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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #390 on: April 25, 2015, 01:24:53 pm »
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #391 on: April 25, 2015, 01:29:27 pm »
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What's it about?  I'm guessing anti science shit?
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #392 on: April 26, 2015, 10:52:39 pm »
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The Japanese Tattoo by Donald Richman and Ian Buruma

It has some cool pictures, but the history of Japanese tattoos is really cool. They were originally used as punishment (like an indelible mark of shame). You'd have the symbol for Dog tattooed on your forehead or bars around your upper arms if you were a really nasty criminal. It was adopted by the firemen in Edo (they were basically a bunch of rough lower class guys that got hired to keep them off the streets) and was eventually taken up by middle class folk who were forbidden from wearing the finest silks and cloth that nobles were allowed. It's really neat if you like tattoos or Japanese history check it out.
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #393 on: May 12, 2015, 01:25:08 pm »
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Just finished reading this trilogy

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/day-by-day-armageddon-j-l-bourne/1100214985?ean=9781439176672


If you`re into the whole zombie survival stuff, I highly reccomend it!

Sporadic news reports indicate chaos and violence spreading through U.S. cities. An unknown evil is sweeping the planet. The dead are rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food chain.This is the handwritten journal depicting one man’s struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. Enter if you will into his world. The world of the undead.


Pretty good stuff!
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #394 on: May 12, 2015, 02:22:32 pm »
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Working my way through these at the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time

Thoroughly enjoying it.
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #395 on: May 12, 2015, 02:25:41 pm »
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Working my way through these at the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time

Thoroughly enjoying it.

Thanks, I`m gonna "buy it"  :mrgreen:
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #396 on: July 04, 2015, 09:56:08 am »
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I have a huge nerd boner for anthropology and early human history. I read lots of nonfiction books on the subject (PM me if you are looking for some titles to grab your interest on the subject) and finally forced myself to read the Clan of the the Cave Bear series by Jean M Auel. I wish I had started reading the series sooner. I rarely touch fiction and in general will drop a novel for well-written history stuff in a heartbeat.

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Clan of the Cave Bear is fiction, but it reminds me more of a National Geographic documentary on human ancestry than anything else. The main character is a Homo sapiens girl who loses her family and is adopted by a Neanderthal clan. This was published in 1980, but holds up very well as "fantasy anthropology" shit. Auel did a LOT of research on the subject, and large portions of the text are dedicated to social rules/interactions of Neanderthals and prehistoric/hunter-gatherer herbal medicine. Heavy prose about prehistoric flora/fauna should fill out your anthropology nerd needs.

I've had this series and Dune on my "to read" list for years. Maybe I'll read the core novels of Dune next time I have a craving for fiction...
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #397 on: July 04, 2015, 10:47:18 am »
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^ Try Neverness series. Has been compared to Dune and includes humans who have manipulated their DNA so they can live as neanderthalls. First book is kind of its own novel, then there is a trilogy
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #398 on: July 06, 2015, 06:57:25 am »
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Some graphic novels I've recently enjoyed. Skip if you are a big grown up who hates pictures in your books.

The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg is set in the time of myth, on a world not too different from our own. The main character loses a part of his soul and has to travel from the artic circle to the antarctic circle to find the missing piece. He meets people from different cultures along the way, and they share stories with one another.

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The other graphic novel is Blankets by Craig Thompson. It's a memoir of growing up in a very conservative Christian household, and the author's eventual loss of faith. It isn't as sad and depressing as it sounds, there are plenty of moments that will make you laugh. It's also not as boring as it sounds. Promise.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #399 on: July 06, 2015, 08:14:38 am »
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The main character is a Homo sapiens girl
She's Cro-Magnon. Don't you know ANYTHING
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #400 on: July 06, 2015, 09:59:00 pm »
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Quote from: Xant on July 06, 2015, 08:14:38 am
She's Cro-Magnon. Don't you know ANYTHING

She one of the Others. She is not Clan, Xant. We should have left her to die when we found her.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #401 on: July 08, 2015, 12:18:58 am »
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Witch do you like to read books with pretty pictures?
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« Reply #402 on: July 08, 2015, 02:24:40 am »
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Witch do you like to read books with pretty pictures?

My favorite pretty picture books are ones with artifacts and old-ass art and shit. Going through this one right now and it has so many gorgeous pieces in it. Glimpses of a forgotten past, of lost peoples. Gives me that spooky spine tingly feeling and I love it. Other pretty picture books I like:

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Bruegel the Elder's work. Look at all those people fucking around. Everywhere you look they are acting like maniacs, even if the picture as a whole looks like a regular old town. Look closer and it's a fucking looney bin. My personal favorite is the dude firing a crossbow at some pies that are cooling on a roof. What the fuck are you doing little crossbow man.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #403 on: July 08, 2015, 02:51:36 am »
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I read Political Fiction , Science - Fiction and Fantastic - Fiction Books. Others dont really pull me into the book.
Books I have read so far? : Alot ^^
If you have any book suggestions for me please pm or answer in this thread  :)

My favorite turkish novel writer : Orkun UÇAR .
And favorite novels : İncir Kuşları and (All of Orkun UÇAR's books :D ) .
I really dont know If they have english translated versions but You should really take a look at Orkun UÇAR's books.
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About the encyclopedias ; I read the ones that are about Turkish-history and Turkish mythology .
The best historians you can learn Turkish history from : Prof. Dr. Ahmet Taşağıl , Erhan Afyoncu , Nurhan Atasoy , Faruk Sümer , İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı , Halil İnalcık , Nicolae Jorga , İlber Ortaylı , Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı , Murat Bardakçı , İsmail Hami Danişmend , Prof Dr İbrahim Kafesoğlu .
I am pretty sure you can find their books in english on amazon if you are really interested about early and late Turkish History. Pm me and I can help you find the books that u need on your interests.
About the Turkish mythology tho : Prof. Dr. Bahaeddin Ögel
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #404 on: July 08, 2015, 03:28:02 am »
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I always liked that there's a guy shitting coins into the river back there, it's a nice touch.
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