Which Book Are You Reading Now? Volume XII

[Kyriakos]

A collection of contes cruels, by Maurice Level.

Pretty brutal.

 

[EnglishEdward]

I am currently reading:

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume Twelve

 

[yung.carl.jung]

I think I now read almost anything Borges ever wrote down, excluding his translations and scientific papers.

A Universal History of Iniquity
The Garden of Forking Paths
Artifices
The Aleph (perhaps my favorite)
The Maker
In Praise of Darkness
Brodie's Report
The Book of Sand
Shakespeare's Memory

And I'll definitely do it again. What a wild ride. Just absolutely brilliant. Definitely had its high and low points, but not a single story not worth reading.

Excluding forewords, commentaries and so forth it was more than 103 stories. I'm a little proud.

Currently finishing up Thus Spoke Zarathustra, should only be a few more days.

No opinion one way or another about Foucault?

I'll write a more lengthy post on D&P once I have some spare time, would love to engage the text w/ you.

Next up is Archaeology of Knowledge, then Madness and Civ (dk the English title), then next I will try to venture into Baudrilliard, Bataille, Deleuze and Guattari.

 

[haanuman]

Currently reading "You can win" by Shiv Khera but I recently finished Fred Factor, The Secret. My next one would be The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. I wasn't into books at all but my brother has encouraged me enough to start reading. I am happy about it. Let me know what you guys think about the books I mentioned.

 

[Ferocitus]

I read Crime & Punishment once. I thank Chekhov for making me want to read a Russian author after that awful dredge of Naturalist horsepoopoo. I've never liked Naturalism and its determinism.

I read many of his short stories, but I didn't warm to them for some
reason. Ward 6, however, was brilliant.

 

[Ferocitus]

Currently reading "You can win" by Shiv Khera...
snip
Let me know what you guys think about the books I mentioned.

...he unsuccessfully contested the 2009 general election in India on an anti-corruption platform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiv_Khera

 

[Kyriakos]

I read many of his short stories, but I didn't warm to them for some
reason. Ward 6, however, was brilliant.

"The black monk" is a nice story. Although i remembered it being far more impressive (i re-read it some weeks ago).
Still, it has a very good topic

Spoiler :

imagining one is a mastermind, and then doing all sorts of half-thoughts which appear incredible to one.

 

[Kyriakos]

Supernatural horror in literature - H.P.Lovecraft (meh)

and stories mentioned in it, eg:

The house and the brain - Lytton (stupid story)
Torture by Hope -Adam (ok-ish, but rather bland, at least in the translation of the french that i read).

 

[Cutlass]

The Republic For Which It Stands. By White. This is the latest volume in the Oxford History of the United States series. This covers the time period from the death of Lincoln and the end of the Civil War through the end of the 19th century. This is a huge book, and I've just barely started it. So it'll probably be quite some time before I finish it. The opening chapters are about the tragedy of the failure of Reconstruction. That's as far as I've gotten so far.

 

[JollyRoger]

Completed since December:

Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations – James Joyce’s Ulysses
Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations – Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Paulette Jiles – News of the World
Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations – The Diary of Anne Frank
Randy Pausch – The Last Lecture
Toni Morrison – Beloved
Bloom’s Modern Critical Views – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edward Kelsey Moore – The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat
Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations – Toni Morrison
Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend – Boundaries
Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations - Nathanial Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown
Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations – Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

Currently:

 

[Ferocitus]

Currently:

As I get older, so many books I read 40 years ago fade out. Some scenes, phrases
and sentiments persist and the one of carting ice into jungles is one that has
stuck with me. Beautiful.

 

[Kyriakos]

Poe; The facts in the case of M.Valdemar.
Not good, imo.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Is this related to your studies or just for fun?

The latter. I doubt there are cooking courses that include biology in them.

Anyway, Chandra's Cosmos by Wallace Tucker concerns the X-ray detector of NASA's Great Observatories program. Full-color spreads help illustrate the history of astronomy and Chandra's role. These contributions include the nature of dark matter, the structure of the cosmic web, the mysteries of black holes, and the importance of supernovae.

 

[Kyriakos]

The Death of Halpin Frayser, by Ambrose Bierce.
I dislike writers who write like journalists. I also didn't like the actual plot here.

 

[Mouthwash]

Currently reading Why Liberalism Failed, which is more of a polemic than an argument, but I think the claims are novel enough to warrant that. The author is just trying to 'get the idea out there.' In fact, I picked the book up because it was only one I could find that actually reflects my politics (although I don't think that 'classical education' is what's needed for repairing the damage done by liberalism).

Hey, turns out this book was also read by the last ex-president I'd expect to have read it.

 

[Traitorfish]

Still working on that Judaism book, too. We've passed Maimonides and we're onto Kabbalah. I'd probably be quicker if I was able to focus on just that, and also if I was't reading a bunch of comics that I'm not posting here.

(Also, I've realised that nobody else is still posting the covers. Is that weird? Should I stop?)

 

[Cutlass]

(Also, I've realised that nobody else is still posting the covers. Is that weird? Should I stop?)

Occasionally someone else does. When they think of it. I haven't been thinking of it, for I've been reading very few books of late. Not enough time.

 

[Snerk]

I'm rereading a collection of short stories by Woody Allen. I do love his style.

 

[JohannaK]

I'm reading The Art of War by Jomini. Don't ask why. I think this might be the ebook version of the edition they used at West Point in the 19th century.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I just finished "Variable Star" by Robert Heinlein and Spider Robinson (meaning Robinson wrote it based on a 7 page outline Heinlein left unfinished). It is alright, not as good as Heinlein's best work but better than his worst, and definitely better than the Dune novels written after Frank Herbert's death. There is way more drug use and vulgar language than Heinlein himself would employ, and more references to late 20th/early 21st century culture than seem appropriate for something let that far in the future. It does not seem to me that the attacks of 9/11 would be the first comparison one would think a about just after the entire solar system was destroyed.

I just started Heinlein's "Citizen of the Galaxy."