Despite the rather tepid reviews in Amazon, I’ve settled down to the first hour of listening to the audiobook version of this baby, and am thoroughly enjoying it.  It assumes that I’m a Western reader, which is rather off-putting, but the gentle treatment of the material so far has been fascinating.  Of course, it could just be me being overly and unreasonably enamored over the trivial beginnings of the book.

History is fascinating.  This was certainly not true when I was younger, but I’m finding as I’m growing older that the world is not only complex in nature, but endlessly interesting.  Why did things happen they way they did, and does it explain why things are what they are now? 

I find myself thrust into history because of my interest in politics, and surprised at finding out just how tightly intertwined the two subjects really are.

It’s starting to get silly for me to go to bookshops when the warehouse sales offer such a delectable selection of books at a price that simply cannot be denied.

A regular paperback is approximately RM35.  I get these at RM8 each.  Some a little more, but nothing more than RM12 or RM15.

This haul was from Oct this year.

• The Death of Bunny Munro, Nick Cave
• Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon
• Busted Flush, George RR Martin, et al.
• Lankhmar, Fritz Leiber
• The Centauri Device, M John Harrison
• The Boat, Nam Le
• River of Gods, Ian M McDonald
• The Dream Archipelago, Christopher Priest
• Gateway, Frederick Pohl
• Man in the Dark, Paul Auster

• Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill
• Once on a Moonless Night, Dai Sijie
• A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A Heinlein
• The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
• Beijing Coma, Ma Jian
• King Rat, China Mieville
• Scar Night, Alan Campbell
• The Sorrows of an American, Siri Hustvedt
• Cowboy Angels, Paul McAuley