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-- What Are You Reading? Part Deux.
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I miss reading for fun.
Damned sick of Jeremy Bentham.
Jeremy Bentham? Where's the utility in reading that? 
I've been reading nothing but language courses and linguistics textbooks. The sole exception was this:
It's a great read, specially if you're an atheist and you think there's something amiss with the contemporary criticism of Christianity. It feels like he's talking about a religion that has nothing in common with the travesty espoused by Intelligent Design nutters, which is probably a more accurate representation of what it is to be a Christian than the Tea Party would have you believe.
Makes me want to read "War and Peace", although I'm not sure I have the time to spend reading a book twice the size of the bible
usually have 3 on the go.low brow fiction. non fiction stuff, and then music related reading.
reading Daemon by Suarez. Basically Dan Brown style. Good conceptions, fun if you can accept the rules laid out and probably not the best literature out there.
Just finished Hitchens short one mortality then reread his memoir. Would recommend this but I suppose it would be more interesting if you have followed his life and other novels and essays. Kinda reading in this section Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival but I forget i 'm reading it and i should finish the others first.
And music related, Prokofiev, from Russia to the West
and bill maher's list book when I go to the ladies room.
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.
i've been meaning to read this for years and decided to read it now that's its so easy to buy and read on my smartphone. i'm also thinking about rereading Genghis Khan and the making of the Modern World , but i don't have sufficient time.
i'm also reading social intelligence by daniel goleman when i momentarily lose interest in the others.
Highly recommend anything written/said by this sublime woman.
Just finished Crichton's The Lost World... it was a dollar at goodwill figured I'd give it a shot. This is one of those stories that is completely driven by stupid decisions. Just no excuse for anything that happens in this book at all. Still a fun read though I guess
I finished Asimov's "The Complete Robot" a week ago or so.
Recently I've read Blacksad, (Previously I've read most of the stories in Norwegian, as they were featured in a Norwegian comic book) but that one didn't include the newest story "A Silent Hell", so I'll have to buy that as well.
Other than that, I keep on reading H.P. Lovecraft's novels when I'm on the loo or tram/bus on my mobile.
I kinda regret I lent my H.P. Lovecraft "Tome" away to a friend before finishing it, but then again, when I had it, I hardly read it due to reading Asimov.
I should really procure the Foundation Series as well. That will probably be my next buy, after I buy a few records I've been wanting for some time.
Take a good look at the cover of this book. Now, if anyone tells you to read this book because it is "deep", punch them in the face immediately.
Every time I try to explain to someone that this book is not complicated or "deep", they say "you just didn't understand it".
F?&$%?%$ YOU!
The author pounds the message into your head every freaking paragraph! He is relentlessly annoying the shit out of you on each page with the "deep meaning", as if you didn't understand it the first 500 times. The book is also filled with God this and God that, so that's just extra piss me off points.
Reading another book called Ishmael now and it is good so far.
Just started reading the original Jurassic Park... sooooo much better
I miss reading for fun.
I'm trying to start reading Cloud Atlas, but I will admit I am struggling a bit although I am interested.
Anyone know if there are cliff notes for this thing? 
I know I know I'm hipstering on this one.
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| Originally posted by Dj Nacht Take a good look at the cover of this book. Now, if anyone tells you to read this book because it is "deep", punch them in the face immediately. Every time I try to explain to someone that this book is not complicated or "deep", they say "you just didn't understand it". F?&$%?%$ YOU! The author pounds the message into your head every freaking paragraph! He is relentlessly annoying the shit out of you on each page with the "deep meaning", as if you didn't understand it the first 500 times. The book is also filled with God this and God that, so that's just extra piss me off points. Reading another book called Ishmael now and it is good so far. |
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| Originally posted by woscar Why the fuck would you read Coelho? |
I started reading A Conversation With God, but shelved it because I couldn't take the rambling writing style that it uses.
http://www.amazon.com/Spook-Science...h/dp/0393329127
Going to start reading this instead.
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| Originally posted by Dj Nacht Unfortunately, a trustworthy friend recommended it. To be fair, they warned me that they had read it a long time ago. I should have known better when I read that Oprah and a bunch of stupid Hollywood celebrities love the book. I actually burned the freaking book, no joke. I hate it. |
Need to find something to read...
