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Roundy the Truthinessist

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #690 on: January 04, 2013, 10:19:01 AM »
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Quote from: Roundy the Truthinessist on January 03, 2013, 06:56:13 PM
Just finished The Hobbit for the second time; I'm more perplexed than ever at how they could possibly stretch that into three movies and make them good.

Now I'm reading The Man Who Knew Too Much by GK Chesterton.

I can't wait for the second movie and see me kick some goblin ass  :D


The second movie?  But that happens at the end of the book!
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #691 on: January 04, 2013, 11:13:38 AM »
BBC Active: Talk Russian

Getting a crash course before a visit to the Ukraine.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #692 on: January 05, 2013, 01:00:04 AM »
Seems too small a query to make a new thread, so I'll ask here. I'm looking for an unabridged English translation of the Prose Edda that's as close to the urtext as possible, I've searched myself but have met with nothing but arguments about who translated this or that sentence better and I'm not too bothered about picky little issues like that. So, are there any mythology buffs who can help me out? I'd greatly appreciate it, and if you're feeling generous I wouldn't mind recs for other English translations of mythological texts like the Kalevala or the Bardo Thodol.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #693 on: January 05, 2013, 05:52:28 AM »
I'm not sure how helpful it is, but the same site that hosts "Earth Not a Globe" also has a version of Prose Edda.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/pre/index.htm
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #694 on: January 05, 2013, 08:52:02 AM »
Quote from: Lord Wilmore on January 03, 2013, 07:10:25 PM
I'm reading The Principia Discordia.

Have you read the Illuminatus trilogy Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson?  I swear that I've never done LSD, but after reading those books, I feel like I have.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #695 on: January 05, 2013, 04:09:04 PM »
Quote from: Thork on January 05, 2013, 05:52:28 AM
I'm not sure how helpful it is, but the same site that hosts "Earth Not a Globe" also has a version of Prose Edda.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/pre/index.htm
Thank you, Thork. I was looking for a print copy (which I foolishly forgot to mention), but I'll check this out too. Thanks again.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #696 on: January 09, 2013, 05:00:45 AM »
Quote from: Roundy the Truthinessist on January 03, 2013, 06:56:13 PM
Just finished The Hobbit for the second time; I'm more perplexed than ever at how they could possibly stretch that into three movies and make them good.

The Hobbit was made before The Lord of the Rings, and Tolkien hadn't developed Arda at that point. In fact, if I recall correctly, when he wrote The Hobbit, he had no special plans for the ring; it was just a cool magic ring.
And seeing as The Lord of the Rings was turned into a film first, it would make little sense to suddenly delete a load of mythology and make the film from the narrow perspective the book was written in.


Quote from: Chris Spaghetti on January 04, 2013, 11:13:38 AM
BBC Active: Talk Russian

Getting a crash course before a visit to the Ukraine.

Do you find those help? I never get anywhere with BBC Language stuff. I prefer the Colloquial series of books.

Speaking of that I've had two new books arrive recently, Colloquial Afrikaans and Duizend Schitterende Zonnen, the Dutch translation of Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #697 on: January 09, 2013, 07:45:23 AM »
I'm not far through at the moment but it seems to be quite good. All I need is a very basic understanding so that when we go to the Ukraine in march I won't be utterly bewildered. We struggled to find places to eat in Moscow and I feel that was much more English-tourist friendly than Kiev and Odessa will be.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #698 on: January 09, 2013, 05:09:03 PM »
Quote from: markjo on January 05, 2013, 08:52:02 AM
Quote from: Lord Wilmore on January 03, 2013, 07:10:25 PM
I'm reading The Principia Discordia.

Have you read the Illuminatus trilogy Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson?  I swear that I've never done LSD, but after reading those books, I feel like I have.


I plan to, but given how important the Principia Discordia is within that trilogy, I thought it might be worth reading first.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #699 on: January 13, 2013, 05:04:28 AM »
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #700 on: January 15, 2013, 01:34:11 AM »
Let me start by saying that I don't read much.

That said I have no problem recommending the following three books to everyone and anyone

Ubik by Philip K Dick
Only Philip K Dick book I've been able to get through, and with no problem at that, read it in a night. Don't be surprised if the ending is lackluster. The shtick with the d... oh never mind, just read the thing.

Bed by Tao Lin
Love his prose. Sort of a meditation on ordinariness in america. Very funny. The language is to die for if his brand of writing is to your taste.

Half Asleep In Frog's Pajamas by Tom Robbins
Couldn't put it down until I fell out of the swing of things. Currently 144 pages in. I like it so much I pretty much don't care how it ends at this point.



Am I the only person who found Gravity's Rainbow to be unreadable? (I will admit to certain cognitive deficiencies when it comes to locations, names, non essential details, etc, but I just found it so fucking tedious trying to pin down what was actually happening, so I gave up. Early.)



