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Couldn't find any old book thread. Very entertaining and interesting book about the medieval age, and our misconceptions about it. Recommended for anyone with the slightest interest in the medieval period or history in general. |
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Currently reading a book of Raymond Chandler short stories, The Simple Art of Murder. |
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yo wassup, my favorit books is: 1. Antonin Artaud - Van Gogh: Suicide Through Society 2.Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation 3. Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of the Night 4. Simund Freud - Moses the Man 5. Alfred Doblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz 6. Joris K. Huysman - La-bas 7. Jean Paul - Siebenkas 8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Elective Infinities 9. Burrhus Frederic Skinner - Walden Two 10. Djuna Barnes - Under Milkwood |
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Currently reading... MartÃn Fierro by José Hernández. Pretty hard going, but rewarding nonetheless. |
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Magister Ludi AKA The Glass Bead Game |
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Some of my favorites are "Factotum" by Charles Bukowski, "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72" by Hunter S. Thompson. |
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Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance |
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Good ones there, Mr. Ice... Right now I'm reading "A bad woman feeling good" by Buzzy Jackson. "From the Publisher: The women who broke the rules, creating their own legacy of how to live and sing the blues. An exciting lineage of women singers—originating with Ma Rainey and her protégée Bessie Smith—shaped the blues, launching it as a powerful, expressive vehicle of emotional liberation. Along with their successors Billie Holiday, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, and Janis Joplin, they injected a dose of reality into the often trivial world of popular song, bringing their message of higher expectations and broader horizons to their audiences. These women passed their image, their rhythms, and their toughness on to the next generation of blues women, which has its contemporary incarnation in singers like Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda Williams (with whom the author has done an in-depth interview). Buzzy Jackson combines biography, an appreciation of music, and a sweeping view of American history to illuminate the pivotal role of blues women in a powerful musical tradition. Musician Thomas Dorsey said, "The blues is a good woman feeling bad." But these women show by their style that he had it backward: The blues is a bad woman feeling good. 70 illustrations." |
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Thodore Sturgeon's "dreaming cristals" |
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Currently enjoying Halladór Laxness' World Light As an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation: the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet’s life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness. As imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in this magnificently humane novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olaf’s ambition drives him onward–and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women–World Light demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel. |
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I've been reading Arthur C Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama and thinking about how great a movie 'twould make. I have a hard time wrapping my head around the imagery (in my defense, so do the astronauts in the story) and I could... use some visuals. |
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harry potter book 6 at the moment. |
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The butler did it. |
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