What are you reading?

[Muncey]

Let me know what you think of this one! Added to my 'to read' list after watching the talk based on the book on YouTube.

same! Dennet is great, and im very interested in that subject

Not finished it yet but so far its really good, its broken into 77 chapters and it flows quite nicely from one point to the next but its done in a way so you can just go back at any time and read one chapter and it'd make sense without having to re-read the whole book again... which is ideal because, as you can imagine, theres a lot to digest with 77 chapters lol.

[kay]

Finally starting on the Riverworld series, although it turns out that this particular installment actually sits beyond the main sequence. The writing's OK but the setting seems a bit more militaristically-inclined than I'd expected. Not sure it makes me want to read the main books in the series but they have been on my to-read list for some time now. This particular story courts a fairly controversial religious theme.

The premise of the series is that, one day, every human that has ever lived (all the way up till the 21st century) awakens in a seemingly endless river vally (hence Riverworld). They find themselves housed within 25-year old versions of their original bodies (or younger if they died younger), in bodies that don't age and are sterile (so they can have as much sex as they want). Food magically appears at set times every day from "batteries" that materialise food into a bucket they're each given. Anyone that dies wakes up to find themselves elsewhere along the river.

[wobbles]

My last read was "The Man Without Qualities"

It has slightly altered my way of thinking/living

[OGLemon]

Not a book, but a nice little essay http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ ... arxism.pdf

been reading a lot of Guérin's work recently

[Muncey]

[_Agu_]

[Shum]

Cracking on to Anathem by Neal Stephenson which will take a lot longer than those other two.

finished this a while back, good read but the story fizzled out towards the end. now reading the same authors' Cryptonomicon

also finished:
Enon by Paul Harding
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

[scspkr99]

same! Dennet is great, and im very interested in that subject

I have the audiobook of Intuition Pumps and it's good, I find him hard work though I've started and put down Consciousness Explained a couple of times, I think he speaks well and his shorter stuff is good but his books aren't for the feint hearted.

For just about the best explanation of Compatibilism on Free Will is his response to Sam Harris

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/refl ... -free-will

[scspkr99]

have you read any of John McDowell on Wittgenstein?

One of the philosophers I generally prefer to go to secondary sources.

[magma]

Got a four day weekend ahead and I just had two Peter Ackroyd books delivered.





Also, got this waiting which was apparently the book that inspired Scorsese to make the HBO Series:

[NinjaEdit]

Finished reading



Currently reading

[mIrReN]

Forgot to mention finaaally finished Tolstoi master & man, love it
gonna get on the prophet again soon (started it when I was at Murkys but haven't finished yet amazing read thusfar) and after that some more Russians, they have beautiful history yet a sad future seems to lie ahead


@ Magma that BWE is it good?

[soronery]

tom wolfe - the new journalism

simon morrison - dicombobulated; dispatches from the wrong side

leander kahney - inside steve's brain

[Shum]

still on Cryptonomicon

also got
Every Day Is For The Thief by Teju Cole,
The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Danielewski, and
Acid House: The True Story by Luke Bainbridge
ready and waiting.

time for some book porn:

Beautiful design for Brazilian anniversary edition of [William Gibson]'s "Neuromancer."

[hubb]

Anyone read the new Naomi Klein yet?

Looking forward to that.
She's basicly stating that the world will be destroyed in a decade or two if we don't rid ourselves of capitalism now.

[hubb]

Wittgenstein is the tits!

[nousd]

A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut @ 82. He'd said he'd never write another book then came out with this memoir/commentary/diatribe, caustically critical of the USA and mankind in general. Anarchists & conspiracy theorists would love it. So dark that it cheered my dying father...as in: shit, I thought I was depressed.

[sixs]

time for some book porn:

[magma]

@ Magma that BWE is it good?

Not started it yet - as soon as I do I'll report back.

London Under took precedence this weekend. HIGHLY recommended for any of the London Ninjas!

[rickyarbino]

Anyone read the new Naomi Klein yet?

Looking forward to that.
She's basicly stating that the world will be destroyed in a decade or two if we don't rid ourselves of capitalism now.

Why do I feel like that book isn't free?