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crayhasissues
United States682 Posts
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
On August 29 2013 09:24 crayhasissues wrote: I've already seen enough of sam's posts to know we will butt heads Thanks for the heads up though (pun intended)watch out i have a special armor plate with spikes installed on the top of my cranium. lemme guess, you are a neoliberal who thinks he is an atheist and enjoys reading shakespeare and the bronte sisters  | ||
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Rizare
Canada592 Posts
On August 20 2013 02:22 Rizare wrote: Done reading Les Coloriés ( translated literally as The Coloreds) by Alexandre Jardin ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T7PDCY0KL._SL500_.jpg) It is somewhat interesting. There are some valid criticisms for both the adults and children, but it is more biased toward the children. Some cringeworthy moments but I kept reading after that and I did not let them stop me. The main character seems to be changing too quickly for me. Beside that, it weird when, at the end, the author said that it is a TRUE story and that I could contact him for more details. Oh well. Currently reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41w9fv5HIKL.gif) Halfway through it, it is a nice read so far beside the few inaccuracies. It reminds me that there is more to science than just the facts, There is still some politics behind that lead to the discoveries. It is nicely simplified as well, even though I cannot entirely confirm because I do not know deeply everything. L'Étranger by Albert Camus (The Stranger) in French. ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/3141MKFDHML._SL500_.jpg) I borrowed it from the library today and I am already at the second part. So far, the main character seems to be really apathetic. The vocabulary is rather simple even for me WhO Has a rather Bad one. I hope that I am not missing too much by reading so quickly, but I am sure that I did anyways. I am still not done with A Short History of Nearly Everything yet, but I did with L'Étranger by Camus. It was quicker than I though, I finished it the same day that I borrowed it. The main character seems very apathetic. After a discussion with a friend, i agreed with him on the fact that he's mainly being honest and consistent with himself and I understood what the title referred too. I cannot say much since reading has never been my forte, let alone high academic litterature. Done with reading How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. it seems like to be talking how to not break the bubble people are living in, thinking they are the best in the world and so. I do not deny that these principles (literal translation in French) would work well in such world, but it does not sit well with me. Beside the mandatory books, I may not read much books for a while. | ||
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crayhasissues
United States682 Posts
On August 29 2013 10:24 sam!zdat wrote: watch out i have a special armor plate with spikes installed on the top of my cranium. lemme guess, you are a neoliberal who thinks he is an atheist and enjoys reading shakespeare and the bronte sisters If I were to be defined that easily, we couldn't have any fun, now could we? Yes, I was forced to read Wuthering Heights in high school TT | ||
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ExChill
Germany179 Posts
Even tough i have seen all episodes of the tv show its still great. | ||
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Sprouter
United States1724 Posts
On August 29 2013 05:45 corumjhaelen wrote: Ah I do not know how to read French ;;Well it's French, so I'm not sure it's any use, but...Folio classique, Denis Roussel, ISBN 978-2-07-040068 | ||
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nunez
Norway4003 Posts
almost done with norwegian novel sveva over vatna by hovland about an aimless student in the 70s. pick it (Über Den Wassern Schweben) up for a funny weekend read. just started das kapital. marx is keeping it real so far, easy to follow. he keeps dissing people left and right and laid down a major zinger on some poor guy bastiat, which is rather entertaining and unexpected. | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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Dyme
Germany523 Posts
It's a relationship kind of book and nearly nothing happens, but it has a twist and some melancholy to it, so I would recommend reading it. I actually feel some kind of relief from having read something that is neither Fantasy, Sci-Fi nor really old. Pretty well-written as well (as far as I can tell). | ||
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Doppelganger
488 Posts
On August 28 2013 06:52 sam!zdat wrote: that doesn't exist! It's a category error! Asking for 'scientific objectivity' about such a thing is already an ideological gesture! It's just some nonsense chimaera of 'a view from nowhere' and to seek such a thing in the humanities is the height of folly. you would learn far more by reading klein and then some right winger and comparing than you ever would from your mythical 'objective source' which can never and will never exist. we're an entire generation of people who have been brainwashed into thinking that we are 'scientists.' what lunacy! look, I come from a philosophical tradition which spent over a hundred years thinking it had the one objecive viewpoint from which to construct the only true Science of history. It doesn't exist, never has, and never will. We are all lost in the funhouse my friend True. There is no objectivity not in social sciences. I still want to read something that is not at the fringes of the discussion because I often find the extreme viewpoints less insightful than I want them to be. I thus asked my professor and settled on the following two (for a start): Fiasco, The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c8/Fiasco_cover.jpg/150px-Fiasco_cover.jpg) and Cobra II, The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Cobra_II.jpg/200px-Cobra_II.jpg) | ||
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Prog455
Denmark970 Posts
On August 29 2013 10:24 sam!zdat wrote: watch out i have a special armor plate with spikes installed on the top of my cranium. lemme guess, you are a neoliberal who thinks he is an atheist and enjoys reading shakespeare and the bronte sisters How can you think that you are an atheist? | ||
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Sinedd
Poland7052 Posts
they are - James Clavell - "Gai-Jin" (currently reading this one) Terry Pratchett - "Lords and Ladies" Stanisław Lem - "Solaris" I'm planning reading all of Clavell's "Asian saga" Books (I've already read "King Rat" some time ago) and all of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.. (15 or 16 books read atm and counting xD) So fortunately I'm not in a state of "Shit ! I don't have anything to read !" Which is just a terrible feeling.. | ||
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blubbdavid
Switzerland2412 Posts
Let the war begin.  No, actually don't. | ||
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TOCHMY
Sweden1692 Posts
On August 30 2013 20:53 Sinedd wrote: I'm a bookoholic and I've just finished my portion of 4 books so I had to rent some new ones.. they are - James Clavell - "Gai-Jin" (currently reading this one) Terry Pratchett - "Lords and Ladies" Stanisław Lem - "Solaris" I'm planning reading all of Clavell's "Asian saga" Books (I've already read "King Rat" some time ago) and all of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.. (15 or 16 books read atm and counting xD) So fortunately I'm not in a state of "Shit ! I don't have anything to read !" Which is just a terrible feeling.. Dude nevermind I thought about the wrong author MY BAD. CLAVELL IS AWESOME! Shogun is one of the best books I've ever read! | ||
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itkovian
United States1763 Posts
Its geared towards young adults, so the language is unexciting and occasionally cringe-inducing, but it has a good story. It was interesting to get a perspective of what it's like growing up in a indian reservation. | ||
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HeartOfTheSwarm
Niue585 Posts
![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41w-juERc9L._SY346_PJlook-inside-v2,TopRight,1,0_SH20_.jpg?tag=tealiq-20) I started reading War and Peace after I've read The Idiot and Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky which I liked. I've never read anything from Tolstoy and as of now I read around 100 pages of this book. To be honest I am not really enjoying it and I am already getting sick of the Russian high society of the time. Is there going to be some action later on? I mean the book has around 1700 pages and it would be quite tiresome if all he does is describing how the rich live. | ||
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farvacola
United States18838 Posts
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
 In the mean time, I guess I will read this ![[image loading]](http://cache0.bdcdn.net/assets/images/book/medium/9781/8619/9781861974952.jpg) And I am waiting for that Mao book to arrive now... | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/9780393327670_p0_v1_s260x420.JPG) EDIT: Learned the Author died in May 2012 | ||
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