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What are You Currently Reading? (pg. 33)
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
ing brilliant.
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by eRRaTiK
maybe he's just reading accounting theory because it's so damn exciting! |
Get him to read the US constitution also. Much more exciting. :nervous: |
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| tranceDJ |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
ing brilliant.
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Sounds like a good read. Here's a similar, well-written book about the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness:
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| tranceDJ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
Get him to read the US constitution also. Much more exciting. :nervous: |
Thats really something we should all read even though its boring. I think most people would get pissed off to see that a lot of their rights outlined in the constitution are being stepped on. The reason governments like the US get away with doing this is that many of its citizens have little to no knowledge of the constitution. |
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| Yan |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
I've been recommended Dance Dance Dance. Have you read that one? I hear nothing but great things about Murakami. |
It's on my to-read list.
I lurves me Murakami. Read on, pie. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by biznology
but dont read steppenwolf unless drunk. its about a guy that wanders around a small german town getting drunk and pissing off landlords at some point.
its interesting, but not exciting in the least|
(also any translated text loses more than a bit coming over, i had a friend reading spanish poetry in english...stupid) |
What?! You're obviously thinking of the wrong book. And I've read it in both English and German. It doesn't lose much other than convolutedness in translation. Other than that, your comment about translations is stupid. If you don't know the language, how are you supposed to read it in the original text? You're effectively cutting off 90% of world literature if you refuse to read anything that was written in a language other than your own. |
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| Omega_M |
I checked this book out today from my school library. Looks good. :tongue2 Lee Iacocca is a legend. He's 82 now, yet his writing style is so fresh. I've read his autobiography, and probably many of you must have read it as well. What an amazing guy. Hats off to him. A true leader.
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| OhioTranceFan |
| The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein, which is a collection of short stories by the same author. C'mon guys, you know I love anything dealing with pantheistic solipsism :D |
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| chris harrington |
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| pvdAngel |
| quote: | Originally posted by chris harrington
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What are you, 10? :stongue: |
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| DJ_Eternal |
| That guy in the cap was me last night. Steeeeerike! |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | | Mmmmm... read Hesse's Steppenwolf - it's even better than Sidhartha imo. |
Lebezniatnikov, Thank you for recommending this book to me. I finished it yesterday after reading it feverishly for two days. Unfortunately my german isn't good enough anymore to read it in that language, but I quite liked it anyways. Totally insane and kafkaesque, especially towards the end. Endlessly thought-provoking, and a great portrait of modern man and his spiritual and intellectual complexity
hesse was incredibly foward thinking
also you realize how old-fashioned and universal things like 'raves' really are, and that originality is more or less an illusion brought on by ignorance and nostalgia.
also just finished the perfume by patrick süskind - amazing book that one
now reading la casa de los espiritus by isabelle allende (at least i can read this one in its original language) |
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