Katzenmusik Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Okay you got my attention. If you want " the spice," then try Kenneth Grant. Really anything by him is hours of fun. Haha, thanks. I'll look him up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kam Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 I'm in the middle of Gods of Aberdeen by Micah Nathan (and a bunch of other things for classes, of course). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_crayons Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels (tons of public peeing and pooping, GREAT to distract from stressful things) Zizek - Violence (can only read 5-10 pages in one sitting, so I read it on the bus every day) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russophile Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I just finished The Red Prince by Timothy Snyder. I am also reading Lolita and an array of articles on Ukraine. I should probably find another lighter book to read as well that would keep me better distracted, but so far Lolita has been engaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anxiousapplicant Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I just finished The Red Prince by Timothy Snyder. I am also reading Lolita and an array of articles on Ukraine. I should probably find another lighter book to read as well that would keep me better distracted, but so far Lolita has been engaging. Doesn't it make you positively feel creepy though? I'm just so torn because it uses such beautiful writing to describe something so vile. I don't want to read articles on it until I finish it so I don't taint my own initial impression, though. socnerd and pangur-ban 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dov_Love Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Choas by James Gleick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleisthenes Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Zizek - Violence (can only read 5-10 pages in one sitting, so I read it on the bus every day) Ahh, violence is one of zizek's best (though definitely not one of his more rigorous). I particularly love his discussion of divine violence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. sesquipedale Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Blaming the Brain: The truth about drugs and mental health (Elliot S. Valenstein) really enjoying it so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Encomendero Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yinyangwriter Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Nice thread. I'm reading two books right now...Treasure Box by Orson Scott Card (very weird story) and Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov (Heaven!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eklavya Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 bringing this thread up. my recent read (started in the summer, halted about 3 months ago) 'the idiot' by dostoevsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katerific Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 good call, bhikhaari! I'm re-reading Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (I first read it about 5 years ago). It's a pretty quick read, though, so I'll need to find some other things to pick up soon.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beanbagchairs Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 im currently reading: love in the time of cholera and uh, linear algebra: principles and applications in CS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerson Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Just finished reading Leigh Eric Schmidt's Heaven's Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman. It was wonderful--I highly recommend it. I just started Alan Taylor's The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies. My guilty pleasure--especially when I am trying to take my mind off of application woes--is a Jack Reacher Novel. I think I have read half of them now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lechatgris Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 I rewarded myself for finishing apps with a re-read of the Harry Potter series. In addition, I'm enjoying a collection of Victorian and Edwardian short stories, which are nearly all creepy and/or depressing. I love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwig von Dracula Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy, as well as Jeff Smith's "Bone" graphic novels (great) and the "Spawn" comic book series (crap but kind of fun). I just finished "The Passage" by Justin Cronin, which is like Stephen King's "The Stand" with vampires--really enjoyed it. And of course, many papers and books toward my thesis (due in a few months). And this forum--way more than necessary! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katerific Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy, as well as Jeff Smith's "Bone" graphic novels (great) and the "Spawn" comic book series (crap but kind of fun). I just finished "The Passage" by Justin Cronin, which is like Stephen King's "The Stand" with vampires--really enjoyed it. And of course, many papers and books toward my thesis (due in a few months). And this forum--way more than necessary! I saw that you were the most recent poster in this thread, and as I was opening it up I was (jokingly) thinking, "I bet he's reading stuff about vampires and darkness, or maybe Bach. Vampires love toccatas and fugues." Well, I was half-right. Alyanumbers, Ludwig von Dracula and psycholinguist 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alyanumbers Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 I'm supposed to be reading L'Emploi du temps by Butor, and a book about folk lit in Arabic, but instead I've been rereading Camus (La Chute and L'Etranger). I've just bought new books last months, but I promised myself I won't read them during finals! I'm supposed to, you know, study. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bukharan Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Alan Hollinghurst, 'The Line of Beauty' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NadaJ Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 (edited) I'm reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier. And when I'm really depressed, I re-read the Twilight series. I am 30, married, own a home, and have a 2 YO and I love these books. I have all four movies on my ipad as well. It's an addiction, I know. Edited January 2, 2011 by NadaJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natsteel Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 I'm reading for an honors research essay to be written in the spring on William Livingston. However, I'm also trying to reintroduce a bit of "pleasure reading" at least over this break. For that, I have Confessions of a Philosopher by Bryan Magee, which I have already read but am enjoying for a second time, and a novel called Fight For Your Day, a comedic (but somewhat tragic) "day-in-the-life" of an adjunct teaching Comp 101 at 4 schools Pennsylvania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barilicious Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I'm currently reading The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger. I'm also about to start Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity by Joshua Gamson and Out of the Closets: The Sociology of Homosexual Liberation by Laud Humphreys. After I *hopefully* get accepted somewhere, I plan to start reading a great deal of sociology theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwig von Dracula Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I saw that you were the most recent poster in this thread, and as I was opening it up I was (jokingly) thinking, "I bet he's reading stuff about vampires and darkness, or maybe Bach. Vampires love toccatas and fugues." Well, I was half-right. LOL. I promise I'm not as gothic as all that, you just caught me when all the constellations were aligned...The Passage, Blood Meridian, Spawn, and Bone (at least its title) make quite a collection. I do enjoy a good Bach fugue (or Bach anything, really). I need some optimistic suggestions before I sink into my coffin for good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricaMarie Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I'm currently reading both Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone series and Tess Geritsen's Rizzoli and Isles series on my Nook. I'm also reading Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series. Oh, and whatever I need to read for my thesis revisions. Joy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmc Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 (edited) Currently reading Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (I'm sure you all knew that), and Absalom, Absalom!, Faulkner. I just finished Salman Rushdie's Shame for the second time, and would highly recommend it. Edited January 3, 2011 by Meg11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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