Discussion Thread: What are all you reading in terms of fiction AND non-fiction? - #20

Discussion questions:

What new books are you reading?

Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?

Question of the week:

What are your favorite publishers?

Enjoy!

(I do this so people here can talk about things other than politics so enjoy yourselves.)

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Working through Lenin's State and Revolution. Decided that it was time to actually bother reading theory rather than just going on what everyone else says. As for nonfiction, rereading His Dark Materials. I read it once years ago, really hits different. The church-controlled word is scary... (I'm assuming one of the main divergence points there was the successful crushing of the Revolution.)
- That's what I assume too.
  
  It's also rather amusing to me that this somehow led to the failure of Muscovy to unite Russia.
Been slowly working my way through le Carré's Karla Trilogy, but slowly starting to hate it more bit by bit. I still think spy stories are better if the setting is the Cold War.

I think now I prefer nonfiction and theory books more now, though, as I continue to learn. Should probably focus more on actually getting through them rather than reading snippets or shorter works as they come up, especially since sometimes I feel I'm not getting the full picture as I'm not entirely confident in my foundation of knowledge. Got a lot of stuff I'll probably have to reread at some point.
- spy stories are better if the setting is the Cold War.
  
  I agree, for a variety of reasons. That said, are there any spy fiction novels that aren't steeped in insane levels of US propaganda?

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