1- If I had to recommend a book that had no merits for QB (but then again, what doesn't) I would have to recommend The Lords of Discipline for those who have not read it. (Please do not get this confused with The Lords of Acid, which I assume would also make an interesting book if they decided to make one). With all the hooha about Faulkner entering the Citadel, I decided to read it a few years back and then picked it up again for kicks. It still paints a picture of a place I know for certain that I would be unable to survive. 2- I don't think there is such a thing as a book that cannot be *dis*recommended. However, there is such a book. It's called "Redcoat" by Bernard Cornwell. It's some hokey soap opera of a book set during the American Revolution and I just could not get into it. Of course, it was one of those books that is not a "Waiting" or Phillip Roth, for example, just one of those you see on the shelf, think it will be good, and it ending up sucking worse than a Hoover 3- As for a book I wanted to read, it would have to be the book "IBM & the Holocaust" It's a rather long book, and Im still reading off and on (since March) but the content is scary. Just the idea that the Holocaust was "computerized" (for 1940s standards) and that everyone in the camps were reduced to a punch card makes us wonder if something like that would ever happen again. The matter of factness about IBM allowed it to go on, even with the US fighting the war, makes it a bit hard to believe, but it did happen, and yet, there has not been any backlash against IBM. Gee, I wonder why? PS- everyone should go see Pearl Harbor. Granted the love story schmaltz kind of clouds the plot, I did enjoy the film and even found myself wanting to get a plane and shoot some planes down myself. Seeing that movie made we wonder... Who really won WWII? If anyone is open for debate, let's talk.
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