@Satsuki:
Ah.
Well . . . . . . I'm not sure I recommend those two books then. They're considered classics (the former is considered mandatory reading if you're studying existentialism), but they are the type of book that makes you want to hurl them across the room as hard as you can.
Oh god. The Stranger was horrible. My 12th grade English teacher tried to get everyone to read it because the boy who did a project on the book for the class butchered it, and after the first couple of chapters we raised our hands in the air and just didn't care. D:. I've never been a huge existentialism fan.
Sifting through Common Sense is no fun at two in the morning when the paper on it is due in ten hours and you can't concentrate worth a damn, but if you plan on voting in the next three weeks I recommend giving it a read.
I've been trying to find decent Russian History books, or mythology analysis books by Joseph Campbell, but my bookstores have little. The only Romanov specific books are all either pre-finding the first group of bones or published just after the bones of the Tsar, Tsarina, Olga, Tatiana, Marie and some servants were found. No books have been published to date that include the findings of Anastasia and Alexei, but that may be awhile yet as they were just discovered last year I believe.
I hate being so picky about my history once the information gets an update D:.