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Post by plvvvvvvn on Feb 15, 2011 16:20:10 GMT -5
I love Dostoevsky too, but I'm taking a small break after reading The Idiot. So much drama. If you like Russian shorts though you might like Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time.
Right now I'm reading Deadeye Dick by Vonnegut.
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Post by manticoreisthebastard on Feb 15, 2011 17:27:12 GMT -5
I try to read Kafka, Nietzsche and Mann exclusively in German, however the former two's use of semantic pluralism makes translation rather difficult. They both also like to prove that the German language can and will make sentences as long as possible.
That Calculus video is mind melting! I felt ashamed that was all I learned in a year-long high school course.
I'll definitely have to check out Lermontov and I want to give Vonnegut some more attention sometime soon as well, but the sheer volume of his work is pretty discouraging.
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Post by swilliam on Feb 15, 2011 18:27:11 GMT -5
I love Dostoevsky too, but I'm taking a small break after reading The Idiot. So much drama. If you like Russian shorts though you might like Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time. Right now I'm reading Deadeye Dick by Vonnegut. I hate you, Paul.
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Post by thelampincident on Feb 15, 2011 19:35:06 GMT -5
I've been trying to go to the library lately and read some stuff just to chill out (like today for example), but basically I get through the first 40 pages of a book and then I lose interest every time. Everything just goes in one ear and out the other. For some reason, books just don't engage me and I feel dumb as shit for admitting that.
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Post by manticoreisthebastard on Feb 15, 2011 19:56:00 GMT -5
I've been trying to go to the library lately and read some stuff just to chill out (like today for example), but basically I get through the first 40 pages of a book and then I lose interest every time. Everything just goes in one ear and out the other. For some reason, books just don't engage me and I feel dumb as shit for admitting that. This is precisely why short stories rule!
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Post by Torch the Mall on Feb 15, 2011 20:57:46 GMT -5
I don't think I can finish Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. I put this off for so long and I wanted to get into his material, but these characters were highfalutin hippies and the dialog was crap (like most sci-fi books, but this was supposed to be a step up from those). The ending sounds cool and all, but I might just skip straight to that because the "We grok God" sex scene was just too stupid.
I'll try The Moon is a Harsh Mistress before I write his novels off entirely.
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Post by Torch the Mall on Feb 15, 2011 20:59:10 GMT -5
I've been trying to go to the library lately and read some stuff just to chill out (like today for example), but basically I get through the first 40 pages of a book and then I lose interest every time. Everything just goes in one ear and out the other. For some reason, books just don't engage me and I feel dumb as shit for admitting that. It's better than forcing yourself to read out of pretension only to totally fail at grasping key concepts or being able to embrace different writing styles. Trust me. There aren't a lot of people who talk about books for important or engaging reasons...
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Post by plvvvvvvn on Feb 16, 2011 11:22:39 GMT -5
Haha why? I'll definitely have to check out Lermontov and I want to give Vonnegut some more attention sometime soon as well, but the sheer volume of his work is pretty discouraging. I would say start by reading Harrison Bergeron, it's a short story of his. You'd probably like it too Will, it's about a dystopian world. You can find the whole text online if you go to Google. From there I would read Slaughterhouse Five. Yeah, it's what everyone has read by him, but I don't care, it's fucking good. The best part about any of his novels though is that they're really accessible and fun to read.
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Post by yeastydeath on Feb 16, 2011 13:24:31 GMT -5
The only Vonnegut I've read is Breakfast of Champions. I enjoyed the illustrations. "A beaver is an animal that looks like this. The beavers they were talking about, looked like this."
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Post by swilliam on Feb 16, 2011 14:52:40 GMT -5
I really liked dead eye dick. Paul I hate your because of your taste in literature.
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Post by ogx on Feb 16, 2011 17:32:53 GMT -5
Peter F. Hamilton - The Naked God, Book Three Of The Night's Dawn Trilogy
Epic scifi, emphasis on the first word. This is again something like 1300 pages, and now they even switched to a lot smaller font than in the first two books, hah, so i quess it would have been something close to 2000. Not the best stuff i've read but mostly really entertaining, the last few hundred pages of the last book were excellent so i hope this concludes the trilogy well.
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Post by thelampincident on Jun 11, 2011 11:44:17 GMT -5
Been reading In The Land of White Death lately. The non-fiction tale of a group of Russian explorers getting marooned in icy waters above Siberia on their ship and abandoning it to try and make it back to land about 100 years ago. Good stuff.
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Post by hipsterchainsaw on Jun 11, 2011 16:54:39 GMT -5
The TLAL Records "board"
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Post by killacop on Jun 11, 2011 18:42:46 GMT -5
just finished rereading Nina by Blag Dahlia
and started another book about cannibal serial killers i think its the 4th or 5th one i've read
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Post by manticoreisthebastard on Jun 12, 2011 23:21:14 GMT -5
Lolita by Nabokov
I'm finding it difficult and almost nauseating to get through. I thoroughly enjoy Nabokov but this is discomforting to say the least, especially with the way he writes.
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Post by yeastydeath on Jun 12, 2011 23:27:47 GMT -5
Struggling through Realm of Algebra by Isaac Asimov and enjoying reading Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard. Despite me not being religious, it poses some interesting questions. I think the last book I actually finished was Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain.
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Post by swilliam on Jun 13, 2011 5:06:19 GMT -5
I read Foundation and Empire by Asimov on vacation.
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Post by ogx on Jun 16, 2011 16:33:34 GMT -5
Peter F. Hamilton - The Naked God, Book Three Of The Night's Dawn Trilogy Epic scifi, emphasis on the first word. This is again something like 1300 pages, and now they even switched to a lot smaller font than in the first two books, hah, so i quess it would have been something close to 2000. Not the best stuff i've read but mostly really entertaining, the last few hundred pages of the last book were excellent so i hope this concludes the trilogy well. Don't read this, after really stupid ending i was so angry for spending so long to read this trilogy. Now: Alaistar Reynolds - House Of Suns Yep, more epic scifi. At least this is really good.
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Post by thelampincident on Jun 16, 2011 16:53:30 GMT -5
I just started reading a biography about Roger Williams. I have a feeling it's gonna be boring before it gets interesting.
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Post by petetheripper on Jun 20, 2011 16:41:41 GMT -5
A bunch of Scott Adams books
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Post by pep on Jun 20, 2011 22:37:28 GMT -5
Reading a bunch of old Will Eisner stuff and just started re-reading my Love and Rockets comics.
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Post by ogx on Jun 23, 2011 15:35:35 GMT -5
I read Foundation and Empire by Asimov on vacation. Me and the guitarist of DT80k planned reading all these in order last autumn, but we didn't have time then. Maybe at some point this year. Have you read Dune, btw?
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Post by swilliam on Jun 23, 2011 17:52:53 GMT -5
haven't read Dune yet, but hated the movie. Some day I will do a series of sci-fi concept albums.
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Post by ogx on Jun 23, 2011 17:56:55 GMT -5
The movie sucks, i think you might like the books though. Thumbs up for that idea!
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Post by manticoreisthebastard on Jun 23, 2011 18:05:59 GMT -5
Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard. This is great! Either/Or and Repetition are both great as well, both Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky are huge steps away from traditional Christian or theistic thought.
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