The Books/Reading Thread

[unknown]

I remember reading Of Grammatology in grad school. We paired that with Paul De Man...pretty sure that was to weed out any people who couldn't hang

 

[Einherjar86]

Oh man, Paul De Man... yeah, that's an intense marathon of deconstruction. I actually haven't read Of Grammatology before, but that's one of the central texts. I've gone through (more or less) Writing and Difference and Dissemination, the former of which is another major work of Derrida's. It includes his "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," which put him on the map in America. Dissemination is less read, but it has the famous Pharmakon essay, in which Derrida traces some key internal contradictions of language back etymologically to the original Greek.

Margins of Philosophy I picked up mainly because it includes "The Ends of Man," "White Mythology," and "Signature Event Context," all of which are pretty significant works.

 

[TageRyche]

I finished reading the debut thriller from Neal Griffin entitled Benefit of the Doubt.

 

[CiG]

 

[EspaDa]

I ordered Hermann Hesse's Peter Camenzind yesterday.

 

[unknown]

James Franco is going to direct an adaptation of Blood Meridian...because fucking up Child of God, As I Lay Dying, and The Sound and The Fury wasn't enough. Ugh.

 

[Einherjar86]

Oh dear god. If it's anything like that awful test film he put out, I'm making it my life mission to acquire a copy, piss all over it, grind it into gunpowder, and then use that gunpowder to shoot Franco in his fucking face.

EDIT: apparently the deal already fell apart. They didn't have the rights to the book. Idiots.

 

[TageRyche]

I finished the debut thriller from Neal Griffin entitled "Benefit of the Doubt".

 

[Einherjar86]

Has anyone else heard about this?

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...e9eyes9-the-mysterious-tale-terrifying-reddit

Link to all the posts, organized in chronological order: https://www.reddit.com/r/9M9H9E9/wiki/narrative

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Rereading Laws, Legislation, and Liberty Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice by Friedrich Hayek.

 

[TageRyche]

I finished reading the Lorna Barrett mystery novel "A Fatal Chapter" today.

 

[EspaDa]

 

[suckerleaf]

Read this about 25 years ago. I may have to check out it's predecessor, Headhunter , next. I had forgotten just how sadistic some of these writers from the 80's could be.

 

[suckerleaf]

View attachment 4512 View attachment 4511 @CASSETTEISGOD I've got so many good books on the go but life is chaotic ATM and I find it pretty hard to focus on one thing. I've finally had some positive news about work and I can't wait to be in a state of mind that I can actually enjoy front to back.
I've had both of these for a while now but only just got around to having a brief look last week.

These look absolutely fantastic.

 

[suckerleaf]

"Salem's Lot" by Stephen King is perhaps my favourite contemporary piece of vampire fiction though.

Hard to argue against that. Straker and Barlowe. What a team!

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Because giant prehistoric sharks are cool.

 

[Caecius]

Fifty pages in, not sure how I feel about this one.

 

[Einherjar86]

Because giant prehistoric sharks are cool.

I read that book a long time ago. If I recall, it's actually a sequel to a book called Meg (short for megalodon).

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

I read that book a long time ago. If I recall, it's actually a sequel to a book called Meg (short for megalodon).

Yeah it's the first of a bunch of sequels. There's been a Meg movie in the making for a long time but there's been a slew of problems in production associated with it. I think they're still trying though.

 

[Cronopio]

Because giant prehistoric sharks are cool.

Yes they are. They're making a movie out of MEG, apparently. Not so sure it won't suck Megalodon penis, but hey. The greatest cinema is between your ears.