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On February 07 2019 17:40 Jockmcplop wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2019 14:51 Starlightsun wrote:![[image loading]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-MOmk8r-L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg) This book is super interesting. Jung's name popped up in a couple podcasts I listened to so I decided to jump in. Wish I'd read his stuff sooner. I have a few of his myself. He was super smart but also not a good writer. Some of it is just a nightmare to read. I remember being stuck on one chapter for about 3-4 months because I just couldn't get what he was trying to explain.
Yeah can't say I understand all of it, but the parts I do are full of very striking and original ideas. I guess this is probably one of his more accessible works since it's a series of lectures he gave.
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On January 16 2019 03:50 Flicky wrote:
Has anyone read Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue? Sounds intriguing but have only heard of it from someone who hasn't read it yet.
I've read Sudden Death and liked it enough to wholeheartedly recommend it.
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I recently finished Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and I must say it's probably his weakest yet (I have read them all excluding the latest one) although I felt happy and proud that it was placed partly to my home country 
I have high hopes for Killing Commendatore though, the plot seems intriguing.
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2019 To Be Read List (hopefully)
Another Roadside Attraction – Tom Robbins
The Brothers Karamazov -Dostoevsky
Dubliners-James Joyce
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Cantebury Tales -Geoffrey Chaucer
Fearful Symmetry - Frye
William Blake (Collected poems)
Leaves of Grass -Walt Whitman
Wallace Stevens (collected poems)
The Bible
Leonard Cohen – Stranger Music
Lorca (Collected poems)
Irving Layton (collected poems)
Emily Dickinson (collected poems)
Frank O'Hara (collected poems)
Amy Clampitt (collected poems)
Alexander Pope (The Rape of the Lock)
I'm interested in writing my own poetry so I want to know what other voices have said to be aware if I'm creating pastiche.
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On February 04 2019 20:31 Flicky wrote:
Recent ones:
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges. It's really good, really short, everyone should probably read it. At least read The Library of Babel and Funes the Memorious.
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Had this highly recommended, but didn't really care for it. There's a section outlaying the picnic comparison which is cool, but the rest isn't very interesting or well written.
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. This is also really good. Would've been great to read this when I was younger. Everyone loves Library of Babel but personally Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is probably my favorite Borges across all his short story collections. Death and Compass was also really good.
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I read No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai. Apparantly it is very popular in Japan, but it was recommended to me by a friend in english. It is the most peculiar book I've ever read. Though it's similar to Crime and Punishment in that it is a tragic story of an otherwise good man, it takes it in a very different direction.
Also recently read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I recommend these very much. I'm not sure how useful Holmes' deductive techniques will be to someone who reads these books, but it certainly feels like I've learned something in addition to having fun trying to figure out the puzzles (and invariably failing despite it being a fair mystery usually).
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I didn't realize we had a book thread. I am now back to reading again after having read almost nothing since 2013 (life happened is the short answer). Gonna post mostly fantasy books, but since I am a slow reader it might be a while before I post again.
Just finished: The Many Adventures of Peter and Fi Vol.1 by Kelvyn Fernandes
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(I received a free copy of this book from the author by participating in his Reddit Fantasy Writer of the Day thread.)
Overall it was a fun adventure book. I don't want to say too much, but the book follows Peter and Fi who are both on an adventure together for their own gain. I really enjoyed the world building in this book. Instead of having everything thrown at you at once, you get to gradually explore the world the book takes place in.
Starting next: The Yoga of Strength by Andrew Marc Rowe
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(I won an ARC of this book in a giveaway that took place on the Fantasy subreddit. The book releases April 19th)
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I recently started to read Plato's dialogues on Socrates. Before it I read Xenophon's Memorabilia and even before that I read Plato's Republic.
And I read a few pages daily from The Philippics, a series speeches of Marcus Tullius Cicero against Marcus Antonius but it is not a book in itself so I do not know if it's relevant. Anyway, it's beyond impressive how Cicero expressed himself, I am in complete awe of his ability. Small wonder he is considered to be the most eloquent speaker in history.
Cheers!
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Brought Arcanum Unbounded (which has alot of novellas that are Cosmere related .. it is a good deal for one book).
Read(which was one of the novellas of arcanun unbounded):
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I did expect it to be quite good given that it is his Hugo award winning story after all but what i didn't expect was that it completely lacked the usual "sanderson avalanche" or the explosion of the culmination of the detail setups for the plot near the end of the book which is actually how all of his books work.
