EPTi mainly read autobiographies and not on one atm
2011 - What are you Reading? - Page 29
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ThatGuy89
United Kingdom1968 Posts
i mainly read autobiographies and not on one atm | ||
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Xevious
United States2086 Posts
![[image loading]](http://images.wikia.com/sot/images/f/fe/Wizards_first_rule.jpg) Pretty good, boring at first but getting better. | ||
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Krohm
Canada1857 Posts
"3) The next book you plan on reading" ![[image loading]](http://www.jdmfilmreviews.com/images/choke-novel12.jpg) Ordered this a few days ago. Friend told me it was a pretty good book. Can't wait to read it. | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10352 Posts
On June 24 2011 03:55 Krohm wrote: + Show Spoiler + "3) The next book you plan on reading" Ordered this a few days ago. Friend told me it was a pretty good book. Can't wait to read it. Fucking fantastic book. Even better than fight club. I Just started reading Malazan Book Of The Fallen series. ![[image loading]](http://dynamic.images.indigo.ca/books/0553819577.jpg?lang=en&width=210&sale=5&quality=85) I like it. Was worried it was hard to follow but it really comes together near the end and im looking to the next book. | ||
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FinnGamer
Germany2426 Posts
![[image loading]](http://scilib.narod.ru/Physics/Feynman/SYJ/en/cover.jpg) This book is so good, I love Feynman | ||
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2BF5YC6llL.jpg) Currently reading: ![[image loading]](http://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/cvr9781442345911_9781442345911.jpg) Will read next: ![[image loading]](http://tlcbooktours.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/on-china.jpg) | ||
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AirbladeOrange
United States2571 Posts
On June 23 2011 16:48 CosmosXAM wrote: Just finished reading: ![[image loading]](http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/13700000/13701832.JPG) Currently Reading: ![[image loading]](http://www.boingboing.net/_wp-content_uploads_2010_07_The-Disappearing-Spoon.jpg) Reading Next: ![[image loading]](http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/13710000/13710182.JPG) Edit: I Like Science :D You would also probably like Stephen Hawking's The Grand Design. It was really good. Pick up Neil deGrasse Tyson stuff as well. | ||
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DJ_Amal
New Zealand62 Posts
Finished: ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/Otori_Nightingale.jpg) and: ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Otori_Grass.jpg) now reading: ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Otori_Moon.jpg) Next, I might read this: ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Otori_Heron.jpg) or this: ![[image loading]](http://www.randomhouse.com/images/dyn/cover/?source=9780375752506&height=450&.jpg) | ||
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Sultan
United States52 Posts
On June 24 2011 03:55 Krohm wrote: Not reading anything at the moment but... "3) The next book you plan on reading" + Show Spoiler + Ordered this a few days ago. Friend told me it was a pretty good book. Can't wait to read it. Oh snap, thats a book? There is a movie "Choke" that I saw a few months ago, which turned out to have a very weird and interesting plot....never knew it was based on a book. As for me: 1). Recently finished: The Romance of the 3 Kingdoms + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://chinatravelgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/3_Kingdoms.jpg) After seeing the movie "Red Cliff", my roommates got me into reading the entire book. It was very, very good. 2). Currently reading: 1001 Arabian Nights + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://cdn3.iofferphoto.com/img/item/165/392/699/01vM.jpg) I already knew few of the tales growing up and reading them in arabic children books, but I was interested in reading the "real" versions. The characters are wayy more interesting and dark, I must admit. | ||
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vahgar.r24
India465 Posts
Now getting Orwells 1984 as an audiobook..hope its good have heard a TON about it! any good sites for audio podcasts of books please? | ||
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Sultan
United States52 Posts
On June 24 2011 04:17 vahgar.r24 wrote: Want to get hooked on some new fiction..but other than Temple by Matthew Reilly have found rest of his books just too over the top. Now getting Orwells 1984 as an audiobook..hope its good have heard a TON about it! any good sites for audio podcasts of books please? 1984 is a superbly good book. I read it a few years back when the Iraq war was new and reported everywhere, and for weeks went around thinking every bit of news was just Big Brother trying to brain wash the masses in order to get rich (turns out, wasn't all that wrong) If you're into Orwellian social-commentary-esque books, then Animal Farm is another really, really good one | ||
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jon arbuckle
