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Just a bad joke/sarcasm, I was trying to make fun of myself for being stuck-up as far as literature goes (with all these posts on David Foster Wallace and stuff like that). I'm 'too good' to read anything that's not 'serious' literature, you know, it's silly.Quote:
Originally posted by BioMechanic
What do you mean by that?
Well, I picked up "Animal Farm" by Orwell, which I'll give a read as soon as my time frees up. It's only 139 pages, so I have no excuses in not finishing it off quick.
I rarely read books, it's just something I've always viewed as drudgery :/. I stick to just reading what I need to know (be it school or job related).
The Sex Revolts by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press. It's an examination of gender in rock and roll. Pretty good so far.
The Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi...
I got another book (I think have a problem): "Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order," by Robert Kagan.
Yeah, damn it. Go read something that doesn't bore your teeth out of your head you uppity snob. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Stone
Just a bad joke/sarcasm, I was trying to make fun of myself for being stuck-up as far as literature goes (with all these posts on David Foster Wallace and stuff like that). I'm 'too good' to read anything that's not 'serious' literature, you know, it's silly.
Hehe.
Reading as of 5/5/2003: The Standing Dead by Ricardo Pinto (interesting - to say the least - fantasy novel with no magic or other common fantasy elements), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Oh! The Things I Know! by Al Franken (which is nowhere near as funny as Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot).
Good stuff.
Currently reading Memnock(sp?) The Devil by anne rice
It will be the first of her books that ive taken the time to read. So far its pretty good. I read probably 1/3 of it the first time I picked it up.
That book about her philosophy wouldn't have been Plilosophy: Who Needs It, would it? I read that book in like the 6th or 7th grade. Gripping book. One of the few books I just could not put down, the other being The Power Of Myth.Quote:
Originally posted by Atlas
I read that book along with Atlas Shrugged and Anthem. Later I read her philosophy book (on objectavism) and it really shook me. It changed my whole perspective on that woman's mentality. She basically portrays that she is right, everyone else is wrong and you have to step on everything and everyone to get at what you want.
Bah...
All said, the books alone are fantastic.
Anyhow. Last book I read was "Wampeters Foma and Granfalloons" by Kurt Vonnegut... I really enjoy his work.
Unfortunately I haven't been in the reading mood over the past couple of months... :(
Amazing book, or I thought so. Her arguments for all her vews were very logical and well thought out. Her writing style, at least in that book, was very logical, cold, and exact.
There are some flaws though with some of her vews, such as space not being infinite.
I'd really like to start reading.
A book I want to get my hands on is "The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot. heres a quick summary:
Today nearly everyone is familiar with holograms, three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Now, two of the world's most eminent thinkers -- University of London physicist David Bohm, a former protege of Einstein's and one of the world's most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, one of the architects of our modern understandingofthe brain -- believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind. This remarkable new way of looking at the universe explains not only many of the unsolved puzzles of physics, but also such mysterious occurrences as telepathy, out-of-body and near-death experiences, "lucid" dreams, and even religious and mystical experiences such as feelings of cosmic unity and miraculous healings.
I'd also like "Exploring the world of lucid dreaming" by Steven LaBerge and Howard Rheingold. basically, its a book about dreaming by the man who pioneered research in lucid dreaming.
I'd love some good fiction, though I'm not sure where to start.
This thread reminds me, I need to go get the second discworld novel after work today.
Yarg.
Just finished 'Animal Farm' (wicked fast read, but fantastic) and I am now reading '1984'. Orwell really hated those Commies, yet considered himself a Socialist? Odd fellow, great writer.