EPT![[image loading]](http://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/amazon/978041561/9780415610117.jpg)
that is a also on my to-do list. unfortunately I am rather occupied at the moment with other stuff
please share your impressions after you read it
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Doublemint
Austria8366 Posts
that is a also on my to-do list. unfortunately I am rather occupied at the moment with other stuff please share your impressions after you read it | ||
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ZenithM
France15952 Posts
![[image loading]](http://ebook-section.weebly.com/uploads/2/7/9/2/27928411/9633225.png?450) On January 18 2015 04:56 Sub40APM wrote: nothing smells better than opening a new book that just arrived. Mmmmmmmmmm I've read on e-reader for a while, no more of that smell for me I fear ;D. | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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Paljas
Germany6926 Posts
Is that the real cover? Looks horrible | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
On January 23 2015 07:21 dmnum wrote: Cheep have you read Baltasar and Blimunda? No I haven't. I've read: Blindness Seeing Cain Death with Interruptions The Gospel According to Jesus Christ I want to read The Double and/or All the Names next. Don't really have Baltasar and Blimunda on the list right now. | ||
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
Also, I finished Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. It's one of the books that we're going to be reading for our sci-fi class. It was....okay I guess. There were parts that were really good and other parts that were boring. The whole thing with the triffids felt....kind of gimicky to be honest and I didn't really like that component very much. All in all, it's still a decently solid read, but not something I'd happily go back to a few years down the line. Asimov's Foundation and Empire is another thing we're going to be reading in the class so I'm psyched for that. I have to read Foundation first though. | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
Paljas whats yr beef man?  edit: also this ![[image loading]](http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1393646533l/20575425.jpg) | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
On January 23 2015 07:44 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: No I haven't. I've read: Blindness Seeing Cain Death with Interruptions The Gospel According to Jesus Christ I want to read The Double and/or All the Names next. Don't really have Baltasar and Blimunda on the list right now. Forget about The Double and All The Names, Baltasar and Blimunda is where it's at. | ||
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
I was going to say the exact same thing. I love how the name is just superimposed on top of the image. Haven't read an awful lot. Rereading Stanislaw Lem's GOLEM XIV and read 5 pages from Derrida about "Apocalyptic Thought" or something. Derrida is such an asshole, I wonder how many of his books were just conceived as some sort of ironic joke. | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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farvacola
United States18819 Posts
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
On January 25 2015 06:39 dmnum wrote: I urge everyone to read Baltasar and Blimunda. It's like Saramago mixed Tolstoy, Murakami and García Marquez into one. The writing is beautiful, even more beautiful than in his other masterpieces like Blindness and The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, there is not a single metaphor that feels forced, the story is deeply human and moving and has a social conscience, and all the characters feel alive, especially the two main ones and Bartolomeu de Gusmão, who is by the way one of history's most interesting men(go read his wikipedia page). If I had to choose one book of Saramago to read for the rest my life, this would be it. No wonder it's his most celebrated work in the anglophone world. welp. >__> guess I know what I"m buying next also I finished Foundation. I really like it. I enjoyed the fact that it was a sci-fi epic but it was written from the perspective of a society that had little idea about any of the gadgets that they were working with. A lot of the real world parallels were also were super cool. @_@ | ||
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NNLBboy
United States67 Posts
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
Also finished Wilhem Meister, which was cool during the first 6 book, including the memoirs of the pietist aunt, but the last two books were really too much of Goethe's ideas on life and deus ex machina's for my liking. I understand why German have spent their time rewriting this, because it could have been so much better... Finally read The Three Stigmatas of Palmer Eldritch, and my mind is blown. Thanks guys, it's up there with Ubik. I have a problem with Barney's last packet of cigarettes btw, not sure why. Edit : Started Vom Kriege, it rules so far. Theory as what it should be. Also Clausewitz clearly read Kant <3 | ||
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LasTLiE
United States428 Posts
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