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CloseI have been reading crime novels lately, mostly P.J Tracy and Jack Kerley, but I've just gone back to my adolescence and picked up (for free!) several Nancy Drew novels. Yeah, so they're not classic literature, but they'll keep me occupied for the time being. Then I'm gonna break out the Encyclopaedia Browns. >.<
Light reading, ahoy!
Light reading, ahoy!
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Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami. I started the audiobook version back in November, but the quality wasn't very good. :\ So I'm back to paperback.
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Koninklijke de belastingswetten van het Koninkrijk by Richard Van Teslon.
A long and legnthly book on dutch taxes during the golden age of piracy. Very confusing, as half of it is ledgers.
A long and legnthly book on dutch taxes during the golden age of piracy. Very confusing, as half of it is ledgers.
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Dance Dance Dance was neato. Murakami gains more neato torpedo points.
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. It struck me recently that I haven't read much contemporary British fiction.
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. It struck me recently that I haven't read much contemporary British fiction.
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I am reading the Liber Null.
I feel the need to explain this. I was talking with an acquaintance about the immediate and long-term benefits of meditation and the topic strayed onto Aleister Crowley's prescribed methods for such, which, if you remove the ABRACADABRA crap from it is actually pretty cool. He then confessed that he is a practitioner of "CHAOS MAGIC". After my laughter died down he tossed me this book and suggested I give it a read. It's pretty interesting, although hocus-pocus stuff isn't really my bag so it's hard to take bits of it seriously (even though it makes sense within its own vocabulary of explanation).
I feel the need to explain this. I was talking with an acquaintance about the immediate and long-term benefits of meditation and the topic strayed onto Aleister Crowley's prescribed methods for such, which, if you remove the ABRACADABRA crap from it is actually pretty cool. He then confessed that he is a practitioner of "CHAOS MAGIC". After my laughter died down he tossed me this book and suggested I give it a read. It's pretty interesting, although hocus-pocus stuff isn't really my bag so it's hard to take bits of it seriously (even though it makes sense within its own vocabulary of explanation).
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oh no i inadvertently summoned a ChaosProductions i never should have toyed with the dark arts
THE HUBRIS
THE HUBRIS
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Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima. <3 Nothing like an old man getting his revenge on a past love by hiring a guy to marry her, then have him go off having gay sex trysts.
EDIT: I forgot to say, thank you for all the Hemingway recommendations last page. :3
EDIT: I forgot to say, thank you for all the Hemingway recommendations last page. :3
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Forbidden Colors was really, really good, but it took forever to finish. I felt like it was too smart for me in places. I stayed up thinking about it thought. Mishima is a fantastic author.
First Love by Ivan Turgenev.
First Love by Ivan Turgenev.
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First Love was aight. Short and poignant. Feel like it's not the best Turgenev has done.
Gertrude by Hermann Hesse. Let's hope I love this guy as much as Canuck and my buddy I loaned Journey to the East to before I even read it do.
Gertrude by Hermann Hesse. Let's hope I love this guy as much as Canuck and my buddy I loaned Journey to the East to before I even read it do.
i have probably posted this before but i am reading John O'Farrell's excellent An Utterly Impartial History of Britain. humourous take on british history by the man responsible for newsbiscuit
I just finished reading the entirety of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire". It has taken me since Thanksgiving at least.
Now that I have run out of it, I am REALLY DISTRAUGHT. I WANT MORE!!! Goddamnit, new book was supposed to be out in 2006, what the FUCK. UNACCEPTABLE, GEORGE R. R. MARTIN. Get your shit together and stop looking so much like Z.Z. Top. Grrrrrr!
Anyway I just started The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.
Now that I have run out of it, I am REALLY DISTRAUGHT. I WANT MORE!!! Goddamnit, new book was supposed to be out in 2006, what the FUCK. UNACCEPTABLE, GEORGE R. R. MARTIN. Get your shit together and stop looking so much like Z.Z. Top. Grrrrrr!
Anyway I just started The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.
(grr meant to hit edit and I hit quote instead)
I have read Crowley (not the Liber Null though) and it is some fascinating shit, dude! Of course, I cannot imagine anyone ever being a "practitioner" of it, I mean, it's great source material for fiction and it does have its own internal logic but...come on. He was one crazy mf.
I am reading the Liber Null.
I feel the need to explain this. I was talking with an acquaintance about the immediate and long-term benefits of meditation and the topic strayed onto Aleister Crowley's prescribed methods for such, which, if you remove the ABRACADABRA crap from it is actually pretty cool. He then confessed that he is a practitioner of "CHAOS MAGIC". After my laughter died down he tossed me this book and suggested I give it a read. It's pretty interesting, although hocus-pocus stuff isn't really my bag so it's hard to take bits of it seriously (even though it makes sense within its own vocabulary of explanation).
I have read Crowley (not the Liber Null though) and it is some fascinating shit, dude! Of course, I cannot imagine anyone ever being a "practitioner" of it, I mean, it's great source material for fiction and it does have its own internal logic but...come on. He was one crazy mf.
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Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving (5/e)
This is shaping up to be the best and most comprehensive text I have ever read on the subject. If only stuff like this was available when I was in high school :p
edit: oh wait it was, in an earlier edition :<
Yeah I find it pretty hard to take anyone seriously who puts on a robe, says something like "I AM THE BEAST, HARBINGER OF THE APOCALYPSE" and then goes and has sex with a dog, though I think his commentary on mental exercise and the nature of genius is pretty awesome.
This is shaping up to be the best and most comprehensive text I have ever read on the subject. If only stuff like this was available when I was in high school :p
edit: oh wait it was, in an earlier edition :<
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Of course, I cannot imagine anyone ever being a "practitioner" of it, I mean, it's great source material for fiction and it does have its own internal logic but...come on. He was one crazy mf.
Yeah I find it pretty hard to take anyone seriously who puts on a robe, says something like "I AM THE BEAST, HARBINGER OF THE APOCALYPSE" and then goes and has sex with a dog, though I think his commentary on mental exercise and the nature of genius is pretty awesome.
