what are you reading? - Page 298

_tunic_ · 06.04.2022, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

so how did you like it? this book blew my mind when i first read it, i must have been 18 or so. i go back to it every so often, and while i now can see through its construction, it still manages to keep me engaged. kinda hate the new cover lol. but yeah so much fun.

I'm a very slow reader, I'm currently still at page 126. [spoiler alert but not really] They've only just moved to the other planet and discovered the botanical garden.
As I said, I had to get used to the lingo but I do like how it's written

For some reason I'm picturing the Duke as the Dude

The Soup Nazi · 06.05.2022, 08:28 PM

!@#$%! · 06.07.2022, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by _tunic_

I'm a very slow reader, I'm currently still at page 126. [spoiler alert but not really] They've only just moved to the other planet and discovered the botanical garden.
As I said, I had to get used to the lingo but I do like how it's written

For some reason I'm picturing the Duke as the Dude

haaahaaahaaahaaaa duke leto!

great visuals lmao

and slow reading is good... it's a big fat book too.

now you make me wanna read it again hahahahaaa

Severian · 06.09.2022, 06:20 AM

OH! I forgot to mention I finished The Brothers Karamazov! What an excellent book. Dense but not impenetrable at all. Rich in parable, allegory, insight and humor. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic. I just loved it.
Well worth the effort.

Rob Instigator · 06.09.2022, 08:56 AM

I will need to read it. I never read it but it was my moms fave book.

she said when I was born, if I had been a girl, the plan was to name me Alexandra Ludovika Torres!

Severian · 06.09.2022, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I will need to read it. I never read it but it was my moms fave book.

she said when I was born, if I had been a girl, the plan was to name me Alexandra Ludovika Torres!

I was initially recommended it by someone who named their kid Alyosha (Alexey for short)!

Rob Instigator · 06.10.2022, 09:29 AM

I am reading cyberpunk author Rudy Rucker's autobiography NESTED SCROLLS.

So far so awesome.

LuntiX · 08.29.2022, 12:53 PM

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

It took me a few attempts to get started, but it's actually quite a page turner once you start getting invested in the characters. The beginning is definitely a bit of a slog though.

Severian · 08.30.2022, 06:12 AM

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.

Also I read The Time Traveler’s Wife and WOW JESUS WHAT A TERRIBLE BOOK. Just a horrible story about grooming, featuring a bunch of truly loathsome people being awful. It’s not cute or charming, it’s fucking weird and bad.
Plus it is 100% about grooming, can’t convince me otherwise. But it’s like, “the grooming is OK in this instance!”

Eat shit, Time Traveler’s Wife, fuck off

!@#$%! · 10.24.2022, 01:47 PM

the financial times

it used to be incomprehensible to me but not no more

Rob Instigator · 10.28.2022, 09:55 AM

Finally finished the amazing and seminal work THE ORIGIN OF ALL RELIGIOUS WORSHIP by Charles-François Dupuis.

My thoughts on it are here: https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2022/...red-truth.html

Severian · 10.29.2022, 06:10 AM

Still reading The Historian, hah! Big long book, to be sure, but I’m only halfway through, and I knocked out Brothers Karamazov in much less time. So maybe it’s just not the right time to read The Historian.

The Soup Nazi · 11.13.2022, 03:39 AM

The latest Forced Exposure Mailorder Update newsletter. Pausing here and there to check out some of the titles mentioned in it on AllMusic and Bandcamp, it took me over two hours to read the whole freakin' thing...

choc e-Claire · 11.14.2022, 03:36 AM

Recently finished The Man in the High Castle, have gotten halfway through Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Should probably make sure I don't let all the books fall overdue though...

Toilet & Bowels · 12.28.2022, 04:08 AM

I'm reading The Count of Montecristo, and I'm reading it at a snails pace because i haven't had much spare time in the last couple of months

The Soup Nazi · 12.28.2022, 04:25 AM

choc e-Claire · 12.28.2022, 08:20 AM

Leafing through Eduardo Galeano's Football in Sun and Shadow, but his American translator insists on calling it soccer.

nasser · 02.11.2023, 11:52 AM

Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley.

choc e-Claire · 02.26.2023, 06:54 AM

Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard.

