zkom Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Paulo Coelho's Brida.. I'm finding it a bit painful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai I feel like I need a bath every time open this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumplings Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Just finished The Saga of The Volsungs and I'm now starting The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki. Getting a feel for Norse mythology and Tolkien influence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Just started The Game of X, an obscure 60s spy parody that would eventually become the legendary film Condorman! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Reading an interesting book on the "lost" subject of rhetoric, and how to put it to use ("Thank You for Arguing"). Probably not for everyone, but I'm really enjoying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz. It's quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Discographies by Ewan Pearson (aye that EP),,,,, Superb investigation of dance music with just the right blend of theory and insane human activity. Plenty to think about and although its 1999 if anyone is writing about music/culture its highly recommended. Each chapter covers an era/scene and its been rinsed in a few days which is rare for (usually dry) non-fiction. Only £20 too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prdctvsm Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 having nvr read alain badiou's philosophy b4, now slowly absorby his 'ethics: an essay on the understanding of evil' (2012), & 'in praise of love' (2009, w. nicolas truong). thought4food /10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
may be rude Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 William the Conquerer free audio book at librivox this was the best of around a dozen non-fiction audio books i grabbed from that site this week as im painting a room. pretty great, true story game of thrones type stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caze Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 short version: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Tales from Development Hell, an easy read with amazing insight inside the craziness of Hollywood : Anthony Bourdain's first hit book : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsm Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 check out "the cosmic serpent" & "intelligence in nature" by jeremy narby.. very interesting reads! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 (edited) Got 100 pages into Moon Palace by Paul Auster but I wasn't getting into it. Its the 2nd of his I've read/tried to read, I like what he writes about but really don't like his style, gave it a try but gonna give up on him. Moved on to The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) which is a better read so far. Edited March 26, 2015 by QQQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Nearly halfway through Gravity's Rainbow taking my time. I only read at work during lunch, so it might be some time before I completely finish it. Enjoying every page though and the gorgeous language. Maybe one of the best books ever written? I believe it so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echolalia Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 2066 by R.Bolano read it over the space of a month. Five parts to this and all very different, Bolano is so honest when he writes. Includes glorious depiction of european social behaviour and some truly great ideals that in this public led time would be very hard to accomplish, his romantic view of Archimboldi being an outsider to it all is really interesting to read. Also read the Bolano short about Return of the Living Dead 3 called The Colonel's Son. Now really want to see this Yuzna classic. Bolano says that the film is closest thing to his own biography he ever saw. As an insomniac and writer of such unique stories I can't stop reading all his stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muflontillah Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logakght Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 I'm restarting Toute l'histoire du monde by Jean-Claude Barreau Which sounds interesting, though I've read some (negative) reviews that say it is really centered in France. But welp, I will get to know some good history lessons, I guess. And another book I'm begging to read is I, of the Vortex, bt Rodolfo Llinas. It's difficult to find here where I live! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
may be rude Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 bourdain's kitchen confidential. not bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Kitchen Confidential is fucking great. Like Fear & Loathing: Catering Edition. Still reading Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Took a long break half-way and read a bunch of Graphic Novels, wasn't in a bookreading place. Dived back in now and still enjoying the hell out of it 530 pages in. Will def check out more Stephenson after this, maybe one of his scifi books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caze Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 I'm currently reading Stephenson's Quicksilver. It's pretty heavy going, definitely not a page turner, been at it for months and have finished three other books in the process (it's only book one of three as well, I hope the rest of them manage to pick up the pace a bit). It's really interesting though, and the characters are good, just a shame it's not better written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 I wish Neal Stephenson would just write nonfiction.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perezvon Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Bought volumes 2 and 3 of the Dune series. Dis gun be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muflontillah Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 reading since yesterday ...Alberto Moravia - The Conformist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
may be rude Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 A World Undone (ww1 history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sagan Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 (edited) Just finished it up and found it pretty enjoyable. Kean made a book that is accessible to anyone regardless of how much of a background they may or may not have with respect to Chemistry. Each chapter incorporates the different elements that constitute the periodic table and takes a quick look at their (often curious) behavior, usually telling tales that inform you not only about the element itself but also of the men and women who discovered or exploited it and its historical significance. Some of the stuff is just quirky, like learning how the metal Gallium (similar in appearance to aluminum but with a low melting point just below your body temperature) was sometimes formed into spoons as a dinner party prank among fellow scientists, how ingesting colloidal silver leaves people with a rare condition called Argyria that results in permanently blue skin, why Aluminum was at one point more coveted than Gold among the royal elite, or how the longest word in our language can be found in Chemical Abstracts Acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminyl-phenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanyl-aspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinyl-threonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanyl-glutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonyl-glutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyl-tryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalyl-arginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosyl-arginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolylleucylisoleucyl-threonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonyl-arginylasparaginylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamyl-asparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamyl-threonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartyl-alanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucyl-asparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycyl-threonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonyl-phenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophyl-threonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine etc. But it also gets into more significant matters as well. Fritz Haber, a man who won a nobel prize for developing a method which allowed for the fixation of Nitrogen and saved countless people worldwide from starvation, only to become a war criminal shortly thereafter, whose chemical weaponry and research would tear apart his family and lead to many horrific deaths ( later even including his own relatives in nazi gas chambers). Gilbert N. Lewis, a man who did so much for modern Chemistry but received so little recognition as a result of politics and temperament. How a British serial killer employed the use of Thallium to destroy his victims (which the CIA purportedly planned to use to take out Castro). As well as a look into some of the discoveries and personalities involved in the Manhattan project, and hundreds of other stories. Definitely an interesting and engaging read in my opinion. 8/10 Edited April 9, 2015 by Hail Sagan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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