It has the least sanderson-ish quality for a sanderson book.
Still pretty good in a different way
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On February 07 2019 14:51 Starlightsun wrote:This book is super interesting. Jung's name popped up in a couple podcasts I listened to so I decided to jump in. Wish I'd read his stuff sooner.
If you like a psychotherapist talking about the philosophical roots of their ideas i recommend Nathaniel Branden's "Judgement Day". He revised it in 1999. I recommend the 1999 version of the book.
I think the climactic line from the book is : "every day is judgement day and your ego is the judge"
I find it fascinating to examine the evolution in thinking behind baseball.
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For all of his #s and statistical analysis, Bill James, has no clue a wave of dominicans is about to hit the majors and change the way every GM and Prez of B-Ball Ops scouts for talent.
James is able to better predict what will happen a year in the future compared to previous statistical analysts. This book represents a small incremental step forward in statistics and measurements of baseball players. The way it is presented in the movie and book "Moneyball" is that Bill James' thinking is a giant quantum leap forward. And... its not. Patient hitters have always been way more valued than aggressive hitters.
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just an immense pleasure to read. history, life, love and other oddities of and about historically important people - in letters. Stalin to his daughter, Augustus to Caesar, Anton Chekhov to his publisher...
I very much remember a gripping and graphic one by an English aristocratic woman who lived around 1800, who was being operated on without anesthesia - in France.
that woman's name? Fanny Burney, one of the very few best selling female novelists when "dabbling in such things was disreputable"
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There is a new book exchange box roughly like this near the playground where we go with the kids. I found this there
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This was rather surprising since there are very little English books in that box, so I took it and started reading. I stared reading without any expectations whatsoever, but so far it is fantastic. I would never have guessed that there are some many interesting aspects about the life of a butler.
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Recently Read:(yes i am aware these are lit that kids read but i only encountered them now)
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Fairly straightforward scifi but pretty good at execution i guess. It was a good read (not my favorite philosophical scifi but good enough)
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I read alot of opinions about this about how it was good. Well it was good even tho it was kinda simplistic(not complicated at all) and most characters are nice but they did do good with a girl pretending to be a boy so that she can become a knight aspect that the book advertised.
Certainly targeted for teens/kids tho
This is basically Mulan but sort-off old-school fantasy twist with actually reasonable cast (idk there was a lack of petty character which i am not used to).
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This was some good swashbuckling fun. Takes place in the 1600's, an Irish doctor is falsely accused of taking part in a rebellion, gets sold into slavery in Barbados, then escapes to become a pirate captain roving the Caribbean.
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About halfway through this. The story is quite interesting but the style takes some adjusting to. Single sentences running more than half page and inconsistent, illogical punctuation use. It's exciting though, jumping right into a life or death drama set against a rich historical back drop. It's a pretty short book too which is a plus.
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This year so far:
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Didin't like them one bit. They aged badly. The only value they have right now is historical, read them if You want to see how sci-fi looked back then and what was the state of writers/readers minds of that age. I saw nothing else of value there.
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Great book with slow start. One i can certainly recmomend, it defends itself prety well even on science part (sans the network-web thing) despite being 20 years old. Really insightful on some society related topics.
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Weird as all Dark Tower books. Nothing interesting in terms of story, the strenght lie in the world building and mystery. You read it and You want to know "what the fuck is it about?", "How the fuck this world function?" i guess chances are i dont get my answer at the end of the saga. Mystery based stories often fall short at the end. Still i have hopes and will try to read on. Its worth mention there is yearly LARP event in Poland inspired by this book.
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Yeah I don't care for Ray Bradbury either... surprised you got through three of his books.
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I had a bit of a dystopian dip earlier this year, when I made my list for 2019. I went through Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1984 by George Orwell, A Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick before I had to take a break for work taking more time. Looking forward to getting back to it during the summer. On the 2019 list I planned are the following works:
Dayworld - Philip José Farmer
Red Rising - Pierce Brown
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula Le Guin
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore&David Lloyd
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Circle - Dave Eggers
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
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On May 23 2019 02:15 Starlightsun wrote:
Yeah I don't care for Ray Bradbury either... surprised you got through three of his books.
They were recently published in Poland toghter in one tome so once i bought it I had it all and once i started reading I:1)Hopeed it will get better 2)Pushed myself to finish.
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