chenGOD Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Now reading: textbooks for school :( I really enjoyed about 90% of my readings for uni. The other 10% were just so-so. In fact I'm currently re-reading my micro-economics textbook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny O Flannagin Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Now reading: textbooks for school :( I really enjoyed about 90% of my readings for uni. The other 10% were just so-so. In fact I'm currently re-reading my micro-economics textbook. Now reading: textbooks for school :( Same here... Currently reading Patterson and Hennesssy's "Computar Organization and Design" at sanic speed, exam's in 2 weeks Now reading: textbooks for school :( lel I'm reading alsos some stuff like that.... Programmiing: Head First series (Python, C#, Java). Those books are amazing! And in the recreative world The Monk (a gothic love story). I think you guys have a higher attention span than me. I can hardly read textbooks because its so easy to get distracted while reading them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 PKD related a tv series adapted from "The Man in the High Castle" starts this week.......gotta have a nose @ this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks gonna have to nibble at this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geosmina Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks gonna have to nibble at this Great read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Looking to read The Satanic Bible on my Kindle app, to find out it's no longer for sale in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 (edited) read: 'john dies at the end' sorta funny in a 'braindead the movie' way. 6/10 read: 'the wasp factory' (trying some of his non-culture books, this is the 1st) story was good in the middle, the ending was meh. i guess it didnt stand the test of time. 6/10 just started the 'revelation space' trilogy. all 5000 pages of it. i hope its worth it. i really miss Iain Banks Edited January 20, 2015 by lala Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perezvon Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I finished Dune by Frank Herbert and it was stupidly ridiculously good. Way better than I hoped, and I had high hopes going into the book. Some of the best sci-fi I've read in a long time. I've just finished it myself and loved it to pieces too! I think I'll go on reading the following books but for now I'm reading a SAS book (spies novel by a french author named Gerard de Villiers) I found in the metro some weeks ago. It's pretty lol but way more well written than I expected it to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 i think many watmmers might really like knausgaard's work. look him up mates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 A Most Wanted Man by Le Carré, found a nice hardcover in Salvation Army for £2. Good so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kymppinetti Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Shadows of the horde by Michael Stackpole. Lolz it's not actually THAT bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing arrived in the post, as well as picking up The Grandmothers, also Lessing, and Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years in a local charity shop. Score! I bought Lessing at the same time I bought some Enslaved, Cryptopsy and Decapitated cds. The cashier was confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Gödel, Escher Bach - 50 pages in, 700 to go, and if the first 50 pages are representative of the whole book, this is going to be one of those books you have to read with pen and pencil besides you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prdctvsm Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 <3 ozi art catalogues, slowly digesting ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Just finished Ham On Rye. Not Bukowski's best, but still pretty good. I think he peaked with his first two novels (and Pulp). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Gödel, Escher Bach - 50 pages in, 700 to go, and if the first 50 pages are representative of the whole book, this is going to be one of those books you have to read with pen and pencil besides you It is. There's a section in the middle where he goes pretty far into the TNT stuff. Helped me to actually write and transcribe some of it. Just finished Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland....good, quick novel. First book of his I've read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Finished 'The Three Stigmata if Palmer Eldritch'. It's probably my least favorite PKD read at this point. I didn't really feel connected with any of the characters or the plot. Very pseudo-religious, which isn't out of the ordinary for PKD, but it didn't hit the existential soft spots hard enough compared to other PKD novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Three Stigmata is one of my favorite PKD novels. Probably top 3. Then again I think Ubik was my least favorite so far and that seems to be up there with the best for a lot of dudes. It also has the best book covers. Examples: Way cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kymppinetti Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Genshiken. Love it <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Already know I'll need a character map because I'm really poor in remembering who's who in any book : Since I'm always reading one fiction / one non-fiction at a time, this is really a fun book, makes me want to pack up and waste a year doing the AT too! : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) Finally finished Stephenson's Reamde. It was a nifty thriller yarn and the endings shoot-out was fun. Then I read Hugh Howey's Sand. Didn't like it as much as his Wool series, but was decent enough. It was basically about salvage divers, but in sand. Didn't bother me that the reason why the world was as it was wasn't really explained. Now I might finish Daniel Dennet's Consciousness Explained properly, that's been my bog reading material until now. Edited February 17, 2015 by azatoth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) I read The Heart of Darkness for college English. A really interesting novel, albeit racist as fuck. I like the movie more, haha. Edited February 17, 2015 by Capsaicin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Looking forward to Kim Gordon's book "Girl in a Band", apparently she doesn't pull any punches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Obtained a new 2nd hand kindle (touch, even!) and have put onto it that notorious tome Gravity's Rainbow. Current status: a craving for bananas. Genshiken. Love it <3 Very good indeed. Hato is one complicated character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Blasted through Less Than Zero in a couple of days. Wasn't digging it at the beginning but it got better. Almost overly dark in some places, especially when you consider that it was wrote when Bret Easton Ellis was 19... Although that's probably also why it got so edgy. The book captured the feeling of and depersonalization well which resonates with me. Overall good book, makes me want to read more. Think I have American Psycho queued next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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