2008-11-25 weekly
by Vasil KolevA few days ago we celebrated Vlado Karavelov’s birthday. It had a few bad consequences for me, after about half a liter of home-grown rakiya (after which I went home and vomited them, and in the morning managed to get a seizure), but it was a lot of fun …
For a present we had decided to go through Helikon to get something interesting, and in the end we got him three things – “MacMafia” (with the wish to help him expand his business), “Sexual diseases” and “Treatment with alcohol extracts”. Let’s see how will they help him…
Before we got in the bookstore, the idea was to protect Stefan and Irina not to spend all their money for books. In the end it turned out that I had to be the one protected, as I got out with:
“Star shadow” by Lujyanenko (which I already finished, great book).
“The Miloshevic trial” by Zherminal Chivikov (I’m almost done with it, really good too).
“The battle for Orisa” by Alan Cole and Chris Bunch (from the same series as “The faraway kingdom”, which I really liked some years ago)
“Some luck for later” by Palmi Ranchev (I really liked his “Anonymous snipers”)
The two volumes of “Caution, tanks” by Heinz Guderian (the general, who has invented a lot of the tank war and is responsible for a lot of the German victories in the Second World War).
“The new Bulgarian demons” by Jurgen Roth, for which almost everyone has heard.
“Anticapitalistical thinking” by Lugwig fon Mises, which contrary to it’s title looks promising (and short).
I also got two books which I don’t know who were given to – “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand and “How to write a course paper” by Umberto Eco. Also finally “Lenin in Zurich” by Solzhenitsyn arrived, so I have what to read for at least a few weeks…
And I’m also quitting drinking, at least for a while. I don’t really fancy the idea about alcohol right now.