The Books/Reading Thread

[Dak]

Is there a free copy of Maelstrom as well?

Edit: So far Thus Spoke is the only book by Nietzsche I haven't enjoyed. I didn't even bother finishing it it.

 

[Einherjar86]

It's on his site:

http://www.rifters.com/real/MAELSTROM.htm

 

[The Ozzman]

I found this for 6 dollars. Apparently it's pretty good in the fantasy genre

 

[Einherjar86]

It's decent, for high fantasy. It's the novel that reinvigorated popular fantasy, so it's important in that regard.

I only read the first three books in that series; if you're intent on finishing the whole thing, be prepared to weather a fucking redundant storm, from what I've heard...

 

[monoxide_child]

@ Ozzman
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-...69,d.eWU&fp=e5fed91b2de7ad77&biw=1280&bih=827

 

[Master_Yoda77]

As I wait for my copy of Dance with Dragons to arrive, I'm starting Gardens of the Moon, Book I of Malazan Book of the Fallen.

 

[Einherjar86]

Nice. Hope you get into that series more than I did. I may have to revisit it someday.

I had a nice haul at one of my local bookstores yesterday; all used books, all under $10:

David Mitchell's Ghostwritten

David Edmond and John Eidinow's Wittgenstein's Poker

Jacques Derrida's Dissemination

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's The German Ideology

Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation

 

[Dak]

Finally finished the Republic and holy shit: Almost verbatim verses in the New Testament within book Ten. Paul is a fucking plagiarizer.

Edit: Now reading Freud's Psychoanalysis of Dreams

 

[Einherjar86]

Very nice. Some food for thought in that text.

I forgot to include this little gem that I also grabbed the other day:

 

[Master_Yoda77]

59 years ago today J.R.R. Tolkien published The Fellowship of the Ring. Celebrate fags by reading your favorite chapter.

 

[wandering_taco]

It's a Fellowshipaversary!

 

[Eligos]

So Amazon has this deal on the first 4 books in the Game of Thrones series. You can get em all on paperback for $20. Mine arrived in the mail a couple days ago, and I've had a hard time putting A Game of Thrones down. There's something to be said for how easily Martin changes his language to suit the limitations he's placed on his third person narrative, and the chapters are all a very appropriate length to keep you hooked.

 

[Dak]

Halfway through this.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

So Amazon has this deal on the first 4 books in the Game of Thrones series. You can get em all on paperback for $20. Mine arrived in the mail a couple days ago, and I've had a hard time putting A Game of Thrones down. There's something to be said for how easily Martin changes his language to suit the limitations he's placed on his third person narrative, and the chapters are all a very appropriate length to keep you hooked.

Most definitely. Martin just creates a slew of interesting characters that are morally ambiguous and you constantly want to see what will happen to them, so you keep reading.

 

[Cronopio]

Halfway through this.

Is it good? I read SUM and thought it was great.

 

[Dak]

I was great, I highly recommend it.

 

[monoxide_child]

http://www.google.com/search?q=my+d...nuyQG2u4HIDQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=827

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

 

[Dak]

So I put down AntiOedipus and Dreams due to the lack of a quiet place for uninterrupted reading for now. Going to pick them up again as soon as conditions allow. Now reading some Mencken.

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

I love Mencken's take on Women, Man with a Woman and Marriage. My kinda dude.