What are you reading?

dust shop · Post by **dust shop** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:24 pm

Edward Bernays: PROPAGANDA ,1928 but DAMN it could have be written yesterday!

nesslei · Post by **nesslei** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:11 am

YES!!! the holiday draws ever closer.

cal · Post by **cal** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:15 am

Still locked up in " The Great Gatsby "
A few more chapters to go, i'm so lazy when it comes to reading, should really make some time to finish it as it's pretty good.

datura · Post by **datura** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:16 am

cal wrote:Still locked up in " The Great Gatsby "
A few more chapters to go, i'm so lazy when it comes to reading, should really make some time to finish it as it's pretty good.

I really enjoyed it - it still reads really well for a relatively 'old' book. I keep on meaning to pick up Tender is The Night.

method x · Post by **method x** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:14 pm

Chuck Palahniuk - SURVIVOR
Great one.

xi · Post by xi » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:12 pm

Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of Choice, insight into why more choices are making people way less happy with their lives. Reads like a statistics textbook.

Just came outta "Forever War" by Joe Haldeman, commentary on Vietnam set in the future, where going to war means coming back to a world that has changed dramatically due to special relativity (If you travel faster than light back and forth, you are basically suspended in time, while everything else moves ahead as normal).

Got "The Reality Dysfunction" by Peter F. Hamilton (sci-fi nerds get to know) coming up next, and that series should take me pretty much to the end of the year, I would imagine. 6 books.

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:39 pm

HIGH TIMES

geiom · Post by **geiom** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:13 pm

'Crystal World' by man like J. G.

datura · Post by **datura** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:43 pm

geiom wrote:'Crystal World' by man like J. G.

How is it? I read the Drowned World a few months back and really enjoyed it.

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:44 pm

I'm reading the On The Movement-Image and On the Time-Image interviews in Deleuze's Negotiations while eating a ham sandwich.

self love · Post by **self love** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:26 am

reading? sheeet, i ain't much fer book lernin'.

i just read the random posts on dubstepforum.com. it's edukashunal.

spellfire · Post by **spellfire** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:48 am

Dragonlance chronicals,
Dragons of Autumn Twilight!

o yea!

And the Forgotten Realms books
The Dark Elf trilogys.

misskatiemo · Post by **misskatiemo** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:26 am

Just finished: "The Fast-Forward MBA: Project Management" for work, in the middle of "The World Is Flat" (work and pleasure), also in the middle of "Love in the Time of Cholera", and about to start "House Under Snow" for fun.

I'm a bookworm.

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:40 am

jim wrote:
stanton wrote:I am still reading the Myth Of Sisyphus by Albert Camus and Noise by Jacques Attali.

They're both jolly good but the translation of the Camus seems a bit blunt compared to translations of his fiction that I've read. Noise is excellent, but I'm unsure as to where he's going with all of the Baudrillardian simulacrum hoo ha as I was never a fan of that.
Camus is the man. I read the Fall twice in a row the other week. So much going on in there.

didnt even know he wrote fiction! im grappling with his philosophies about the nature of rebellion

betamaxnomates · Post by **betamaxnomates** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:33 pm

Halfway through DeLillo's 'Falling Man'. Still hasn't really 'grabbed' me, so yesterday started 'No Country For Old Men' which is altogether more engaging - at times actually reads like a transcript of the film.

reverendmedia · Post by **reverendmedia** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:16 pm

stanton wrote:I'm reading the On The Movement-Image and On the Time-Image interviews in Deleuze's Negotiations while eating a ham sandwich.

groo. i read the two books those interviews refer to - took me about 3 years.

have a quick look at my blog for the upshot of those three years. gah. what a waste of time.

paolo · Post by **paolo** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:34 pm

Can anyone recommend some decent science fiction? I'm feeling stuff by the likes of William Gibson, Iain M. Banks, Philip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov but I don't know much about the genre

datura · Post by **datura** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:47 pm

paolo wrote:Can anyone recommend some decent science fiction? I'm feeling stuff by the likes of William Gibson, Iain M. Banks, Philip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov but I don't know much about the genre

I've been making my way through some of the Gollancz Sci Fi Masterworks, recently read:

Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
Frank Herbert - Dune

and have Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon

Also read Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon recently which was a good read.

boots manuva · Post by **boots manuva** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:27 pm

My 2nd attempt at The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

Great chapter notes website for anyone interested...

http://www.csuohio.edu/english/nr0index.html

datura · Post by **datura** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:30 pm

I've just started 'Gone, Baby, Gone' by Dennis Lehane (author of Mystic River and on the writing team for the Wire)

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