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On March 15 2014 06:58 corumjhaelen wrote:I've just looked into some pages of Ulysses, it seems really fucking hard to read, and I've read quite a few obtuse works :/ I'll really try one of these days though. Those last days I finished every Plato dialogue except Laws and The Republic. Skip Timaeus if you ever do that, it's quite the chore, but apart from that, it's really great. Started : ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/20/The_Birth_of_Tragedy.jpg/200px-The_Birth_of_Tragedy.jpg) The Birth of Tragedy. Following my reading of Sophocles. Philoctetes was a really great surprise btw.
Personally I don't like Nietzsche at all. I get the feeling that most of his work is just about being super-edgy and boosting his ego coupled with some really weird ideas. I think Schopenhauer is a way better read.
I also thought you guys might enjoy this little comic :
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/19
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Birth of Tragedy really made me view aesthetics differently. Also I find it strange that the music making socrates isn't a well-known concept.
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Witch Hunter by C. L. Werner
Pretty good so far, just begun though.
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Finished Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, really good and powerful, tragic.
Also White Nights by Dostoevsky which was fairly fun, I think the people in the dating thread would get a kick out of it, it's about like the funniest, most melodramatic friendzoning of a nerdy guy.
Started Gone with the Wind, not sure if I'm serious about making the whole read or not.
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@zulu and Nyxisto : well, I like it alright so far, Nietzsche seems almost humble here, it suits him well :p He's certainly not my favourite philosopher though.
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On March 16 2014 10:22 Nyxisto wrote:Show nested quote +On March 15 2014 06:58 corumjhaelen wrote:I've just looked into some pages of Ulysses, it seems really fucking hard to read, and I've read quite a few obtuse works :/ I'll really try one of these days though. Those last days I finished every Plato dialogue except Laws and The Republic. Skip Timaeus if you ever do that, it's quite the chore, but apart from that, it's really great. Started : The Birth of Tragedy. Following my reading of Sophocles. Philoctetes was a really great surprise btw. Personally I don't like Nietzsche at all. I get the feeling that most of his work is just about being super-edgy and boosting his ego coupled with some really weird ideas. I think Schopenhauer is a way better read. I also thought you guys might enjoy this little comic : http://existentialcomics.com/comic/19
haha, this was brilliant
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The Count of Monte Cristo is a ton of fun. Its also super long.
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Dumas did his job well then 
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On March 17 2014 03:14 ZapRoffo wrote:
Finished Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, really good and powerful, tragic.
Also White Nights by Dostoevsky which was fairly fun, I think the people in the dating thread would get a kick out of it, it's about like the funniest, most melodramatic friendzoning of a nerdy guy.
Started Gone with the Wind, not sure if I'm serious about making the whole read or not.
More people in the dating thread should read _The Sorrows of Young Werther_.
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As horse season approaches I am brushing up on my Bukowski. I just finished Factotum which means I've pretty much read the story of Henry Chinaski in reverse at this point.
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On March 17 2014 07:51 IgnE wrote:Show nested quote +On March 17 2014 03:14 ZapRoffo wrote:
Finished Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, really good and powerful, tragic.
Also White Nights by Dostoevsky which was fairly fun, I think the people in the dating thread would get a kick out of it, it's about like the funniest, most melodramatic friendzoning of a nerdy guy.
Started Gone with the Wind, not sure if I'm serious about making the whole read or not. More people in the dating thread should read _The Sorrows of Young Werther_.
lol
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On March 15 2014 06:40 Numy wrote:Show nested quote +On March 08 2014 07:29 Qwyn wrote:On March 08 2014 06:13 se7en247 wrote:Just started this behemoth of a book. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/DYvWMGC.jpg) Words of Radiance....wow what to say? Finally finished it, and it was everything I could have hoped for and more. Absolutely stunning. However, one recommendation. In order to really get an appreciation for what Sanderson is doing, you really should read all his other series. GIANT F'ING SPOILER (Not for WORDS specifically. read if you want to have your head explode! But if you do not desire such glorious intervention and wish to have the thrill of discovering layer upon layer on your own (didn't hurt my experience much - actually enhanced it) then check this out! And be amazed): + Show Spoiler +Ok. Look. I didn't really see it either, besides Wit/Hoid (figured that one out on my own, hehe). But one day, I decided to google Brandon Sanderson works. And one thing led to another, and I googled "The Cosmere." And then I found out what THAT was.
And then I googled the "16 Shards..."
And my head exploded. In pure awesomeness.
And then I read all the works he's written in HIS own series.
And my head exploded even more.
Oh, and even better? So my friend and I were going to hang out tomorrow - Saturday, at the UW. Catch up and all that shit. Out of boredom, or excitement - because I just couldn't sleep after finishing WORDS - I went to Brandon Sanderson's website and checked his tour dates. And tomorrow....Saturday, the 8th...Brandon Sanderson is at the UW Library from 12 to 3. It's destiny. O_O. You should check out 17thshard forums if you want some more info and crazy theories.
I made a home there for a couple months after I finished Way of Kings, ahaha. And earlier with Mistborn. But in general I try to avoid the alpha/advanced read threads or those with advanced information. I think (IMO) that I prefer best reading those threads (going by title) that give me enough of a tick to read through a certain book again looking for things.
You know, it's sort of cheating. If I had not discovered 17th then I would be learning as Sanderson slowly reveals what he's doing to everyone else through Skybreaker and Words; and while it would be incredible it might also be agonizing ahaha.
