EPTEdit: yep, my undergraduate degree is in English Lit
What Are You Reading 2014 - Page 62
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farvacola
United States18826 Posts
Edit: yep, my undergraduate degree is in English Lit | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
On October 04 2014 00:36 dmnum wrote: Are you a law student farva? either that or an insane person i guess Finished up Vol 1 of Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean in the Age of Philip II... starting on Vol 2. This shit is amazing. Braudel is such a flipping genius I'm also pretty pumped about my seminar this quarter on "Medieval Cosmopolitanisms", we are reading all kinds travel literature and stuff. I am gonna find some way to do a project on monetary policy :D | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
Edit: the american system for law degrees is weird. In any case, it seems like we're going opposite ways: you started studying lit and is now studying law, while I'm almost finished with law school and planning to study lit next. | ||
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farvacola
United States18826 Posts
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babylon
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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Flicky
England2662 Posts
On October 05 2014 02:00 babylon wrote: Finally finished The Lies of Locke Lamora. Lynch knows how to plot. Prose wobbles between very snappy and clumsy (he doesn't integrate details as well as he can, lots of worldbuilding that isn't quite necessary), but great first book. Not really lookin' for the next though; don't really care enough about the characters. If the book wanders across my doorstep though, I might take a gander. I enjoyed the book too, but I also have no urge to read any follow ups. It seems like a fine stand-alone book that wraps up all too well for a sequel. | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9103 Posts
On October 05 2014 04:36 Flicky wrote: I enjoyed the book too, but I also have no urge to read any follow ups. It seems like a fine stand-alone book that wraps up all too well for a sequel. On this note, I've just now started on the sequel, Red Seas Under Red Skies. I agree that the first book was pretty well self-contained, but figure I'll see where it goes. | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
Now reading: Carol Berg's Transformation. First 60 or so pages have been a blast so far, plot's starting to glimmer a bit here and there. Great prose and pacing; I'm actually surprised that this is a first novel by Berg, 'cause it doesn't exhibit any of the typical "first book" syndromes, but we shall see. I really can't get over how awful the cover of the first book is, though. The second and third books were passed onto Stawicki for cover art (GREAT decision, he's one of my favorite fantasy/sci-fi book artists) but the cover of the first book looks like some awful photo manip. ![[image loading]](http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Berg_Rai-kirah.jpg) | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
On October 06 2014 12:29 bookwyrm wrote: I'm only about halfway through it so far. At first I thought it was pretty bad, but I'm warming up to it. I'm very unknowledgable about the entire field of Marxism though, so I'm not exactly qualified to talk about this lol. So far I still think his Architecture as Metaphor is way cooler though, I'm just a sucker for confused people throwing shit at the wall. This is more like wise old sage - interesting, but too clean. | ||
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Manijak
Slovenia112 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
On October 06 2014 16:03 Surth wrote: I'm only about halfway through it so far. At first I thought it was pretty bad, but I'm warming up to it. I'm very unknowledgable about the entire field of Marxism though, so I'm not exactly qualified to talk about this lol. So far I still think his Architecture as Metaphor is way cooler though, I'm just a sucker for confused people throwing shit at the wall. This is more like wise old sage - interesting, but too clean. we'll see. I liked the introduction a lot (partly because/in spite of the fact that he touches on some stuff I've been working on saying in my own work), getting into the book there are a few things that make me kinda cringe or wonder (like he associates herding with the neolithic revolution and says that only sedentary societies have mechanisms for accumulating a surplus - idk about that, I'm pretty sure nomads have herds and can store up enormous amounts of surplus in the form of meat-on-the-hoof). but I admire anyone doing systematic philosophy and I think he's interesting so far even if I don't really end up thinking his model is quite what I'm looking for I'm pretty skeptical about the whole "Mode D = Sublation of Mode A!!" thesis. But I do like that he is talking about the return of the religious ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511Ta1pqTAL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_AA300_.jpg){kind=icon} this one's for you, babylon  | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
If you're looking for something a little less cut and dry, I actually think Postgate's Early Mesopotamia is a great read. I've been going through a few chapters of it for one of my archaeology classes, and he happens to have a pretty attractive writing style. (Also, he's a great scholar.) | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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AussieStarcraft
Australia31 Posts
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Salemslothardcover.jpg) I've never read a lot of King novels, but I picked up the stand recently and liked it a lot (although it was a little long), so I've picked up Salem's Lot. | ||
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