Canada443 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://www.adhousebooks.com/books/images/cvrs/BOOKS/AD.DUNCAN.CVR72.jpg) The Descartes in me is a little hesitant around the obvious animal-rights bend required to ride this book's premise (animals and humans can communicate with one another, with animals having fully developed human psyches) comfortably. Some obvious typos and the philosophical non-sequiturs felt hamhanded at the beginning, but the Montaigne in me was seduced by how wonderfully creative this book was. Tones shift from comedy to noir to diaries to children's books, full-page displays of artistic fortitude (that would be better served with a better paper quality + possibly colour, although this is Hines' first effort and at 400 pages the quality is still pretty generous); it's extremely affecting. The conclusion ties everything together; it's where the animals-communicating-with-humans-with-human-language-and-comprehending-and-communicating-abstract-philosophical-ideas thing pays off (if you're not especially sympathetic and/or a meat-eater). The last few pages are stellar. The book rewards paying for, although I don't know if it's still in print. If you're especially curious, you can read it here. Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, translated by Wallace Fowlie + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1406-1/%7BED28DE34-05A5-4F7C-806D-A90D20221A3C%7DImg100.jpg) This is apparently the version Jim Morrison trundled around with, the version that introduced Rimbaud to anglophones, albeit updated and revised, so I was shocked that I often found Fowlie to be a lazy-ass translator, at least where replicating the poem in English is concerned. Yeah, I know, translations are never perfect, poetry's always lost in translation, etc. etc., but Fowlie makes no attempt to convey Rimbaud's early preoccupation and subjugation of alexandrine forms. I assume Fowlie's not dumb, so maybe his translations were conceived less as standalone poems and more as reference points for the facing French, and when I read the French verse in my head I was impressed by its musicality, but Rimbaud's prose poems are denser, more difficult to parse. I'll probably try some more translations, Ashbery's especially (eventually). 2) The Pale King by David Foster Wallace + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://www.observer.com/files/2011/03/paleking.jpg) I don't think it's going to come together, and there are marked differences in the quality, energy, force, and flex of the prose from chapter to chapter. I'm enjoying it, but I adore DFW, and so yet I'm sad imagining what this could've been, etc. etc. etc. Some chapters are mind-blowing, though. The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i43.tower.com/images/mm111885105/pleasures-damned-poems-1951-1993-charles-bukowski-paperback-cover-art.jpg) Only read ten or so poems because I'm currently preoccupied with The Pale King. So far I'm skeptical (i.e. those ten poems were boilerplate to terrible). 3) Whatever I feel like reading when I look at my bookshelf of unread books. | ||
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Asrathiel
Australia377 Posts
On June 24 2011 04:01 FinnGamer wrote: This book is so good, I love Feynman Me too, I have a major science crush on him. Haven't read this one, loved the QED one <3 | ||
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Tegin
United States840 Posts
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Contagious
United States1319 Posts
![[image loading]](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhhlntOJmr1qaouh8o1_400.jpg) | ||
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GGitsJack
New Zealand426 Posts
Only because I have to, for english. | ||
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IzieBoy
United States865 Posts
On January 12 2011 07:29 GranDim wrote: + Show Spoiler + Just finished: ![[image loading]](http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n4/n23250.jpg) currently reading: ![[image loading]](http://www.dernerdery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/The-Pillars-of-Creation.jpg) Up Next in no particular order: ![[image loading]](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/e3/c4/95b5810ae7a0c2e3aa26c110.L._SL500_AA300_.jpg) A A Memory of Light ![[image loading]](http://aidanmoher.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/the-way-of-kings-by-brandon-sanderson.png) ![[image loading]](http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51sCIJ7uTlL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU15_.jpg){kind=icon} ![[image loading]](http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n33/n165175.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/WildCardsVol1.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://images.wikia.com/sot/images/a/a5/Naked_Empire.jpg) wow looks cool... i read kinda here and there when i got the time... just a little of a lot i guess | ||
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IzieBoy
United States865 Posts
On June 24 2011 04:01 Zergneedsfood wrote:+ Show Spoiler + Recently finished: Currently reading: Will read next: was the after shock book any good? | ||
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IzieBoy
United States865 Posts
On June 24 2011 04:13 Sultan wrote: + Show Spoiler + Oh snap, thats a book? There is a movie "Choke" that I saw a few months ago, which turned out to have a very weird and interesting plot....never knew it was based on a book. As for me: 1). Recently finished: The Romance of the 3 Kingdoms + Show Spoiler + After seeing the movie "Red Cliff", my roommates got me into reading the entire book. It was very, very good. 2). Currently reading: 1001 Arabian Nights + Show Spoiler + I already knew few of the tales growing up and reading them in arabic children books, but I was interested in reading the "real" versions. The characters are wayy more interesting and dark, I must admit. romance of 3 kingdoms is very good. i hope the translation was alright, because the original i heard was pure awesomeness. | ||
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Laerties
United States361 Posts
![[image loading]](http://myninjaway.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/gandhi-big.jpg?w=265&h=400) Best Book I've read in a long time. | ||
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