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Greatest biography I've ever read
(just finished it)
What Are You Reading 2014 - Page 55
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Muffloe
Sweden6061 Posts
Greatest biography I've ever read (just finished it) | ||
Flicky
England2675 Posts
Finished: Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig - Would suggest looking into and reading this book. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin - Again, read the synopsis and give it a go. Very interesting. Zaljubljen do Ušiju by Miro Gavran - It's a kids book in Croatian. Listed for the sake of it. Now: Linguistics An Introduction by Radford, Atkinson, Britain, Clahsen, Spencer - Self-education Der Letze Seiner Art by Andreas Eschbach - Reading in German Il cavaliere inesistente by Italo Calvino - Reading in Italian Republikanci by Marija Jurić Zagorka - Reading in Croatian Midget Ninja and Tactical Laxatives: Bizarre Warfare Through the Ages by Phillip Sidwell - Light reading on behalf of Grandma. | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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Wesso
Netherlands1245 Posts
Now I started "I, Claudius", interesting subject matter but I'm not that impressed with the writing. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21248 Posts
Also stumbled across this review: http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/ferociously-intellectual-pulp-writing/ Sounds like it's right up your alley sam, read it and tell me how good it is thx. | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
![[image loading]](https://p.gr-assets.com/200x200/scale/books/1268925017/4976718.jpg) Interesting in that it argues against the standard pedagogy of teaching students to write lucid and concise prose. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21248 Posts
On August 28 2014 13:01 zulu_nation8 wrote: very interesting book on how terrible American prose is: Interesting in that it argues against the standard pedagogy of teaching students to write lucid and concise prose. Heard about this book and I think I agree with the general ideas. That's why I don't read American books! Do ho ho. | ||
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sperY
Serbia444 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/CatsCradle%281963%29.jpg) Read this mostly in a bus going on vacation. It was a fun read. This whole "Bokononism" stuff was hilarious. ![[image loading]](http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130512132452/metro2033/images/c/c8/825386_5.jpg) I read it somewhat fast. I found it to be an interesting book. Quite different from the type i usually read. I quite enjoyed the start and lets say 2/3 of the book in general. Did not enjoy the end as much. I guess because it contains more mysteries about metro itself, and unveiling of those was rushed somewhat. Currently I'm 'listening' an audio book version of Orwell 1984. Its quite different from reading  | ||
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nepeta
1872 Posts
On August 27 2014 07:58 Flicky wrote: Loads of books on the go, due to language stuff... Finished: Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig - Would suggest looking into and reading this book. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin - Again, read the synopsis and give it a go. Very interesting. Zaljubljen do Ušiju by Miro Gavran - It's a kids book in Croatian. Listed for the sake of it. Now: Linguistics An Introduction by Radford, Atkinson, Britain, Clahsen, Spencer - Self-education Der Letze Seiner Art by Andreas Eschbach - Reading in German Il cavaliere inesistente by Italo Calvino - Reading in Italian Republikanci by Marija Jurić Zagorka - Reading in Croatian Midget Ninja and Tactical Laxatives: Bizarre Warfare Through the Ages by Phillip Sidwell - Light reading on behalf of Grandma. Quite impressive for a Briton! Myself is reading: Niederlage '45; Diary of the Wehrmacht command from jan-june 1945. They just keep moving chess pieces in a never-ending retreat while Germany is bombed to pieces before there eyes... In den Schluchten des Balkan Karly May, cowboys and indians, just slapped the entire series on my new e-reader ^^ Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience: from Cell Chemistry to Cognition Now a year old, but still one of the better books on Neuroscience I think. Mind-machine interface here we come! | ||
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
on other note, i finished 4 books of the expanse series recently. if anyone was debating about reading it or not, i'd recommend it. i'd be happy to answer any questions as "a mix of starwars and game of thrones" reviews online is definitely not right. its more akin to ender's game in terms of alien/human relationship and internal human civilization relationship. | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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babylon
8765 Posts
On August 28 2014 13:01 zulu_nation8 wrote: very interesting book on how terrible American prose is: Interesting in that it argues against the standard pedagogy of teaching students to write lucid and concise prose. But which kind of prose? Fiction, nonfiction, short story, long story, academic, technical ....? They're all different and call for different styles. -- I finished reading more and more Hobb on my 24 hour flights. Didn't quite like the ending of Fool's Fate (worse than the ending of Assassin's Quest by far), but since Fool's Assassin is out, I won't harp on it too much. Great series, amazingly written characters, excellent worldbuilding. There was something very, very eerie about what was happening beneath the ice, and I can't quite shake it. Also finished Dragon Keeper along the way. Not quite as good... characters are ... they're well-written, but just don't strike my fancy as much. The plot is intriguing though; I'm definitely curious to know how it all ends for the dragons and the keepers, but definitely a step down from her Fool+Fitz and the Liveship books. | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
On August 28 2014 12:58 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:. Also stumbled across this review: http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/ferociously-intellectual-pulp-writing/ Seems interesting. I heard the guy who wrote that review give a really boring talk at a conference once. The people who run LARB are connected with my program. Of course they dont like me very much :D edit the best part of the review is the name checked (and incorrect) reference to quentin meillassoux. Meillassoux doesn't claim that the world is 'altogether contingent', he claims that contingency is necessary. Which is totally different. But who cares I guess. The American sophists can throw anything into their cauldron of pomo mush - it helps that they don't generally read the books they reference | ||
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Ryndika
1489 Posts
I found one or two but they weren't provded in my library system. I've googled for 2 days now and asked some people and pretty desperate and soon I'm ready to give up. Oh and I'd also like to find some book that gives perspective on angles that you didn't yet think about. Controversial/taboo. To use popular authors: I like they way kafka thinks, the way nabokov writes and conrad's vocab/scenery. | ||
{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
![[image loading]](http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1311972203l/678699.jpg) Next up in my history slot ![[image loading]](http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/myfiles/Images/2009/12/21/dw01.jpg) | ||
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Deleuze
United Kingdom2102 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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babylon
8765 Posts
Also, man, I love the little missives between Erek and Detozi at the beginning of all her chapters. Who knew you could do so much with so little space? Hoping to get my grubby paws on Hobb's Fool's Assassin (or City of Dragons) and Mitchell's The Bone Clocks (and to finish writing a thing or two) before school starts again, and I lose all my hobby-reading/writing time. Can't wait for Brust's Hawk as well; a ton of my favorite authors are putting out books this year. | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
Finished the first book of The World as Will and Representation and its supplements. Quite a few annoying things, quite a few good one, very well written, probably not what you'd like sam. Always funny to read about maths btw, here he's easy to mock because of his ignorance of non-euclidian geometries, but among all the anti-demonstration argument I've read, he has the best reasons. Frustrating to read such long books though, because between them and the start of my classes, I lack a bit of variety^^ | ||
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