What Are You Reading, Again?

[CartesianFart]

I got a book that i just read a thousand times."The History of Western Philosophy",by Bertand Russel.

 

[Smellincoffee]

The Longest Tunnel, Montgomery --The River City, The History of France, and Clash of Wings are all being read by me at the moment.

 

[Rambuchan]

I've been reading Umberto Edo's "The Name of The Rose" lately and it is outstanding.

I've also been catching up on some of my family history from my grandparents' bookshelf and have been reading all about The Goan Inquisition. I will be writing about it in History sometime.

 

[Shylock]

Im reading the Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien.

 

[Richard Cribb]

Anthropology in pragmatic perspective by Immanuel Kant.

 

[Rambuchan]

^ Another bloody show off in this thread!

 

[Richard Cribb]

^ Another bloody show off in this thread!

By whom. You or I ?

 

[CartesianFart]

I've been reading Umberto Edo's "The Name of The Rose" lately and it is outstanding.

I've also been catching up on some of my family history from my grandparents' bookshelf and have been reading all about The Goan Inquisition. I will be writing about it in History sometime.

I am quite fond of the movie than the book,i think that was Sean Connery best role in any given script he ever done.
And what is the Goan Inquisition?Can u flatter me by saying something brief about it?

 

[The Last Conformist]

Gryning över Kalahari by Lasse Berg. It's a book about human evolution.

 

[CartesianFart]

Anthropology in pragmatic perspective by Immanuel Kant.

Hmm,never admired Kant for what he did in Ethics and his other writings.Ever read,'The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music',By Neitzche?I always like to use this material to publicaly speak my contempt of the Hip Hop Music that New York [MTV and other various print publication of the genre]like to fabricate and produce image against the values of the Midwest.Even if my friends and coworkers get tired of it

 

[Snow]

I'm reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin by Mark Twain for school. I'm rotating between Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche and The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith when I have free time, so it's taking me awile to get through them.

 

[Arachnaphobia]

Hamlet by Shakespeare at school, and One Flew Over The ****oo's Nest by Ken Kesey, which is just quality.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Am rotating between Stalingrad by Anthony Beever, The New Penguin History of the World by J.M Roberts and Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne.

The last one helps me relax after taking in too much information

 

[The Fjonis]

I read -- "Calculus" by Edwards and Penny...

I feel depressed.

 

[Suppersalmon]

Im going to start The Time Machine by H G Wells

 

[Rambuchan]

I am quite fond of the movie than the book,i think that was Sean Connery best role in any given script he ever done.
And what is the Goan Inquisition?Can u flatter me by saying something brief about it?

I agree it's a great movie and Connery did the role proud. But the movie only gives you a vague notion of the intellectual and spiritual turmoil of the middle ages. Of course the book gives you much more detail on the different monastic orders, what they stood for, their relationship with the Vatican and The Holy Roman Empire, what technologies were arising at the time (reading glasses and the fork), what texts were influential (Greek, Roman, Arabic, 'Pagan' from Africa and Europe etc). And it's damn funny in places too. What I really like is it drops you into the mindset of those monks, something a history book would not do nearly as well.

The Goan Inquisition ran for some 200 years, from around 1560 to 1770. It took place mainly in Goa, on the West Coast of India, and condemned Hindus, Jains, some Muslims and Catholics alike. It is often referred to as "The Great Rigour" in Portuguese records and was, according to the accounts I've been reading, a whole lot worse than the Inquisitions taking place in Europe. There was an elaborate informer system (if you reported an infidel, heretic and / or 'a bad Catholic' you were entitled to half their property upon them being found 'guilty', the other half going to the church). There was the regular locking up and tortuing to the point of death, without any bother to enquire or charge with a crime. Hindus were made to destroy their temples with their own hands, on a very wide scale. Taxation laws changed. Laws governing dress, music, food and other social activities were changed. The bit that's relevant to my amily history is that they (my ancestors) had already converted to Catholicism, but retained their traditional Hindu dress, social circle and diet. The Portuguese were not quite satisfied even with this and subject many of our community to these horrors. As a result there was a great flight of Catholic Indians down the coast because, although they were happy to be Catholic - they wanted to hold onto the Indian part of their identity also. BTW - This all follows an early flight from northern India when the Mughals arrived on the scene, although for quite different reasons.

@ Luc: You sir are the show off. And I am the flippant little so-and-so who was just saying hi in a wierd way .

 

[Atlas14]

All Quiet On the Western Front

Anyone know whether this is a good book or not? We have to read it for AP English.

 

[CartesianFart]

Thanks on the Goan Inquisition info,Rambuchan.It sounds like the elite in that particular society did a good social engineering on making the masses fighting amongs each other.Definately a course in how keeping order on the masses if u ask me.

 

[Richard Cribb]

Hmm,never admired Kant for what he did in Ethics and his other writings.Ever read,'The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music',By Neitzche?I always like to use this material to publicaly speak my contempt of the Hip Hop Music that New York [MTV and other various print publication of the genre]like to fabricate and produce image against the values of the Midwest.Even if my friends and coworkers get tired of it

While not being a Kantian,I have an high opinion of Kant for several reasons, and it is my humble opinion that if more people on this forum was familiar with him we could have avoided all those tedious, pointless, flame-infested religion vs. science threads.
I am familiar with the works of Nietschze as well, and somewhere I have an essay I wrote about his relevance as a culture diagnostic of today's "neoliberal" society.
Now what about that for a show off. Mr. Rambuchan?

@ Luc: You sir are the show off.

Care to explain why, sir?
About the film Name of the Rose. I did a great mistake. I read the novel before I saw it. That novel is just as good as our resident show-offer Ram claims it to be. Because of that I didn't likethe film much. But Ron Pearlman was good as Salvatore.

 

[CartesianFart]

Ron Pearlman is the most underrated actor of any given day,indeed.

and Kant can be tedious and methodical too on the subject of morality.