What Book Are You Currently Reading?

[InfamousAngel99]

I'm currently reading (and enjoying) The Master and Margarita

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[Turkophagos]

[JamesBond007]

In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on—he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken to its roots by some major crises, Why Marx Was Right is as urgent and timely as it is brave and candid. Written with Eagleton's familiar wit, humor, and clarity, it will attract an audience far beyond the confines of academia

[Incal]

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[JamesBond007]

In this selection from her searing cultural history of the last half century, Susan Jacoby chronicles the menacing surge of anti-rationalism in contemporary American life and the degradation of public speech in presidential rhetoric, radio broadcast, television, and internet media where homogenized language and thought reinforce each other in circular fashion.

At today's critical political juncture, in which boastful ignorance has infected public discourse at the highest levels of government and throughout ordinary social media, this impassioned, tough-minded work challenges Americans to face the painful truth about what the flight from intellectualism, facts, and truth have cost us as individuals and as a nation.

[Damião de Góis]

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[mrazathoth]

Working on finishing up A Wilderness Station by Alice Munro. I've been putting it off for so long because it just keeps getting better and better but the amount of pages is diminishing with each successive story I finish. I have the next selected stories compilation from her, Family Furnishings, to look forward to, at least.