Summer reading (BOOK THREAD - KRACUS BEWARE)

Post by **Pauly** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:14 pm

Ryoki wrote:Theo van Gogh - Sla ik mijn vrouw wel hard genoeg?

By that guy that got killed, it's a like a selection of his columns.

Yeah, I must pick that one up.

Post by **Ryoki** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:18 pm

Haha don't bother, it's not that good.
I'm only reading it because i'm interested in all the weird and sometimes true things he said (i didn't follow his stuff at all when he was alive) and because i found the book laying on the street in the middle of the night.

Post by **Jackal** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:20 pm

Massive Quasars wrote:
Jackal wrote:I'm also reading "Cyborg" by Steven Mann.
Oddly enough, doesn't he oppose a more fundamental combination of man and machine? I ask because I don't recall with certainty.

I'm only about a quarter into it but he seems to be more about the idea that the "wired" individual has a greater propensity for individuality than the average person. He's all about his liberation of humanity through the machine.

Post by **Shmee** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:21 pm

I just finished "The New American Militarism" by Andrew Bacevich. I reccomend it highly to anyone who wants a little insight as to why Americans are so fucked up. It's very succinct and politically neutral - the author is very much a constructionist in the strictest sense of the word (not the right-wing hijacked version). I'm leaning in that direction myself these days...

I'm going to start Freakanomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner tomorrow.

Post by **megami** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:37 pm

Going to check out The Jungle by Upton Sinclair- have heard all about it for ages but never got around to actually reading the book.

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:49 pm

Ryoki wrote:Haha don't bother, it's not that good.
I'm only reading it because i'm interested in all the weird and sometimes true things he said (i didn't follow his stuff at all when he was alive) and because i found the book laying on the street in the middle of the night.

lol fucking bum you

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:52 pm

Pauly wrote:I just finished The DaVinci Code. I thought it was OK but I am amazed at how hyped it is. It isn't anything special, and I don't think there's even much there for a film.

same. wasn't something too fantastic.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:03 pm

Nothing :icon19: Last book I read was Mass Control, Human engineering.

Post by **Chupacabra** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:07 pm

megami wrote:Going to check out The Jungle by Upton Sinclair- have heard all about it for ages but never got around to actually reading the book.

I didn't particularly care for that book *shrug* but if it suits you, go for it.

Right now I'm reading Harry Potter book 1. I never read it before. Its okay so far. Not as amazing as everyone makes it out to be (or perhaps it gets better later?)

Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:17 pm

Kracus wrote:Nothing :icon19: Last book I read was Mass Control, Human engineering.

One shouldn't revel in one's ignorance, Krasuc.

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:18 pm

Its Asscrack NS...sort it out

Post by **zeeko** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:38 pm

i'm reading "if on a winters night a traveler" by Italo Calvino... its pretty decent, its required for my school and i thought it would be awful, but its a pretty modern book, i'm not sure what its about yet though

Post by **Dave** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:42 pm

When I'm not busy reading things I have to read, I'm reading Orientalism by Edward Said.

Post by **Pauly** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:43 pm

Dave wrote:When I'm not busy reading things I have to read, I'm reading Orientalism by Edward Said.

Yes but what do you say?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:45 pm

Nightshade wrote:
Kracus wrote:Nothing :icon19: Last book I read was Mass Control, Human engineering.
One shouldn't revel in one's ignorance, Krasuc.

Nah it's not that I don't like reading I used to read a lot I just don't have the time.

That book really is interesting though check it out if you get a chance.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:57 pm

Don Carlos wrote:Its Asscrack NS...sort it out

Close. I prefer Asskrack.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:58 pm

or Asskrac

Post by **Hannibal** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:10 pm

The in-depth Kantian summer. Critique of Pure Reason, plus the collection on Intelligent Design that just arrived (Pennock, "Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives).

Post by **l0g1c** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:25 pm

Just finished Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (great book)
Working on Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

I'm not sure what I'll read next, so I'm watching this thread.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:33 pm

currently rereading Sherlock Holmes the complete novels and stories. I doubt I'll reread all of it though. I'm about to read What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
by Thomas Frank (as soon as my friend passes it along)

Post by **Therac-26** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:35 pm

Programming and software crap for work (requirements analysis -- yay!), alot of old Batman comics (working my way through the Knightfall series) for play.

Post by **sliver** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:39 pm

Jackal wrote:reading Oryx and Crake right now, by Margaret Atwood.

Do you like it? I got it from my high school as a grade 12 writerscraft prize, and i thought it was okay but nothing to write home about.

I'm currently reading The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay, having just finished The Lions of Al-Rassan and A Song For Arbonne by the same author.

Next up are Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo, Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry (I highly recommend his later work, A Fine Balance to anyone who enjoys fiction or is interested in India), and the first two books of R. Scott Bakkar's Prince of Nothing trilogy, seeing as the third isn't due out until next year.

I also want to reread Tad Williams' incredible Otherland series before I go back to school.

As an aside, I am proud to note that Guy Kay and Scott Bakkar, two of the most pre-eminent contemporary writers of fantasy, are both fellow residents of Ontario.

Post by **GONNAFISTYA** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:42 pm

lol

Love the thread title.

I'm reading research books for our next project at work (so I can't mention anything).

Post by **-Replicant-** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:43 pm

I just finished Freakenomics. Great book, reminded me a lot of Blink and The Tipping Point in its social analysis. Highly recommended.

Just starting The Brothers Karamazov by Dosteovsky.

Post by **l0g1c** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:46 pm

-Replicant- wrote:.

Just starting The Brothers Karamazov by Dosteovsky.

Crime & Punishment is one I'm seriously considering next, although it's a little intimidating for me.