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post the books you bough but you'll never read here's last one i bought it cos of the cover, the italian edition cooler |
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i've learnt not to do it anymore. the trick is to buy what you'll actually want to read and not what you think is good to have read, for some reason, like pride. of course i still have millions of books i'll read eventually. if you're not going to read a book, you should give it up for adoption, or something, it's a thought crime to buy a book and not use it. |
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yes, and you know what? a title edit button would be cool in this case. but just the title the thread title is now changed yo 'books you bought that you'll read eventually' even if it stays the same i'm gonna back on my Dylan Dog now (italian coolest horror comic.. i love how they are able to recreate london's atmosphere with drawings, makes you feel you're there) |
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i just picked some 30 books from an inheritance of a guy i didn't know. all those i want to read, but i'll begin with other books i wanted to read. i'm now reading a discworld i bought a long time ago, it's good stuff. also i was reading through the whole oevre of philip k dick (see the cool 3 three bindings collection on amazon, or elsewhere). after five books i was completely fed up with it, but now i kind of want to read it again. though i think the literary aspect of it (human insights and such) is kind of poor. of the five books i'll only recommend 'the three stigmata of palmer eldritch', which is beyond awesome (and kind of 'the man in the high castle' and 'do androids dream of electric sheep', but not so much 'martian time slip' and 'ubicon') |
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The Koran |
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i got that too with said inheritance. |
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The (rest of) the Bible. |
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I hear the Koran is much shorter than the Bible. Must be why all those muslims are so short tempered! |
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Controversial! |
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is so ignorant he thinks he knows something, fokof |
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I only read non-fiction books (mostly) I came to the conclusion that i don't like fiction. But one should at least try to read a novel or such, but i rarely do. |
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fucking Godel, Escher, Bach. it mocks me. |
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a large book in Sanskrit.. a language i do not know |
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Having not read both the koran and the bible, I consider myself quite the expert. I know what you mean, Monoid, and I was like you in that respect. But lots of novels are very auto biographical, and just maybe more true to reality than auto biographical stuff in general (paradoxically). |
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I bought the entire encyclopedia vol 1 to 20 but don't have time to read it now |
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have you tried "steppenwolf"? i think its a novel worth checking out.. |
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Nope. Not yet. But i read a lot of good things about it. But right now i am focusing on completly diffrent subject and i only want to read books about it. This usually changes when i get tired of it. |
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Nope. Not yet. But i read a lot of good things about it. But right now i am focusing on completly diffrent subject and i only want to read books about it. This usually changes when i get tired of it. |
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ok, i think youre gonna get at it someday then |
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all my art books!! |
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hurhur, my oxford advanced learners dictionary.. since im only reading a word now and then it will take me forever to finish |
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Problem with buying books is that I can't keep up reading with what I'm buying..I always think I've got enough time to read when I'll be rich and don't have to work anymore..or when I'm retired..Nowadays I've becoem a memeber of the library to save money from buying books I do not read. Except the art books offcourse |
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Silly goose, art books are just for looking at the pictures! |
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really?? |
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Of course. And to have on the shelf to impress people. I have 4 bibles. |
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a couple of books by derrida and foucault i own. french postmodernist philosophy is like boring porn; it has no intellectual depth and it is solely driven by sex and egomania. ... so what the traditional correspondence theory of truth is incoherent. that doesn't make french irrationalism right. |
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derrida and foucault are totally different and let's just say the philosophies of those broadly known under the banner of post structuralism amounts to a little more than 'the traditional correspondence theory of truth is incoherent'. I guess you'll never find out, back to phenomenology and tolstoy :D |
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forward to tolstoy, that's what it is! .... what makes me a phenomenologist, though? by the way: i agree that derrida and foucault can't be done away with so easily. that's why i formulated my post like that of a frustrated and angry commenter on a fashion-blog. |
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Art books, huh. Is that your term for pornography? |
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Michel Foucault - Discipline and Punish - Always carry it around with me in hopes of actually giving it a good going over but never happens. War and Peace - *Waves at war and peace* Hi there, Stranger! |
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recently I bought a Tora wich I offcourse have not read yet. |
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i was a bastard, sorry. i haven't read derrida and apart from secondary sources, the only foucault i've read is a couple of sections of the order of things. re: foucault's discipline and punishment - try out deleuze's postscript on the societies of control. |
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no worries. novels, i bought and didn't finish: moby dick (my english vocabulary is not large enough .. maybe i'll get a german translation of it) fitzgerald - the beautiful and the damned gao xingjian - soul mountain plus a couple of novels by strugatzki, flaubert and gottfried keller. |
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Have to get some Thora scrolls too! I have two I Chings (respectively called I Ching and Y Tjing, two Dutch spellings). And one Tibetan Book of the Dead. Also I have books on Feng Sui. It was after I bought all these, and more, that I figured out that I'd better just buy what I'm actually going to read. For my studies I read and excerpted Gombrich's Story of Art. Also I learnt all the pictures, date and eveything, and other pictures as well. That just over ten years ago though. If you want to get through an art book, a course is a good idea. |
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I Tjing, sorry. |
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'i ching' is another brick i bought i'll eventually never read i thought 'the art of war' was going to be cooler since its shorter, but it's just one of those zen books that seems all written the same way. they're conceptually all the same even when they talk about different things. i quit after some pages, the first 74 are just of introduction. |
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Highway Code:New Edition |
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wait, I didn't buy it - that was a gift. bollocks |
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another book i bought but i didn't read, but i will probably read is this i'll probably read cos i opened it randomly after the half of it/near the end and the first sentece i read, i found it interesting. comes complete with pdf i'll never read (its the only thing i found in english on the matter if you want to give a look) |
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pdf (for the extract of the book you gotta register) |
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Given the large body of literature on the history of sound synthesis and computer music, it is surprising how little attention has been paid to these systems. They are often regarded as oddities or failed attempts, if they are not neglected altogether. interesting |
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Who is Gottfried Michael Koenig? Is he on WARP? |
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sounds like R2-D2 |
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