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Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17342 Posts
September 17 2015 06:19 GMT
#861
On August 27 2015 19:59 Manit0u wrote:
[image loading]

Opera's Second Death by Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar.

Might be fun.


Would be fun if I liked opera or knew more about it. This is definitely a book for people who know opera plots by heart and enjoy them, including the technical details. There are some nice and interesting thoughts that are more general but I must admit that most of the book was simply not for me.
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
notesfromunderground
Profile Blog Joined September 2015
188 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-17 17:36:56
September 17 2015 17:14 GMT
#862
On September 17 2015 15:19 Manit0u wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 27 2015 19:59 Manit0u wrote:
[image loading]

Opera's Second Death by Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar.

Might be fun.


Would be fun if I liked opera or knew more about it. This is definitely a book for people who know opera plots by heart and enjoy them, including the technical details. There are some nice and interesting thoughts that are more general but I must admit that most of the book was simply not for me.


Whenever he starts talking about opera is when I have the most trouble following him. Luckily, he will make exactly the same point in several other places while discussing entirely different objects

On September 16 2015 19:19 Silvanel wrote:
I am currently reading History of Metallurgy by R.F. Tylcote (2ed) and i was wondering if You could recommend to me books on (1) history of technology (2) History of mining and/or industry. I am mainly intrested in timeframe between antic and XX century (but up to industrial revolution is still fine). Its fine if the book also discusses impact of those processes on society but i would like to avoid thesis driven books (like Guns, Germs and Steel for example).


Check out some works by Braudel. His Memory and the Mediterranean will have stuff about metallurgy in prehistory, and I bet one of the volumes of Capitalism & Civilization has some detailed discussion of Metallurgy.
Nyxisto
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6287 Posts
September 17 2015 18:33 GMT
#863
Finished Perdido Street Station. I really had to force myself through Embassytown but this one I really loved. The story and characters were interesting which is something that I really miss when it comes to the more 'literary' modern writers and the city he created is just great. Does 'The Scar' hold up to this?
notesfromunderground
Profile Blog Joined September 2015
188 Posts
September 17 2015 18:43 GMT
#864
On September 18 2015 03:33 Nyxisto wrote:
Does 'The Scar' hold up to this?


Sadly... no. But still worth reading. The third one is the weakest.
ticklishmusic
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States15977 Posts
September 17 2015 18:49 GMT
#865
The Scar was my first Mieville book. I liked it a lot.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Lucumo
Profile Joined January 2010
6850 Posts
September 17 2015 19:28 GMT
#866
Finished:

[image loading]


Started:

[image loading]
B.I.G.
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
3251 Posts
September 18 2015 04:03 GMT
#867
On September 18 2015 03:33 Nyxisto wrote:
Finished Perdido Street Station. I really had to force myself through Embassytown but this one I really loved. The story and characters were interesting which is something that I really miss when it comes to the more 'literary' modern writers and the city he created is just great. Does 'The Scar' hold up to this?

For me Perdido Street Station also was a struggle..
Silvanel
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Poland4731 Posts
September 18 2015 07:58 GMT
#868
On September 18 2015 02:14 notesfromunderground wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 17 2015 15:19 Manit0u wrote:
On August 27 2015 19:59 Manit0u wrote:
[image loading]

Opera's Second Death by Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar.

Might be fun.


Would be fun if I liked opera or knew more about it. This is definitely a book for people who know opera plots by heart and enjoy them, including the technical details. There are some nice and interesting thoughts that are more general but I must admit that most of the book was simply not for me.


Whenever he starts talking about opera is when I have the most trouble following him. Luckily, he will make exactly the same point in several other places while discussing entirely different objects

Show nested quote +
On September 16 2015 19:19 Silvanel wrote:
I am currently reading History of Metallurgy by R.F. Tylcote (2ed) and i was wondering if You could recommend to me books on (1) history of technology (2) History of mining and/or industry. I am mainly intrested in timeframe between antic and XX century (but up to industrial revolution is still fine). Its fine if the book also discusses impact of those processes on society but i would like to avoid thesis driven books (like Guns, Germs and Steel for example).


Check out some works by Braudel. His Memory and the Mediterranean will have stuff about metallurgy in prehistory, and I bet one of the volumes of Capitalism & Civilization has some detailed discussion of Metallurgy.


Thanks a lo!t I checked it out and will defiently read Civlization and Capitalism. I am not really focused on metallurgy but i am really intrested in how technolgy and means of production changed during the ages and how it impacted society.
Pathetic Greta hater.
goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44186 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-18 13:54:53
September 18 2015 13:52 GMT
#869
Just finished

[image loading]

since i mostly read fantasy/action and although it's still the first book of the mistborn trilogy i've enjoyed it more than most that i've read + Show Spoiler [book 1] +
book 1 had the protagonist winning the war inwhich book 2-3 story is about the after story of triumph and taking over of the kingdom

it's nice that the story touches after the fall of the antagonistic empire and is about governing the new nation . Usually on stories about rebellion when the rebellion succeeded the story is about to end.
this is a quote
PushDown
Profile Joined December 2011
Italy208 Posts
September 19 2015 23:01 GMT
#870
On September 18 2015 22:52 goody153 wrote:
Just finished

+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]


since i mostly read fantasy/action and although it's still the first book of the mistborn trilogy i've enjoyed it more than most that i've read + Show Spoiler [book 1] +
book 1 had the protagonist winning the war inwhich book 2-3 story is about the after story of triumph and taking over of the kingdom

it's nice that the story touches after the fall of the antagonistic empire and is about governing the new nation . Usually on stories about rebellion when the rebellion succeeded the story is about to end.