This way I am educated enough to enjoy it; yet I have enough to look forward to and theorize about on my own.
So satisfied with Words. It's a lingering satisfaction and I'm really looking forward to Skybreaker, even though it's going to be another 18 months before that comes out.
I dropped a hint about Vasher to Mr. Sanderson and he picked it up right away ^^. Let's just say that a lot has changed since we last saw Vasher...
Sanderson is also going to write a novel called "Nightblood!" About. Well...ahem.
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On March 18 2014 03:53 Paljas wrote:Show nested quote +On March 17 2014 07:51 IgnE wrote:On March 17 2014 03:14 ZapRoffo wrote:
Finished Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, really good and powerful, tragic.
Also White Nights by Dostoevsky which was fairly fun, I think the people in the dating thread would get a kick out of it, it's about like the funniest, most melodramatic friendzoning of a nerdy guy.
Started Gone with the Wind, not sure if I'm serious about making the whole read or not. More people in the dating thread should read _The Sorrows of Young Werther_. lol
People should read Plato's Lysis and Phaedrus to get the real PUA mindset too :p Oh yeah, and the Red and the Black of course.
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Spending all day trying to figure out what the fuck is Joyce's intent is going to drive me insane.
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On March 18 2014 09:38 dmnum wrote:
Spending all day trying to figure out what the fuck is Joyce's intent is going to drive me insane.
maybe that is Joyce's intent
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On March 18 2014 10:22 Paljas wrote:Show nested quote +On March 18 2014 09:38 dmnum wrote:
Spending all day trying to figure out what the fuck is Joyce's intent is going to drive me insane. maybe that is Joyce's intent
most likely, he even jokes at the beginning - through stephen - that the way to go into eternity is to make a book that will be cherished and studied by scholars for centuries
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Tell me about it, I just ordered Alexander of Macedon by Peter Green from amazon.uk to be sent via an american bookstore and it was still cheaper than buying it from Sweden..
(Also got Storm of steel by Ernst Jünger, I'm very excited about reading that!)
Fini
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To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Another excellent book from one of my favorite writers! The waves is still my personal favorite but they are more different than anything else.
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Stoner - John Williams
Didn't like this book (compared to everyone else) it read decently, writing was good, simple and clean. My one problem with this book is that every single character in this book is retarded. It doesn't make any of their psychological complexes resonate with me because I can't relate to the characters at all.
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Thus spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
Splendid, I absolutely liked this book (After I had it explained to me!! lol) it featured a great appendix in the end that went through every chapter, what it meant and how it reflected on Nietzsches own personal life.
I should say since it was recently discussed that I am not very swayed with Nietzsches philosophy on a personal level either. But I am greatly facinated as a sort of "amateur historian" of the powerful social developments and fluctuations (response to russian nihilism and so on) that are happening around this time - or any time for that matter.
It seems to me that these trends and dynamics can be predicted by a keen mind. But from my experience with history, I am sure it's more of what it seems and less of how it actually is. It is enough to get me excited at least.
En train de lire
"Walden" still this book is such a fucking drag :| I swear it's set me one month behind my normal reading pace. I'm gonna have to research why anyone would even like this book if it doesn't get any better soon.
Also picked up the illiad and god damn! I thought this was gonna be chore, it's been amazing since the very start. Now I look like a fool for not picking it up sooner.
And then I started reading "The monk" by Matthew Gregory Lewis, I haven't gotten very far but at least I am committed to it.
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On March 18 2014 20:22 dmnum wrote:Show nested quote +On March 18 2014 10:22 Paljas wrote:On March 18 2014 09:38 dmnum wrote:
Spending all day trying to figure out what the fuck is Joyce's intent is going to drive me insane. maybe that is Joyce's intent most likely, he even jokes at the beginning - through stephen - that the way to go into eternity is to make a book that will be cherished and studied by scholars for centuries
Universally that person's acumen is esteemed very little perceptive
concerning whatsoever matters are being held as most profitably by mortals
with sapience endowed to be studied who is ignorant of that which the most
in doctrine erudite and certainly by reason of that in them high mind's
ornament deserving of veneration constantly maintain when by general
consent they affirm that other circumstances being equal by no exterior
splendour is the prosperity of a nation more efficaciously asserted than by
the measure of how far forward may have progressed the tribute of its
solicitude for that proliferent continuance which of evils the original if it be
absent when fortunately present constitutes the certain sign of omnipollent
nature's incorrupted benefaction. For who is there who anything of some
significance has apprehended but is conscious that that exterior splendour
may be the surface of a downwardtending lutulent reality or on the
contrary anyone so is there unilluminated as not to perceive that as no
nature's boon can contend against the bounty of increase so it behoves
every most just citizen to become the exhortator and admonisher of his
semblables and to tremble lest what had in the past been by the nation
excellently commenced might be in the future not with similar excellence
accomplished if an inverecund habit shall have gradually traduced the
honourable by ancestors transmitted customs to that thither of profundity
that that one was audacious excessively who would have the hardihood to
rise affirming that no more odious offence can for anyone be than to
oblivious neglect to consign that evangel simultaneously command and
promise which on all mortals with prophecy of abundance or with
diminution's menace that exalted of reiteratedly procreating function ever
irrevocably enjoined?
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not as good as his lyric, but suprisingly fitting for today.
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Discourses on Livy (Niccolò Machiavelli)
Brilliant and much superior to The Prince, I recommend. In times where historical parallels flourishes in quite worrying ways, it is a book of great comfort.
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