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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #345 on: January 29, 2015, 11:53:00 pm »
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Picked up Dune. Lets see if I have time to finish it.

I'm into the third one right now. It just keeps getting harder to read.

I also recently finished The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. Oh boy that was a glorious book.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #346 on: January 30, 2015, 04:19:31 am »
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hey guys black history month is right around the corner
be sure to pick this up and enrich yourself

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The author is a writer for The Onion. It's a funny read and will get you the best looks when reading it in public. Does a better job of putting you into someone else's shoes than any serious book on the same subject. Don't skip it!!
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #347 on: February 25, 2015, 11:22:40 pm »
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so i'm looking for a new book to read. can anyone give me some suggestions?
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #348 on: February 26, 2015, 01:30:33 am »
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #349 on: February 26, 2015, 05:17:17 pm »
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #350 on: February 26, 2015, 06:07:17 pm »
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I spend 2 hours  to go to my college and i don't have a smartphone to burry my head in it. So i read those kind of stuffs  :lol:

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #351 on: February 26, 2015, 06:21:31 pm »
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Finished Zones of Thought trilogy by Vernor Vinge - great books, especially the first one.

Now doing Hyperion.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #352 on: March 01, 2015, 04:14:39 pm »
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Finished Zones of Thought trilogy by Vernor Vinge - great books, especially the first one.

Now doing Hyperion.

I've been meaning to read Vinge. Heard great things.

Hyperion will always have a special place in my heart for epic sci-fi.

Tagora, fiction or non-fiction?

Here's my late suggestion for black history month: The Black Count by Tom Reiss. It goes over the life of Alexandre Dumas's father.


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« Reply #353 on: March 01, 2015, 10:32:25 pm »
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Tell my horse : voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston. Author goes down to Jamaica and Haiti to observe (and in some cases participate in) the religious practices of people. You get first hand descriptions of all kinds of cool shit. The Nine Night. Hunting wild boar with Maroons. Combination plantation and voodoo cult station. This isn't a manual that tells you how to ~magic~ it's just a cool book that is 100% real things that happened and are cooler than most fiction.

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Reindeer People : Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia by Piers Vitebsky. This book is really good if you like mysterious lost civilizations and nomads riding reindeer and shit and also all of it is true it's not a fantasy novel.
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #354 on: March 01, 2015, 11:29:28 pm »
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Currently reading White Fang by Jack London, its brilliant.
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #355 on: March 02, 2015, 12:07:40 am »
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Finished Zones of Thought trilogy by Vernor Vinge - great books, especially the first one.

Now doing Hyperion.

That first book from Vinges trilogy is truly great. Sense of wonder is one of reasons I like sci-fi and this book made me feel it.

I read many books from Simmons, but not single one really got me.(rating them as just very good) From Hyperion I liked most part one of first book. (Something with priest)

Currently reading White Fang by Jack London, its brilliant.

One of my favourites childhood books.


Currently reading Shogun from James Clavell. My third book from him, still very good read, but I like Tai-pan and King Rat better.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #356 on: March 03, 2015, 01:26:23 am »
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Never had the will to go through this topic, neither the one to write in it, so now that I do; Beware of the massive Post!!!

Witch you post books that seems really cool about anthropology, shaman, vodoo and stuff like that, gonna read them soon! :D
In your honor, I will start with...

In anthropology:
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Absurd:
"Il cavaliere inesistente", Italo Calvino: The story of a knight that doesn't exist and of his squire that mistakes himself with the things he sees (yeah that's exactly what i meant). Very fun to read like every Italo Calvino but this one is the best!
"les rhinoceros", Eugene Ionesco: Fascism explained by rhinoceros, classic!

Philosphy:
"What the Buddha taught", Walpola Rahula: A very philosophical approach of Buddhism, and a very convincing explanation of what it was truly about at the start, this is the book that really made me enter in the buddhist philosophy.

Adventure:
"latitude zero", Mike Horn: The author tells the story of his crazy adventures around the globe, as he decided to circle the world by the equator. Where he has to travel oceans or pass across the Amazon jungle alone or face guerillas in Africa and south America. Plus it's a swiss author!  :)

On economy:
"Capital in the Twenty-First Century", Thomas Picketty: Amazing book, not difficult to read as the autor use some humor sometimes, references to litterature character and explain everything very well. There is a crazy amount of important informations about the history of society and economy and how the economy works. Everything purely based on facts (records of fortune and historical sources). Changed my perspective on many things and reaveled a lot to me.

In sci-fi:
"Do androids dreams of eletric sheep?",  Philip K. Dick:  The book that inspired Blade runner, but the book is a thousand times better than the movie!

And I will end up with my favorite author, Haruki Murakami. He manages to put the perfect transition from reallity to fantasy by small steps almost invisble and you end up in a completly different world parallel to ours!

Imo the best of his book is "Kafka on the Shore" and then the serie "1Q84"

edit: not so massive post in the end.
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #357 on: March 04, 2015, 05:55:33 pm »
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That first book from Vinges trilogy is truly great. Sense of wonder is one of reasons I like sci-fi and this book made me feel it.

I read many books from Simmons, but not single one really got me.(rating them as just very good) From Hyperion I liked most part one of first book. (Something with priest)

One of my favourites childhood books.


Currently reading Shogun from James Clavell. My third book from him, still very good read, but I like Tai-pan and King Rat better.

Oh nice, Shogun is brilliant, i was glued to that book when I read it.
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #358 on: March 04, 2015, 10:40:27 pm »
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Witch you post books that seems really cool about anthropology, shaman, vodoo and stuff like that, gonna read them soon! :D

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I love anthropolgy stuff and mythology/folk story collections from around the world. It is interesting to see your own human nature mirrored in a story that took place on the other side of the world or millennia ago. If you like anthropology for the same reasons check out these books:

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The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall

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Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano. I really enjoyed this book, it throws you into places throughout human history like an accidental time traveller.

Unrelated, but I just picked up My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf. It's a memoir in graphic novel form. The author went to high school with Jeffrey Dahmer. If you knew (or maybe you were) the "weird kid" in high school this book will hit uncomfortably close to home. It's really really good please read this.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #359 on: March 05, 2015, 12:19:57 am »
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so apparently, Metro 2034 was translated to English, some time November of last year. yet no one told me

so i bought the book a week ago...just gotten find a good time to read it
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