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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
 
mitsho said:
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.?

mitsho said:
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.

:)
 
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).
 
thetrooper said:
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. ;)


thetrooper said:
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... ;)
 
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. :)
 
Rifts Ultimate Edition.

Nah, it doesn't really count.
 
The Outsider - Albert Camus

The prose has a wonderfully stark quality which complements the emptiness of the themes and life depicted.
 
Wolf in Shadow by David Gemmell :).
 
An eminently superb novel, and arguably his best. Shannow is one of the hidden classic characters of the heroic fantasy genre.
 
Tuf Voyaging - George R. R. Martin
 
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!
 
Benjamin Netanyahu - Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists
 
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.
 
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