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« Reply #380 on: October 26, 2009, 05:13:19 AM » |
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Finished reading Catcher in the Rye recently, was an amazing, touching little read. Now I'm on some dark Nancy Huston book.
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« Reply #381 on: October 26, 2009, 02:44:41 PM » |
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That's one awesome book, read it again some time ago.
I keep meaning to re-read 1984, but I can't bring myself to do it. It's just so overwhelmingly claustrophobic and depressing.  One of my favorite books tho. |
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« Reply #382 on: October 26, 2009, 04:12:49 PM » |
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If you read 1984, also read Huxley. It's a more, hmm, accurate description of modern society.
You mean brave new world? That guy wrote that in the 20s. Pretty crazy ahead of his time. Though last time I checked people weren't all raised in incubation tubes and sterilized in modern society quite yet. I heard somewhere that Tim Burton is directing the new 1984 movie. Going to be interesting to see where he goes with it, and how he fucks it up adding his trademark whimsy and flair to the generally dark story. |
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« Reply #383 on: October 26, 2009, 08:15:37 PM » |
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Finished reading Catcher in the Rye recently, was an amazing, touching little read. Now I'm on some dark Nancy Huston book.
I read catcher in the rye a few years back. It was a fine book, didn't really touch me on a personal level and felt rather overrated. I think its one of those books you gotta read at a certain point in your life. |
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« Reply #384 on: October 27, 2009, 02:59:41 AM » |
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Reading these days: Ancient evenings by Norman Mailer, The revolt of the masses by José Ortega y Gasset, and some story anthologies from Mark Twain  |
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« Reply #385 on: October 27, 2009, 03:35:52 AM » |
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Legends from the End of Time by Michael Moorcock. I've heard so much about him but this is the first of his stuff I've actually read. It's just as awesome as I expected.
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« Reply #386 on: October 27, 2009, 03:42:11 AM » |
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Currently reading: World War Z by Max Brooks.
I'm not a huge fiction reader so World War Z writing style fits me.
Next on the list:
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (about fiction writing, but also useful for game design etc.)
- a book on Civil War
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« Reply #387 on: October 27, 2009, 03:50:35 AM » |
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I just finished reading "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan, and I am about 1/3-1/2 of the way through "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan as well.
Cryptonomicon or Snow Crash are next on the list I do believe.
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« Reply #388 on: October 27, 2009, 04:45:00 AM » |
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I recently finished Gibson's "Burning Chrome" and Hurbert's "Dune Messiah" and "Children of Dune", and now I'm reading "Nightfall" by Asimov and Silverberg.
I've finally found some libraries with books in English that I can checkout, so I've been plowing through a book every week or two the past few months to make up for lost reading time.
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Please help TimW, a longtime promoter of indie gaming everywhere and an old friend of TIGSource, to write about indie games full-time. One's True Self: the essence of a book being edited from Chinese into English.
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« Reply #389 on: October 27, 2009, 04:46:44 AM » |
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This thread.
For an idea on good stuff to pick up at the nearest library.
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« Reply #390 on: October 27, 2009, 09:12:12 AM » |
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I am reading a Nobel of my local writer Named Previous age
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« Reply #391 on: October 27, 2009, 09:06:06 PM » |
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At the moment, I'm reading a classic... The Scarlet Pimpernel. I just finished 'From the Earth to the Moon' but haven't had much time to read as of late so I'm not sure when I ca finish Scarlet Pimpernel. XD
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« Reply #392 on: October 27, 2009, 09:51:40 PM » |
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I am reading a Nobel of my local writer Named Previous age
Previous Age is pretty good, though I like his earlier stuff better than all that postmodern claptrap he's gotten into recently. |
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« Reply #393 on: October 28, 2009, 10:54:52 AM » |
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I'm about to finish re-reading 100 years of solitude, I'm going to start Operación Masacre then.
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« Reply #394 on: December 13, 2009, 06:37:19 PM » |
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"Algorithmic Architecture" by Kostas Terzidis. I'm just at the start thus I cannot say much about the book yet.
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« Reply #395 on: December 13, 2009, 07:04:23 PM » |
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Read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall for school. It was pretty good.
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« Reply #396 on: December 13, 2009, 07:42:27 PM » |
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Reading the Azathoth Cycle from Chaosium Publishing.
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« Reply #397 on: December 13, 2009, 07:44:52 PM » |
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currently reading camus's the plague. it's quite brilliant. the dialogue is really wonderful.
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« Reply #398 on: December 13, 2009, 08:23:22 PM » |
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ZOT! (Black & White collection), by Scott McCloud
and god is Not Great, by Christopher Hitchens
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« Reply #399 on: December 13, 2009, 08:31:38 PM » |
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I've been reading World War Z since October, but haven't had time to read anything at all.
I'm at least 2/3 through the book at this point, and hopefully I'll finish reading it by the end of this year.
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