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What are you reading? (August 09)
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Count Dookkake
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Ohhh, Demolished Man is very good. A shame De Palma never got his project off the ground.
Iron_Scimitar
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Space Cadet
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hack646 said:Reading and trying to understand
I'm struggling, to say the least, through this philosophical treatise, but I found this lecture series on heidegger, and I am finding it extremely helpful.
Did you read An Introduction to Metaphysics first? It will help, a lot. Good luck, man!
Cabaratier
Neo Member
tekumseh
a mass of phermones, hormones and adrenaline just waiting to explode
Every summer for at least 20 years, I've worked my way through these:
The Civil War, A Narrative by Shelby Foote
In my estimation, Foote is easily the best observer of history I've ever read, with apologies to Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Ambrose, and James McPherson among others. Spanning almost 3000 pages, I've never once not been able to complete the series once I've started it. If you have any interest in US history, these books are requisite reading....
In my estimation, Foote is easily the best observer of history I've ever read, with apologies to Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Ambrose, and James McPherson among others. Spanning almost 3000 pages, I've never once not been able to complete the series once I've started it. If you have any interest in US history, these books are requisite reading....
Space Cadet
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hack646 said:
Heidegger is more difficult than Kant, in my opinion. The Introduction is a good distillation of his idea of being, which you should be quite familiar with before attempting Being and Time. You can definitely read Being first, but it makes it so much easier if you have read Introduction. Just my two cents; both are difficult books.
Helmholtz, The Road is fantastic, bleak but fantastic. So many memories of that book. Good imagery, set pieces, prose.
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hack646 said:
Basic Writings is an easy to find compilation of shorter pieces and extracts that I think is a good alternative beginning.
MilesWebber
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Awesome book but REALLY hard to read as it's written from the perspective of a 7 year old soviet terrorist...in broken english and misused grammar.
Highly recommended.
Space Cadet
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TheWiicast said:
Isn't that all of Palahnuik's works though? J/K How does it stand up next to Survivor or Choke.
Peronthious
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JSnake said:
Then I'll move on to...
Enjoy! God Emperor catches a lot of flack for being a bit on the heavy side, but it's probably my favorite in the series.
SmashBrosAwesome
Member
Don't know why I hadn't heard of this book sooner- it's a great companion to anyone who has even the slightest interest in science.
thestopsign
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SmashBrosAwesome said:
Don't know why I hadn't heard of this book sooner- it's a great companion to anyone who has even the slightest interest in science.
Try out his other books. I personally recommend The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and A Walk in the Woods. Both are hilarious and insightful at the same time. I like the way he compares stuff and makes you realize just how vast the world is.
Edit: I just read all the Scott Pilgrim comics today, not sure if those count. I've also recently finished Empire Falls, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Catcher in the Rye, and Snow Crash. I had a vacation, so I got a lot of time to read.
I need to read Invisible Man next, along with The Colour Purple for school. Hopefully they are better than some of the previous summer reading I've had.
FilthyLies
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There's no rush. Martin won't be finished with Dance for like seven more years at the pace he's going :|Jayge said:
Man, he is so going to die before he finishes this series.
I've finally started tearing away at the rest of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series.
Right now I'm about half-way through The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I hope to be finished them all by September.
On a side note, I'm also reading Laura Stamm's Powerskating. I'm gonna be an impact player this season! I've been sidelined for two weeks with a knee injury, but I'm hoping to resume exercising next week, and eventually try out some of the drills on Saturday.
Right now I'm about half-way through The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I hope to be finished them all by September.
On a side note, I'm also reading Laura Stamm's Powerskating. I'm gonna be an impact player this season! I've been sidelined for two weeks with a knee injury, but I'm hoping to resume exercising next week, and eventually try out some of the drills on Saturday.
movie_club
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Well i started, and finished the little prince today. Wow, what an amazing and sad story, i highly recommended it to ANYONE. and hmmm i dont think i want to read the invisible man..ugh what to read....movie_club said:After getting bored with A game of thrones, and being unable to get into a book in a long time im trying out these two, does anyone have any opinions on them?ill try again someday!
SmashBrosAwesome
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Stopsign said:
Salazar said:
Thanks for the suggestions! Will definitely check out some of those titles next.
bumbillbee
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movie_club said:
That book absolutely destroys me every time I read it. If you can read it in French, do so; it's just beautiful.
Personally, I sat down and read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last night after seeing the movie a week ago. I'm still working through Thomas Mann's epic Joseph and His Brothers.
The Spacepope
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Currently starting:
So far, it hasn't reached out and grabbed me. I'm only one chapter deep, however. I don't even know what the central mystery is. Given the book's high praise, I'm obviously going to stick with it and give it a real shot.
After I'm through with it... not 100% sure what I'll move on to. I have a bunch of good unread SF/Fantasy on my bookshelf (The Name of the Wind, A Game of Thrones, A Fire Upon the Deep...), but I'm kind of in the mood for some thief/rogue/pirate fantasy, and I've heard good things about The Lies of Locke Lamora, so maybe I'll grab that.
I've been reading a lot of SF/Fantasy lately, too. So I might go for something a little more traditional. I have several unread contemporary fiction & non-fiction books on the bookshelf, too. In fact, abotu 50% of my bookshelf is disturbingly unread...
So far, it hasn't reached out and grabbed me. I'm only one chapter deep, however. I don't even know what the central mystery is. Given the book's high praise, I'm obviously going to stick with it and give it a real shot.
After I'm through with it... not 100% sure what I'll move on to. I have a bunch of good unread SF/Fantasy on my bookshelf (The Name of the Wind, A Game of Thrones, A Fire Upon the Deep...), but I'm kind of in the mood for some thief/rogue/pirate fantasy, and I've heard good things about The Lies of Locke Lamora, so maybe I'll grab that.
I've been reading a lot of SF/Fantasy lately, too. So I might go for something a little more traditional. I have several unread contemporary fiction & non-fiction books on the bookshelf, too. In fact, abotu 50% of my bookshelf is disturbingly unread...
sazabirules
Unconfirmed Member
I've been reading this. It's amazing and I can't wait to read his other works as well. After I'm done with this one, it will be these two.
I have finished The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. It was meh. It was a bit too much travelogue and not enough horror/mystery. The ending was just horrible and the pacing and structure was oddly similar to a video game. It was very much "Thank you Mario, but Dracula is in another country." We then venture to yet another Eastern European town, and Ms. Kostova just loves to describe the architecture for us at length.
I am now working on Dark Tower I
I am now working on Dark Tower I
ClovingWestbrook
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Can someone recommend an actual horror/scary book? Novel or non fiction, doesn't matter. I mean something that really gets your nerves going, where if you are reading it by yourself at night you really have that uneasy feeling. I have been looking for something of this nature for quite some time but have yet to find it.
ClovingWestbrook
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tekumseh said:Every summer for at least 20 years, I've worked my way through these:
The Civil War, A Narrative by Shelby Foote
In my estimation, Foote is easily the best observer of history I've ever read, with apologies to Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Ambrose, and James McPherson among others. Spanning almost 3000 pages, I've never once not been able to complete the series once I've started it. If you have any interest in US history, these books are requisite reading....
Perhaps some may consider him too easy to read or what have you but my favorite author is David McCullough. The way he writes, it's so descriptive that I almost feel that I am reliving history. If Foote is as descriptive or more so than McCullough then I would be very interested.