HarveyVdarski posted:

I haven't written too many threads, so I thought I would go with something I have an interest in: History Books!

I know that this isn't, like, literature, but like, a good nonfiction can still read very well.

So I thought that I would start with the last book I finished;




So, this is an absolutely fantastic book. It's a cracking good read, and its pretty in depth. It's interesting to learn about sheer amount of failure that went into this socialist experiment. The corruption, the abuses to the people, enviroment, I mean the chapter on embezzlement is amazing, the entire economy being controlled by the government but being completely subverted by all of these social networks. You get chapters talking about three thousand chinese failing to do the work that five hundred construction professionals could do. There's even these sneaky stories and anecdotes about how people survived the famine(with like, product testing being basically an orgy of food and booze. Millions are starving and these people are eating till they puke, or a "land surveying job" being a massive, 35 million dollar cruise) It really is one of the best I have read, its deffo the best I read in 2011.

Anyone got any others? I got a new kindle and it's ACHING for more history books.