He's Scottish, Cardgame. They're all miserable, drunken sociopaths who'll stab you for the change for a deep-fried Curly-wurlyI read it when I was 12 or 13. Great reading for a kid. Gives you an optimistic outlook on life.
What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9
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truckingpete
On a Stark Trek
Reading Brave New World for English 120...very....very...very interesting book, its just getting good with the plot!
Or, as Elrohir was saying, I could have been joking never mind that my father is, according to all clichés, thinking of going to a sheep expoHe's Scottish, Cardgame. They're all miserable, drunken sociopaths who'll stab you for the change for a deep-fried Curly-wurly
I warn you: the ending is rather horrible.
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truckingpete
On a Stark Trek
lol thanks for the heads up, I'm gonna be done friday so I will know what you mean then
Integral
Can't you hear it?
I'm still working through Basic Writings of Existentialism. I just got through Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, Sickness unto Death, Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism. All of those save Sickness unto Death were re-reads, but I hadn't read them in a few years.
Next up are The Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche and Being and Nothingness by Sartre.
Next up are The Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche and Being and Nothingness by Sartre.
sophie
Break My Heart
I recently rented and watched the movie (Gregory Peck) which I saw as a kid - back during the cold war. Fred Astair plays a race car physicist (sic) who gets to rant against the whole nuclear war thing (as the physicists who invented the bomb often did), and it's amusing to see how dated and camp his presentation is.
I read The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and started Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond in the last week.
The Harford book was very good (readable and not too heavy economics tends to be), and quite agreeable.
Slaughterhouse Five was brilliant. I could tell I wasn't thinking nearly enough to be able to understand anywhere near the entire thing, but for entertainment purposes alone, it was sensational.
I only got up to the beginning of Part One in Diamond's oft-mentioned work. But despite its reputation, it's not looking promising so far. I find the accusation of racism in a historical argument, followed by the establishment of what essentially amounts to the exact same argument with a few words switched around, to be exceedingly puzzling.
The Harford book was very good (readable and not too heavy economics tends to be), and quite agreeable.
Slaughterhouse Five was brilliant. I could tell I wasn't thinking nearly enough to be able to understand anywhere near the entire thing, but for entertainment purposes alone, it was sensational.
I only got up to the beginning of Part One in Diamond's oft-mentioned work. But despite its reputation, it's not looking promising so far. I find the accusation of racism in a historical argument, followed by the establishment of what essentially amounts to the exact same argument with a few words switched around, to be exceedingly puzzling.
My opinion of you and your intelligence, which already was pretty high, just went up several notches.
sophie
Break My Heart
I just picked up Power and Plenty by Fidlay and O'Rourke
truckingpete
On a Stark Trek
wow the ending of Brave New World is really not what I expected...it kind of...sucked...The book wasnt too bad though
Next book that we are reading for class I believe is 1984
Next book that we are reading for class I believe is 1984
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
I finally finished Riasanovsky. Dachs, I remember you saying that he was especially hard on the Bolsheviks, but I did not find him nearly as hostile as I had anticipated him to be. If anything, he was somewhat forgiving of much of their actions, and understanding of the circumstances which surounded them.
Anyway, that finished, I'm now reading Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk About their Lives by Donald J. Raleigh. With any luck, I'll be studying under the author some day soon. The book is fantastic so far, its essentially transcripts of interviews with a bunch of Soviet citizens a few years ago who entered secondary school the year Sputnik was launched (1957) talking about their lives and perspectives and stuff. Extremely cool cultural/social history.
Anyway, that finished, I'm now reading Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk About their Lives by Donald J. Raleigh. With any luck, I'll be studying under the author some day soon. The book is fantastic so far, its essentially transcripts of interviews with a bunch of Soviet citizens a few years ago who entered secondary school the year Sputnik was launched (1957) talking about their lives and perspectives and stuff. Extremely cool cultural/social history.
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Chieftain
I just reread The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson, and I just realized why it felt familiar since I play CIV as well. 
Though I either kept misreading and getting confused sometimes. I mean, I just kinda felt that during the War of The Asuras chapter I missed something.
And sometimes I kinda get the feeling that sometimes the author messed up about the timeline of when the protagonists were alive with when they all ended up in the bardo, especially after the Chapter of Widow Kang.
But beside that, its a pretty interesting book.
Though I either kept misreading and getting confused sometimes. I mean, I just kinda felt that during the War of The Asuras chapter I missed something.
And sometimes I kinda get the feeling that sometimes the author messed up about the timeline of when the protagonists were alive with when they all ended up in the bardo, especially after the Chapter of Widow Kang.
But beside that, its a pretty interesting book.
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