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War and Peace?

stappard wrote:Right I'm going to Everest in September and I'll have bare reading time during acclimatisatoin periods etc.

Need something long, or short and dense Give me some suggestions please, no fantasy/sci-fi mind

basically, anything russian.

kay wrote:War and Peace?

i had (inb4 war and peace) at the end of my post but removed it at the last minute

Kaneda wrote:

stappard wrote:Right I'm going to Everest in September and I'll have bare reading time during acclimatisatoin periods etc.

Need something long, or short and dense Give me some suggestions please, no fantasy/sci-fi mind

basically, anything russian.

I've read enough solzhenitsyn etc for school/uni, dont need any more

^^^Just finished White Noise by Don Delillo, about 300 words and has a dark humour running through it, and frequent moments of poignancy. Read it.

Currently working through this



which is soooo good. The man is a master of similies: "The voice crawled out of her throat like a sick man getting out of bed." "Then suspicion climbed all over her face like a kitten, but not so playfully."

I want to preface by saying I read very rarely. If I do it's probably a comic strip. But I'm reading Ask the Dust by John Fante and enjoying it quite a bit. It's very quirky and interesting.

More books about charles manson
this time its "Shadow over santa susana- black magic, mind control and the manson family mythos" by Adam Gorightly

stappard wrote:

kay wrote:War and Peace?

i had (inb4 war and peace) at the end of my post but removed it at the last minute

I am so predictable.

pretty cool, picked it at random basically

Fire. Traces a load of the most popular conspiracy theories back to there origins showing that a surprising number are eventually founded upon forgeries or lost fictional works 'rebadged' as non-fiction, or people making vast sums of money. Slightly disappointing at times because it blows up a few that I'd still not let go, but an absolute must-read.

Goes into the psychology of conspiracism brilliantly too... why do people want to believe so badly and why is it often the disaffected that get most seduced.

Brilliant.

magma wrote:

Goes into the psychology of conspiracism brilliantly too... why do people want to believe so badly and why is it often the disaffected that get most seduced.

Brilliant.

Been looking for a good book on this topic for a while. Read one article on it before (I think it was someone's uni dissertation or something) and it was really interesting.

DRTY wrote:

magma wrote:

Goes into the psychology of conspiracism brilliantly too... why do people want to believe so badly and why is it often the disaffected that get most seduced.

Brilliant.

Been looking for a good book on this topic for a while. Read one article on it before (I think it was someone's uni dissertation or something) and it was really interesting.

He goes back and forth on the psychology, but it's not the main theme... I reckon there's probably a better read if that's the main point of interest, but what he does say is great... really makes a lot of sense. The main thing I got was how successful people have been throughout the years and how big the consequences can occasionally be... from wasted taxpayers money to executed communist leaders to the Holocaust.

Thou Shalt Not Believe The Hype should have been the 11th Commandment.

lulz

i started this one. pretty sick

blizzardmusic wrote:

Keep reminding my mate to lend me her copy
Ive read the shortened version and a very similar book.. Really positive read
Let me know how you find it.