The Books/Reading Thread

[Vegard Pompey]

think of it as a poem

The book or the sticker?

 

[unknown]

the book...you can think of the sticker as a poem too I suppose

 

[The Emptier]

I'm reading basically everything H.P. Lovecraft has written for a school project
huck finn (also for school)
programming the universe
a brief history of secret societies
optimal healing

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Honestly I find this very tedious.

 

[unknown]

I'm reading basically everything H.P. Lovecraft has written for a school project

that's quite a huge project. what's the project?

 

[Srontgorrth]

That is indeed quite a bit. I own almost all of his stories (not much of the poetry though) and it spans across 5-7 books or so, haven't even read half unfortunately.

Anyway, my favorite Lovecraft story is The Rats in the Walls.

 

[challenge_everything]

I read The Case of Charles Dexter Ward not long ago. Good stuff.

 

[unknown]

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is my favorite too followed by the Randolph Carter stories and The Color Out of Space

 

[ArneZ]

American Psycho is such an insane read, can someone recommend anything in that road? Even more fucked up if possible...

 

[Einherjar86]

American Psycho is such an insane read, can someone recommend anything in that road? Even more fucked up if possible...

Nowhere near as fucked up as American Psycho, but still a book that deals with psychosis and insanity, as well as what the human "soul" really is:

I'm nearly two-hundred pages in and so far it's a very good read.

 

[Profanity]

I'm currently reading "The Family That Couldn't Sleep"

This book gives an insight into what it is like to suffer from Fatal Insomnia, after reading this book you will probably think that dying from Insomnia is the worst way to die.

If you're interested then here's the link:
[ame]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Family-That-Couldnt-Sleep-Unravelling/dp/1846270901/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259677435&sr=1-9[/ame]

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

American Psycho is such an insane read, can someone recommend anything in that road? Even more fucked up if possible...

If you're looking for total debauchery, read anything by Marquis de Sade. Start with The 120 Days of Sodom or Juntine, although the later is more tame. Juliette is a masterpiece as well, it's wicked long, 1000+ pages, but it's one of his best works.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Finished House of Leaves. Really weird. Didn't like the "end".

 

[zabu of nΩd]

What is it about this book that compels all of you who have read it to highlight the word "house" in blue? That shit is creepy.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

It's always written in blue in the book and on the cover.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I understand that, but, as they say, "It's only a book"... right?

 

[Srontgorrth]

and @ Arnez, check out Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.

 

[The Emptier]

that's quite a huge project. what's the project?

That is indeed quite a bit. I own almost all of his stories (not much of the poetry though) and it spans across 5-7 books or so, haven't even read half unfortunately.

Anyway, my favorite Lovecraft story is The Rats in the Walls.

Indeed big, it's basically the biggest project of my high school career, 15 page report on an american author. I don't have to read everything but the more the better

 

[Addo_Of_Nex]

I've just started Patrick Hurley's A Concise Introduction to Logic to pave the way for Mendelson's An Introduction to Mathematical Logic in an attempt to help me understand a couple of books I picked up on Godel's incompleteness theorem. I feel like I should be waiting until next year to learn this stuff in a classroom environment, but I've become totally fascinated with the idea of mathematical logic and the aesthetics of the whole thing that I'm seriously considering making this my primary focus at a university level. On the other hand, maybe it's just a phase; and I'll want to be a firefighter next week.

I've been balancing that with some Lovecraft, Nietzsche, Poe, and Schopenhauer over the past few weeks. All stuff I've had sitting around for a while but managed to put off in favor of watching South Park.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Indeed big, it's basically the biggest project of my high school career, 15 page report on an american author. I don't have to read everything but the more the better

i'm interested in how you're planning on stretching 'he really didn't like blacks' into 15 pages