Napoleon: A Life

The Populist Delusion by Neema Parvini started last week finished this week, an overview of political views of Mosca, Pareto, Michels, Schmitt, Jouvenel, Burnham, Francis, and Gottfried The Elementary Particles by French author Michel Houellebecq finished last week had started about a month ago. Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard about halfway through Napolean: A Life by Andrew Roberts started in the spring, about 1/2 way through had to take a break to read shorter books. Will get back to it, great book but very long.

"The Autobiography of Malcom X" What a crazy life he led. "Napoleon: A Life" - Andrew Roberts A gigantic book that still felt rushed because of how much he did during his life. "Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization" Kriwaczek, Paul Interesting introduction but I was hoping for more of a focus on a specific period of time. Instead if covers several thousand years of history. "Buddhism Without Belief" - Stephen Bachelor Meh. "The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment" - Copenhaver, Brian "The Philosophy Book" - Will Buckingham Great into to the history of Philosophy "The Vindication of Man" by John C Wright Great, great series.

I'm working on "Napolean: A Life" by Andrew Roberts http://www.andrew-roberts.net/books/napoleon-a-life/. This is a well written and pretty hefty biography. The author has done a great job of poring over the enormous material available from that era and consolidating it in a coherent fashion. I've always been fascinated by that period mostly because it seems to be the first time there was so much written down on paper which is preserved till today. Almost everyone who was literate seemed to maintain a diary and take notations of everything. Pretty decent descriptions of war maneuvers and battle tactics as well, if you guys like reading that kind of stuff ( I do :) )