Harding's reading log
Aug 12, 2025

I will post what I'm reading in the comments.

In February, I plan to read the MCDP1 Warfighting, Iliad and Odyssey, the Tom Woods Medieval book, and, if I have time, the Oxford WWI.

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I think I should buy "How the World Made the West", "New Rome", 100 Years of Solitude, "Misquoting Muhammad", and "A Brief History of Intelligence".

Eventually maybe the Upanishads (probably the Oxford and maybe the Mascaro, on the basis of this review:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1YXT7GDWCKSU0/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8 )
and maybe the Oxford Quran, the Oxford Buddhist scriptures, Ibn Warraq's "Why I am not a Muslim", and Karen Armstrong's "A History of God" and "The Bible: A Biography".

Extremely nice

Now reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Helle translation), line 100.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 34 out of 286.

I don't like this translation (should have bought the George), but that's what I bought.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 57.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 65.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 71.

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Now reading the Legge Zhuangzi, on p. 168 (the book starts on p. 164).

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 174.

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@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 181.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 184.

Now reading Hesiod's Theogony.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on line 175.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on line 280.

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@EnopoletusHarding Now on line 420.

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@EnopoletusHarding Now on line 950.

@EnopoletusHarding Read the first couple pages of the Works and Days; these are much better than the Theogony.

Now reading Ropp's error-filled, but not all that poorly written, "China in World History".

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@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 10 out of 187.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 20.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 30.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 40.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 50.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 60.

Now reading Ron DeSantis's "Courage to be Free", p. 15 out of 262.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 31.

@EnopoletusHarding I think I'm getting to the good part.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 41.

@EnopoletusHarding So far it's not very good.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 51.

@EnopoletusHarding I'll probably switch to reading the Harvey or the Woods "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization".

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 61.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 183. This book is garbage.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 185, Chapter 12.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 197.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 202.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on Chapter 14 (p. 204).

@EnopoletusHarding So far, my plan is to finish the DeSantis, then finish the Ropp, then finish the Works and Days, then, if I have time, to read the Marine Corps' MCDP 1 Warfighting.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 228.

I am reading Bulfinch's Mythology, now on p. 26.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 30.

@EnopoletusHarding Switched to reading The Metamorphoses of Ovid, p. 29.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 37 of the Bulfinch.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 48 of the Bulfinch.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 53 of the Bulfinch.

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@EnopoletusHarding I've bought the Kindle version Oxford translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, but, buyer beware, it is just a scanned PDF.

have you consider using goodreads.com?

You can share what you read, what you are reading, what you want to read

I am reading the Harvey "Brief History of Neoliberalism", p. 9 out of 247. It looks good.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 30; still looks pretty good.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 50; it's no longer very good.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 67; it's OK.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 80; it's mediocre.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 87.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 92; it seems like a series of college lectures.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 100.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 110.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 120.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 130.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 140.

I am reading the Harold M. Tanner and I have bought "Mexifornia".

@EnopoletusHarding I have read 100 pages of the Harold M. Tanner (out of 289).

@EnopoletusHarding I promise to finish reading the Harold M. Tanner within a week.

@EnopoletusHarding Now 200 pages.

@EnopoletusHarding Now 219 pages.

@EnopoletusHarding Now 239 pages.

@EnopoletusHarding Now 249 pages.

@EnopoletusHarding Now 259 pages.

@EnopoletusHarding I have finished the Tanner; it was very bad.

I have read three chapters of the Book of Wisdom.

Bet on what books I will finish this month:

https://manifold.markets/EnopoletusHarding/which-books-will-i-finish-this-mont

@EnopoletusHarding I have now read eight chapters of the Book of Wisdom.

This month I am buying Hanson's "Mexifornia"; I am currently reading Hayek's "Road to Serfdom"; it's surprisingly good.

@EnopoletusHarding Might buy "Stand on Zanzibar", but this is unlikely this month.

I found this free translation of the Enuma Elish; I don't know what I'll do with it:

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350297425

@EnopoletusHarding I am on p. 14.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 29.

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@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 35.

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@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 37.

I've read McDougall's "Starch Solution"; it is very good.

