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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #465 on: May 18, 2016, 05:57:46 am »
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I've been reading Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis. Very informative for anyone who would like to make any kind of sense about anything happening in the middle east. It also offers some peeks into the mindsets of the people and cultures. The most interesting point in the book was the observation how the separation of church and state, though very familiar to us in our thinking of societies, is a completely foreign concept in the Islamic world.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #466 on: May 18, 2016, 08:18:50 pm »
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I'm reading c-rpg off topic forums.
The series has definitely gone downhill but there are some good parts here and there.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #467 on: May 18, 2016, 09:11:18 pm »
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All Quiet on the Western Front
This is about being straight out retarded. Children see in slow motion like owls.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #468 on: May 19, 2016, 05:26:00 am »
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halfway through Galapagos by Vonnegut

just finished The Great Hunt in the WOT series

about 1200/1500 pages into The Stand by Stephen King

just picked up Good Omens by Neil Gaiman

friend gave me The Long Halloween and Dark Victory to read, by Jeph Loeb

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #469 on: May 19, 2016, 05:45:30 pm »
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Reading some German non-fiction 'Hier ist meine Heimat'. The subject is German-Turkish litterature. It's mainly a collection of personal stories from young 'Deutsch-Türken', dealing with identity, integration and meeting of cultures. It's pretty interesting, also contains a historical overview of Turkish immigration into Germany.
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #470 on: August 13, 2016, 08:45:16 pm »
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Have read it 2 times already. This warm feeling in my chest...
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #471 on: August 13, 2016, 09:56:52 pm »
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Almost through, "Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia" by Baltasar Gracián which is a bunch of aphorisms that seem to contradict themselves at certain times and might have some questionable translations; and started "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins which deals with subjugation of nations through international finance.
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #472 on: August 13, 2016, 10:01:21 pm »
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Reading an interesting treatise on tribalism, Keeping Together in Time by historian William H. McNeill.

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Could something as simple and seemingly natural as falling into step have marked us for evolutionary success? In Keeping Together in Time one of the most widely read and respected historians in America pursues the possibility that coordinated rhythmic movement—and the shared feelings it evokes—has been a powerful force in holding human groups together. As he has done for historical phenomena as diverse as warfare, plague, and the pursuit of power, William H. McNeill brings a dazzling breadth and depth of knowledge to his study of dance and drill in human history. From the records of distant and ancient peoples to the latest findings of the life sciences, he discovers evidence that rhythmic movement has played a profound role in creating and sustaining human communities. The behavior of chimpanzees, festival village dances, the close-order drill of early modern Europe, the ecstatic dance-trances of shamans and dervishes, the goose-stepping chocolate chip cookie formations, the morning exercises of factory workers in Japan—all these and many more figure in the bold picture McNeill draws. A sense of community is the key, and shared movement, whether dance or military drill, is its mainspring. McNeill focuses on the visceral and emotional sensations such movement arouses, particularly the euphoric fellow-feeling he calls “muscular bonding.” These sensations, he suggests, endow groups with a capacity for cooperation, which in turn improves their chance of survival.

A tour de force of imagination and scholarship, Keeping Together in Time reveals the muscular, rhythmic dimension of human solidarity. Its lessons will serve us well as we contemplate the future of the human community and of our various local communities.
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #473 on: January 24, 2018, 01:35:12 am »
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I actually read Daughter of the Empire and the next two books before I read Magician. I didn't even know about Magician until years later. It gave me a completely different perspective on the "Barbarians" and the "Alien Invaders".

I dunno if David Gemmel has been mentioned but he's an awesome author too. I really like his Troy trilogy.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #474 on: January 24, 2018, 05:47:32 am »
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Currently listening to The Gulag Archipelago

Other interesting things ive listened to relatively recently:
The Violinist's Thumb. Book about genetics and DNA, very entertaining and educational. Highly recommended.
Disappearing Spoon - Periodic table. Surprisingly interesting, tells the story behind the discoveries of the elements.
The Death of Expertise. Solid book about the increasing doubt in experts, and students thinking they are smarter than teachers etc  :mrgreen:
Outliers, The Story of Success. Very good book about general success stories, the backgrounds of those people. Really shows how the stars line up for some that become really successful, like Bill Gates.

Oh and i listened to the recent release of the Stormlight Archives, Oathbringer. It was aight, Brandon Sanderson is a good author but the thing that holds his books back is that there is always the threat of the end of the WORLD!!! It loses its flavour. Mistborns spinoff series Wax and Wayne (The alloy of law) is probably my favourite piece because its much more casual with a villain of the week deal. Unfortunately even it leads into the same issue with the sequels.
Paprika: ...the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #475 on: January 24, 2018, 01:45:34 pm »
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I read:

The Oathsworn Series from Robert Low.

A band of vikings looting, and Adventure stuff.

People that like vikings will like this book.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #476 on: January 24, 2018, 02:35:03 pm »
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I read the adventures of huckleberry finn and yankee at arthus's court

also read bible from behind ;)

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #477 on: January 24, 2018, 03:12:20 pm »
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I read scanned editions of Tex Willer.
Do you honestly think you have any sort of moral authority, Reyiz? Go genocide some more armenians and deny it ever happened, please, and stay in the middle east.
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #478 on: January 24, 2018, 09:28:14 pm »
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Work-related (I'm a historian) but interesting nonetheless:
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I've also just started a Persian language course that's probably going to keep me occupied for quite a while. I try to spend at least some time studying the textbook every day:
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #479 on: January 24, 2018, 10:35:02 pm »
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Just finished this, another Viking book losely based on real people.  The author is a Norse mythology major so it has that going for it.
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