I'm really tempted to read the series but I'm stuck waiting for the italian re-print of the 12 book in the WOT (reprints in my country takes for-fucking-ever, last one from the series was done almost 1 and half years ago). And I really don't enjoy reading different storys of the same author at the same time.

At the moment I'm finishing Mort from the Discworld series and waiting eagerly for monday where I should get these 2 bad boys:

[image loading]
Cogito ergo sum
phantomfive
Profile Joined April 2010
Korea (South)404 Posts
September 23 2015 06:40 GMT
#871
On September 17 2015 15:19 Manit0u wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 27 2015 19:59 Manit0u wrote:
[image loading]

Opera's Second Death by Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar.

Might be fun.


Would be fun if I liked opera or knew more about it. This is definitely a book for people who know opera plots by heart and enjoy them, including the technical details. There are some nice and interesting thoughts that are more general but I must admit that most of the book was simply not for me.


If you're interested in this kind of thing, I strongly recommend New Worlds of Dvořák:

[image loading]

It has everything you would want in such a book: scholarly rigor yet easily approachable, clear and convincing explanations of the music, new discoveries, unsolved mysteries, people drinking each other under the table.

This is not only one of the best books about Dvořák, it is one of the best books about music.
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own - Lincoln
Vladix
Profile Joined September 2010
Netherlands227 Posts
September 25 2015 19:38 GMT
#872
Just finished [image loading]

Was a nice read, some stuff I knew from documentaries I have watched, but alot of new things.
One thing for sure, book made me feel kinda dumb compared to Hawkings and his colleague's.

After his I have started with [image loading]

After reading the Malazan book of the fallen, I was searching for a new fantasy serie and this has been a good choice and I am happy I bought the trilogy, even after reading a small portion.
phantomfive
Profile Joined April 2010
Korea (South)404 Posts
September 26 2015 04:00 GMT
#873
On September 26 2015 04:38 Vladix wrote:
After his I have started with [image loading]

After reading the Malazan book of the fallen, I was searching for a new fantasy serie and this has been a good choice and I am happy I bought the trilogy, even after reading a small portion.

I try not to judge a book by its cover, but the cover on that one is really nice.
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own - Lincoln
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
September 26 2015 05:57 GMT
#874
Evan Dara's Flee
TheFoReveRwaR
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
United States10657 Posts
September 26 2015 06:02 GMT
#875
Time Of Contempt. Book 2 in four part Witcher series (Not Including Last Wish which is seperate ).
Being healthy, it has been said, really consists of having the same disease as everybody else.
Redox
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany24794 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-26 10:51:00
September 26 2015 10:43 GMT
#876
On September 26 2015 04:38 Vladix wrote:
[image loading]

After reading the Malazan book of the fallen, I was searching for a new fantasy serie and this has been a good choice and I am happy I bought the trilogy, even after reading a small portion.

Read the whole trilogy and had a lot of fun.
It doesnt take itself as serious as some other Fantasy and is really funny at times. While still being suspenseful at others. And I liked how the fights were described. Also its not written for children.
Off-season = best season
oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
September 26 2015 12:58 GMT
#877
marx's writing style in das kapital is pretty bad, but then again it was the 19th century
We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
corumjhaelen
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
France6884 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-26 13:11:53
September 26 2015 13:11 GMT
#878
I think it's top notch among philosophers. Worse than Schopenhauer and Plato, equal or better than about anybody else I've read, including Descartes who is always hailed for his style by French people. He really is hilarious too.
Reading Ibn Khaldun. Lots of pretty amazing ideas for a XIVth century guy. Lots of pretty repetitive stuff too, a pity.
Also rereading H2G2 for some reason. Still can't really find that funny.
‎numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret, numquam minus solum esse quam cum solus esset
IgnE
Profile Joined November 2010
United States7681 Posts
September 26 2015 17:37 GMT
#879
his footnotes are funny
The unrealistic sound of these propositions is indicative, not of their utopian character, but of the strength of the forces which prevent their realization.
phantomfive
Profile Joined April 2010
Korea (South)404 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-27 01:40:15
September 27 2015 01:37 GMT
#880
On September 26 2015 22:11 corumjhaelen wrote:
I think it's top notch among philosophers. Worse than Schopenhauer and Plato, equal or better than about anybody else I've read, including Descartes who is always hailed for his style by French people. He really is hilarious too.
Reading Ibn Khaldun. Lots of pretty amazing ideas for a XIVth century guy. Lots of pretty repetitive stuff too, a pity.
Also rereading H2G2 for some reason. Still can't really find that funny.

Voltaire is probably worth mentioning in any list of skilled writing philosophers.
Nietzsche is interesting in that I find his stuff fairly flowing, even when I have no idea what he's saying. That could be the translation though.

Darwin is readable; although a scientist he still had the deep thinking aspects of a philosopher (and really, a scientist is just a philosopher who collects data).
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own - Lincoln
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