JediMaster12 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Well my obsessions right now are vampire series novels and Dante's Divine Comedy. My tastes are pretty much the wierdies to my family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ctrl Alt Del Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Pulp - Charles Bukowsky. =] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 David Mitchell - number9dream Poppy Z. Brite - Lost Souls Nicholas Carr - The Shallows The latter one is a non-fiction on how the net is screwing up our minds and destroying our ability to read long works of text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamqd Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 The latter one is a non-fiction on how the net is screwing up our minds and destroying our ability to read long works of text. TL;DR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ctrl Alt Del Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 TL;DR tl'dr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MachineCult Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Just finished Ringworld by Larry Niven, now on the Hunt for Red October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mur'phon Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 @Sabre: funny, I just read a book about how TV makes us incapable of, well, pretty much anything serious. Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman, it was written in 86, and while it's easy to laugh at some of his predictions (computers comes to mind), the guy has a point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 I've read Amusing Ourselves to Death, he's right about a lot of things. In a way, The Shallows feels like an updated version of that book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Working Class Hero Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Currently reading the God Delusion...wonderful book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexrd Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Currently reading the God Delusion...wonderful book. After finishing it, I advise you to read 'The Dawkins Delusion'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canaan Sadow Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 I am reading Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deception Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediMaster12 Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Currently reading a 1924 edition of Masterpieces of Oriental Mysteries- Tales of China Town by Sax Rohmer. They are pretty good and I enjoy a good read like dime back novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Working Class Hero Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Reading a history of Auschwitz by Laurence Rees....really cheery book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux. Surprisingly fun read, considering the era and the fact that it's translated from French. For some reason, I'm imagining everything in it through an anime format. Maybe it's too much Le Chevalier d'Eon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediMaster12 Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 I read Phantom of the Opera a long time ago in grade school. 4th grade I think. It is a good story. Right now though in studying for my comp exams in order to complete my MA degree, I am refamilarizing myself on Paul Schrader's work on Film Noir. Also Stam's work on montage and some readings on psychoanalysis in film. Pretty busy days for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:Lord Revan:. Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 This thread . No i am reading a book on the constitution of the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ctrl Alt Del Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 A book about the origin and history of antisemitism, by Hannah Arendt. Title is way too big to bother remembering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acdcfanbill Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 Not the cover I have, but I'm reading the Chandler book 'Farewell, My Lovely' atm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavlos Posted May 7, 2011 Author Share Posted May 7, 2011 I'm currently reading Bloodfeud, which sounds a bit like an airport novel but is actually a superbly researched narrative history of 11th century England by Professor Richard Fletcher, a truly remarkable scholar who is regrettably no longer with us. Drawing the narrative together is the concept of feuding factions (something central to all early Germanic cultures) and how they fuelled the political turbulence of the early/mid 11th century: at least four full-scale invasions, the loss of Cumbria to the Scots, and nine kings in the space of seventy years. Like everything Fletcher seems to have done, it is written in a wonderfully accessible style, so if anyone's interested in this particular period of Northern European history, I couldn't imagine a better introduction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taak Farst Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Charlie Sheen's Biography. n'aww. I wish World of WarCraft: The Shattering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunkside Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 The Wise Man´s Fear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primogen Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Forward, a Firefly fanfic of massive proportions by 'Peptuck'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astor Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Charlie Sheen's Biography. n'aww. I wish Odd, considering you hate American humour. Currently reading a book about General Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, the only 'undefeated' German officer of the First World War, and the only one to invade British Territory. And his response, in later life, to Hitler's offer of the post of Ambassador to Great Britain is classic. It was reportedly 'Go **** yourself'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pho3nix Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 At the moment I'm slowly reading The Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandalorian Knight Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 "At Home: A short history of Private Life" by Bill Bryson. Bryson does a good job at condensing complicated subjects down to more understandable levels. I also read "A Short History of Nearly Everything" which not only looks at the history of Earth, but also at the study of that history. Also, "The Count of Monte Cristo." I just got the Amazon Kindle app, there are a ton of free books, mostly classics. It is quite possibly the greatest thing ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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