What Are You Reading, Again?

[mitsho]

Also sprach Zarathustra (hey, it's GERMAN ... ) is a nice book, but I've known someone who absolutely was in love with Nietzsche, and this could get quite annoying...

btw. Nietzsche made his doctor (or phil hd, what's the university finish again called in English?) here in the university of my town (Basel).

I am reading the Harry Potter series at the moment. I know, I should be ashamed, but I got all of them as a present (didn't ask for them...) and after the final exams, there was just nothing else around at home...

mitsho

 

[thetrooper]

btw. Nietzsche made his doctor (or phil hd, what's the university finish again called in English?) here in the university of my town (Basel).

dr. phil./dr. philos or PhD/Ph.D.?

I am reading the Harry Potter series at the moment. I know, I should be ashamed, but I got all of them as a present (didn't ask for them...) and after the final exams, there was just nothing else around at home...

Nothing to be ashamed of, despite all the Potter-hate around here.

 

[zulu9812]

I'm currently reading Alan Hart's Zionism - The Enemy of the Jews. It's rather good, and corrects many zionist myths (the stuff about the UN 'founding' of the state is particularly mindblowing).

 

[mitsho]

dr. phil./dr. philos or PhD/Ph.D.?

I looked it up and I was a bit wrong. He actually became professor of ancient philology in Basel before receiving the doctorate for it.

Nothing to be ashamed of, despite all the Potter-hate around here.

Oh, the point is that I was always talking bad of it, but a few days ago, a (female) friend talked me into watching the new potter movie in cinema, and afterwards, I started taking a look into it. So I'm sort of betraying myself...

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EDIT: Btw. can anyone tell me who made the poem of which I have an extract in my sig? I have the whole poem on a sheet and I absolutely love it, but unfortunately, there is no author written on the paper...
EDIT2: A simple google search helped me out, William Blake nevertheless thanks...

 

[mrtn]

I recently reread the Man-Kzin Wars "shared universe" book by Larry Niven and others..
And a Spirou comic I got for Christmas by my gf.

 

[Kyriakos]

I bought "Prehistoric societies" by Clark and Piggott. Havent really started reading though yet.

 

[Red Door]

More Al Franken
Al Franken-Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot

 

[Ansar]

The City of Ember

 

[mrtn]

Skavenslayer by William King.
Any correlation with the "What did you find under the tree?" thread is not entirely coincidental.

 

[CivCube]

Rifts Ultimate Edition.

Nah, it doesn't really count.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

The Outsider - Albert Camus

The prose has a wonderfully stark quality which complements the emptiness of the themes and life depicted.

 

[BCLG100]

Reformation to revolution edited by Margo Todd (history coursework)

 

[Lozzy_Ozzy]

Wolf in Shadow by David Gemmell .

 

[Simon Darkshade]

An eminently superb novel, and arguably his best. Shannow is one of the hidden classic characters of the heroic fantasy genre.

 

[Abaddon]

Tuf Voyaging - George R. R. Martin

 

[Plexus]

Atlas Shrugged

This book is too long for its own good...

 

[Lord_Sidious]

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling

very good book, much more mature book and characters.
My favourite quote from the book:
-Hey, I don't want to see my little sister snogging in public!-Ron Weasley, Chapter 14

Then I will start to read The Prince, of Maquiavel. The Portable Guide to any Dictator!

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Benjamin Netanyahu - Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists

 

[LLXerxes]

Michael Curtis Ford
The Ten Thousand
http://www.michaelcurtisford.com/books.htm#The_Ten_Thousand

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Die Prinzen und der Drache - trying to improve my German.
A Fine Cosmic Rain - got it for Christmas from a friend of mine who's as nerdy as I.