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i think the difference is that i hope to incite interest in some of the books i'm reading, if i consider them good. or dissuade people from reading them if i think they're bad. i'd make a new thread for this kind of discussion but i think a Now Reading thread is the closest we'll get to one here. |
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It's nice in theory, and I'd agree with you, but in practice., going by the evidence, it's a big open wank into the void. Plus I vomitted when I saw J189's audio book version of a Dan Brown "novel". But hey "To the lighthouse" by V.Woolf, I enjoyed that immensely. There's abit where somone worries about beds still unmade by noon, as if it were the most serious of moral lapses, and that's a rule I've kind of adhered to ever since. |
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i'll have to check it out once i finish my current backlog. i've been hearing the phrase 'here! borrow this book!' more times than i can count lately. |
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national geographic mags "ubik" and "man in the high castle" by philip k dick my old roomate read all those robert anton wilson books. he was so inspired that he dropped out of school and moved to Juarez, Mexico to start a commune. 100% true. last time i talked to him he said he'd been up for 4 days straight getting high and reading Discordian banter. his name is Gandhi. |
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ubik is bloody wonderful. You've probably read 'do androids dream of electric sheep'; 'a scanner darkly' is wonderful as well. I like roger zelazny a lot as well; there's at least one book they wrote together, I want to check that out some time soon. |
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Hippie and More, now, again |
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Actually, within the past few weeks i've seen blade runner 4 times, yet i still haven't read "do androids dream of electric sheep?" But here's a list of philip k dick books i'm going to read when i get the chance: flow my tears the policeman said confessions of a crap artist VALIS a scanner darkly do androids dream of electric sheep i'm going on a post-apocalyptic trip...watching bladerunner (saw the new batman too, it blows), reading philip k dick and william s burroughs..... okay. |
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flow my tears, the policeman said has always been one of my favourite PKD books. Enjoy! |
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Is it on now??? I thought it was weeks away! |
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me too! i love national geographic |
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a friend recommended it. but, and i'm being pompous here, don't you think the title sucks? i checked out the movie trailer for "a scanner darkly" and although i haven't read the book, i think it looks pretty cool. my only complaint is that keanu reaves is starring. lame. |
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my roomate has a collection of national geographic, and i've nearly read them all. i read them at work, it's a good way to fill the gaps between selling chips, cigs, and gasoline. |
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Nah man I love that title - I'm pretty sure he's taken it from the bible, and replaced the name of whoever said it with 'policeman' :D Quite a few of his books have biblical titles -- well, at least A Scanner Darkly does :D |
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You should do photography for national geographic corrupted-girl |
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The Secret Agent is written in an almost unbearably bland and serious fashion. It reads like Dickens writing Dostoyevsky, only not nearly as good as either of them. However, it does have a tonne of great ideas, such as the Professor who walks the streets with enough bombs strapped to his body to take out a small block. I'm currently halfway through Joris-Karl Huysmans's A Rebours (Against Nature, though Against the Grain would be a closer translation). This is brilliant in every way, shape and form. It manages be completely absorbing while having no story and only one character. Comparable to Joyce in some aspects. Simply stunning. A Rebours is fast becoming one of my favourite books, gaining a special place in my mind and heart alongside Moby Dick and Ulysses. |
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I have been trying to read thru a book in almost one year or more but its to depressing and hard read for me.Its by albert camus and its about if the life has a meaning or not called The Myth of Sisyphus. |
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i'll ruin the ending for you: it doesn't |
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and the guy have won a fuking nobel prize |
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camus thinks the only thing beautiful or meaningful in life is that it is entirely hopeless and meaningless. |
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yea but not baised on his philosophical ideas alone, more so on, in my opinion, that if you read his stuff it makes you feel that life is hopeless and that that is beautiful. and that is a difficult thing to do with words. i will stop being stupid now. forgive me. |
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yeah maybe thats why have a hard time reding it because it is so deppresing because some things i have to agree with.i have read half i think |
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yea... getting into literature is a slippery slope... if you go to far you'll end up extremely depressed and out of your mind. always read with a grain of salt. i suggest taking it easy and reading the funny pages. |
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i find reading quite boring.i have good music and films |
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i use music to accentuate reading and films to relieve stress. i read the plague by camus a few weeks ago and plan on picking up the outsider soon. the reference to it in the plague has me especially interested. anyone going into camus should realise that he's as much an existentialist as huysmans was a naturalist. |
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but i am determine to read thru The Myth of Sisyphus but its very hard to me to find the will |
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have you read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad? It's far better than the Secret Agent. |
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for class: James Joyce - Ulysses for pleasure: T.S. Eliot's Selected Poetry |
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those are some of my absolute favourite books. enjoy. |
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Than dont find a better book. I for example dont like fiction |
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Ulysses is very heavy going, i'm kind of enjoying it. And T.S. Eliot is one of my favourite poets =) |
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i hope you read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before starting Ulysses. |
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asimov robots of dawn and the unfettered mind, some monk explaining how to be zen while swordfighting |
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I finished A Rebours (exquisite) and have begun Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (somber and pretty). |
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harry potter and the goblet of fire it is nice, better than the third book for sure |
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I finished Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. As of now it's my favourite work of literature written by a female writer. The writing style is very simplistic but works in favour of heightening the emotional intensity. The next book I read will be One Thousand Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. |
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how do you get through the day without people wanting to strangle you? |
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if you're referring to myself, then i don't see why anyone would want to strangle me. |
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The Plague is one of my favourite books - I'm sure you'll enjoy it a lot: have you read much Russian Literature? |
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i'm reading the book but i couldnt be arsed to find the correct book cover (it looks exactly the same, only it doesnt have 'audiobook' written beneath it, obviously). so FUCK off. |
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i did read a small amount of it, but i was pressed for time on my course so i couldn't read all of it. Which was a shame because they way the book was going i would have really enjoyed it. Lydia Davis - Break it Down |
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I've read the Plague but I need to read more Camus, specifically the Stranger/Outsider. In terms of Russian literature I've read from Dostoyevksy and Nabokov so far, with a growing need to read Tolstoy. Recommendations are always most welcome. |
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. Very interesting; thought-provoking. |
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Julio Cortazar master of short stories |
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_gvarkek_'s 144th post in the "Now Reading" thread on www.xltronic.com/mb -- a message board world renowned for its ability to sooth, but not eliminate, boredom. |
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I finished One Thousand Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and have begun the Family Reunion by T. S. Eliot. I have to echo the sentiment that Solitude is the best work of Spanish literature since Don Quixote. |
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Are you a reading machine? |
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i sleep bad these days, this morning i woke up sad because of (good) robots controlling humanity's future |
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it took me aprox 4 months to read 1000 years of solitude |
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I have to agree with optimus on his earlier comments: Ulysses and Moby Dick are not only classics, but deserved classics. But actually, the latest (non-educational material) book I've been reading is Holy Blood, Holy Grail: a book on which much of the speculation in The Da Vinci Code is based. It's a well-written mixture of gossip, speculation and extrapolation. Which makes it both gripping and griping, you see. I had an interesting, if brief, chat with Michael Baigent - one of the book's authors - in June. He seemed like a reasonable and enlightened individual (hip on Jung), and it should be noted he is no Xtian, except somewhat of a Gnostic. |
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