Reading List Thread

[marduk1507]

I'm probably treading on shaky ground(I not too knowledgeable on the subject)but wasn't Wittgenstein making fun of philosophers and philosophy with 'Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus' and writing in a round about way all philosophy was nothing but a bunch of bull shit???

Yes, thats about it. Wittgenstein himself would be probably offended by such a description of what he saw as his ultimate achievement at that time, but I think hed like it later on. However, that doesnt mean Tractatus is easy to read, its a hell of a book. His seven theses are like polished marble columns, theres not a single redundant word.

 

[La Rocque]

^ I have 'Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus' and over the years have read it several times,
each time I'm more confused about it.
I always think of what my friend Jan said about Wittgenstein
"He's a trapeze act" aka 'its all way over our heads' -

 

[wildfyr]

With "new eyes," re-reading the Book of Enoch online at this site: http://skeptically.org/onreligion/id18.html
gravitating mainly toward Section III. Chapters LXXII-LXXXII The Book of the Heavenly Luminaries

Astronomy 101 or a work of fiction?

+ this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch

& this was a good read

http://skeptically.org/onreligion/id22.html

 

[GroanOfWind]

any good horror books?

 

[GroanOfWind]

Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

 

[Kovenant84]

Ok, you had four minutes in between posts. Assuming you answered your own question, that makes it obligatory for me to quote Mitch.

My friend said to me, "You know what I like? Mashed potatoes." I was like, "Dude, you have to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me you have to insert a pause."

~kov.

 

[Child of Time]

Hehe, must be a certain type of person to describe Dice man as a "horror book".

 

[Kovenant84]

Oh, I know that's probably not what he meant, but I couldn't help myself. It just seemed too perfect.

~kov.

 

[Child of Time]

Of course it was too good to let it pass, I sure understand that.

 

[La Rocque]

'American Fascists', the Christian Right and the War on America
by Chris Hedges
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do if from religious conviction" - Blaise Pascal

 

[marduk1507]

Diane Middlebrook - Her Husband (The Marriage of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath)
Ted Hughes - Collected Poems

 

[La Rocque]

Diane Middlebrook - Her Husband (The Marriage of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath)

Went to the library to see if they had, 'Her Husband', they did not
@Marduk, if You're into Hughes check out this book;
'Lover of Unreason', Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love
by Yehuda Koren/Eilat Negev
Wevill moved in with Hughes in the very apartment where Plath killed herself,
after a while she gassed herself with her 4 year old daughter Shura,
who Hughes never acknowledged as his
I'm beginning to believe Hughes was nothing more than a brute


now reading:
'The Lost Life of Eva Braun'
by Angela Lambert
I've been waiting for a book about Eva
Only one other biography has been written about Braun,
her family/friends said that book was a work of fiction
Braun is not some exotic creature but an ordinary woman of a specific German type,
a complex individual both liberated and imprisoned by her relationship with Hitler -

 

[marduk1507]

@LaRocque: Yeah, thanks for the recommendation, I had already been thinking of buying that book, but I chose Her Husband instead (I bought it at amazon). But Im sure Ill buy it later. Well, my impression of Hughes had originally been based only on his poetry, it was later that I discovered the details of his tumultuous life. But I understand you, I felt the same about him, but having read and loved his poetry, I simply couldnt believe he was just a complete asshole who made his wives gas themselves. Therefore I decided to find out more. And its really not that simple.

Besides the books Ive mentioned before, Ive started to read Graham Swifts The Sweet-Shop Owner. I love Swifts books, those of you who have read Waterland know what Im talking about.

 

[La Rocque]

Just finished reading
'The Trouble with Physics', the Rise of String Theory,
the Fall of Science and What Comes Next
By Lee Smolin
weighty stuff, things like our Universe has no depth just length and width, think hologram
there are billions and billions of Galaxies in Our Universe plus Parallel Universes,
I think back to the days when those in the know said the Earth was flat and the center of Our Universe(You would be put to death for not believing this)
Here's an interesting thought ... time and gravity may be an illusion
class dismissed

Will start reading this later today
'Licensed to Kill', Hired Guns in the War on Terror
by Robert Young Pelton
My first thought when I saw this book on the library shelves was
'licensed to ill' by the Beastie Boys

 

[wildfyr]

The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (I) or, The KEBRA NAGAST translated by E. A. Wallis Budge [London, 1932]

 

[hyena]

i'm revising harry potter, since i will not have time to do that later in spring.

 

[Kovenant84]

Do you mean revisiting, or changing out some things that didn't fit with the ship you're in?

~kov. (Up on all the 'lingo', thanks to my damn sister, who's friggin obsessed.)

 

[hyena]

@kov: hahahaha. nah, i'm just re-reading it. actually, one of my (lesser) ships turned out to be canon, so i'm pretty satisfied - and my main one doesn't stand a chance, so i'll keep my head down and feel sorry for myself

 

[GONE Ridin' Hood]

The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

Quite interesting... I expect some cheating between couples . Anyway, I had to read it because of my Literture course in the uni .

 

[La Rocque]

'the Yellow House',
Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
by Martin Gayford
It's the Odd Couple of art history,
those weeks in Arles constitute one of the cradles/breakthroughs of modern painting
plus the tension of an inescapable nightmare -