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Lets see: I read Barbara Ehrenreichs book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America which details the authors experiences working undercover as a waitress in Key West, a maid in Portland, Maine, and a Wal-Mart Associate in Minneapolis.

Then I read Voltaires Candide , which was thoroughly ridiculous but funny in an acidic kind of way.

The latest one I finished was The Bloody White Baron, a biography of Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, a prominent figure in the Russian Civil War. He was a White general who believed totally in the divine right of kings and was fascinated with Mongolia and Buddhism. He drove the Chinese from Outer Mongolia and restored the rule of the Bogd Khan with an eye towards launching a global counter-revolution, but was defeated by the Reds and turned over by his own soldiers, because he was, incidentally, a sadistic psychopathic monster.

Am currently reading A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, about how and why the British screwed the Middle East up so bad, before, during, and after the First World War.