What Are You Currently Reading???

The Soldier and the State by Huntington.

Dust

Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout

Yes sir!

Everything I audiobook... is in paperback first sir.  The good thing about Audiobook, it has to be a pretty good book to begin with for them to go Audio.  I'm really liking this Joe Ledger series.

Describe please?

Literary book about two attorney brothers in NYC who return to their small hometown in Maine because their sister's son threw a pig's head through a mosque (lots of Somali refugees) and is being charged with a hate crime.

It's originally from the 50s and is an analysis piece on the role of the military in society and Huntington's theories on civil-military relations. Very interesting read, but dry. It is required reading for me.

Good man... I think I told you I did the Silo series a couple years ago.

It was great. It was a good way that wrapped up the story too. Basically, Julia....  j/k.

He does an analysis of the day-to-day lives of traditional societies (most specifically, hunter/gatherer and simple farming societies in the Amazon forest and New Guinea) and how they raise children, interact with other tribes, cook, war, care for the elderly, and live day-to-day.  There are some fascinating, down-to-earth comparisons of life among modern-day humans in a first-world society, and people who were only just "contacted" by modern humans in the past century (New Guinea highlanders had no idea another world existed until about 1938 when Australians flew over, discovered that a population as dense as Holland existed, and hiked in to make contact).  There are still some Amazonian tribes who have never been contacted by the outside world, but who have seen planes fly over and so ostensibly know something else is out there.