The Mandatory "What book are you reading now?" thread

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Nostromo by Joseph Conrad.

God, I love you, Conrad. Bum me.
 
dfc05 said:
Thoughts on the book? I'm considering buying it for one of my friends who liked the movie a lot, but haven't read it myself yet. Might get it for him... and then borrow it.....


I've just read most of The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil. It was pretty good, but I stopped in the part where he started making predictions for the future. I dunno why, but that part just didn't seem very interesting.

Now I'm reading Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing (second in the Border Trilogy, and I've already read All the Pretty Horses). I just wish I had more time to read during school. I always go to the library and see 5 or 6 books I want to read, but I know I probably don't have enough time. :( Next on my list are Necronomicon (Neal Stephenson), Contact (Carl Sagan), and All Tomorrow's Parties (William Gibson).
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My thoughts on No Country for Old Men: Great book, I like the Coen Brothers' film adaptation better though. I liked The Road more as a book. The Remains of the Day is a startlingly good book though and Contact is a good fast read. All Tomorrow's Parties is one of my favorite Gibson novels, I'd say read that one first ;D
Jintor said:
I'm gonna go grab Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on Monday.
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Fantastic novel, fantastic movie.

I'm reading Three Hows and Whys of the Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes. Next up is Russia's Sputnik Generation by Donald Raleigh (who's my Russian History professor, lol), and then I've borrowed House of Leaves from one of my friends and I'm really looking forward to getting into that.
 
I hate reading, but I just finished the Biography of J.R.R. Tolkien. Pretty good stuff, learned some new things about him that I never knew.
 
I fail to understand how anyone could hate reading. What is there to hate about it? Sounds like projected animosity about school or something.
 
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Currently reading R. Scott Bakker's The Warrior Prophet. It's pretty good so far, I like how he combines multiple point of view characters with only a few able to see the enemy spies. It creates some tension rather well because you just want the 'hero' of the book to arrive in every chapter. That said, I'm not sure right now who the 'hero' is, if there is one. The plot is fairly deep.
The series reminds me allot of the Malazan series by Steven Erikson in scope and style of writing. Enjoying it quite allot.
 
I'm re-reading the Far Pavillions by M.M.Kaye for a related text for English.
 
Ennui said:
I fail to understand how anyone could hate reading. What is there to hate about it? Sounds like projected animosity about school or something.
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That sounds like same emotion I get when I think about people constantly reading books. I don't necessarily hate reading, I've just never quote-unquote enjoyed reading. The occasional book I'll pick up is good, but I never find myself thinking, "Damn, I need a book." There's just no draw there.
 
Qonfused said:
That sounds like same emotion I get when I think about people constantly reading books. I don't necessarily hate reading, I've just never quote-unquote enjoyed reading. The occasional book I'll pick up is good, but I never find myself thinking, "Damn, I need a book." There's just no draw there.
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Did you just "quote unquote" nothing? Damn it, now you've given me a headache.
 
Qonfused said:
That sounds like same emotion I get when I think about people constantly reading books. I don't necessarily hate reading, I've just never quote-unquote enjoyed reading. The occasional book I'll pick up is good, but I never find myself thinking, "Damn, I need a book." There's just no draw there.
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Hmm, well I don't mean in a "SHIT I NEEDS TA REEEEEAAD" sense. I love reading but I still don't do it very often, mostly due to time but also because it's sort of a tedious process :p

Reading now: Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan, Locke - A Second Treatise on Civil Government (both for class, could you guess?)
 
The Library Card- Jerry Spinelli

Spinelli is probably my favorite author ever, beating Palahniuk pretty bad. He describes feelings well. He also manages to make me understand situations and settings that I've never been a part of, but I can still relate and actually know what is going on through people's heads, what I would be feelign if I were there, etc. His books are for middle schoolers or thereabouts, though.

This book is four short stories about delinquents and other people who have their lives changed by library cards. I started reading a couple hours ago, I'll be done with it soon.
 
The Far Pavilions by Kaye. It's very interesting but... eh, I dunno. I've read it before, I think.
 
I love reading, but there's just so many distractions nowadays. Anyway, I'm planning on starting Paulo Coelho's The Pilgrimage soon. I liked two of his other books.
 
Making Money by Terry Pratchett.

I've been too tired to actually get more than 5 pages done a night, so it's a little slow going at the moment but I'm sure it'll pick up as always.
 
Now:

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
 
I've been reading the same book for ages. IT'S HUGE!

A Cruel Wind: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire - Glen Cook
 
Long Way Down - Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman (from the series that was on T.V.)
 
Blitzkrieg Legende

Extremely interesting read, and also supports the Hitler-is-a-retarded-fag theory.
 
Still reading Hawaii, by James A. Michener. Frickin' long book. Only about 80 more pages to go. I'll be sad when it's over.
 
A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
Got so many recommendations from this site I thought I'd check it out.
 
Just re-finished Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams. I remember why he's such a great author now.
 
Okay, right now:

Snake Oil (and other preoccupations) by John Diamond - Feath gave it to me as a present.
The Sacred Wood by TS Eliot. Criticism background for an essay.
Civilisation and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud - very nice.
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf is just great, and I've just finished reading it.
Women In Love by DH Lawrence - not started but need to read it within a couple of weeks, to combine for a big essay with Woolf and Freud on the merits of civilisation.
 
You go off and read somebody a bit more serious for a while, and/or study English 4 unit.

Then you read Adams and remember that writing is about being entertaining.

If I have to find any more ****ing themes in The Tempest I'm going to ****ing scream.
 
SCHOOL: sucking the joy out of everything since forever!
 
Jintor said:
You go off and read somebody a bit more serious for a while, and/or study English 4 unit.

Then you read Adams and remember that writing is about being entertaining.

If I have to find any more ****ing themes in The Tempest I'm going to ****ing scream.
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Oh yeah. Bastards will only teach us about songs and poems that you have to actually decypher because it's written in a quaint form of our language that hasn't been used over a hundred and fifty years, at the least.

And the "modern poems", Ugh.


Thank god thatat least the novels they teach are interesting and at least vaguely entertaining.
 
Pfft. Bunch of anti-intellectuals. I bet if you had a revolution you'd persecute all the riters.
 
Sulkdodds said:
Pfft. Bunch of anti-intellectuals. I bet if you had a revolution you'd persecute all the riters.
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Yes, we do indeed hate all manner of sorcerors and alchemists here in hl2.net.
 
Finished 1984 and The lord of the Flies a few days ago. Right now I'm reading The Complete Idiot's guide to Understanding Buddhism and How to see yourself as you really are, by the Dalai Lama and re-reading Taiko, by Yoshikawa Eiji.

I'm thinking of taking Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics out of the bookshelf, I'm getting rusty.
 
The Dalai Lama is one enlightened mother****er. I love reading his writings and teachings, he's an amazing individual.

Just finished:
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

Currently reading:
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

On deck:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Oblivion by David Foster Wallace
Cannabis: A History by Martin Booth
 
Timeline by Micheal Crichton

I gotta start reading something by someone else
 
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