The Books/Reading Thread

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One of my favorites.

It's really good. Though, Sigmund seems to go off on a tanget and get really technical on a few of few paragraphs. Overall, he really is good at putting human nature and their nature into words. The section on religion is really good and pretty much true. I am going to read more into Freud once I finish some fiction style stuff.

 

[Cythraul]

Currently reading:

For a New Liberty by Murray Rothbard
The Libertarian Idea by Jan Narveson

 

[Thoth-Amon]

finished- Love's Labour's Lost
now on to- The Two Noble Kinsmen

 

[The Ozzman]

 

[Einherjar86]

Great book.

 

[(((0)))]

Who has finished "Naked Lunch" and understood it. I love it so far but I need someone to help with some kinks in the story.

 

[Dak]

The Road to Serfdom = Debt financed consumerism.

 

[Cythraul]

That's the exact edition that I have. Good stuff. Hayek was an intellectual giant.

 

[divine_torture]

Great book.

I've never been a fan...

 

[unknown]

Who has finished "Naked Lunch" and understood it. I love it so far but I need someone to help with some kinks in the story.

I saw the movie. I've read some of Burroughs's other stuff and it's pretty wild. The Soft Machine is one of his most cut-up novels.

don't think I'd be much help with naked lunch though.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

finished The Two Noble Kinsmen
now on to The Winter's Tale

 

[pepper666]

looking for a good factual WWII books.

Not the ones that grind you down within the first two chapters with depressive crap so that you feel like you can't go on... last one I read it become such a chore to read that I only got through the first 1,000 pages and left the other 2,000 unread for the last 2years *sigh*

Cheers,

Peppper on deli meat!

 

[The Ozzman]

That's the exact edition that I have. Good stuff. Hayek was an intellectual giant.

The first chapter took a while for me. I'm still not used to that type of writing style yet, but it's probably just the way it was translated.

 

[Zephyrus]

About to start reading the plays of Aeschylus.

 

[Einherjar86]

Zeph, have you ever read Apuleius' The Golden Ass?

 

[Zephyrus]

Yes. I should track down one in the original Latin. And I hate that title; it was first called Metamorphoses. Guess they didn't want it confused with Ovid and Kafka.

 

[unknown]

I read vonnegut's A Man Without a Country today. It's only 140 or 150 pages. I was able to read it in a little under an hour and a half. It's a good, poignant read and really sums up vonnegut's philosophy on life and everything else

 

[Einherjar86]

Yes. I should track down one in the original Latin. And I hate that title; it was first called Metamorphoses. Guess they didn't want it confused with Ovid and Kafka.

Wasn't it dubbed The Golden Ass way before Kafka?

But agreed, Metamorphoses is a far better title.

 

[Zephyrus]

Augustine gave it that title.

 

[The Ozzman]

I read vonnegut's A Man Without a Country today. It's only 140 or 150 pages. I was able to read it in a little under an hour and a half.

Jesus fuck it must be an easy read