The Books/Reading Thread

[unknown]

currently reading King Leir...the sourcetext for Shakespeare's King Lear

 

[Ric]

Michel Houellebecq - La Carte et le Territoire
Constantine Gilles - Extraleben

 

[Cronopio]

Hesitantly picked up Cartarescu's Orbitor - Left Wing again the other day. Also like three stories into Zoran Zivkovic's Impossible Stories I.

 

[King Richard]

Audiobooks, yay or nay?

 

[Wolves83]

gonna start reading...

this tomorrow...

 

[Einherjar86]

Audiobooks, yay or nay?

Nothing against them, but I prefer to read at my own pace.

 

[Cronopio]

In the middle of Zoran Zivkovic's Impossible Stories II. Sorta Borges-ish, so if you like him, you should give ZZ a try ..

 

[Einherjar86]

Finished Iron Council a couple weeks ago. Now reading this (and fucking loving it):

Also working my way slowly through this:

 

[Addo_Of_Nex]

Going to start these two once I finish up shit for this semester:

 

[Zephyrus]

Audiobooks, yay or nay?

Definite yay. Here's what I'm listening to now. It's an awesome synthesis of ancient/medieval history and evolutionary microbiology.

 

[Dak]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/EVOLUTION-CIVILIZATIONS-Carroll-Quigley/dp/0913966576"]http://www.amazon.com/EVOLUTION-CIVILIZATIONS-Carroll-Quigley/dp/0913966576[/ame]

Best non-fiction I have read in a long time. Smashes the romantic image of the Classical civilization (among other things). Sorry Zeph.

 

[Einherjar86]

What do you mean by "romantic view"? I think a love of Antiquity doesn't necessarily equal an idealized view of it as some pristine, utopic society.

 

[Zephyrus]

What do you mean by "romantic view"? I think a love of Antiquity doesn't necessarily equal an idealized view of it as some pristine, utopic society.

Indeed. German Romanticism was anything but a wholesale aping of the classical world. I would hardly call Goethe and Hegel rehashes of Sophocles and Plato.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Othello fucking rules. Iago is one of the evilest villains ever.

I'm currently 118 pages into

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Now that I'm done with classes I'm gonna finish Museum of Lost Innocence by Orhan Pamuk. Great phenomenological novel about time, memory and obsession. I got halfway through it before the semester got serious. Otherwise I've only got two weeks til my summer class. Maybe I'll read some Borges.

 

[Dak]

What do you mean by "romantic view"? I think a love of Antiquity doesn't necessarily equal an idealized view of it as some pristine, utopic society.

The fact is that it was just as far from Utopic as any other civilization.

 

[Zephyrus]

The fact is that it was just as far from Utopic as any other civilization.

The German civilization that produced Otto von Bismarck I would hardly call an idealist utopia.

 

[SomeGuyDude]

This thread needs to be stapled to every single person who claims metalheads are idiots.

I'm finished with all my books at the moment, but I really need to go through this again, I think I missed a lot the first time:

 

[rms]

Really want to start cramming reading more, finished One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest just the other day and partially into Lord of the Flies and The Count of Monte Cristo now, got Carrie left and that's about it..need some recommendations! I like Stephen King (It, Shining), Chuck Pahalniuk (Fight Club, Survivor, Diary, Invisible Monsters) and that's basically it..not too much into fantasy novels just looking for sort of real life drama type books like the above..or anything scurry like King I guess haha

 

[Cronopio]

Started to read Czech writer Michal Ajvaz's The Other City (Druhé město) the other day. Magic realism, baby.

Onder, do you know this writer?