what book are you reading this time?

[-ff-]

Max Weber - the protestant work ethic and the spirit of capitalism
Franz Fannon - the Wretched of the Earth

Weber is dry and dull, Fannon is fucking hardcore.

[Goat]

^
what's ' the wretched of the earth about' ?

The Surgeons Mate - Patrick O'Brian

[*Kane]

here's what im reding as og now,''the dirt''a motley crue biography and the hells angels by hunter s. thompson.Both kick ass

[dre420]

I just finished reading Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five


Next one I'm going to read is Othello.

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by dre420

Next one I'm going to read is Othello.

my favourite shakespeare play ever :)

i'm reading:

Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics

and i'm also still reading The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

[yoko*]

I just finished reading "He She and It" by Marge Piercy. It was more of a required novel for my SA 250 class, but it was actually pretty good.

[wundergirl]

i forgot about this thread...

i'm reading life of pi right now, and it keeps getting progressively better. for anyone who hasn't read this book: go buy it!
(it's about a boy trapped on a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan(sp?) and a bengal tiger.) i don't know what i expected to happen in such a situation, but it's a very accurate portrayal.

[Goat]

The Witchdoctor
Christopher Stasheff
(mediocre fantasy)

[Gusto]

I'm reading the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown right now. It's a real page turner, definately keeps your attention, and is a pretty quick read. I'm sure the author blurred the lines between fact and fiction a great deal, but it's a fun read nonetheless.

[wundergirl]

Originally Posted by gusto

I'm reading the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown right now. It's a real page turner, definately keeps your attention, and is a pretty quick read. I'm sure the author blurred the lines between fact and fiction a great deal, but it's a fun read nonetheless.

i usually don't like alot of bestseller books (try though i might) but i really liked this book. don't you wonder what kind of prep goes into a book like that? pretty intense blurring of alot of lines....

yeh, anyway - good pick!


edit: i was gonna say, pick up life of pi. easy, light read, total page-turner. different subject, but i bet you'd like it too!

[charly]

finally just starting 'the celestine prophecy'

just finished fight club the other night. :)

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by wundergirl

i usually don't like alot of bestseller books (try though i might) but i really liked this book. don't you wonder what kind of prep goes into a book like that? pretty intense blurring of alot of lines....

yeh, anyway - good pick!


edit: i was gonna say, pick up life of pi. easy, light read, total page-turner. different subject, but i bet you'd like it too!

I thought the same thing, but was surprised by this one too. He must have put a lot of thought and research into it before starting. Though, I found a lot of the stuff he wrote readily available on Google.. heh. I've heard of Life of Pi, so I'll check that out next... was looking for another one to start. Makes the skytrain trip seem a little shorter.

[Hot Karl]

currently rereading robert jordan's wheel of time. on book six.

[crookedking]

^^i love the last chapter of that book.

about to start "pontius pilate" by paul l maier.

[Rayeine]

1984 by George Orwell..


..again..

[Goat]

slaughterhouse five
kurt vonnegut

[wundergirl]

Originally Posted by Goat

slaughterhouse five
kurt vonnegut

excellent book, it has crazy relevance to what is going on in the world today.



i'm reading hegemony or survival by noam chomsky.

[Goat]

just finished the celestine prophecy.
i'm not really sure what to make of this book. It felt like new age hippy spiritualism preaching in laymens terms. Key words being, preached at.. Interesting ideas, if a little far fetched.

"we will willingly decrease the world's population "

Who will willingly lay down their life to better a cause? The word martyr comes to mind something that can easily fall under his 'poor me control drama' views.

It's a book of fiction filled with good ideas and an alright story, presented in everday terms. But not a whole lot more then that.

now reading : A Falcon Flies - wilbur smith

[thebobman]

I'm trying to hack my way through Godel, Escher & Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. This book is a BEAST, but it's really, really damned cool. It basically talks about musical, mathmatical & visual loops.
Fiction Wise I just finished up Callahan's Key by Spider Robinson, if anybody hasn't read a callahan's book yet I HIGHLY recommend them.

[dapimpstress]

the kama sutra

[thumper]

Originally Posted by gusto

I'm reading the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown right now. It's a real page turner, definately keeps your attention, and is a pretty quick read. I'm sure the author blurred the lines between fact and fiction a great deal, but it's a fun read nonetheless.

That book is in line with the tradition of people trying to tell us how the world works under the guise of 'fiction' so it can bypass the watchful eyes of the censors and the ruling class. I count Orwell's 1984 among those.

Oh, and I'm reading Death of the West by Pat Buchanan. Very enlightening.

[Goat]

Franz Fannon - the Wretched of the Earth

The copy i'm reading has a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre; Extremely hardcore.
Thumper, you should read this book.

[krisamata]

right now: confessions of a shopaholic

[PwInCeSs]

second time around
Mary Higgins Clark

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by wundergirl

i was gonna say, pick up life of pi. easy, light read, total
page-turner. different subject, but i bet you'd like it too!

I just finished this one. Good book, thanks for the reccomendation.