The Books/Reading Thread

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Yeah i don't really care for Beck either. My mom has been a teacher in the public school system for close to 20 years now, and we both are not fans of common core and what it has done to an already fucked up public school system, but her support of the bullshit teachers union is where we stop agreeing. I thought this would be an interesting read for the both of us, and im almost sure it's going to infuriate her when i hand it down, lol.

 

[Summerian]

Glenn Beck

What he said...

 

[impalin-sarah-palin]

anybody read true crime magz?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

 

[CiG]

Interesting read so far.

 

[TageRyche]

I just finished the new Vince Flynn novel The Survivor.

It was a really good read. It isn't due out until October 6th but I got an advance copy.

#MitchRappIsBack

 

[kiritoazazel]

im currently rereading Ayn Rands anthem while listening to Slayers South of Heaven album.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Anthem is good story. I hesitate to knock Ayn Rand because Atlas Shrugged was the book that got me thinking critically about life and intellectualism; I may not have gone to college if I hadn't read it. But if you're looking for something that is philosophically good and that can hold its own water in a crowded pool, look beyond her

 

[Einherjar86]

Every book she wrote could have been called The Virtue of fucking Selfishness. I'll knock her for you BO. She has no nuance, no ambivalence, and no curiosity. Her novels are the opposite of "art," and her "philosophical" works lack any philosophical rigor. She writes pure rhetorical tripe.

 

[tagradh]

As half this thread is prolly about them it seems relevant: someone was throwing out (????) A load of malazan/mazalan/whatever hadbacks at my mum's school, do she took them for my sister's boyfriend. And i took them. Because he's hot no hair.

 

[unknown]

malazan/mazalan/marzipan

ftfy

 

[no country for old wainds]

the problem with the malazan books is they make literally every other activity on the planet seem less interesting and now i hate this repulsive existence

 

[The Ozzman]

Atlas Shrugged is one of my favorite books. Haters gon' hate.

 

[EspaDa]

the problem with the malazan books is they make literally every other activity on the planet seem less interesting and now i hate this repulsive existence

I wanted to purchase it, but it is available nowhere in my country. So I acquired Eco's The Name of the Rose.

 

[no country for old wainds]

that's a pretty cool alternative

 

[CiG]

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I'm currently reading E.V. Rieu's translation of The Iliad.

i remember not being able to go through more than a few pages when i was younger.

 

[Einherjar86]

This was pretty good. A fair dose of American naturalism mixed in with some typographical experimentation for good measure:

Next up, some good ol' fashioned fucked up fiction:

 

[EspaDa]

I am really into Kafka now and I found The Castle (Das Schloss) extremely difficult. I mean, it was not the language or vocabulary he used, but the plot. These unnecessarily prolonged monologues which led into nowhere. At some points it felt like I was reading The Trial (Der Process), but a longer and more complex version. It was a decent read, but the atmposphere of his works is fucking unforgettable. Now I'm getting through his next novel, America.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Reads from the last few weeks: