EPTOn December 04 2013 16:44 sam!zdat wrote:
yeah solaris is dope. read _the cyberiad_
yeah solaris is dope. read _the cyberiad_
The summary makes me salivate :3 Is there a Lem church I can adhere to somewhere ?
What Are You Reading 2013 - Page 160
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
The summary makes me salivate :3 Is there a Lem church I can adhere to somewhere ? | ||
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sam!zdat
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Surth
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qeMix
Germany71 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/piZ5kEs.jpg) currently reading a spell for chameleon by piers anthony on a friends recomendation. i'm halfway in and so far it's been a pleasant read. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/LdbQZxn.jpg) also i'm still stuck on the second hyperion book. i really like the story and the world dan simmons created but somehow i don't get hooked by the way he writes, dunno ^ | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
Anyway, back at spending 20mins per paragraph, thank god the commentaries are easier... Reminds me of Spinoza, but much worse lol. | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
i think i am going to tackle that this summer | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
(says the man who is currently trolling his professor by putting some scripture as the epigraph for his paper) | ||
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
i finished Zizek's _Violence_ which I found really accessible and a really enjoyable read. His chapter on Israel-Palestine comes off as a bit too practical and affirmative compared to Zizek's usual approach. Kind of makes me wish he would do that more with other topics. | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
On December 09 2013 07:59 sam!zdat wrote: HAHA yes when you start thinking about God that is when you know you are in trouble (says the man who is currently trolling his professor by putting some scripture as the epigraph for his paper) But I wonder if this God whom Hegel might be convincing me he exists isn't some empty abstraction. Because other philosophers's Gods are that according to him, which I find convincing, but his isn't, and I'm not sure I'm swallowing that yet. | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2013-05/76124416.jpg) mainly because the title is just so good and also NYT wrote a glowing review. 100 pages in I regret buying it. It's a story of a Chechen villager who tries to hide his friend's daughter in a hospital, after his friend was taken and most likely killed by a Russian death squad. The setting is in the aftermath of the Second Chechen War. Everything about the book suggests it should be taken seriously, but I constantly feel like I'm reading a Hollywood movie. The author has a simple prose, but with weirdly aesthetic and ornate descriptions, which combined with the fact the book's subject is local but written in American English, and with a distinctly American, novelistic style filled with sentimentality and miraculous coincidences, makes everything from the plot to mostly the characters seem too contrived to be real. It's something I can't look past, no matter how tragic or moving the story may be. I really need to find book critics I can trust as this, along with Sheila Heti's novel were both disappointments. I thought about picking up "The Goldfinch," but then read James Wood's review. If anyone has recommendations for recent fiction I'm all ears. | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
![[image loading]](http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262731935.jpg) I don't know anything about this, nor even where I got it from. It's like a wrapped gift! ![[image loading]](http://i43.tower.com/images/mm108904284/difference-repetition-deleuze-gilles-paperback-cover-art.jpg) Again, don't really know what its about, but i like the title. sounds very heraclitean. ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NSMZRX33L.jpg) recommended by someone here, i think. sam, maybe? | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
![[image loading]](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/covers/2010/1/13/1263384884760/On-Love.jpg) On Love, Stendhal. Quite messy, not up to his novels but there is some real nice stuff here and there so far, not counting the too famous "cristallization" bit. | ||
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
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itkovian
United States1763 Posts
On November 28 2013 09:06 IgnE wrote: What do people think of Ulysses by James Joyce? Worth reading on your own without secondary references? When I read it last year, I looked up the paragraph-long wikipedia summary of each chapter before reading the chapter itself. This way I didn't have to try and unravel the basics but I was still left a lot of room for my imagination. It was like a dog playing fetch instead of a dog being walked on a leash. I would recommend reading it that way. That being said, a lot of shit still went over my head. I finished all the material for my multicultural lit class this semester. Here's my opinion of the books I had to read: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie This was meant for a middle-school audience, but it was still a fun to read. A native-american youth transfers to a white school. Its a short and Alexie is pretty funny. Kindred - Octavia Butler Boring. About a black women and a white man who spontaneously pulled back in time to the era of slavery. There is some interesting characters relationships, but the protagonist is SO boring. She lacks personality, its like she's made of cardboard. The resolution was also inadequate and the writing was nothing special The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros Written from the perspective of a young chicana. Very fun read. Its told in the manner of short stories. It was refreshing to see things from the eyes of a child again. There are alot of neat things Cisneros is able to do with her writing Going to Meet the Man - James Baldwin Good literature. Definitely the most powerful language of all the books I read this semester. Its a collection of short stories, with a lot of focus on african americans. Baldwin's prose is intense Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story - LeAnne Howe The writing is this book is bland, for the most part. However, the story is interesting and its told in a non-linear fashion, which is always fun. The story revolves around the consequences baseball game between a native american team and their rivals, an american military team. The story is good, the writing is meh This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz My favorite book of the lot. Its a book of short stories that focus on the life of Yunior, a Dominican Republic immigrant who came to the US at a young age. You get insight into his life at different ages, and you get to see how influences early in his life affect his character later in life. Diaz is very funny, but he is also able to draw out bitter sadness. I would recommend this book to anyone. Song I Sing - Bao Phi A very angry book of poems, that I did not particularly enjoy, but found rather thought provoking. Its focus is racism towards Asian Americans. Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya I was given a list of authors to pick from for my final paper, and this is what I ended up choosing. Thanks sam!zdat for mentioning it! I enjoyed and it had some valuable lessons. Anaya is a good writer and he uses strong imagery in his story. Its very easy to empathize with the protagonist, and his family feels very real. The book also has an interesting take on spirituality | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
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YoucriedWolf
Sweden1456 Posts
![[image loading]](http://anyiko.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/gabriel-garcia-marquez-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-04.jpg) One hundred years of Solitude - Marquez Superb book some of the best I've read. It's kind of my least favorite, favorite book. I guess it's too cosy family-y for me or something. The names were starting to get to me, but it was nice that they had the decency to die at a faster pace towards the end of the book. http://studionyaorangkreatif.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/details_the-nicomachean-ethics-of-aristotle-by-william-david-ross_145201531.jpg[/img]60/nov/005953.jpg[/img] Nicomachean ethics - Aristotle Liking your system bro. It seems you have put a lot of thought into this. So I set out to read both Plato and Aristotle before I would allow myself to read more of what I wanted in philosophy (not that I necessarily didn't want to read them because I did). But it seems to me that I will not get away without reading Kant as well. Your thoughts on this? I guess my endgame would be something like getting to Wittgenstein, Hegel and Heidegger maybe some Husserl to that, I'd read anyone that has a cool name really. But I don't necessarily need to understand it as a scholar (or you know, at all). ![[image loading]](http://libcom.org/files/images/library/a_farewell_to_arms_0.jpg) A farewell to arms - Hemingway Fuck you too Hemingway ![[image loading]](http://www.wowio.com/images/books/1/880_3.jpg) Julius Ceasar - Shakespeare Shakespeare always deliver for me. Particularly enjoyed this play because I know quite a lot about roman history (and no whiny bitches in the entire thing!). A Midsummer night's dream - Shakespeare Play it again Shakespeare. This is my favorite play yet. So much depth. I'm sort of curious to re-read Neil Gaimans take on it from Sandman to see if anything has changed. Now Reading: Brave new world - Huxley | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
On December 12 2013 10:12 itkovian wrote: Thanks sam!zdat for mentioning it! you are welcome! finally done with my papers, gonna get some reading done!! need to finish all the books I am still halfway through... | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
![[image loading]](http://thegrou.chez-alice.fr/images/le-k.jpg) K, Buzzatti. Not very well written so far, but might be interesting anyhow. | ||
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