What We're Reading

[Warcat]

Taking a break from reading for now, but I always recommend the works of Stephen Ambrose. Particularly Band of Brothers, D-Day and Citizen Soldiers.

[zagibu]

should I start to read something again???? But what???????

You should read the black book, if you can find it. It's also called the unburnt book by some (they claim it's called the black book because the original was thrown in the fire and saved before it really started to burn, but the cover was already charred). The copy I've read was from the library in Leipzig, but the friend who lent it to me told me every big library in the world should have one, they just don't want to admit it to everyone.

[Sir_Hans]

c-rpg players talking about reading...

Doesn't get much nerdier than that! 

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jk bff's

My favorite book:

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

[Eugen]

You should read the black book, if you can find it. It's also called the unburnt book by some (they claim it's called the black book because the original was thrown in the fire and saved before it really started to burn, but the cover was already charred). The copy I've read was from the library in Leipzig, but the friend who lent it to me told me every big library in the world should have one, they just don't want to admit it to everyone.

MuwahahHAha.. Al'Azif  YoGShoghot Shub Nighurat Shub YogShoth NahahahahHA_HA___HAA..arg.

This book must be buuurned... it drives me insaaane...NO. Xuthulhu.. he . is . my. master.

[Rumblood]

You should read the black book, if you can find it. It's also called the unburnt book by some (they claim it's called the black book because the original was thrown in the fire and saved before it really started to burn, but the cover was already charred). The copy I've read was from the library in Leipzig, but the friend who lent it to me told me every big library in the world should have one, they just don't want to admit it to everyone.

The fuck? I threw my black book into the fire because I got married! It isn't for you spergs to be reading!

[Sniger]

havent read many books in my life but i did recently get around to (finally) read and also finish "a brief history of nearly everything" by bill bryson who is simply epic, imba and will inherit the universe with carl sagan who is a tiny bit more epic and imba than bill.

will also recommend "american psycho" by brat easton ellis. hillarious. way better than movie(s).
(if u gonna read it, read it in english or some of the excellent morbid humor will be lost)

currently im grinding 2nd GoT book and i dont think i have to say anything further about that

[Rumblood]

havent read many books in my life but i did recently get around to (finally) read and also finish "a brief history of nearly everything" by bill bryson who is simply epic,

Own it, good reading. 

[Sniger]

Own it, good reading. 

personally think perhaps the best reading ever tho i felt nanosize when done... we are just a tiny but important piece in a scheme of astronomical proportions

[okiN]

personally think perhaps the best reading ever tho i felt nanosize when done... we are just a tiny but important piece in a scheme of astronomical proportions

I never quite understood why people say this. Of course humanity's place in the universe is insignificant enough that we might as well not exist... but why should that matter? Specifically, why should that matter to us? "Scheme of astronomical proportions"? What scheme? Whose scheme? If you're not religious then there's no reason to consider that "scheme" important in any way, and if you are religious, then you probably subscribe to the notion that the rest of the universe is pretty much irrelevant and God only really cares about us anyway. The way I see it, the movements of all those galaxies and clusters don't matter at all insofar as they don't appreciably affect human life.

[Sniger]

have you read the book?

[okiN]

I read it like ten years ago I think. From what I remember, along with the whole "the universe is really big" thing there was a lot of stuff about doomsday scenarios and generally on how small and helpless humanity is in the face of nature and cosmic happenstance. Fair enough, dunno if that's news to anyone. I remember liking it but I'm not sure it was much of a revelation for me.

[Sniger]

i find it extremely hard to belive that "all this", well knowing what "all this" really is, popped up randomly. everything is too perfect to be random, cant you see?

so flame me lol

[okiN]

Whatevs, think what you like. It's all the same to me, really.

[Sniger]

i refuse to belive that my existence here on this earth is random and a coincidence cus then i can might as well go and eat a bullet lol then everything would be pointless... i guess thats why man act like we do. we are careless fucks who dont give a shit cus we arrived here by coincidence and life is all about gaining power and value, fuck the rest cus im dying tomorrow.

just doesnt make any sense to me.

you know... we thought the earth was flat for less than 100 years. we still learn darwin bullshit on even the highest educations, wtf. its like ppl dont think they just repeat.

[Rumblood]

I never quite understood why people say this. Of course humanity's place in the universe is insignificant enough that we might as well not exist... but why should that matter? Specifically, why should that matter to us? "Scheme of astronomical proportions"? What scheme? Whose scheme? If you're not religious then there's no reason to consider that "scheme" important in any way, and if you are religious, then you probably subscribe to the notion that the rest of the universe is pretty much irrelevant and God only really cares about us anyway. The way I see it, the movements of all those galaxies and clusters don't matter at all insofar as they don't appreciably affect human life.

You know, that philosophy makes you sound like an "if it feels good" type of person. Follow that thread and as long as it doesn't affect you, why does it matter? If you could get away with anything in the world without consequence to you, go for it, because why does it matter otherwise?