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really

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Originally posted by EgosXII So, Unger is right, right?

I'm not sure we can ever really know that

Re: really

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Originally posted by Lira I'm not sure we can ever really know that

indeed haha

quote:

Originally posted by EgosXII So, Unger is right, right?

Depends on your point of view.

New shit to read. Probably going to sratt with Dune but we'll seee. Also want to read the whole Guns, Germs, and Steeeeeeel.

Dune is such win

dr jekyl & mr hyde is sweet too, and you can knock it out pretty quick

I recently read this one:

during a 6hr trainride.

Nothing special about it. I was disappointed in it though; I've preferred the other ones I've previously read of him like:
- Velocity
- Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd
- The Husband
- The Good Guy
- Life Expectancy
- Night Chills

"Your heart belongs to me" was pretty much rubbish compared to those.

next on my schedule:
- War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
- Serenity comic books (Joss Whedon)
- Robot series (Isaac Asimov)
- 2061: Odyssey Three, 3001: The Final Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)

About halfway through this

http://www.amazon.com/Black-People-...d/dp/0977792102




and 3/4 through this:

http://www.amazon.com/Locus-Solus-R...l/dp/0714507342

Added bothto my wantlist.

Heard good things about the second, never heard of the first lol

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Originally posted by iclone

Bahaha. That junkie is so full of shit. Lucky he writes a good story. Or more likely, that he has a good ghost writer.

Just finished re-reading Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City again. I still have no idea what it's about, but it's a fucking great book anyway. Now to return to Alexander Richie's Faust's Metropolis. Only 800-odd pages to go.

"holiday" list

won't read entirety of most of these, and re-reading parts of some, but yeah..



going through sartre again atm, goddamn so annoying... says epistemology is paradoxical, then makes (linguistically) paradoxical statements non-stop

On page 152 of Ulysses; don't have much to say about it yet.

Just read this. It often felt like I was reading something I had said myself, but with a sound historical foundation that I couldn't ever have. Hell, I love Feyerabend like Stushi loves birds.

hrrrm, recently


The Elegant Universe
The Hidden Reality
In Search of Schroedinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
The Selfish Gene
One Nation Under Contract: Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy
The History of Freemasonry

Currently reading The Post-American World 2.0.

And looking at my penis.

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Originally posted by Ted Promo And looking at my penis.

What does it say?

SHORTEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN LOL

Give up.

I found a copy of Stephen King's Danse Macabre on my housemate's bookshelf and gave it a try. For those who don't know, it's King's non-fiction musings/history of the horror genre. After a couple of hundred pages I finally got sick of King's authorial voice, which is like reading a transcript of him drunk at the end of a bar, rambling on about Ray Bradbury to an unconscious truck driver and the barman's unsympathetic cat.

Let's see. Lately:

Franzen - Freedom
DeLillo - White Noise
Pynchon - Crying Lot
Burroughs - Naked Lunch

Now:

Pynchon - V.

(I should have known. After Gravity's Rainbow AND Crying Lot, I was not going to read anything better from his first novel.) I wish this ****** would use a freaking plot and stop throwing away characters like bubblegum wrappers. Oh, well, I brought it on myself. To-morrow I will get back to it.

Also, I've just realised I haven't posted in this thread for ages, so before my abortive attempt with King, I was reading King Crow, the debut novel from my old creative writing tutor, Michael Stewart. And before that, Neuromancer.

Also, why is that the "big" post-modern writers have to use 300+ pages to say something that could have been said better in 200? Fuck.

Post-modern literature being self-indulgent? Heaven forbid!

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Post-modern literature being self-indulgent? Heaven forbid!

Okay, I should take that for granted. But how the fuck does this keep on being a literary trend? Do people 'really' like reading that? Do "you" like reading that sort of stuff?

I'd say about 20% of the people who read those books actually enjoy the style, and the other 80% are people like you who read them because they feel they're supposed to. I personally had to read a lot of that stuff while I was at university, and after having got up-close to it for a few years I've had no desire to read any more since then.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I'd say about 20% of the people who read those books actually enjoy the style, and the other 80% are people like you who read them because they feel they're supposed to. I personally had to read a lot of that stuff while I was at university, and after having got up-close to it for a few years I've had no desire to read any more since then.

Pssh. I'm barely AT the university.

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