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Which is even a better to reason to read the book first now, so you don't get spoiled by the story or character design or set production from TV ads or the movie itself. Better to have it in your imagination first.

 

 

Ex: Is anybody able to read the LOTR book anymore without seeing Ian McKellen as Gandalf?

Edited April 20, 2015 by Philip Glass

FINALLY finished Gravity's Rainbow...excellent stuff. The whole section about Bryan the light bulb was fun and the ending was bizarre. 9/10

 

Also bought a cheap copy of The Luminaries, meaning I now have TWO books with 700+ pages each sitting by me, blocking out sunlight. Wish me luck...

^ The Luminaries good shit.

 

Just started re-reading Don Delillo's Libra, dat's my mans an'em.

  On 4/20/2015 at 9:31 PM, Bechuga said:

FINALLY finished Gravity's Rainbow...excellent stuff. The whole section about Bryan the light bulb was fun and the ending was bizarre. 9/10

 

Also bought a cheap copy of The Luminaries, meaning I now have TWO books with 700+ pages each sitting by me, blocking out sunlight. Wish me luck...

 

YES!

 

Man, I need to reread that.

  On 4/20/2015 at 10:19 PM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 4/20/2015 at 9:31 PM, Bechuga said:

FINALLY finished Gravity's Rainbow...excellent stuff. The whole section about Bryan the light bulb was fun and the ending was bizarre. 9/10

 

Also bought a cheap copy of The Luminaries, meaning I now have TWO books with 700+ pages each sitting by me, blocking out sunlight. Wish me luck...

YES!

 

Man, I need to reread that.

 

Me two!

I was worried when I started it but now the idea of poring over for a second time--perhaps just flipping open to a random page and reading--is genuinely exciting.

Edited April 20, 2015 by Bechuga

Also reading Oryx & Crake by Atwood on my kindle. Good stuff, very funny and scary as to how many things she mentions as jokes have come true.

 

Did I mention the kindle is one of the best inventions ever?

Edited April 24, 2015 by Bechuga

Oryx & Crake is a really amazing book. I read it a few years ago, and I hear from different folks that it is more relevant now than it was before, which is pretty impressive. I'm going to reread it this summer, and hopefully the other two in the series.

I'm reading a history book for children.

+1 for Oryx & Crake. I have it sitting in a pile to reread, last time I read it was when it'd just been published.

It's a trilogy now I believe.

  On 4/25/2015 at 12:19 PM, hello spiral said:

+1 for Oryx & Crake. I have it sitting in a pile to reread, last time I read it was when it'd just been published.

It's a trilogy now I believe.

 

Yeah, with The Year Of The Flood and MaddAddam. Will definitely move onto those after I finish this.

  On 4/25/2015 at 7:09 AM, logakght said:

I'm reading a history book for children.

any chance it's the Gombrich book?

The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe.

 

 

Good.

  On 4/25/2015 at 4:17 PM, Alcofribas said:

 

  On 4/25/2015 at 7:09 AM, logakght said:

I'm reading a history book for children.

any chance it's the Gombrich book?

 

 

Yes.

  On 4/25/2015 at 4:52 PM, logakght said:

 

  On 4/25/2015 at 4:17 PM, Alcofribas said:

 

 

  On 4/25/2015 at 7:09 AM, logakght said:

I'm reading a history book for children.

any chance it's the Gombrich book?

Yes.

nice one!

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

  On 4/25/2015 at 5:42 PM, Alcofribas said:

 

  On 4/25/2015 at 4:52 PM, logakght said:

 

  On 4/25/2015 at 4:17 PM, Alcofribas said:

 

  On 4/25/2015 at 7:09 AM, logakght said:

I'm reading a history book for children.

any chance it's the Gombrich book?

Yes.

nice one!

 

 

yeah! At first I thought it was another history book. But then I realized it was for children and I said "oh noes, but well I'll learn something :^)" And yes! I love children/juvenile books. Really, why over complicate things in an adult way? :)

  On 4/25/2015 at 6:02 PM, Berk said:

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

really nice book. which translation do you have?

Finished Walking in the Shade by Lessing, very entertaining, with many depressing indications that things haven't really changed in fifty years, and probably never will.

I decided to set Blood Meridian down as I don't feel I'm quite ready for it right now. Went Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, just read The Fall of the House of Usher. Twisted.

Uncovering the Missing Secrets of Magnetism

  On 4/27/2015 at 11:38 AM, peace 7 said:

Uncovering the Missing Secrets of Magnetism

 

Really? Well, I hope you enjoy it...I had heard this is a polarising book

  On 4/27/2015 at 7:33 PM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 4/27/2015 at 11:38 AM, peace 7 said:

Uncovering the Missing Secrets of Magnetism

 

Really? Well, I hope you enjoy it...I had heard this is a polarising book

 

 

It looks like your standard quack physics, i.e. about as polarising among physicists as intelligent design is among evolutionary biologists. Or do you just mean it's polarising amongst the quacks themselves? ha. Also, what's with the hilariously awful formatting?

 

I'm just finishing a regular physics book, The Particle at the end of the Universe, a history of the LHC and reasonable overview of QFT and the standard model. Pretty good, if lacking in detail when it came to detectors and other technical aspects of the experiment itself (would've liked some info on the setup of their distributed computing setup in particular).

  On 4/27/2015 at 12:23 AM, Twelvetrees said:

I decided to set Blood Meridian down as I don't feel I'm quite ready for it right now. Went Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, just read The Fall of the House of Usher. Twisted.

Blood Meridian is just massively overrated; you're doing it right.

baph, bro...

  On 4/27/2015 at 8:51 PM, baph said:

 

  On 4/27/2015 at 12:23 AM, Twelvetrees said:

I decided to set Blood Meridian down as I don't feel I'm quite ready for it right now. Went Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, just read The Fall of the House of Usher. Twisted.

Blood Meridian is just massively overrated; you're doing it right.

The book was incredible from what I had read. Tough to read though. It isn't my first McCarthy book so I'm in on his style but it's a tricky book.