The "WHAT ARE YOU READING?" thread

[ShitFace]

Kitchen Confidential is a great book.

[TheOriginalGrumpySpy]

Kitchen Confidential is a great book.

Just started it, it's hard to put down! Very very good.

[Mad Pino Rage]

For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

It's about a US Spanish teacher who is involved in the fighting in Spain. He is a demolitions expert and falls in love with some chick named Maria with a shaved head. They do it a few times. She's kind of loose.

At first I liked it but I've gotten to the middle of it and am having to trudge through that part. Maybe it will pick back up.

This sounds very interesting. I had some small desire to read more Ernest Hemingway.

The Last Days of Socrates by Plato (edited by Harold Tarrant)

3 4 books about the last days of Socrates life before he was sentenced to death. He discusses the immortality of the soul, the trial of Socrates and the death of Socrates.

I'm taking an introductory ethics course and we just finished reading this. I don't know if it is just Plato or maybe that's just be ancient Greek, but the it was written or spoken to get points across is convoluted and kind of a headache.

I just finished readingGrounding for the Metaphysics of Morals On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns byImmanuel Kant, and I'm guessing because it was published so much closer to my time than Plato's works that it seems easier to read and less of a headache yet a major headache nonetheless. I have to reread it and much more carefully to get a better understanding, but I'm slowly picking up the pieces. Kant himself seems to be, from what I heard, an interesting guy who was a college professor, loved to gamble, drink, smoke, and all sorts of other vices.

Also recently finished Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume, and that was also a pain. Though, I keep rereading it from time to time and starting to like more and more as I better understand it. I guess David Hume really liked ancient Greek philosophy that he modeled this imaginary conversation on how debates would go in ancient Greece.

What I'm currently reading is Reason, Religion, and Morals which is a collected works by 19th century social reformer, lecturer, and feminist Frances Wright. I was thinking that I'm not engaged by a lot of historical or important female figures from the past or today. I don't agree with what all she has to say, but I'm liking that she says it and does so passionately. While I've only read a few passages from the book, I'm really taking a shine to her.

Everything I've listed has been for college. I don't think I've read a book for the fun of it or just out of personal desire in probably two or three months.