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Just finished The Guns of August and started on another WWI history, The First World War by John Keegan (There are several books by that title, as you might imagine). Before that I read The Wrath of God, which is an account of a little known later conquistador called Lope de Aguirre, the historical character upon whom Herzog's Aguirre is based. I picked up Roger Ebert's new memoir recently, but I haven't really found it that interesting. I love his blog writing, but I guess I don't give a shit about what color the walls of his childhood home were. Also, reading A Clockwork Orange, based on a suggest from . Learn a lot of cockney slang that way.