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  On 9/1/2013 at 6:02 PM, Alcofribas said:

those newer reprints of jung are significantly cooler looking than the other ones.

thanks man. nice to see another person who appreciates the small differences.

when jung first saw the design for the collected works published by Princeton he said it looked like they put his work in a coffin lol

Oh really? What a card. Have you read memories, dreams and reflections?

Yes, quite good.

  On 9/1/2013 at 10:34 PM, Alcofribas said:

Yes, quite good.

I love that dream he had about a giant anus taking a dump on a church, that was bonkers. And he's so matter of fact about it.

it was God's anus in particular lol

Yeah. Ha! Like some Monty Python animation or something. Hilarious.

Trio of short books from my to read pile:

Sort of Pynchon for dummies. NS has never been a great fiction writer, but his books are always brimming with cool ideas.

Arthur Danto- Analytical Philosophy of History

Never in my life have I read something so dense to explain something relatively simple. Christ in a chicken basket.

  On 9/9/2013 at 2:21 AM, SR4 said:

Arthur Danto- Analytical Philosophy of History

 

 

 

Never in my life have I read something so dense to explain something relatively simple. Christ in a chicken basket.

Danto? I never really cared for his style; not what I would consider "analytical philosophy" proper.

Ol' Pynchon's new one, Bleeding Edge, is coming out next week, apparently. Like Inherent Vice, only different?

'nother Stephen King: Firestarter.

Doublename's post reminds me that me missus bought me Cryptonomicon a few months back and it's still in my to read pile.

So that next eye reckon.

  On 9/10/2013 at 6:15 PM, baph said:

Ol' Pynchon's new one, Bleeding Edge, is coming out next week, apparently. Like Inherent Vice, only different?

I really like how he turns the year 2001 into some sort of weird "historical" era. Man it feels like only 10 years ago, but everybody is saying his writing makes it look like it,s from a far distant past, which is probably true.

  On 8/16/2013 at 12:47 AM, Philip Glass said:

 

  On 8/15/2013 at 9:30 AM, feltcher said:

Currently reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Started off well, be interesting to see where it goes.

 

That's nice, I've starting this as well as one of my summer read. Good page turner. Since I only read 2 book at the same time (one at home, one on the subway), I've decided to read "Ready player one" as another summer easy read. I don't like it, I'm at page 200 but I'll go until the end. It's a great idea, but the guy can't write.

 

mad syncronicity here, i picked this up as a random buy from a second hand shop, the first time ive been in this thread for months, and this is the first post i read. it was a decent book, nothing amazing, nothing shite, just a solid read. still insane that of all the books in all the worlds, i pick it up as a literal random 4th book to get the 10 pound deal, and the first post i read in here mentions it. i cant even imagine the possibility of that in true maths.

Children of Dune

also someone's mailing me Be Here Now. Not sure how much of it is gonna be insightful & how much will be drugged out hippy talk but it's written by a guy who changed his name to Ram Dass so iunno

Earlier this week I was reading Art & Physic: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Art. Now it is The Beat of a Different Drum: The life and science of Richard Feynman.

This series is completely ridiculous and extremely good fun, as long as you're OK with a spot of casual genocide here and there.

  On 9/11/2013 at 1:54 AM, Philip Glass said:

 

  On 9/10/2013 at 6:15 PM, baph said:

Ol' Pynchon's new one, Bleeding Edge, is coming out next week, apparently. Like Inherent Vice, only different?

 

I really like how he turns the year 2001 into some sort of weird "historical" era. Man it feels like only 10 years ago, but everybody is saying his writing makes it look like it,s from a far distant past, which is probably true.

I'm hoping this is more Inherent Vice than Against the Day. The latter made me think maybe he'd lost his touch but the former was a wonderful stripped down Pynchon classic.

tom pls

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, and The Memoirs of a Survivor by Dorris Lessing.

I enjoyed The Golden Notebook and The Fifth Child by Lessing. In fact, although I tend to be sceptical about so-called "life changing" books, The Golden Notebook stayed with me a while. And I've been meaning to read the Herge for ages.

I inhaled Tintin as a kid (en français, bien sur). I would love to get a poster print of the black gold cover

Finished Infinite Jest awhile back. I thought it was lots of fun, & despite being somewhat inconsistent in terms of narrative/linguistic quality it's got tons of nuggets of beauty strewn throughout. I wouldn't call it a masterpiece, but it was an enjoyable experience & is on my long list of books worth an eventual second pass.

Now I'm debating whether to crack William Gaddis' The Recognitions with only 2 weeks before fall term... It's been eyeing me from the bookshelf for ages

If you have to debate whether to crack open The Recognitions before an important life event, you will never crack open the Recognitions. Trust me, I know from experience (my experience is that I've never cracked open The Recognitions).

The entire Tintin collection is a must for anybody.

  On 9/18/2013 at 2:25 AM, baph said:

If you have to debate whether to crack open The Recognitions before an important life event, you will never crack open the Recognitions. Trust me, I know from experience (my experience is that I've never cracked open The Recognitions).