EPTOn another note I'm (finally) getting around to reading 100 Years of Solitude after putting it off for years orz. I'm only a little bit in but it reads better than Chronicle of a Death Foretold (which I thought was kinda meh).
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On another note I'm (finally) getting around to reading 100 Years of Solitude after putting it off for years orz. I'm only a little bit in but it reads better than Chronicle of a Death Foretold (which I thought was kinda meh). | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
On April 11 2015 02:56 bookwyrm wrote: No YOUR statements are without content. Neener neener! lol do you even know what content means. | ||
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img.xrmb2.net/images/418022.jpeg) Finally found a semi-decent bookshop in Sydney. I say semi-decent because the philosophy section stocked like half a dozen copies of Peter Singer. | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
On April 11 2015 03:20 corumjhaelen wrote: Oh, read Memorial do convento because of this thread, it was good, thanks dmnum. It read a bit like Marquez, but I felt closer to the content, Gusmao is one hell of a guy, and Saramago has a great sense of humour which made the book a very pleasant reading. I'm glad you liked it, and yes, Memorial reminds me of Love in The Time of Cholera. - Reading Faulkner's As I Lay Dying now. After Knausgaard I'm in the mood for something less straightforward but just as earnest, and Faulkner is the most sincere modernist I can think of. Also, his female characters are amazing, so I'm hoping to steal a thing or two for the novel I'm writing. | ||
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farvacola
United States18857 Posts
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
Also, just bought A Thousand Plateaus (I had a pdf on my kindle for ages but it was a chore to read that way), The Old Man and The Sea which I hope to finish in the next hour, another Melville and David Reynolds' One World Divisible: a Global History since 1945.. Also, If I wanted to get acquainted to Hegelbroski, should I start with Hegel himself or with an introduction? | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
Also I'm reading Dissemination, I think it's funny and even interesting even if some paragraphs are just half gibberish and that... well Hors-textes is a preface about people who write prefaces about prefaces sucking. So... lol | ||
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Dalguno
United States2446 Posts
I just finished The Hobbit. First book I've read in 2 years, mostly because of huge time constraints. However, I now have a lot more time for reading and want to make it a big part of my life again. I'm finding that I get bored really quickly reading books, though. I've never been able to make it through the LotR books because I just get bored reading about Tom Bombadil and never get far. The Hobbit was a great pace for me. So, I either need some suggestions for books to read, or a strategy/skills to develop to be able to appreciate slower-paced books. Books I've enjoyed thoroughly: The Road, The Book Thief, Fahrenheit 451, Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, The Giver, Animal Farm, Brave New World, 1984 (haha I'm just listing all dystopia novels now), Dan Brown novels, John Grisham novels. I also really enjoyed the Pendragon series other than the horrible ending. Just a little lost. Any input is appreciated. | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
On April 11 2015 03:10 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: oneofthem, what's your background by the way? basically he's been brainwashed by two academic disciplines which have delusions of scientificity, hysterically police their disciplinary boundaries, and never cite outside of themselves, which makes them basically echo chambers in which jargon masquerades as technical precision and whose goal is not thought or reflection, but the attaining of a conspicuous but shallow erudition which enables one to go about life with a certain smug complacency based on the fact that one knows, for example, what "content" is (despite the fact that this knowledge is entirely contained within some incestuous, scholastic discourse). Plus, he's a banker - for whatever that's worth  | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
On April 15 2015 09:35 bookwyrm wrote: There's no correct entry point into studying hegel, all beginnings are equally incorrect. But I dont know why you would bother - all of his statements are entirely without content. Wait, are you saying Hegel's or oneofthem's statements are without content? | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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Souma
2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
On April 15 2015 09:35 bookwyrm wrote: There's no correct entry point into studying hegel, all beginnings are equally incorrect. But I dont know why you would bother - all of his statements are entirely without content. basically he's been brainwashed by two academic disciplines which have delusions of scientificity, hysterically police their disciplinary boundaries, and never cite outside of themselves, which makes them basically echo chambers in which jargon masquerades as technical precision and whose goal is not thought or reflection, but the attaining of a conspicuous but shallow erudition which enables one to go about life with a certain smug complacency based on the fact that one knows, for example, what "content" is (despite the fact that this knowledge is entirely contained within some incestuous, scholastic discourse). Plus, he's a banker - for whatever that's worth Today I learned oneofthem is a banker. I feel so betrayed. Not sure what I'm doing here as I don't even read anything. Au revoir~ Edit: Nevermind, sources have informed me that he is not a banker. All is good. | ||
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
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123Gurke
France154 Posts
On April 15 2015 09:38 dmnum wrote: Well, if you liked The Road I'd say go read Blood Meridian. Same author, much, much better book. Also, I think you'd like Philip K. Dick. I've only read Androids and Ubik by him but they were both immensely enjoyable. Rather than Ubik or Androids I would recommend Palmer Eldritch. I find it far more fun, also it was the book that made me fall in love with PKD. I also always recommend Neuromancer to everyone. Reading: ![[image loading]](https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388236741l/11692.jpg) Roughly 50 pages in. I like it so far, but I am reading this very slowly (basically only in the train to another university once a week). | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
and bookwyrm i would suggest more studying and less posting since what you've said so far is extremely incorrect. | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
On April 15 2015 22:46 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I read Snow and it sucked. istanbul is great though On April 15 2015 12:13 Souma wrote: Edit: Nevermind, sources have informed me that he is not a banker. All is good. it says cayman islands. he's a banker. Nobody lives in the cayman islands who's up to any good. On April 15 2015 23:36 oneofthem wrote: and bookwyrm i would suggest more studying and less posting since what you've said so far is extremely incorrect. no YOU'RE incorrect!! i feel like we've been here before Also, you're the guy with 15000 posts and no sense of humor :pOn April 15 2015 23:36 oneofthem wrote: i've never said you can't extract actual substance from hegel. But Hegel definitely has no idea whatever this inbred notion of "content" that you have is. So if he doesn't know what "content" is, how can he put it in his philosophy? So therefore his philosophy must be entirely nonsense gibberish. but I'm talking to a guy who probably thinks that Robert Brandom is the best Hegel exegete so... there's no hope On April 15 2015 21:45 123Gurke wrote: Rather than Ubik or Androids I would recommend Palmer Eldritch. I find it far more fun, also it was the book that made me fall in love with PKD. just read them all edit: just because I can't resist, I'm reading some more of this Metzinger book. It's SO CUTE. He thinks that a philosophical anthropology needs to proceed according to the law of non-contradiction (p 212). How adorable!! For a guy who likes to vulgarize Hegel without citing him (p 216) he doesn't seem to have "gotten" it. And his conclusion is just a restatement of old poststructuralist dicta in baby terms: "The Ego evolved as an instrument in social cognition, and one of its greatest functional advantages was that it allowed us to read the minds of other animals or conspecifics—and then to deceive them. Or deceive ourselves." Awwww... baby's first Lacan  Seriously, this book is like what happens when an analytic philosopher shows up to the party 50 years late and tries to explain to everybody the correct theory about how to have a good time. The sixties called... it wants its radical insights back!!! but sorry, sorry. This is a well-respected book. I'm going to buy it in cloth and put it next to my complete collection of Daniel Dennett. | ||
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