Re-reading some stuff I haven't seen since high school (read: a long time)-
And
Surely this is the best of all possible worlds!
Re-reading some stuff I haven't seen since high school (read: a long time)-
And
Surely this is the best of all possible worlds!
Just finished Letters to a Young Contrarian, thought it was a pretty decent read.
Just finished up A Dance with Dragons last night, so back to A Brief History of Time.
Just finished this. After the brisk ride that was the first volume of Hunger Games, I found this quite slow, dense, and even boring in places, but it kept me engaged and interested nonetheless: the occasional flash of intensity and the trippy ending somewhat redeemed its drawn-out and claustrophobic tendencies.
I read and enjoyed this many years ago, but on a naive level. Check out this excellent critical essay of the morality buried within the tale: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm
im reading the wind from nowhere by English author J. G. Ballard. It is with scenarios of 'natural disaster', in this case seeing civilization reduced to ruins by prolonged worldwide hurricane force winds.
Currently reading:
Ambivalent about Updike: he is a great stylist, but also infuriatingly long-winded.
Reading this again, because the first time I had no idea what was going on.
omg, one of the freaking awesomest books ever
i loved HoL, but had problems with "only revolutions" - this one i did not get
I was just thinking about that book a few days ago, out of nowhere. I really want to read it.
As for me, I just started reading Slaughterhouse-Five. Finally. It's on my "I should have read this in high school everyone else on the planet has read it it's supposed to be amazing why did this take me so long what the hell is wrong with me" list. I'm 70 pages in and really enjoying it so far.
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"Wizard" by Marc Seifer — a fascinating and revelatory biography of Nikola Tesla
I've been a huge Titanic buff nearly all of my life, but somehow never read this book until now. It's AWESOME!
Whoa, shame on me, I'm obsessed with the Titanic and I haven't read this either. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll stop by my library and see if I can find it!
By the way, I'm reading W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. I heard it name-checked in, of all places, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode from years ago and I've always been mildly curious about it. I happened upon it at my library and decided out of curiosity to check it out - it's amazing. It's so awesome yet extremely uncomfortable to find a character you relate to so well, especially when they share all your flaws and bad habits.
Trendy i know, but fuckin solid as well...
I think this is probably the Darkest book by Murakami, even darker than Tokio Blues, and also its the most ambitious because the descriptions are so complex you have to pay attention at every detail, the book has also the Fantastic and Sad vibe most Murakami books have but with a constant sense of hope, it's very long and very intense but pays of well, like the kind of movie you watch were you think nothing is going to happen and then... boom, it hits you in the face, i recommend it a lot, but only if you have read Murakami before, because it has lots of references from other works
About 60 pages into this, but I'm going to quit. I don't mind gross books, but this feels really limited and shallow.
I know I'm going to ruffle some feathers around ETS with this one, but I'm finally, finally getting around to reading The God Delusion. I know, welcome to 2006. I tried reading it before but found it really hard to get into for some reason. I probably wasn't in the mood to read it at that time and was trying to force myself to. I don't know. All I know is, I'm a hundred pages into it and can't stop reading. I'm forcing myself to put it down and go to bed.
Yeah, I actually haven't read that either and it's on my list. Gotta get around to it soon. Glad to hear that it's keeping your attention.
Right now, I'm reading a VERY long bio of Henry VIII that I got on sale. I'm trying to read more nonfiction and make myself more smarter.
Just finished: Christopher Hitchens - God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Currently reading: Penn Jillette - God, No!
On deck: Stephen King - The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel
What the hell? I haven't even looked at this thread since the new board started, and I came in here to post:
I found this quote in it today, and thought it was profound:
"Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of "not knowing." Of course not knowing hardly prevents the approaching chaos."
Awesome. Nick Hornby has some great insights.
Just finished this
and started this:
Just finished Kazuo Ishiguro's heart-smashingly sad/amazing Never Let Me Go (saw the film first, fell in love, checked the book out from my library, fell even more in love) and just started John Irving's The World According to Garp, which is turning out to be one of those books that makes me laugh out loud quite frequently. As soon as I finish that one I think I'm going back to Ishiguro's other novels.
Stuff about hemorrhoids and operations to remove them. That didn't gross me out though: the book just seemed like it wasn't going to provide any insight...into anything, not even hemorrhoids.