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Post by yeastydeath on Nov 16, 2010 15:49:55 GMT -5
I don't recall if we've had one of these threads, a search came up with nothing, so I digress.
I'm in the middle of way too many books, but I'm actively reading The Temporary Autonomous Zone and Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine. The second one is a culinary mindfuck.
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Post by swilliam on Nov 16, 2010 15:52:16 GMT -5
Foundation- Isaac Asimov on audiobook on the way to work Reading the Rocks- Marcia Bjornerud- a gift from my friend Grzesiek and another book that I was in the middle of but it's been in the trunk of my car for 2 months, so I guess I'll get back to that one later.
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Post by yeastydeath on Nov 16, 2010 16:00:42 GMT -5
Audio books for the car is a great idea, I don't know why I never thought of that.
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Post by swilliam on Nov 16, 2010 16:15:38 GMT -5
I didn't think about it until recently either. the only problem occurs when i want to stop in the middle of a disc to listen to something else.
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Post by ToLiveALie on Nov 16, 2010 16:24:30 GMT -5
Re"reading" Crime and Punishment on audiobook and almost done with Perfume: The Story of a Murderer... so much easier than the other books I had half read and got bored of.
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Post by absurdexposition on Nov 16, 2010 16:30:11 GMT -5
Last book I finished was "No Country For Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy. Scores better than the film. I really, really like McCarthy's style of writing. "The Road" was good, too.
Slowly trudging through "Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult" by Peter Levenda. It's so fucking dry.
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Post by killacop on Nov 16, 2010 16:47:31 GMT -5
Slowly trudging through "Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult" by Peter Levenda. It's so fucking dry. yeah ive been trying for two years its rough over the weekend i read love is a dog from hell by bukowski and working on the first five by henry rollins
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Post by absurdexposition on Nov 16, 2010 17:07:16 GMT -5
Slowly trudging through "Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult" by Peter Levenda. It's so fucking dry. yeah ive been trying for two years its rough yeah, it started out really good, then it's just information overload.
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Post by killacop on Nov 16, 2010 17:20:36 GMT -5
yeah ive been trying for two years its rough yeah, it started out really good, then it's just information overload. yeah your right and the way its written is just kindof boring almost like you can almost tell its written by a monotone 80 year old professor
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Post by absurdexposition on Nov 16, 2010 17:26:40 GMT -5
definitely. it would be okay if he kept it all linear, but he talks about someone or some group, and then someone comes along that associated with that, so he talks about them for 3 pages, then another group, and finally goes back to the first group he was talking about and by that time you've forgotten completely.
do you know of any books on a similar topic that might be easier to get through?
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Post by killacop on Nov 16, 2010 17:36:28 GMT -5
definitely. it would be okay if he kept it all linear, but he talks about someone or some group, and then someone comes along that associated with that, so he talks about them for 3 pages, then another group, and finally goes back to the first group he was talking about and by that time you've forgotten completely. do you know of any books on a similar topic that might be easier to get through? there are a few out there havent read any though there was a pretty cool documentary on the history channel about it not too long ago
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Post by olegrinder on Nov 16, 2010 17:41:29 GMT -5
I'm in the middle of Starship (known as Fast Forward now, I believe) by Brian Aldiss. One of the grand-daddies of 'intergenerational starship travel gone awry' Science Fiction. Great book, dark and funny at the same time.
I just finished a medium Lee Child novel - Worth Dying For, a thriller in his Jack Reacher books. The character is getting a little worn... And the latest 'change' novel by SM Stirling. It was very 'bridge to the next ungodly long trilogy'. I'm kinda done with reading both of those authors.
I've got a couple books I started, then stopped when I found that cheap copy of Starship; Border Snakes by Peter Brandvold (a series western), and Devil's Rose by Brom (kinda psychotronic art book/supernatural adventure-horror novel?).
My 'analog car book' is Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. Kinda noir-cyberpunk - a hardboiled detective type investigating a murder in far future Earth. I've read it before, but I get through a few pages here and there and it's killer second read, much better than my lame description.
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Post by thelampincident on Nov 16, 2010 19:31:22 GMT -5
What the fuck is a book?
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Post by absurdexposition on Nov 16, 2010 19:33:22 GMT -5
definitely. it would be okay if he kept it all linear, but he talks about someone or some group, and then someone comes along that associated with that, so he talks about them for 3 pages, then another group, and finally goes back to the first group he was talking about and by that time you've forgotten completely. do you know of any books on a similar topic that might be easier to get through? there are a few out there havent read any though there was a pretty cool documentary on the history channel about it not too long ago I saw the documentary, Levenda just quoted segments of his book word-for-word, haha.
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Post by olegrinder on Nov 16, 2010 19:59:42 GMT -5
It's like a zine, only thick enough to crack someone good with... Like a phonebook, only with stories instead of names and numbers... It's one of the ways people found out about stuff before the interwebz. And were entertained before moving pictures!
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Post by thelampincident on Nov 16, 2010 22:23:37 GMT -5
I just felt my balls cramp up into raisin sized pellets, as if I just went for a refreshing ocean swim.
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Post by olegrinder on Nov 16, 2010 22:29:45 GMT -5
I just felt my balls cramp up into raisin sized pellets, as if I just went for a refreshing ocean swim. That's because you were reading. And reading is the original Freshmaker! This post sponsored by Mentos.
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Post by absurdexposition on Nov 16, 2010 22:31:35 GMT -5
Did you just watch the Mentos Seinfeld!?!?
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Post by olegrinder on Nov 16, 2010 23:40:20 GMT -5
No, just doing my best to work the corporate sponsorship joke angle before it gets old. Crap, look what time it is... But I haven't gotten to "Reading is FundeMentos yet"!
Yes, books. Shallow and pendantic. Indeed.
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Post by monollectif on Nov 17, 2010 22:24:53 GMT -5
Re"reading" Crime and Punishment on audiobook and almost done with Perfume: The Story of a Murderer... so much easier than the other books I had half read and got bored of. ive read a lotta books and the perfume is still one of my favourite books. Im currently reading El verdadero Pablo: sangre, traiciĆ³n y muerte by Astrid Legarda
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Post by yeastydeath on Nov 18, 2010 13:48:31 GMT -5
there are a few out there havent read any though there was a pretty cool documentary on the history channel about it not too long ago I saw the documentary, Levenda just quoted segments of his book word-for-word, haha. My buddy has one called The Spear of Destiny, about Hitler's quest for the spear that pierced Christ. Looked fairly interesting.
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Post by trappedinside on Nov 18, 2010 18:34:37 GMT -5
Just finished Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut which ruled, before that was At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft which I had a little trouble getting into until about halfway through (his writing style definitely takes some getting used to) but ultimately ended up being pretty down with and The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick which I found had some promising bits but didn't really go anywhere with them and was overall pretty underwhelming. Just been getting back into reading lately after probably a few years of not really picking up any books, nothing on the go at present so I'm gonna have to go borrow something from a friend.
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Post by olegrinder on Nov 18, 2010 18:45:04 GMT -5
...before that was At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft which I had a little trouble getting into until about halfway through (his writing style definitely takes some getting used to) but ultimately ended up being pretty down... I have the same trouble reading Lovecraft. Worth struggling through, but easier to read something else.
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Post by yeastydeath on Nov 19, 2010 2:18:11 GMT -5
I need to get my copy of The Man In The High Castle back from this shitbag friend of mine.
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Post by douchebag[sXe] on Nov 21, 2010 5:29:54 GMT -5
A bunch of humanist literature is on the plate, and some french translated stuff.
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