Bertrand · 03.22.2023, 08:16 AM

Trying to read Mariam Petrosyan's Gray House, but it's a bit discomforting.

I read Edgar Hilsenrath's Night last month, I guess I should have found something lighter between these two books.
And I've received my order of Selby' Demon...
What was I thinking about?

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06.09.2022, 06:20 AM	#5944
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,745	OH! I forgot to mention I finished The Brothers Karamazov! What an excellent book. Dense but not impenetrable at all. Rich in parable, allegory, insight and humor. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic. I just loved it. Well worth the effort.
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06.09.2022, 08:56 AM	#5945
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,969	I will need to read it. I never read it but it was my moms fave book. she said when I was born, if I had been a girl, the plan was to name me Alexandra Ludovika Torres! __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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06.10.2022, 09:29 AM	#5947
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,969	I am reading cyberpunk author Rudy Rucker's autobiography NESTED SCROLLS. So far so awesome. __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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08.29.2022, 12:53 PM	#5948
LuntiX empty page Join Date: Aug 2022 Posts: 2	The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. It took me a few attempts to get started, but it's actually quite a page turner once you start getting invested in the characters. The beginning is definitely a bit of a slog though.
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08.30.2022, 06:12 AM	#5949
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,745	The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Also I read The Time Traveler’s Wife and WOW JESUS WHAT A TERRIBLE BOOK. Just a horrible story about grooming, featuring a bunch of truly loathsome people being awful. It’s not cute or charming, it’s fucking weird and bad. Plus it is 100% about grooming, can’t convince me otherwise. But it’s like, “the grooming is OK in this instance!” Eat shit, Time Traveler’s Wife, fuck off
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10.24.2022, 01:47 PM	#5950
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,563	the financial times it used to be incomprehensible to me but not no more
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10.28.2022, 09:55 AM	#5951
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,969	Finally finished the amazing and seminal work THE ORIGIN OF ALL RELIGIOUS WORSHIP by Charles-François Dupuis. My thoughts on it are here: https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2022/...red-truth.html __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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10.29.2022, 06:10 AM	#5952
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,745	Still reading The Historian, hah! Big long book, to be sure, but I’m only halfway through, and I knocked out Brothers Karamazov in much less time. So maybe it’s just not the right time to read The Historian.
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11.13.2022, 03:39 AM	#5953
The Soup Nazi invito al cielo Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Del Boca Vista Posts: 18,235	The latest Forced Exposure Mailorder Update newsletter. Pausing here and there to check out some of the titles mentioned in it on AllMusic and Bandcamp, it took me over two hours to read the whole freakin' thing... __________________ GADJI BERI BIMBA GLANDRIDI LAULI LONNI CADORI GADJAM A BIM BERI GLASSALA GLANDRIDI E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA
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11.14.2022, 03:36 AM	#5954
choc e-Claire expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 2,465	Recently finished The Man in the High Castle, have gotten halfway through Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Should probably make sure I don't let all the books fall overdue though... __________________ Making myself up as I go along. Check out my music-themed blog, 79:57.
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12.28.2022, 04:08 AM	#5955
Toilet & Bowels invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Europe Posts: 12,265	I'm reading The Count of Montecristo, and I'm reading it at a snails pace because i haven't had much spare time in the last couple of months
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12.28.2022, 04:25 AM	#5956
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12.28.2022, 08:20 AM	#5957
choc e-Claire expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 2,465	Leafing through Eduardo Galeano's Football in Sun and Shadow, but his American translator insists on calling it soccer. __________________ Making myself up as I go along. Check out my music-themed blog, 79:57.
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02.11.2023, 11:52 AM	#5958
nasser empty page Join Date: Feb 2023 Posts: 2	Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley.
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02.26.2023, 06:54 AM	#5959
choc e-Claire expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 2,465	Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard. __________________ Making myself up as I go along. Check out my music-themed blog, 79:57.
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03.22.2023, 08:16 AM	#5960
Bertrand expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Rennes, France Posts: 1,267	Trying to read Mariam Petrosyan's Gray House, but it's a bit discomforting. I read Edgar Hilsenrath's Night last month, I guess I should have found something lighter between these two books. And I've received my order of Selby' Demon... What was I thinking about?
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