Книги – из недавно-прочитанного

1. Иван Бунин “Окаянные дни”;
2. Тэффи “Воспоминания”;
3. Юрий Олеша “Зависть”;
4. Adam Hochschild “King Leopold’s Ghost”;
5. Пушкин “Борис Годунов”;
6. Гончаров “Обломов”;
7. Sam Lipsyte “The Ask”
8. Margaret Atwood “Oryx and Crake”;
9. Margaret Atwood “The Year of the flood”;
10. Bryan Ward-Perkins “The Fall of Rome and the end of civilization”;
11. Peter Heather “The Fall of the Roman Empire: a New History of Rome and the Barbarians”
12. Christopher Beckwith “Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present”;

From Vanity Fair

“The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2007 has just now created a new opportunity for travel: financial-disaster tourism. The credit wasn’t just money, it was temptation. It offered entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Entire countries were told, “The lights are out, you can do whatever you want to do and no one will ever know.” What they wanted to do with money in the dark varied. Americans wanted to own homes far larger than they could afford, and to allow the strong to exploit the weak. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers, and to allow their alpha males to reveal a theretofore suppressed megalomania. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.”