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CloseSuperfreakonomics by by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
It's pretty good, but not quite as good as the first one imho.
It's pretty good, but not quite as good as the first one imho.
Orig
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. :D It's an awesome used copy with the spine all taped up and random clauses underlined, probably from like 1970 or some shit.
Craze: Is that any good? A Softer World is pretty hit-or-miss for me, and I have Lockpick Pornography on my computer but have yet to read it, so I dunno how I'll feel about the longer works of Joey Comeau.
Craze: Is that any good? A Softer World is pretty hit-or-miss for me, and I have Lockpick Pornography on my computer but have yet to read it, so I dunno how I'll feel about the longer works of Joey Comeau.
Orig
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Dubliners by James Joyce. I dunno how I feel about it. The Little Prince is one of my favorite books now though. :3
facesforce
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I'm reading "Legacies" by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Not top league fiction, but he is a really interesting author. I'm enjoying it at the very least. I agree Orig, The little prince is an awesome book. I own the 1964 printing edition. I love classic pulp.
Not top league fiction, but he is a really interesting author. I'm enjoying it at the very least. I agree Orig, The little prince is an awesome book. I own the 1964 printing edition. I love classic pulp.
Orig
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Got about halfway through Dubliners before getting kind of bored. Will get back to it later.
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. :)
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. :)
catmitts
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Orig what'd you think of 'Araby'? I read Dubliners a few years ago and remember finding some of it kind of a chore but really enjoying that one.
I am kind of halfheartedly trying to finish 'The Immoralist' by Andre Gide which is good but doesnt really grip me and also I just got Slavoj Zizek's 'The Metastases Of Enjoyment' which is incredibly fucking dense but I really like what I understand and am determined.......to best it.....
I am kind of halfheartedly trying to finish 'The Immoralist' by Andre Gide which is good but doesnt really grip me and also I just got Slavoj Zizek's 'The Metastases Of Enjoyment' which is incredibly fucking dense but I really like what I understand and am determined.......to best it.....
nickad
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I am currently reading 'In Cold Blood' by Truman Capote. I should have read this ages ago.
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For the next 12 weeks it will be:
Financial and Managerial Accounting: The Basis for Business Decisions
Principles of Microeconomics
Ough I hated microeconomics so damn much!!!!
Anyways I'm about to start reading Nietzsches Human, all too human.
Orig
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catmitts: I read it on a train late at night on my way home from Chicago, so I wasn't paying attention too much. >_> The parts I do remember reading seemed nice, though!
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata. I'll finish the other six stories in my Harlan Ellison book later. I can only go so long without reading a Japanese novel. :D
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata. I'll finish the other six stories in my Harlan Ellison book later. I can only go so long without reading a Japanese novel. :D
Orig
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Thousand Cranes was pretty good. Think I'd appreciate it more if I gave it a second read. Will do that later. Much later.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Radnen
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A lot of you guys are reading some really nice books, but I see no literary analysis of them. Either they are boring, giggled at sex scenes, or you powered through them. (I also never read ALL the posts, so meh).
Currently I'm reading Galileo's Daughter, and it's doing a nice job at setting the grounds of the conflict between faith and reason. It makes you wonder who you actually praise, god or your religion? Because religion has it wrong when claiming they own the cosmos and that the earth is center of all things, but God remains unchanged even after Galileo's work.
Currently I'm reading Galileo's Daughter, and it's doing a nice job at setting the grounds of the conflict between faith and reason. It makes you wonder who you actually praise, god or your religion? Because religion has it wrong when claiming they own the cosmos and that the earth is center of all things, but God remains unchanged even after Galileo's work.
Orig
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Well I'm not partial to posting gigantic literary analyse because I'm sorta more partial to letting my feelings towards the book sink in in my head first. It's also because that takes a long time. And this is the "What are you currently reading?" thread, not the "What did you think of the last book you read?" thread. But I guess it's mostly the time thing. And I was probably the one giggling at the sex scenes.
