EPTWhat Are You Reading 2014 - Page 73
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CosmicSpiral
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babylon
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Fighter
Korea (South)1531 Posts
On December 15 2014 03:56 bookwyrm wrote: I read a book by quentin miellassioux but it wasnt that interesting. Really? I'm guessing The Number and the Siren? Because After Finitude is exciting as fuck, as far as philosophy goes. Also, The Number and the Siren had its moments. You're right about it mostly being a fashion on blogs though. Never heard anyone outside of the internet talk about those guys. I do find them interesting though, but I've only read Meillassoux. | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
it was fine enough, though. i mean, i read it | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
Also read Locus Solus, a disturbingly awesome book describing the strangest works of art ever imagined. Loved it, not sure how and why though. | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
On December 22 2014 06:29 corumjhaelen wrote: Reading Braudel History of the mediterranean, at the beginning of the second volume. It's awesome, incredibly interresting and very well written. the third section is not as interesting sadly, it's a "normal" history with "events" and "personages." Hoping to get through it over winter break so I can get the damn thing off my desk | ||
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babylon
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On December 22 2014 04:59 Nyxisto wrote: Read American Gods and the book really creeped me out. I don't know, the whole book read like a bad acid trip. It was obviously intentional but somehow it was really unpleasant. Also I didn't care for the main character very much. Expected a little more given how popular the book is. This is actually my reaction to almost every Gaiman book. The only book of his that didn't produce said reaction was Good Omens, and that's no doubt due to Sir Pratchett's golden touch. | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
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babylon
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There's something about his writing style that is extremely off-putting to me. By all accounts, Neverwhere SHOULD be my kind of book, but I can never get past the second chapter. | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 | ||
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farvacola
United States18856 Posts
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Meepman
Canada610 Posts
On December 22 2014 07:38 babylon wrote: This is actually my reaction to almost every Gaiman book. The only book of his that didn't produce said reaction was Good Omens, and that's no doubt due to Sir Pratchett's golden touch. I would agree with you guys, but I have to say The Graveyard Book was inexplicably enthralling forme, and is now one of my favorite fast reads. | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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Doublemint
Austria8726 Posts
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
On December 10 2014 01:10 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: Let me know how those books are. I read The Changeling and sort of liked it. I want to read The beautiful annabel lee was chilled and killed but it's not translated in English, considering reading it in Chinese. I have been making short gains over the last two weeks but I sadly have to admit that the book is very difficult, probably the most difficult book I have ever read in my life. I had to restart from the beginning because I got lost. However, I have to say that this book is pretty original and when I do sit down and think about it, I find myself enjoying it a lot in hindsight. | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
Fernand Braudel - The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip the Second. just a fucking beast. This is probably the best book of history that has ever been written IMO. Notable mention to his Memory and the Mediterranean which I got my mom for christmas as she has been reading Herodotus and Homer. I've been super into ancient western history this year and this book is really great. The Mediterranean and Felipe Dos is required reading for the next book: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus Miles better than Anti-Oedipus. This is speculative philosophy at its finest. I don't really know what to say about this book. Reading this book might be the closest you can come to being on acid without actually being on acid. It's about as easy to explain as being on acid. Manuel DeLanda - A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History DeLanda:Deleuze :: Zizek:Hegel? Reading DeLanda is like coming down from the acid trip and trying to remember what it was about. Susan Buck-Morss - The Dialectics of Seeing This has gotta be the best book on Benjamin out there. Michel Foucault - "Society Must Be Defended" These lectures are so much better than his books. I loved every page of this, it is just bursting with ideas. Ibn Battutah - The Travels Actually, his name is Abū ʿAbd al-Lāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Lāh l-Lawātī ṭ-Ṭanǧī ibn Baṭūṭah and the book is called A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling. All you need to know, really Marco Polo - The Travels These two go well together. David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas Thought this was quite good. Would love to teach it sometime James MacDonald - A Free Nation Deep in Debt Should out to my bro Sub40apm Jonathan Sperber - Karl Marx - A Nineteenth Century Life some book about an old man John Bellamy Foster - Marx's Ecology Mostly it's about Marx's relation to Epicurus and the German Idealism and stuff like that. Really excellent book Mike Davis - City of Quartz History of Los Angeles. Marc Reisner - Cadillac Desert history of water in the American west Michael Scott - Delphi A fascinating history of a very interesting institution Andro Linklater - Owning the Earth good new book about the genealogy of property Pekka Hamalainen - Comanche Empire COMANCHES KICK ASS!! | ||
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