What Books Are You Reading?

Right now I'm reading the autobiography Witness by Whittaker Chambers. Or at least trying to. His style is rather brisk on details, so when he's talking about his family it zooms by. But when he's going on about his former Soviet contacts as a Communist agent, all of those long Russian names, one after another just make my head hurt. The book is 800 pages and very small type, which doesn't help with the twelve+ letter Russian names incidentally.

I might grab some old pulp fiction from the 30s after I finish Witness. There's a lot of Robert E. Howard's work that I haven't read yet. Solomon Kane always sounded fun.

 

Grimlock,

It's been years since I read it, but it's a wonderful book. I do remember, too, though, it being hard to read.

BTW, another excellent book on the subject is Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein.

 

Roads to Modernity: The American, French, and British Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb

1776 by David McCullough

God and Man in the Law by Robert Lowry Clinton

The Case for Democracy by Natan Sharansky