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Post by okeefe on Jan 18, 2006 14:04:37 GMT -5
I didn't see a thread about what everyone is reading, so I started one. Of course, this is assuming people here read. I know, not a nearly silly or absurd enough topic for this forum, but what can I say? I'm reading The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman. Let the abuse commence...
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jan 18, 2006 14:12:56 GMT -5
We had a "Book Thread" that was a print version of "So I just finished watching"...but I guess it went to page 2.
Anyway...
Tudor Historical Thougt by Michael Levy
Literary Character by Elizabeth Fowler
and Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson
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Post by losingmydignity on Jan 18, 2006 14:35:57 GMT -5
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Austerlitz by W G Sebald (I'm reading this one stretched out over a year to make it last)
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Post by Sheik Yerbouti on Jan 18, 2006 14:43:01 GMT -5
Baudolino -- Umberto Eco
Zu einer Theorie der musikalischen Reproduktion -- Theodor Adorno
1984 -- (I have to reread it every time the Bushies commit another outrageous breach of civil liberties, so after the whole wiretap thing...)
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jan 18, 2006 14:46:01 GMT -5
Zu einer Theorie der musikalischen Reproduktion -- Theodor Adorno Say nothing positive. Aesthetics is the preogative of the negative and the engima. Or something.
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Post by Wild Rebel on Jan 18, 2006 14:49:53 GMT -5
1984 -- (I have to reread it every time the Bushies commit another outrageous breach of civil liberties, so after the whole wiretap thing...) You can read it THAT fast?
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Post by Ratso on Jan 18, 2006 15:08:16 GMT -5
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2.
Good stuff.
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Post by Sheik Yerbouti on Jan 18, 2006 15:15:54 GMT -5
Zu einer Theorie der musikalischen Reproduktion -- Theodor Adorno Say nothing positive. Aesthetics is the preogative of the negative and the engima. Or something. Adorno's a hoot. I don't even like him, and yet I continue to read his books. He's also probably the only big-name scholar to confuse analytic with synthetic a priori judgments (in his lectures on Kant's first Kritik). Couldn't believe what I was reading. What a maroon. But I kid Adorno. 1984 -- (I have to reread it every time the Bushies commit another outrageous breach of civil liberties, so after the whole wiretap thing...) You can read it THAT fast? Look at how much PRACTICE I've had! You bring up an interesting point, however; I should be reading it 24/7, year round.
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Post by In_Stereo on Jan 18, 2006 16:36:27 GMT -5
Just finished The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy by Peter Schweizer.
I also started 1984 but haven't picked it up again in awhile; after I finish Schweizer, maybe I'll get back to it.
Oh, and Thriving on Vague Objectives by Scott Adams; it's a collection of Dibert comics.
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Post by StreetDreamer83 on Jan 18, 2006 17:14:36 GMT -5
Dark Tide I Onslaught by Michael A. Stackpole from the Star Wars New Jedi Order series, though I should have read Vector Prime first... before that I was reading Sunday Money by Jeff MacGregor.
Matt
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jan 18, 2006 18:06:53 GMT -5
I'm still plugging away at Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.
This week it's Night Watch.
And for work, I've been reading commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles, ranging from John Calvin to John Stott.
Thanks to yesterday's fun postings around here, I went back to a personal favorite: The Divine Conspiracy by USC philosophy professor, Dallas Willard. It's a brilliant treatise on ethics, sin, and forgiveness.
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Post by Chuck on Jan 18, 2006 19:09:48 GMT -5
I'm deep into Mickey Spillane's Kiss Me, Deadly.
And Gertrude Stein's Wars I Have Seen.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Jan 18, 2006 20:48:37 GMT -5
I feel so proud to actually be reading something when a thread like this pops up.
Anyway, I'm reading something buy a guy named "Italo Calvino" called "Invisible Cities." It's pretty much a series of really short descriptions of places as told by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan.
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Post by Skyroniter on Jan 18, 2006 21:10:04 GMT -5
"Terry Funk - More Than Just Hardcore" by Terry Funk
No, it isn't porn. Just an old school pro wrestler's life story.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jan 18, 2006 21:53:24 GMT -5
I feel so proud to actually be reading something when a thread like this pops up. Anyway, I'm reading something buy a guy named "Italo Calvino" called "Invisible Cities." It's pretty much a series of really short descriptions of places as told by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. Calvino's fun. I still like _Cosmicomics_ best.
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