@EnopoletusHarding After this, I might read Zamatin's "We" and Park's "A Single Shard".

@EnopoletusHarding Finished reading "A Single Shard" about a month ago; it was garbage.

I'm now reading Sanders's "Where We Go from Here". Next I might read the Aeneid.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 39 out of 278.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 90.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 99; this book isn't very good. I'll have to switch to reading the Guide to Political Revolution.

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@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 75 of the Guide to Political Revolution (basically a platform).

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@EnopoletusHarding Tomorrow I plan to finish Adler's "Between Yahwism and Judaism" and Sanders's Guide to Political Revolution, as well as finish the preview of Keay's China history.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/between-yahwism-and-judaism/DF4B36DC1118F3DDAF3A060C7B4878CC

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 189 of the Guide to Political Revolution.

@EnopoletusHarding Finished with the Guide to Political Revolution.

@EnopoletusHarding Finished with "Between Yahwism and Judaism"; it's not very good.

@EnopoletusHarding I've previewed the Keay; it's not very good.

@EnopoletusHarding I have also previewed the Ropp; it's actually pretty good (if filled with errors).

I am previewing histories of China; so far the best I found is Michael Woods's.

@EnopoletusHarding I still bought Harold Tanner's second volume because it was cheaper.

I think I will start reading The Very Short Introduction to The Self at some point this week.

@EnopoletusHarding OK; I've started on it.

I have pirated MacMullen's "Corruption and the Decline of Rome".

I am now reading the Analects of Confucius, p. 123 (the translation starts on p. 116) out of 263.

I re-read David Skrbina's "The Jesus Hoax"; review here:

https://eharding.substack.com/p/review-of-skrbinas-the-jesus-hoax

I am now reading Ehrman's "Jesus, Interrupted", now up to p. 14 out of 293.

@EnopoletusHarding Now up to p. 44.

@EnopoletusHarding Now p. 127. This book is garbage, suitable only for people who don't know anything about the New Testament.

@EnopoletusHarding Now p. 163. My opinion stands.

@EnopoletusHarding Now p. 184.

@EnopoletusHarding even though I don't really trust Ehrman, I'll probably buy his "God's Problem".

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 222.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 278.

@EnopoletusHarding All done; this book was very bad.

I am now reading Adler's "Origins of Judaism", now up to p. 24 out of 236.

@EnopoletusHarding Finished chapter 1 (pig and fish dietary rules); now up to p. 50.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 90.

I am now reading Iran: A Very Short Introduction up to p. 30 out of 124.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 94.

Now reading A Vindication of the Rights of Woman up to p. 23 out of 169.

@EnopoletusHarding Now up to p. 27.

I am now reading The BRICS: A Very Short Introduction up to p. 13 out of 136.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 52. The starting point was good, but this book reminds me why I don't recommend Very Short Introductions.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 54.

@EnopoletusHarding I promise to finish this book today.

@EnopoletusHarding I promise to finish this book today.

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@EnopoletusHarding OK; though I broke my promise, I finally finished the book today; apparently I can only read ~20 pages per day. I will not review it.

Will you post reviews of each book after you've finished reading it?

@jim For some books, yes, especially if I find them interesting. I can't make any promises, though.

@jim I think I will write a review of "It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism".

Reading Bernie Sanders's "It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism" up to p. 82 of 309.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 96; on the "billionaires should not exist" chapter.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 101.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 116

@EnopoletusHarding Now on the health care chapter (p. 122).

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 128.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 150 (still on the healthcare chapter).

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 154 (where Sanders praises Debs).

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 174 (where Sanders promotes a job guarantee).

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 184.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 199 ("Tax the Robots").

@EnopoletusHarding At this point, I have concluded Bernie Sanders is a moron (though this is more apparent in the "Guide to Political Revolution").

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 222.

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@EnopoletusHarding Next books I plan to read are Che Guevara's "Guerilla Warfare" and Park Chung Hee's "Our Nation's Path". After that, the Amulet of Samarkand and the Analects of Confucius. After that the Zhuangzi and Harvey's Brief History of Neoliberalism.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 249.

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@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 286.

@EnopoletusHarding Now on p. 292.

@EnopoletusHarding I'm now reading the afterword.

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