What are you reading right now?

[Allegro]

[Allegro]

[Allegro]

[Allegro]

[Sweejak]

"Sykewar" by Daniel Lerner
http://ur1.ca/jmwj

[Penguin]

(a friend loaned it to me...been meaning to read it for a good while now)

[monster]

Yes! I finally got my hands on UFOs and the National Security State volume II



(The damn postman left it at the door, even though it was raining on and off today... but all's well that ends well.)

[compared2what?]

monster, you know what? Nothing makes me happier than when you score a sought-after book. For some reason. But I far prefer to imagine they were thrift shop finds. So I'm just going to ignore the part about the postman, if that's all right with you.

Though I am also very curious to know whether you've learned anything from your reading material about gravity that makes it possible for you to hang anything from that coat hook on top of the bookcase. Because....You know how city living is. Storage space is always an issue.

[Percival]

[monster]

monster, you know what? Nothing makes me happier than when you score a sought-after book. For some reason. But I far prefer to imagine they were thrift shop finds. So I'm just going to ignore the part about the postman, if that's all right with you.

Trust me, I wish I could have found this one at a thrift store. But since it's brand new, it cost me $30 - which I would never spend on a book. Except this one. Because it's supposed to be really good.

[semper occultus]

not really out yet but looks good :



Paul Weston's book on Crowley. Subtitled 'from the Nazis to the atom bomb, LSD, and UFOlogy' this is lively book of fascinating connections. It is Paul Weston's surreal and hyper-real take on Crowley in connection to Babalon Working, Sirius Mystery, Stele of Revealing, psychedelic sixties, Church of Satan, Process Church of the Final Judgement, rebirth of Witchcraft, Manson murders, Thule, orgone energy, Abraxas, Mothman, Illuminati, Men in Black, Gnostic revival, Nazi Occultism, Montauk, Loch Ness monster, Necronomicon, the psychology, magick, and mysticism of Thelema, the crossing of the Abyss, secret cipher, Extra-Terrestrial Gnosis.

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The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memoir

[Hammer of Los]

Paul Weston's book on Crowley. Subtitled 'from the Nazis to the atom bomb, LSD, and UFOlogy' this is lively book of fascinating connections. It is Paul Weston's surreal and hyper-real take on Crowley in connection to Babalon Working, Sirius Mystery, Stele of Revealing, psychedelic sixties, Church of Satan, Process Church of the Final Judgement, rebirth of Witchcraft, Manson murders, Thule, orgone energy, Abraxas, Mothman, Illuminati, Men in Black, Gnostic revival, Nazi Occultism, Montauk, Loch Ness monster, Necronomicon, the psychology, magick, and mysticism of Thelema, the crossing of the Abyss, secret cipher, Extra-Terrestrial Gnosis.

Hell, someone's been ripping Jeff off big time.

There was a launch party for this just two days ago;

http://www.yelp.co.uk/events/london-ale ... unch-party

Avalonian Aeon and Friends
A Sunday afternoon book launch on the Treadwell's shop floor, celebrating the release of Paul Weston's book on Crowley. Subtitled 'from the Nazis to the atom bomb, LSD, and UFOlogy' this is lively book of fascinating connections. It is Paul Weston's surreal and hyper-real take on Crowley in connection to Babalon Working, Sirius Mystery, Stele of Revealing, psychedelic sixties, Church of Satan, Process Church of the Final Judgement, rebirth of Witchcraft, Manson murders, Thule, orgone energy, Abraxas, Mothman, Illuminati, Men in Black, Gnostic revival, Nazi Occultism, Montauk, Loch Ness monster, Necronomicon, the psychology, magick, and mysticism of Thelema, the crossing of the Abyss, secret cipher, Extra-Terrestrial Gnosis. Join us for a drink and get your signed copy on the day.

Damn, just missed it. Never mind. I would be terrified to turn up at an event like that. Heaven only knows the wierdos that would attract.

[Jeff]

Finally unpacking boxes of books from a nearly four-year old move. Serious fun!

About 15 years ago I binged on Roman studies. Really enjoying rediscovering this:



http://www.jstor.org/pss/300879

[smiths]

i have just finished this one, very good



"The Proud Tower" is not a narrative but a collection of eight essays, some of which had appeared previously, in briefer form, in various magazines. In "The Patricians," she writes about an England in which "the Age of Privilege, though assailed at many points and already cracking at some, still seemed, in the closing years of the Nineteenth Century and of Victoria's reign, a permanent condition." "The Idea and the Deed" is about the Anarchists, who "were able to draw blueprints of a state of universal harmony only by ignoring the evidence of human behavior and the testimony of history." "End of a Dream" is about the rise of the U.S. Navy and America's turn toward imperialism. In " 'Give Me Combat!' " she writes about the Dreyfus Affair, in which a French officer was convicted of turning over secrets to Germany, a wildly controversial case that reeked of anti-Semitism.

In "The Steady Drummer," her subject is the peace conferences of 1899 and 1907 at the Hague, in which little more than rhetorical progress was made toward "the goal of a new international order in which nations would be willing to give up their freedom to fight in exchange for the security of law." " 'Neroism Is in the Air' " is about prewar German culture, with particular emphasis on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and the music of Richard Strauss. In "Transfer of Power," she writes about the "transfer of power" in England, "not a mere political transfer from the in-party to the outs but one more profound, to a new class." And, finally, in "The Death of Jaurès," her focus is on the birth of socialism and, with the murder of Jean Jaurès, its great French leader, the death of his conviction "that man was good, that society could be made good and the struggle to make it so was to be fought daily, by available means and within present realities."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02277.html