what ever is on hand.
> 
> I'm also going through a lot of books on classical
> Athenian law.
> Every summer I reread Rimbaud's "Season in Hell" and
> just finished
> that.  I want to reread Anna Karenina soon and
> Raymond Chandler's "The
> Long Goodbye" and "Farewell My Lovely."
> 
> Jerry
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