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#121 User is offline   Wayne Icon

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Posted 17 September 2005 - 12:19 PM

Haunted. Wow. Interesting read, although I really wish that I hadn't read it. I mean, Its not that I have a weak stomach, but... it was like it was just disturbing for the sake of being disturbing. Far from Pahlaniuk's best work.
I'm reading The Once and Future King, and as soon as I'm done I'm gonna start on Don Quixote.
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Posted 19 September 2005 - 04:49 AM

QUOTE (Wayne @ Sep 17 2005, 12:19 PM)
Haunted. Wow. Interesting read, although I really wish that I hadn't read it. I mean, Its not that I have a weak stomach, but... it was like it was just disturbing for the sake of being disturbing. Far from Pahlaniuk's best work.


I have to disagree, Haunted was a blast, and I haven't read something similar to it.

I just finished Trainspotting from Irvine Welsh. Now, I'm reading Edgar Alan Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket which is so far not too interesting. Not quite what I expected from it anyway.
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Posted 21 September 2005 - 09:46 AM

Finally finished Count Zero, interesting narrative. Not nearly as good as Neuromancer, but still good.
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Posted 21 September 2005 - 10:39 AM

QUOTE (xenduck @ Sep 16 2005, 03:55 PM)
i dont tend to read anywhere but work. i always thought i had an advantage on most people in that i could read and work at the same time. but i guess if readings important to you, you can find or make the time.

if i may impose on you fellow readers a bit more, where do you like to read and when; how fast can you read?


To answer your question: I only tend to read when there's nothing else to do. The computer, working on websites, my own writing... that's what I like to do in my free time. I probably do 90% of my reading on the subway or subway platform and then another 10% in lines at the bank or wherever.

If it's a REALLY good book I'll read at home and before bed. The Harry Potter books actually had me reading at home more than I normally do. smile.gif
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Posted 21 September 2005 - 06:10 PM

Right now, I'm reading Machiavelli's "The Prince." If you're wondering, it's for school.
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Posted 22 September 2005 - 12:09 PM

the prince rules! (hehe, thats a pun)
i just finished reading mac's art of war....good stuff.
may i ask what class you have to read it for?
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Posted 22 September 2005 - 12:36 PM

The Prince put me to sleep. I mean, I understand Machiavelli's point but even at 75 pages, or however long it was, I felt it was too long. I think the same point could have been made in a 500 word essay.
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Posted 22 September 2005 - 03:11 PM

the most common complaint i have about books is that they are too long. that is, as chefelf says of the prince, the point could have been made much more succinctly.
but in the case of the prince, the point isnt the whole point. the book can hardly be considered long, but is crammed with historical background, and demonstrates how mac arrived at his conclusions and precepts.
moreover, the book is a zeitgeist; with invaluable insight into the mindset of 15th century conquerers, popes, mercenaries, rulers and the ruled.
short and sweet!

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Posted 23 September 2005 - 07:20 AM

I'm reading it for my history class. We have two do two essays on two works of the time period (Renaissance to the Fr. Revolution), the two happen to be the afformentioned Prince and Voltaire's Candide.

I'm getting the impression that it is a very dry, dull read, Chefelf. I'm only 10 pages in. :S
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Posted 23 September 2005 - 09:53 AM

well candid is really good too thumbsup.gif
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Posted 23 September 2005 - 11:14 AM

one reason i admire machiavelli so much is that his writing is 'an athelet's prose;' all bone and sinew. he doesnt waste the reader's time with flourid prose. its funny that while he was alive machiavelli was called a satanist, and after he died, satan was called machiavellian.

i am told voltaire was a critic of maciavelli. ive seen a snippet of his criticisms; nothing substantial. but candid is good though, kind of like a 18th century forest gump.

right now im reading the use of pleasure. if you wanna read about sex with no fear of becoming aroused, i recommend this book. my favorite chapter so far is called, ' act, expenditure, death.'
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Posted 23 September 2005 - 07:52 PM

At camp, I bought this book called the Koka Shoshtra, basically like an early Kama Sutra. The girl working at the bookstore gave me a funny look for that one.
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Posted 25 September 2005 - 09:49 PM

Just started to read The Temptation of Elminster, the third in the series.
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Posted 26 September 2005 - 08:06 AM

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Posted 28 September 2005 - 08:14 AM

I've just got like seven or eight books by Ruth Rendell. I feel a little ashamed to acknowledge such a plebeian taste amongst all that philosophy stuff, but I really like her - surprisingly, all these quaint old British ladies (P.D. James, Frances Fyfield) produce pretty weird and morbid stuff.

Answering xenduck's question I used to be able to read a 400-page book on a good weekend day, but I am out of practise. No more train journeys to read, adn too many good computer games to play these days...
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