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Jul 15, 2011 0:50:03 GMT -5
Post by elchevalier on Jul 15, 2011 0:50:03 GMT -5
Soooo, after not being in the mood to read anything in a long time i read Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in around 4-5 days. Good, but maybe i was thinking a bit too much of Apocalyse Now when reading it. Conrad gets a a lot into describing things, lots of things, and it made me miss the track of the main narrative from time to time. No big deal, but it was something that kept the book from being a lot better. That and i think Kurtz descend to madness could have been described better, the story spends more time building up to his encounter than actually developing said encounter with the protagonist.
Now, i should go and finish The Divine Comedy once and for all.
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Jul 15, 2011 10:52:15 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Jul 15, 2011 10:52:15 GMT -5
I've read The Divine Comedy about a dozen times, and I love it every time. These days, though, most of my reading is decidedly non-fiction. I can't recall the last time I read fiction (probably one of the Repairman Jack novels a couple of years ago) and I read 4-5 books a month, on average. Right now I'm reading: * Signature in the Cell (reading this a second time) Next up is probably this.
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Jul 15, 2011 11:31:46 GMT -5
Post by elchevalier on Jul 15, 2011 11:31:46 GMT -5
The last non-fiction book i read was a compilation of interviews to Woody Allen. Now, inb4 ECM going on a frenzy for what he did to Mia Farrow (yes, it was disgusting, we know it) the questions are 100% focused on his movies. Woody stopped making good movies like 10 years ago anyway, but it was still an interesting read. The guy truy has a 100% old timey mentality regarding...everything.
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Jul 15, 2011 13:15:54 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Jul 15, 2011 13:15:54 GMT -5
10 years ago? Isn't it more like 20??
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Jul 15, 2011 14:27:32 GMT -5
Post by elchevalier on Jul 15, 2011 14:27:32 GMT -5
Make that 13 years, Deconstructing Harry is pretty good. My kind of mean, cinic, acid comedy.
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Jul 20, 2011 11:08:35 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Jul 20, 2011 11:08:35 GMT -5
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Jul 20, 2011 12:16:09 GMT -5
Post by feilong80 on Jul 20, 2011 12:16:09 GMT -5
Nice, didn't know that was the same Art Devany that blogs in the paleo health scene until I looked it up! Smart guy.
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Jul 26, 2011 18:17:25 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Jul 26, 2011 18:17:25 GMT -5
I took a detour and whipped through Bare-Faced Messiah, a rather unflattering biography of L. Ron Hubbard, aka the creator of Scientology.
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Jul 26, 2011 18:47:07 GMT -5
Post by elchevalier on Jul 26, 2011 18:47:07 GMT -5
HAIL LORD XENU!
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Jul 28, 2011 18:54:18 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Jul 28, 2011 18:54:18 GMT -5
Done w/ Draculas (making an exception to my general no fiction rule, because F. Paul Wilson was a co-author). Entertaining if a little short and the ending, well...I won't spoil it since some other people might actually read it. Also done w/ Hollywood Economics. This was pretty crazy as I expected it to be a light and breezy read but, in actuality, it was a collection of peer-reviewed papers submitted to economics journals! I learned a lot but it was anything but breezy!
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Jul 30, 2011 7:09:36 GMT -5
Post by feilong80 on Jul 30, 2011 7:09:36 GMT -5
Just started The Roots of Obama's Rage by Dinesh D'Souza. It isn't nearly as polemical as the title sounds. It attempts to link Obama's policies with anti-colonialism instead of socialism.
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Aug 1, 2011 21:05:14 GMT -5
Post by Justin on Aug 1, 2011 21:05:14 GMT -5
I just finished Little Brother. The story revolves around a 17 year old kid who is arrested after DHS targets him as a "threat" following an attack on San Fran from the ooga boogas of the desert land. The book was recommended by a security professor of mine not for the story or the message behind the book, but for how descriptive (and correct I might add) the technological explanations were throughout the novel. For example, there is a fantastic explanation on key exchange cryptography as well as some theoretical descriptions for sending video across DNS - I totally ate this up, naturally. There are some political overtones and it was a little on the hipster side philosophically (it is a book about a SanFran native, so duh?), but well worth the 2 days spent in my lazy boy. Oh, there is this part where someone gets the water-boarding done to him..... turned me away from h2O for the evening. I'm going back to The World is Flat once again and maybe something by Malcolm Gladwell, as well as the usual text book standard fare. Also, someone should edit the opening post in this thread so that the Reading Rainbow theme song is present. It just seems, I don't know, fitting.
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Aug 1, 2011 21:13:48 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Aug 1, 2011 21:13:48 GMT -5
There's only two colors in that rainbow: me and you Everyone else here is borderline illiterate.
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Aug 1, 2011 21:17:23 GMT -5
Post by Justin on Aug 1, 2011 21:17:23 GMT -5
You get to be purple. I'll be blue ;D
Actually, I was going to ask you if you had any recommendations.
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Aug 1, 2011 21:28:05 GMT -5
Post by elchevalier on Aug 1, 2011 21:28:05 GMT -5
I'm with Count of Montecristo right now, again, one of those books i left halfway and never came back...until now.
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