NedimNapoleon
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Tomorrows the day, I need more recommendations.
Which book are you reading now? Volume XI
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MajKira
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at moment nothing, but favourite books I have
I love this (moron)
Cluster (novels) Band II: Melody of Mintaka aka Chaing the Lady
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_(novels)
“To combat this the humans have set Melody of Mintaka to work, a woman with a massive Kirlian aura rating who is able in turn to take over those infiltrators.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, erotic: Chaining the Lady - Piers Anthony
I love this (moron)
Cluster (novels) Band II: Melody of Mintaka aka Chaing the Lady
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_(novels)
“To combat this the humans have set Melody of Mintaka to work, a woman with a massive Kirlian aura rating who is able in turn to take over those infiltrators.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, erotic: Chaining the Lady - Piers Anthony
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Something quite different this time. The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke. The tale of an engineer who wants to build Earth's space elevator told alongside the tale of an artist-king who wants to build heaven on Earth two thousand years ago. Pretty good so far.
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Starting 1984 for school.
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Just read the parts by Goldstein and then move on to Brave New World.
Everything with Smith (such as the Ministry of Love, newspeak, doublethink, "We have always been at war with Eastasia", Room 101, and Big Brother) has been so ingraned into culture that you already know it.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Finished Merleau-Ponty by Eric Matthews. Juggling 1491 by Charles C. Mann (everyone else here seems to have read it, so I figured I'd catch up) and Nietzsche by Rex Welshon.
Well, he'll know the conventional interpretation of it, which tends to leave out some pretty significant stuff. You'll rarely see it discussed as a critique of the class system, for example.
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Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis.
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Interesting. I just had to read 1984 for class last week, but I'm already committed to an essay topic for another book. I'll just have to file your idea away for another time.
Halfway through Humanistic Buddhism by Master Hsing Yun.
Speaking of Brave New World, I've been reading that off and on because I feel like it. Recently finished A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for school I am currently reading Antigone. It's incredibly boring, and she's incredible stupid.
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0_0 : Simultaneously (as much as this word means) now beginning:
Quran (reading from back to front, like a manga!);
114: Say, "I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind,
The God of mankind,
From the evil of the retreating whisperer
Who whispers [evil] into the breasts of mankind
From among the jinn and mankind."
Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders(from Introduction I : Robinson Crusoe has often been referred to as a romance, but Moll Flanders, which followed it by three years, is widely taught and written about as the first English novel.
Quran (reading from back to front, like a manga!);
114: Say, "I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind,
The God of mankind,
From the evil of the retreating whisperer
Who whispers [evil] into the breasts of mankind
From among the jinn and mankind."
Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders(from Introduction I : Robinson Crusoe has often been referred to as a romance, but Moll Flanders, which followed it by three years, is widely taught and written about as the first English novel.
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Just finished Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins. Its about the impact of WWI on European culture. It has been a long time since I have read anything as original or compelling.
Now on page 1 of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities about the origin of nationalism.
Now on page 1 of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities about the origin of nationalism.
CELTICEMPIRE
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I hated Antigone, it wasn't worth reading, strange that we are both reading those books for school this year.
Smellincoffee
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Just finished David Liss' A Conspiracy of Paper, a historical fiction-mystery-thriller set in the days of the South Sea Company and the world of finance. Thrilling and funny. I'm now reading Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser.
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Finished Clarke's novel. Gripping read and quite enchanting, except for the parts where the importance of communications satellites are expounded on. I don't think the loss of such things would lead to starvation and disease, Mr. Clarke. There are other, but slower, ways to communicate after all.
Anyway, back to nonfiction. Gems of the World, by Cally Oldershaw. Really no further explanation needed here, it's a book about gems and their properties.
Anyway, back to nonfiction. Gems of the World, by Cally Oldershaw. Really no further explanation needed here, it's a book about gems and their properties.
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