what are you reading?

[BassGod]

I have Dubliners by James Joyce and The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Hemingway short stories) on the shelf for this week. I also have a friend who's a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan and she was going to lend me Fear and Loathing..., but she hasn't yet. I'd like to know what all the hype surrounding that book is about.

...Kilimanjaro is awesome. My favourite story of the entire collection is A Clean, Well Lighted Place. Hemingway is definitely my favourite author.

Graeme

 

[Stubb]

Plato - Sophist

What other dialogues are you reading?

And, I guess I'm curious generally about your foray into philosophy. I'm vaguely aware of the problems with the seminary you had, but I'm curious as to what brought you to philosophy and how you plan to study it. Always nice to see another face that finds some worth in these dusty texts.

 

[sick-jimmychick]

Ive just started The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir...lets just hope she doesnt turn out to be one of those extremist feminists!!

 

[chaotick]

Plato - Sophist

I just got an awesome hardbound of the five dialogs for $1; so Plato is on my list, too.

 

[Floating teetH]

Now I've done


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Yes I know, it's outdated, but it's free so it rocks.

And more Kinky Friedman....God Bless John Wayne, and Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned, both of which are incredibly good. Kinky Friedman is absolutely top notch.

 

[steve21]

If you read Brave New World, you HAVE to follow it with The Lathe of Heaven.


I mean seriously. You HAVE to. I think it's a law. It might be a Federal law. But it'll be worth it, even beyond the whole avoiding prosecution thing.

Will do... sounded interesting in the brief synopsis thingy.

 

[AaronS]

Currently I am reading Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las indias by Bartolomé de las Casas. It was published as a report to the Spanish king about the devastation of the countryside and the Indians of the western hemisphere published in 1552 by a Spanish priest who was outraged by the abuse he witnessed during 50 years in the New World. It is an extremely controversial book in Spanish history because it was immediately translated into English, French and Dutch as support for their moral superiority in colonizing the New World. Of course, there were no English, French or Dutch who complained about their abuse, only the Spanish had a man of enough moral character to buck the system. Next on my list is Confieso que he vivido: Memorias, the autobiography of Pablo Neruda.

 

[Bard2dbone]

Will do... sounded interesting in the brief synopsis thingy.

And I couldn't even tell you why those two go together so strongly to me. But they do.

 

[00Funk]

I found this today at half price books

 

[Baryonyx]

The World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries.

The wording is a bit clumsy on the occastion, but over all it is incredibly read-able, and because it's arranged in sections with each mystery present individually, it's something I find myself picking up for the odd 10 minutes now and again to sneak a bit more in!

 

[Geoff St. Germaine]

The God Delusion - Dawkins

 

[Yvon]

I started this one today.
It's the 10th of the series. not the greatest books but it's an easy read.

 

[nad]

[snip]
And now I'm on to this:

I really liked that one. Slightly less enjoyable than the best of the Hitchhiker series, but much better than the Mostly Harmless, which I disliked in all kinds of ways.

Currently reading:

and

I'm enjoying both. They are quite different. After this more Nabokov, Vonnegut, and then finally:

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At which point my mind will have been melted down enough right in time to enjoy the final Harry Potter book.

 

[werbo1]

Finished Fear and Loathing...which means i'm going back to Bukowski - Hollywood

 

[BassGod]

I really liked that one. Slightly less enjoyable than the best of the Hitchhiker series, but much better than the Mostly Harmless, which I disliked in all kinds of ways.

Currently reading:

Catch-22 is absolutely hilarious. I can't seem to put it down.

On another note, I bought Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame on a whim, because there was a two-for-one book sale. I'll probabably start reading it soon. Has anyone read this book? Did you enjoy it?

Graeme

 

[Jimbo]

just started The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. finally got around to reading this one

 

[GROOVEjunkie]

Stephen King's Different Seasons = (Rita Hayworth & the Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body, & The Breathing Method).

Also picking at "The wit & wisdom of Benjamin Franklin : a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes by James C. Humes"

Franklin was a genius!!!

We could use a great American leader/thinker like him these days - desperately

 

[Thor]

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I guess you now know how I spend my downtime.

 

[Muusers]

A midsummer night's dream - Shakespeare

yeah, i hate school too...

 

[Yvon]

I finished this one last week:

I started this one earlier this week:

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