Who has two thumbs and likes books?

This guy.  Thats right, I enjoy reading.  Which is usually not a problem.  It doesn't endanger my health and rarely is it the direct cause of suffering in my reality.  But it does cause some serious dilemmas.  Like my current situation.

I am at an annual meeting for nerds like myself, and there are a lot of them.  The Exhibition Hall is filled with books at extreme low prices.  Hence, the dilemma: do I spend my money on books? Or do I enjoy the city on New Orleans and go out to dinner?

Yup, you guessed it.  I'll go for the books.  Here are some recent titles that I am looking at, or that have come up in conversations here.  These are books that have to do with my area of concentration and will hopefully spark some MA Thesis ideas:

Warren Cater The Roman Empire and the New Testament : An Essential Guide. 
James C Scott Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts.
Simon Price Religions of Rome.


I will have to post some of the other interesting titles that come up in some of my other areas of interest, like Paul.  There are some great conversations going on here.  We will see what comes of these papers.  Maybe a few more books...


P.S. I have heard the line from Monty Pythons "Life of Brain," "What have the Romans ever done for us?" quoted four times in papers so far.