The Books/Reading Thread
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Episteme
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Stuck on reading Lian Hearn's On Brilliance of the Moon and William S Burroughs' Naked Lunch. Haven't had much time to read. Bah.
wandering_taco
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man i got to book 10 but just couldn't go on. there would be lots of breaks in between my reading so i forgot the 800 characters...it got pretty boring after the first 4 books i think. but then again i started it when i was like in middle school so i might enjoy it now...
anyways i'm reading
what jazz is all about-lillian erlich, can't find a picture
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Srontgorrth
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So far this semester I've read Antigone, and Plato's Apology of Socrates and Crito, and now onto Robinson Crusoe.
JontRevolting
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Last night I read Algernon Blackwood's The Willows,very good and creepy bedtime reading.It's gotta the best ghost story i've ever read and I can't wait to read the rest of stories,i'm gonna read one every night for the next couple of weeks.
Einherjar86
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We just had a guest lecturer at Chicago last week named Eugene Thacker who is doing some pretty interesting work that he incorporates Lovecraft's fiction into. He's dealing with the concept of "darklife" in fiction and philosophy (that is, the philosophic and literary problem of understanding and representing, respectively, the idea of lifelessness or that which is opposed to life). He drew together a lot of interesting evidence from Kant, Hegel, and other German idealists, but didn't really have any earth-shattering conclusion to offer at the end. He's very young though, and a lot of his research into this matter is still ahead of him, I think.
I still want to pick up his book. It's called After Life, if anyone else is interested.
Finished The Shape of the Signifier, although I'll be going through it again (it will likely be relevant for my thesis topic). Also finished Charles Stross's Iron Sunrise:
Great hard sci-fi read, although it ends a little abruptly. Still, for those interested in far future/posthuman literature, he's very good (I'd suggest starting with the book Singularity Sky though, as it informs this one).
Also finished Herman Melville's The Confidence Man (meh) and now I just borrowed Zizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology from my roommate. For fun, I picked up this gem from a local bookstore:
I still want to pick up his book. It's called After Life, if anyone else is interested.
Finished The Shape of the Signifier, although I'll be going through it again (it will likely be relevant for my thesis topic). Also finished Charles Stross's Iron Sunrise:
Great hard sci-fi read, although it ends a little abruptly. Still, for those interested in far future/posthuman literature, he's very good (I'd suggest starting with the book Singularity Sky though, as it informs this one).
Also finished Herman Melville's The Confidence Man (meh) and now I just borrowed Zizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology from my roommate. For fun, I picked up this gem from a local bookstore:
damnromulans
Klingons do not faint
I'm reading "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" by Ramit Sethi. Atrocious writing, valuable tips and tricks. I'm sad I waited until 23 to get on top of my finances like an adult but better late than never
JontRevolting
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Funny that you mentioned M.R.James,I just ordered one of his books this morning.Really loving weird fiction atm.
Speaking of Lovecraft,I recently bought Necronomicon: The Best Weird Fiction Of H.P. Lovecraft and will start reading it soon,it's a huge volume.
Death Aflame
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I just finished The Russian Anarchists, very interesting and well-written account of the anarchist influence prior to, during and after the Russian Revolution:
I am also in the middle of reading The Outsider by Albert Camus and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
I am also in the middle of reading The Outsider by Albert Camus and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
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The Outsider is probably in my top 5 favorite books. I haven't related to many protagonists in novels...but when I do...I relate to Mersault
I am not reading The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein for my English 674 20th Century American Lit class. I read the first 60 pages and was bored to tears
I am not reading The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein for my English 674 20th Century American Lit class. I read the first 60 pages and was bored to tears
zabu of nΩd
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I just read this over yesterday and today, entirely because of reading these two posts.
I thought the story had a "filler" problem similar to Lovecraft's stuff, but overall I enjoyed.
JontRevolting
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These weird fiction stories are about the only reading i can really get into.I've just started Blackwood's 'Ancient Sorceries' but the one story of his i'm really looking forward to is 'The Wendigo'.I also recommend the 'Darklore' series for some awesome weird non fiction.I have 3 of the 4 of the series and from the couple i've read,they are pretty mindblowing.
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So how exactly does one go about writing "weird non fiction"...
...collecting reports on Old One sightings by transoceanic shipping companies?
...collecting reports on Old One sightings by transoceanic shipping companies?
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JontRevolting
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hehe they're a collection of essays by fortean researches,really awesome and diverse collection.Essays range from probable explanations of bigfoot and UFO sightings,to DMT and magick,alternative theories on the Sphinx,Timothy Leary's drug induced occult rituals and his obsession with Crowley,Tool's(the band) occult symbolisms,life after death ect,and heaps more.Very fascinating and entertaining books written by professors of the psychical/paranormal.
