Started this one due to a friend giving it to me for half a day because I told her I was bored and she didn't have time for me (not gonna waste my time going to an amusement park).

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I'm not really into this kind of genre but the book is decent, to say the least. Nearly finished it in that period of time. Fun fact: the first book I read in English and the only other one of this genre is actually "Looking for Alaska", from the same author. Anyway, I ordered it yesterday to finish it.

dmnum

Brazil6910 Posts

October 22 2014 00:43 GMT

#1282

Reading Rue des Boutiques Obscures(Missing Person) by Patrick Modiano.

ZenithM

France15952 Posts

October 22 2014 01:27 GMT

#1283

On October 15 2014 13:18 bookwyrm wrote:
the easiest and cheapest way to create intelligence is, and always will be, to have a baby

On the other hand you could say that we lose time wasting our intelligence on something menial like, feeding the baby.

_fool

Netherlands685 Posts

October 22 2014 06:26 GMT

#1284

This Crowded Earth - Robert Bloch (1968)

Oldskool SciFi, scarily accurate at times.

"[While waiting in queue] Standing around waiting, that's what did it. This eternal waiting. When he was a kid, the grownups were always complaining about the long seven-hour work days and how they cut into their leisure time. Well, maybe they had reason to gripe, but at least there was some leisure before work began or after it was through. Now that extra time was consumed in waiting. Standing in line, standing in crowds, wearing yourself out doing nothing"

bookwyrm

United States722 Posts

October 22 2014 15:41 GMT

#1285

On October 22 2014 10:27 ZenithM wrote:

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On the other hand you could say that we lose time wasting our intelligence on something menial like, feeding the baby.

i'm not sure i see your point..

ZenithM

France15952 Posts

October 22 2014 17:13 GMT

#1286

On October 23 2014 00:41 bookwyrm wrote:

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i'm not sure i see your point..

Unless I didn't see yours, I'm just saying that having a baby doesn't necessarily make us more intelligent as a species.

bookwyrm

United States722 Posts

October 22 2014 18:08 GMT

#1287

Neither does computer programming :D

IgnE

United States7684 Posts

October 25 2014 10:01 GMT

#1288

On September 17 2014 16:35 NinthMango wrote:
Right now I'm in between two courses and winding down with some fiction. Anybody here who has read Mr Sammler's Planet? I'm only 30 pages in but I'm enjoying it so far.

Read Mr. Sammler's Planet because I hadn't read any Saul Bellow and you mentioned it in this thread. I was rather unimpressed with it. The narrator is a grumpy old man. The dialogue is disconcertingly stilted (even for an old man in the 70's I would think but maybe I am wrong). The references to Negroes and Orientals are jarring. And some of the longer "philosophical" passages come across as contrived. Why do people like Saul Bellow? Are his other books better?

dmnum

Brazil6910 Posts

October 25 2014 11:44 GMT

#1289

On October 22 2014 09:43 dmnum wrote:
Reading Rue des Boutiques Obscures(Missing Person) by Patrick Modiano.

Very uneven book. I didn't like the beginning, by the middle I was mildly interested, the ending was good. The style had the same problem; Modiano's descriptions didn't please me that much but the man is a metaphor master.
The last paragraph of the book makes reading the whole thing worth it, but only because it's short.

Now reading: Agosto(August) by Rubem Fonseca.

Boblion

France8043 Posts

October 25 2014 12:08 GMT

#1290

On September 27 2014 04:39 corumjhaelen wrote:
going to start Rebatet's Les deux étendards. It has a very good reputation as a novel, but Rebatet collaborated with Vichy and the nazis, as quite a number of others, but his novel seems to be the most interesting one.

So did you like it ?

For some reason i found Les décombres way more fun to read lol. Just try to get the free .pdf since the old nrf books are kinda expensive.
http://maurras.net/pdf/divers/REBATET-Les-Decombres.pdf
Much better than Louis-Ferdinand and his depressive rants.

Zergneedsfood

United States10671 Posts

October 25 2014 20:14 GMT

#1291

I read Snow Crash for the first time. A really exciting book. There's a lot of points where I feel kind of swept up in everything and a lot of things felt confusing, but nevertheless it all felt like part of the plan. The Metaverse is an awesome setting, and Stephenson has a great sense of humor paired along with a pretty casual writing style that I liked a lot.

bookwyrm

United States722 Posts

October 26 2014 00:12 GMT

#1292

On October 26 2014 05:14 Zergneedsfood wrote:
I read Snow Crash for the first time. A really exciting book. There's a lot of points where I feel kind of swept up in everything and a lot of things felt confusing, but nevertheless it all felt like part of the plan. The Metaverse is an awesome setting, and Stephenson has a great sense of humor paired along with a pretty casual writing style that I liked a lot.

nice! up next: The Diamond Age. get ready

babylon

8765 Posts

October 26 2014 06:26 GMT

#1293

Finished Zelazny's "Roadmarks." My main reaction is "whut." Flowers and the monk dude were awesome though. Would read fanfiction about the monk dude and did, in fact, look for it, but it seems all the Zelazny fanfiction is Amber stuff.

Moving onto Rachel Hartman's "Seraphina." One of my friends recommended it to me a few weeks ago, and I was lucky enough to pick it up in the bookstore.

I don't read a lot of YA lit, so I missed out on this book, even though it seems to have made a ripple in the YA community. Pretty decent so far, waiting for it to pick up.

bookwyrm

United States722 Posts

October 27 2014 15:17 GMT

#1294

the new William Gibson comes out tomorrow... GET PUMPED

bookwyrm

United States722 Posts

October 31 2014 04:46 GMT

#1295

super different

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so far this is super dope

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Sub40APM

6336 Posts

October 31 2014 05:25 GMT

#1296

On October 15 2014 06:45 farvacola wrote:

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Civ Pro is my favorite class so far, as the sometimes overly elaborate, abstract Supreme Court opinions match up better with my background in literature and critical theory than the other topic areas in which lower courts dominate the case law. So far, I've found the reading pretty interesting and enjoyable, though I don't sense similar attitudes among my peers lol

well youll love second semester then, con and crim law at once!

Zergneedsfood

United States10671 Posts

October 31 2014 19:40 GMT

#1297

On October 31 2014 13:46 bookwyrm wrote:

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Read this along with Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata in the last week. Both good books.

Surth

Germany456 Posts

October 31 2014 21:22 GMT

#1298

Getting money from the state for studying means ill finally have the money to buy a kindle

which means ive just downloaded about 3500 pages worth of Baudrillard, Heraclitus, Deleuze, DeLanda, Karatani, Nishitani Keiji...

mmmh delicious.

bookwyrm

United States722 Posts

November 02 2014 18:02 GMT

#1299

^sounds like enlightenment is just around the corner surth

dmnum

Brazil6910 Posts

November 02 2014 18:29 GMT

#1300

god american covers are the worst

gonna try something new: for every two new books that I read I'll reread one. it's already working out great, because I just started Anna Karenina again