My bathroom book right now is Armor Attacks: The Tank Platoon - An Interactive Exercise in Small-Unit Tactics and Leadership, which is literally a choose your own adventure book used for training a tank platoon leader...
It is making me want to re-read Team Yankee
On the other hand, I still need to read Infinite Jest
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| Originally posted by Lira You think that's bad!? HE'S IN OUR ACADEMY OF LETTERS! ... So does a former president, actually, and no, not the brainy one. |
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| Originally posted by Alex I'm trying to start reading Cloud Atlas, but I will admit I am struggling a bit although I am interested. Anyone know if there are cliff notes for this thing? I know I know I'm hipstering on this one. |
I'm just finishing Midnight Tides which is book 5 of Malazan Book of the Fallen. Although book 1 was really tough to get into, this series has been fantastic. After I put this book down I'll be reading Towers of Midnight in preparation for the final WoT book in January, which I will read in 2 days and be glad that THAT story has finally come to a conclusion.
Also reading a book called Animal, Vegetable, Miracle which my hippy friend let me borrow. It's all about some family's mission to eat local food for a year. I've only read about 20 pages in, but the read thus far has been very enjoyable.
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| Originally posted by Dj Nacht My condolences to your Country. |
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| Originally posted by Dj Nacht Unfortunately, a trustworthy friend recommended it. To be fair, they warned me that they had read it a long time ago. I should have known better when I read that Oprah and a bunch of stupid Hollywood celebrities love the book. I actually burned the freaking book, no joke. I hate it. |
hopefully I'll finish it before the next season of GOT
Philip Roth has retired.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/enter...0,4262111.story
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| Seminal American author Philip Roth, whose novels explored modern Jewish-American life, has told a French magazine that he will write no more books because he has lost his passion for it. The author of such novels as "American Pastoral", for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and "Portnoy's Complaint" slipped his retirement announcement into an interview last month with French magazine Les Inrocks. On Friday, Houghton Mifflin confirmed his decision. "He told me it was true," said Lori Glazer, executive director of publicity at the publisher. Roth, 79, one of the world's most revered novelists and a frequent contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature, said he had not written for three years. "To tell you the truth, I'm done," Roth was quoted as telling Les Inrocks. "'Nemesis' will be my last book," he said of his 2010 short novel set against a fictional polio epidemic in Newark, New Jersey, in 1944. The novella "Goodbye, Columbus" catapulted Roth onto the American literary scene in 1959 with its satirical depiction of class and religion in American life. Published along with five other short stories, it won the National Book Award in 1960. He again received that award in 1995 for "Sabbath's Theater." Roth, who has written some 25 novels, told Les Inrocks that he had always found writing difficult and that he wanted nothing more to do with reading, writing or talking about books. He said that when he was 74, he started re-reading his favorite novels by authors Ernest Hemingway, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and others, and then re-read his own novels. "I wanted to see whether I had wasted my time writing," he explained. "After that, I decided that I was done with fiction. I no longer want to read, to write, I don't even want to talk about it anymore," he was quoted as saying. "I have dedicated my life to the novel: I studied, I taught, I wrote, I read - to the exclusion of almost everything else. Enough is enough! I no longer feel this fanaticism to write that I have experienced all my life. The idea of trying to write again is impossible," Roth told the magazine. Roth's four most recent novels, "Everyman," "Indignation," "The Humbling" and "Nemesis", have been short works, often focusing on ageing, physical decline, depression and death. New Jersey-born Roth is best known for his semi-autobiographical and unreliable alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman, who appeared in nine of his novels. Roth told Les Inrocks that he had spent most of his time in recent years preparing material for his biographer, Blake Bailey. "If I had a choice, I would prefer that there is no biography written about me, but there will be biographies after my death so (I wanted) to be sure that one of them is correct," Roth was quoted as saying. Roth said he had asked his literary executors and his agent to destroy his personal archives after his death once Bailey has finished the biography. "I don't want my personal papers hanging around everywhere," he said. |
Might I invoke the right to hate him? I've not read a word of his work, and maybe his work is for me, and his irrefutable ignorance (which we all possess) will erase more of me than it does of him. Will he pardon me that?
He will not. So damn him. It's best to not read a bit.
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