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Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 12:59 am
by devnulljp
I've been reading Finnegan's Wake off and on for 10 years...
Ulysses though is a masterpiece -- just bought it again and will start re-re-re-rereading it.
Just finished this, which is a wonderful book. Strong intelligent lady.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 12:58 am
by HereticPride
Imperial Bedrooms-Bret Easton Ellis
My favorite he's done in a looooong time.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 2:34 pm
by cloudscapes
almost finished the Science in the Capital trilogy (kim stanley robinson)
climate change, politics, science, zoology, buddhism, tibet
dunno what I'll read next
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 4:42 pm
by blicero
anyone got any recommended non-fiction? don't really feel like reading fiction books, although i do fancy having a go at dune
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:37 am
by phantasmagorovich
blicero wrote:anyone got any recommended non-fiction? don't really feel like reading fiction books, although i do fancy having a go at dune
Hard to recommend if you don't say what you're interested in. I always enjoy Richard Sennet's books.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:25 pm
by blicero
phantasmagorovich wrote:blicero wrote:anyone got any recommended non-fiction? don't really feel like reading fiction books, although i do fancy having a go at dune
Hard to recommend if you don't say what you're interested in. I always enjoy Richard Sennet's books.
haha yeah that would've been an idea. thing is i'm really not sure what i'm into. i guess that's why you've got to go to book shops and just browse. that's how i ended up reading battle royale when i was like 12, i just saw the cover and had to get it. turned out to be a pretty great book too; the films not nearly as good.
richard sennet does actually sound quite interesting, i have my sociology exam next week so I probably should've discovered him sooner...
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:47 pm
by Dr. Lubenfinger
The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Re-read for research)
The Anarchist Cookbook – William Powell (Re-read)
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:21 pm
by smile_man
I just read Jpod, too fucking good.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:37 pm
by cloudscapes
starting Perdido Street Station
from wiki
Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is an eccentric scientist living in the city of New Crobuzon with his Khepri girlfriend Lin. While Lin, an artist, is commissioned to create a sculpture of mob boss Mr. Motley, Isaac is offered a unique challenge. He is approached by the garuda Yagharek, who asks for the restoration of his wings which were cut off by his tribe as punishment for a crime that he claims has no human equivalent. Isaac is sparked by the seemingly impossible nature of the task, and gathers all manners of flying beasts to study in his lab - including a multicolored, unidentifiable larva gathered through illicit means. Once Isaac learns that the caterpillar only eats a hallucinogenic drug called "dreamshit", he begins to feed it, unwittingly stimulating its metamorphosis into an incredibly dangerous, hypnotic and monstrously large butterfly-like insect, a slake-moth, that feeds off the dreams of sentient beings, leaving them as catatonic vegetables. Later, it is revealed that dreamshit is in fact the "milk" of a fully-grown dream slake-moth, and that four other such creatures have been sold to Mr. Motley, a hideously Remade crime boss, and "milked" to produce the drug. When the fifth larva transforms and escapes, it frees its brethren, and together they plague the citizens of New Crobuzon until Isaac can find a way to stop them.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:39 am
by spacelordmother
blicero wrote:anyone got any recommended non-fiction? don't really feel like reading fiction books, although i do fancy having a go at dune
DO EET! I just finished Dune after procrastinating reading it for far too long. It is most excellent and the movie does not do it justice at all. I have heard good things about the SciFi channel's version though so I may need to give that a viewing.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:41 am
by phantasmagorovich
cloudscapes wrote:starting Perdido Street Station
A-freaking-mazing book! Good choice.
After reading a 'good' book that took forever to read now I'm at "Pushing Ice" from Alastair Roberts. Which is a Space opera and does what it does well. Just that the characters seem terribly shallow.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:28 pm
by phantasmagorovich
Ken MacLeod - The Star Faction
until now: wow
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:55 pm
by mutmoo
1984
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 2:49 am
by devnulljp
blicero wrote:anyone got any recommended non-fiction? don't really feel like reading fiction books, although i do fancy having a go at dune
I have a hard time justifying reading fiction (I know I know, I'm a philistine who doesn't appreciate literature...
), as time is a pretty rare commodity. I read a lot of pop-sci and biographical/historical non-fiction.
Depends what you're interested in I guess -- although I'm a molecular biologist and it's kinda my thing, I really think
everyone should read the Selfish Gene (don't be put off by the title).
Dan Dennet's Consciousness Explained is great.
Guns Germs and Steel? (you mentioned sociology right? That's kinda relevant).
Anything by Richard Feynman -- his autobiographies are fascinating.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 3:31 am
by metalmariachi
Liberty and tyranny by Mark Levin.
MM