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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #270 on: March 08, 2011, 03:57:58 AM »
Quote from: Weegee Board on March 05, 2011, 09:08:36 AM
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.

I just finished reading that. Cat's Cradle was better
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #271 on: March 09, 2011, 02:46:05 PM »
Now I'm reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, which is fantastic.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #272 on: March 09, 2011, 03:05:51 PM »
Quote from: Chris Spaghetti on March 08, 2011, 03:52:20 AM
What I've read of it was pretty good, though it might have been because I pictured Captain Ahab as patrick Stewart!

'Ahab' looks like 'Arab' so he's an Arab.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #273 on: March 09, 2011, 05:00:49 PM »
I'm reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil for the first time. Wow.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #274 on: March 10, 2011, 06:53:08 PM »
Quote from: fluffycornsnake on March 09, 2011, 05:00:49 PM
I'm reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil for the first time. Wow.


Dude, amazing book! Watch out though, he's a very persuasive writer - make sure you consider the broader implications of his ideas. Gotta say though, I've always preferred the semi-ironic presentation of those ideas in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I say semi-ironic, because I think it's clear he enjoyed the revelatory aspect of it.


I've basically been re-reading Plato and Aristotle for the past month, though the Poetics was new to me. Going to start on Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy this weekend, which should be fun. It's been a while since I last enjoyed of his inimitable writing style.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #275 on: March 13, 2011, 07:06:04 PM »
Just fiished Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I also decided to read the epilogue, so I am now sad. :'(
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #276 on: March 15, 2011, 11:24:28 AM »
Quote from: Trekky0623 on March 13, 2011, 07:06:04 PM
Just fiished Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I also decided to read the epilogue, so I am now sad. :'(

I feel your pain.  When I finished that book, I was sad because I realized I'd just spent several hours reading a terrible book.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #277 on: March 15, 2011, 03:59:59 PM »
Quote from: Eddy Baby on March 09, 2011, 03:05:51 PM
Quote from: Chris Spaghetti on March 08, 2011, 03:52:20 AM
What I've read of it was pretty good, though it might have been because I pictured Captain Ahab as patrick Stewart!

'Ahab' looks like 'Arab' so he's an Arab.



Also I'm starting The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore again, I keep getting distracted by other books.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #278 on: March 20, 2011, 04:50:55 PM »
"Our mutual friend", by Charles Dickens.

It's giving me a headache to follow the English :(
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #279 on: March 20, 2011, 06:20:21 PM »
Quote from: fluffycornsnake on March 09, 2011, 05:00:49 PM
I'm reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil for the first time. Wow.

I love Nietzsche. That's the one that starts by implying that moral dogmatists can't get laid, right?
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #280 on: March 20, 2011, 06:57:15 PM »
Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #281 on: March 24, 2011, 10:01:24 AM »
I'm reading Breakfast of Champions, and I'll probably read Slaughterhouse-Five after that.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #282 on: March 24, 2011, 10:59:34 AM »
Quote from: Lord Wilmore on March 10, 2011, 06:53:08 PM
Quote from: fluffycornsnake on March 09, 2011, 05:00:49 PM
I'm reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil for the first time. Wow.


Dude, amazing book! Watch out though, he's a very persuasive writer - make sure you consider the broader implications of his ideas. Gotta say though, I've always preferred the semi-ironic presentation of those ideas in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I say semi-ironic, because I think it's clear he enjoyed the revelatory aspect of it.


I've basically been re-reading Plato and Aristotle for the past month, though the Poetics was new to me. Going to start on Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy this weekend, which should be fun. It's been a while since I last enjoyed of his inimitable writing style.

Yeah, his writing style is fantastically refreshing, even invigorating, though the implications of his moral philosophy are so unnerving that I find it difficult to take him seriously at times. I've started Plato's Republic now for a nice, drastically different change of pace.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #283 on: March 24, 2011, 01:09:09 PM »
A Peace To End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

the title coming from a comment made by Field Marshal Wavell, "After the war to end war they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a peace to end peace"

It's somewhat old (1989) but that might prove to be a boon. My own library's Middle East division is somewhat lean but is better than the my town's library which apparently has the same type books Jack1704's library has.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #284 on: March 24, 2011, 09:31:28 PM »
Thanks for your suggestion. My book budget is always in the red but I will put it on my 'want list.'  I don't remember how I acquired the book I'm reading now but it's adequate for my limited aim of just a little more historical grounding in an area where I am lacking in knowledge.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #285 on: March 27, 2011, 03:35:31 PM »
The Soddit

Absolutely hilarious.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #286 on: March 27, 2011, 09:00:41 PM »
Why the hell doesn't Cormac McCarthy use punctuation?
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #287 on: March 27, 2011, 09:39:01 PM »
Quote from: Trekky0623 on March 27, 2011, 09:00:41 PM
Why the hell doesn't Cormac McCarthy use punctuation?

Because he's like super original and too intelligent for literary conventions.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #288 on: March 30, 2011, 10:37:31 AM »
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #289 on: March 30, 2011, 01:55:48 PM »
An essay entitled Is the history of Philosophy Good for Philosophy? by Catherine Wilson.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #290 on: March 30, 2011, 03:31:17 PM »
A More Perfect Constitution by Larry J Sabato
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #291 on: March 31, 2011, 10:12:30 PM »
Dave Barry is Not Taking This Sitting Down, by Dave Barry
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #292 on: April 03, 2011, 11:01:30 PM »
Quote from: Benjamin Franklin on March 30, 2011, 03:31:17 PM
A More Perfect Constitution by Larry J Sabato

Just researched this real quick. It sounds thoroughly interesting.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #293 on: April 04, 2011, 01:31:01 AM »
Just finished Nemesis by Asimov. A pretty good book but Asimov can't write dialogue at all, unless there was some aspect of Rotorian society which naturally fostered overly-formal and emotionless speech...

Now reading the second part of John Birmingham's 'Axis of Time' trilogy

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« Reply #294 on: April 04, 2011, 07:50:46 AM »
Hello, friends. I'm reading ghost story books.  8)
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #295 on: April 05, 2011, 03:36:52 AM »
I've finally finished Krabat and I'm now reading 1000 Years Of Annoying The French
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #296 on: April 05, 2011, 04:10:18 AM »
Adrian Galilio
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #297 on: April 05, 2011, 08:23:03 AM »
Quote from: James on April 05, 2011, 04:10:18 AM
Adrian Galilio


I really must get around to that.


I've just finished Paul Auster's The Music of Chance, and I'm now reading Swift's Guliver's Travels.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #298 on: April 05, 2011, 09:55:54 PM »
Quote from: Trekky0623 on April 03, 2011, 11:01:30 PM
Quote from: Benjamin Franklin on March 30, 2011, 03:31:17 PM
A More Perfect Constitution by Larry J Sabato

Just researched this real quick. It sounds thoroughly interesting.
Even though I've taken a break from that to read books for class, it's pretty good. At first, I disagreed with almost all his points, but within halfway through the first chapter I'm starting to agree with a lot more of his ideas. It's a good book that could lead to some interesting debates.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #299 on: April 08, 2011, 07:35:03 AM »
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. Somehow my teacher assigned it to me to read, even though every other page there is a quite disturbing sex scene.
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