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  On 8/19/2010 at 3:44 AM, Philip Glass said:

A fun, re-read of a book during my vacation. General science with a touch of humor :

 

should given to every student of science when they hit first year in secondary school

maybe because he's a travel writer - and this is a sort of travelogue - he explains stuff so well anyone could understand

Thanks to whoever recommended "White Noise" by Don Delillo. I'm about halfway through it right now and it's absolutely fantastic.

  On 2/2/2008 at 9:22 PM, zzz said:

last great book i read "with the old breed: at peleliu and okinawa" by eugene sledge (wwII)

 

just finishing "baseball between the numbers: why everything you know about the game is wrong"

awesome stat/geek book

 

looking for something conspiratorial next.

I've been looking for 'with the old breed' for a while after seeing a documentary which mentioned it. Is it worth the purchase?

time to resurrect dis thread bredbins

my list of the last weeks would be:

Thukydides - History of the Peleponnesian War (very, very dry)

Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno - Dialectic of Reason

Patrick Süßkind - The Dove

J.P. Sartre - The Age of Reason

Fjodor Dostoyevski - The Brothers Karamazov

F. Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

I'm rereading Dune, for some reason. FH's prose is so extremely inconsistent, but I'm still having fun.

Jonathan Franzen's Freedom

Non-fiction : The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores

Fiction : The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel

^ holy shit. i waited FIFTEEN YEARS for this book. i was worried that either ellroy's heart would no longer be in this type of novel and he'd phone in the last one, or that my own tastes would have deviated over such a long period of time. neither worry was in any way founded. this is esily the best of the Underground USA trilogy, and possibly his best novel. thats big talk for me as I consider White Jazz the best book ever written

biographies of larger than life nutbars never fail to entertain (can't wait for the decent michael jackson ones to come out). this one is tinged with a bit out disbelief and outrage as you realise there are still people out there literally worshipping this prick

also, gets you thinking that if the founders of other religions had lived recently enough to have well documented lives so a researcher could go to the record and contradict all their bs, there'd probably be a book like this about every one of them

another part 3 i've been hanging out for. not quite for fifteen years tho. if you're going to read some big dumb escapist space opera, dont just pick up the first book in the sale bin with a spaceship on it, go straight to the King of this shit.

picture of dorian gray,

economic and philosophical manuscripts (marx),

various by fromm, freud

Just getting into it. Good read so far

metamorphoses and amores by ovid, human chain by seamus heaney, and an old favourite - crow by ted hughes.

  On 8/19/2010 at 6:17 AM, HerculesCzar said:

Thanks to whoever recommended "White Noise" by Don Delillo. I'm about halfway through it right now and it's absolutely fantastic.

i stole a copy of this from a bar (no, really) a few months ago, but i couldn't really get into it. i don't have much time for novels these days, i'm mostly a poetry reader.

easily one of the most fucked up, depraved and haunting crimes ive ever read about. just heartbreaking and scary.

and just started

About to start

wow, i just found neal stephenson's notes and acknowledgements on anathem (which i fucking adored). while pretty dense stuff, if you liked that book - you'll probably like this too: http://www.nealstephenson.com/anathem/acknow.htm

  On 8/19/2010 at 6:17 AM, HerculesCzar said:

Thanks to whoever recommended "White Noise" by Don Delillo. I'm about halfway through it right now and it's absolutely fantastic.

Word, think I heard about tha in this thread, read it a few months ago. Brilliant.

Just did Herman Hesse's Siddhartha and now I'm trying to get into The Glass Bead Game/ Magister Ludi, very different and I'm not getting into it yet...

the glass bead game is brilliant. recommend john fowles' 'the magus' (which i mentioned earlier in the thread) as a follow-up.

im about 400 pages into "the history of the World" by J.M. Roberts. it's basically all about the political and religious formations of all the major civilizations to date. it's vacillates between super boring and totally awesome. great perspective on life the universe and everything.

i read siddharta and steppenwolf too recently, what a brilliant writer

amazing

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