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When The Mob Ruled Vegas by Steve Fischer

it's a collection of stories about the actual mob related events that went on in Vegas in the late 50's and 60's, I've always found mob-related stuff fascinating and this book is really well researched and tells it concisely without having extra unneeded details.

  On 8/10/2011 at 10:45 PM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

me too

I'm surprised I'm absolutely loving this so far. And I realize I've made a huge mistake in buying the last two Kerouac novels I've read in German. Translating his writings destroys him completely.

NEED SUGGESTIONS

Should I read:

War and Peace by Tolstoy

The Brothers Karazamov by Dostoevsky

Les Miserables

Please pick one for me!

  On 8/11/2011 at 1:39 AM, kokoon said:

  On 8/10/2011 at 10:45 PM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

me too

wanna race???

Reading about what jouissance means to try to work out what jouissance means

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy.

I really want to read that Dostoyevsky but I'm afraid I will have the same reaction

Thanks to my girlfriend. I'm a huge fan of Italo Calvino and love the ideas behind the Oulipo, so I'm not sure why I hadn't read this before... but it's excellent.

  On 8/11/2011 at 1:44 AM, dese manz hatin said:

 

I'm surprised I'm absolutely loving this so far. And I realize I've made a huge mistake in buying the last two Kerouac novels I've read in German. Translating his writings destroys him completely.

Far and away his best novel I reckon.

i had a slight chortle at the fact that, in Foucault's Pendulum, the inciting action which kicks off the novel doesn't arrive until more than 100 pages into the book. talk about exposition, jesus—even the bible starts off with a bang. come on, eco.

  On 8/17/2011 at 2:40 PM, Iain C said:

 

Thanks to my girlfriend. I'm a huge fan of Italo Calvino and love the ideas behind the Oulipo, so I'm not sure why I hadn't read this before... but it's excellent.

 

Love Perec, and love that book!

the visit of the royal physician by Per Olov Enquist

again

  On 8/12/2011 at 2:39 AM, halisray said:

NEED SUGGESTIONS

 

Should I read:

 

War and Peace by Tolstoy

The Brothers Karazamov by Dostoevsky

Les Miserables

 

 

Please pick one for me!

cancer ward by solzhenitsyn

Philip K. Dick - Valis

As always Dick is a great writer and I can't belive he wrote as many great books as he did in the states he was in when he wrote them. Another good one!

i challenged someone to a reading competition, a race, and they didnt respond yet ....

are you a craven ??

good read

  On 8/12/2011 at 2:39 AM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

  On 8/11/2011 at 1:39 AM, kokoon said:

  On 8/10/2011 at 10:45 PM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

me too

wanna race???

no

  On 8/21/2011 at 7:41 PM, kokoon said:

  On 8/12/2011 at 2:39 AM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

  On 8/11/2011 at 1:39 AM, kokoon said:

  On 8/10/2011 at 10:45 PM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

me too

wanna race???

no

id win anyways im a way better reader than you

Just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and A Scanner Darkly. Half way through Shantaram but taking a break to read some Oscar Wilde short stories. Off to the library tomorrow to find more fun.

I gave up after a few pages Levi-Strauss (didn't actually care) and one third of Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia (too depressing). Managed to read a couple of David Foster Wallace things online. A great interview, an essay on the ethics of eating lobster which is seriously awesome, and one article about a luxury cruise that was funny but unpleasant as it is contemptuous, neurotic and his ironic resignation reminds me of my worst tendencies. It's kind of a guide on how NOT to live.

A bit ashamed of this but read three introductions. On Theodor Adorno, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Marx's Capital (this one on comic book form lol) loved all of them. I have zero training in philosophy but I really want to know about the stuff without getting a headache and feeling stupid that I don't understand what is going on.

I saw this guy giving a lecture to an empty room on Film Socialisme and while this is intended to be read by teenagers it has lots of cool challenging things to daydream about. Argues that modern ethics are wicked and corrupted, gives you tools to recognize and fight evil, makes the case for revolution I guess but don't quite understand how it is supposed to win if it refuses to conquer and become power itself.

wat the capital in comic format? where can i find that?

that's fucking :sup:

  On 8/27/2011 at 1:01 AM, m u st co n t r ol t h o 4 said:

Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia (too depressing)

oh man seen. i'm re-reading dialectic of enlightenment for a paper at the moment. read the first chapter this afternoon, feelsbadman.jpg.

also, there's absolutely nothing wrong with reading introductions especially if you haven't studied philosophy in any form at least on college niveau (was the same for me). fuck reading adorno and the likes without any former training in the field.

edit: also sorry for double-post.