Quote from: Lord Wilmore on January 03, 2013, 07:10:25 PM
I'm reading The Principia Discordia.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #701 on: January 15, 2013, 08:08:01 AM »
I love Tom Robbins.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #702 on: January 15, 2013, 08:38:45 AM »
In an annoying habit that I am attempting to break, yesterday I disregarded everything I was already reading and read The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz from start to finish. Very interesting, although I considered it far-fetched, and upon a quick search online I discovered that there is indeed serious doubt as to its credibility.
I then read Probleme Probleme, a short story by Ingeborg Bachmann.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #703 on: January 15, 2013, 08:47:59 AM »
Finished Pedro Páramo, which I highly recommend to all of you.

Now I can't decide whether to read The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #704 on: January 15, 2013, 11:30:06 AM »
Dude I freaking love Philip K Dick, it usually took me about a night to finish any of his books. I could never get enough!

Anyways, just picked up The Trial by Kafka, I've been meaning to read that for a while now.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #705 on: January 15, 2013, 12:55:50 PM »
Quote from: Berstram Jones on January 15, 2013, 11:30:06 AM
Dude I freaking love Philip K Dick, it usually took me about a night to finish any of his books. I could never get enough!
You love Dick. It takes you all night to finish. You can never get enough.

Noted.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #706 on: January 15, 2013, 01:01:17 PM »
Quote from: Thork on January 15, 2013, 12:55:50 PM
Quote from: Berstram Jones on January 15, 2013, 11:30:06 AM
Dude I freaking love Philip K Dick, it usually took me about a night to finish any of his books. I could never get enough!
You love Dick. It takes you all night to finish. You can never get enough.

Noted.

Haha, yep.  :P
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #707 on: January 15, 2013, 05:17:18 PM »
Read the Communist Manifesto earlier, back onto Duizend Schitterende Zonnen and I plan to finish it. After that I'd like to do The Motorcycle Diaries. Alternating between foreign and English language books seems to be the best way to progress.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #708 on: January 16, 2013, 04:53:56 AM »
The Orbs by Chris Spaghetti

I'm reading through and red-penning the first draft of a novel I hope to have published.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #709 on: January 16, 2013, 05:42:35 AM »
Thanks to a recommendation from a friend I am now reading Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Edit: I wasn't in the right frame of mind for it, so instead I started reading Crash by J.G. Ballard.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #710 on: January 17, 2013, 07:37:52 PM »
Pillars of the Earth. It's alright.
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Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy
« Reply #711 on: January 17, 2013, 07:57:03 PM »
Has anyone else read these books?  I have some mixed feelings on them.
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Re: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy
« Reply #712 on: January 17, 2013, 08:22:03 PM »
I read the first and need to get around to reading the second. I'm like 50 pages in, but for some reason I put it down and haven't picked it up again yet. I loved the first one a lot, as well as the David Fincher film. So I'll come back to this thread when I've read the last two, for the sake of not getting anything spoiled. :P
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Re: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy
« Reply #713 on: January 18, 2013, 02:06:19 PM »
I have the first book, I don't think I ever finished it. If you claim the series has some value, then I may try again.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #714 on: January 21, 2013, 07:27:08 PM »
Quote from: Pongo on January 17, 2013, 07:37:52 PM
Pillars of the Earth. It's alright.

Okay, I finished it.  It's was a neat look into the life of medieval life.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #715 on: January 24, 2013, 05:56:42 AM »
Quote from: Pongo on January 21, 2013, 07:27:08 PM
Quote from: Pongo on January 17, 2013, 07:37:52 PM
Pillars of the Earth. It's alright.

Okay, I finished it.  It's was a neat look into the life of medieval life.

Redundant

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #716 on: January 26, 2013, 02:48:17 PM »
I'm going to take Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis to work tomorrow. A friend gave it me over coffee a couple of days ago and it seems interesting.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #717 on: January 26, 2013, 04:02:37 PM »
Quote from: illmunati on January 24, 2013, 05:56:42 AM
Quote from: Pongo on January 21, 2013, 07:27:08 PM
Quote from: Pongo on January 17, 2013, 07:37:52 PM
Pillars of the Earth. It's alright.

Okay, I finished it.  It's was a neat look into the life of medieval life.

Redundant

It was a neat look into the way living people lived their medieval lives during medieval life times.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #718 on: January 26, 2013, 04:04:42 PM »
Quote from: illmunati on January 24, 2013, 05:56:42 AM
Quote from: Pongo on January 21, 2013, 07:27:08 PM
Quote from: Pongo on January 17, 2013, 07:37:52 PM
Pillars of the Earth. It's alright.

Okay, I finished it.  It's was a neat look into the life of medieval life.

Redundant

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #719 on: January 29, 2013, 06:54:33 PM »
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert.
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