Still truckin' through Brave New World. A little over halfway done. I might like it more than 1984 in terms of dystopian fiction!
Still truckin' through Brave New World. A little over halfway done. I might like it more than 1984 in terms of dystopian fiction!
Radnen
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@Orig: I think 1984 is a more communistic approach, and Brave New World is more of a democratic approach.
Eike
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I like Brave New World a lot. I'd have to say, everyone says CAMERAS? IN MY TOWN?? IT IS LIKE WE ARE LIVING IN NINETEEN-EIGHTY FOUR but Brave New World always struck me as far, far more similar to modern-day.
I wouldn't necessarily say it was the difference between communism and democracy, Brave New World is still pretty totalitarian, but with a severely manufacured utopia as opposed to any kind of traditional dystopia. Rather than in 1984, where if you resist you are brainwashed, killed and forgotten, in Brave New World you have no means to resist and revolt because nobody gives a fuck because they're HAPPY. Probably shouldn't talk about Soma the painless wonder holiday drug on a videogame forum for irony's sake but that bit struck a chord with me as well.
There never seemed to be much 'boot smashing into a human face forever' and maintaining the status quo, is the thing, it seemed to have sprung from legitimate altruism which made it kinda scarier. The utopia is worse in some ways, I always remember the line about rather than suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, they're just abolishing the slings and arrows altogether. The annoying thing is there isn't really any decent argument against being happy all the time except for poetic kinds of reasons, (and all art is, of course, banned. Nineteen Eighty-Four had crappy lit. and films, can't actually remember if Brave New World had something like this. I imagine so) and if it ever came to a choice of manufactured happiness all the time and the actual range of human emotion I think more than a few people would be tempted after giving it some thought.
This is probably less-than-articulate, it's 4.30 and I need sleep. Well, there's some discussion, anyway. I do like the book. Orig, I'd be interested to see what you thought when you finish it/it's sunk in, or whatever.
edit: oh, haha, fun fact: Huxley knew George Orwell, I think he was one of his teachers at Eton, and shortly after 1984 was published, Huxley wrote to him basically saying "yeah, nice book. I think my one's the way things are actually gonna go down, but yeah good effort B+" I am prick-ising Huxley here, but yeah.
I wouldn't necessarily say it was the difference between communism and democracy, Brave New World is still pretty totalitarian, but with a severely manufacured utopia as opposed to any kind of traditional dystopia. Rather than in 1984, where if you resist you are brainwashed, killed and forgotten, in Brave New World you have no means to resist and revolt because nobody gives a fuck because they're HAPPY. Probably shouldn't talk about Soma the painless wonder holiday drug on a videogame forum for irony's sake but that bit struck a chord with me as well.
There never seemed to be much 'boot smashing into a human face forever' and maintaining the status quo, is the thing, it seemed to have sprung from legitimate altruism which made it kinda scarier. The utopia is worse in some ways, I always remember the line about rather than suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, they're just abolishing the slings and arrows altogether. The annoying thing is there isn't really any decent argument against being happy all the time except for poetic kinds of reasons, (and all art is, of course, banned. Nineteen Eighty-Four had crappy lit. and films, can't actually remember if Brave New World had something like this. I imagine so) and if it ever came to a choice of manufactured happiness all the time and the actual range of human emotion I think more than a few people would be tempted after giving it some thought.
This is probably less-than-articulate, it's 4.30 and I need sleep. Well, there's some discussion, anyway. I do like the book. Orig, I'd be interested to see what you thought when you finish it/it's sunk in, or whatever.
edit: oh, haha, fun fact: Huxley knew George Orwell, I think he was one of his teachers at Eton, and shortly after 1984 was published, Huxley wrote to him basically saying "yeah, nice book. I think my one's the way things are actually gonna go down, but yeah good effort B+" I am prick-ising Huxley here, but yeah.
