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currently reading....
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:37 am
by CitizenKane
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
about half way through it, very good. set the standard for Orwell's 1984 and more relevant now than it ever was
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:39 am
by Foo
Advanced Lectures to Senior Police Officers in Scotland. Published 1936
It's intriguing. Not to mention quite rare.
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:39 am
by MKJ
this thread
disappointing
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:40 am
by Foo
Okay then. Currently reading: Viz. On the shitter.
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:40 am
by CitizenKane
MKJ wrote:this thread
disappointing
lol, true
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:09 pm
by Ryoki
Not reading anything atm which is rare for me.
Was sort of half trying to find some quality shit about the Korean War in my fav bookstore last weekend (for some reason i've recently taken an interest in that). But alas, i don't really know where to start.
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:19 pm
by seremtan
From Oslo to Iraq and the Roadmap - Edward Said :icon14:
Re: currently reading....
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:23 pm
by werldhed
CitizenKane wrote:Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
about half way through it, very good. set the standard for Orwell's 1984 and more relevant now than it ever was
Highly overrated. It suffers from the same problem as 1984: it has huge potential, and then fails to go anywhere with it.
Haven't looked at anything for pleasure reading for a while.
atm I'm reading a shitload of papers on NK cells as I have to teach a class about it on monday. I've also got a journal club presentation coming up, so I've got to read for that. Then I have all the papers I'm reading for my grant...
... suddenly I wish I was reading Brave New World.
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:24 pm
by busetibi
Ryoki wrote:Not reading anything atm which is rare for me.
Was sort of half trying to find some quality shit about the Korean War in my fav bookstore last weekend (for some reason i've recently taken an interest in that). But alas, i don't really know where to start.
a good start.
max hastings
http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu/bibl/mil/ko ... ngs_i.html
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Re: currently reading....
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:38 pm
by CitizenKane
werldhed wrote:CitizenKane wrote:Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
about half way through it, very good. set the standard for Orwell's 1984 and more relevant now than it ever was
Highly overrated. It suffers from the same problem as 1984: it has huge potential, and then fails to go anywhere with it.
:icon13:
mmm i'd have to disagree there, what made 1984 great was how prophetic it was. i mean it wasnt supposed to be just a great story, the thought police were obviously just metaphors for censorship etc and the whole big brother V goldstein represents state propaganda trying to unite their citizens under fear of a common enemy.....(war on 'terror' anyone?)
so in that regard it was pretty successful imo. i think his predictions were fairly accurate
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:40 pm
by demonglitter
Deception, by Denise Mina. Good so far but I have a feeling it is bound to disapoint me.
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:41 pm
by SplishSplash
I just read
The Power of the Dog
by Don Winslow and it was fucking awesome.
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:42 pm
by busetibi
The God Theory - Bernard Haisch
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:42 pm
by werldhed
CitizenKane wrote:werldhed wrote:CitizenKane wrote:Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
about half way through it, very good. set the standard for Orwell's 1984 and more relevant now than it ever was
Highly overrated. It suffers from the same problem as 1984: it has huge potential, and then fails to go anywhere with it.
:icon13:
mmm i'd have to disagree there, what made 1984 great was how prophetic it was. i mean it wasnt supposed to be just a great story, the thought police were obviously just metaphors for censorship etc and the whole big brother V goldstein represents state propaganda trying to unite their citizens under fear of a common enemy.....(war on 'terror' anyone?)
so in that regard it was pretty successful imo. i think his predictions were fairly accurate
Don't get me wrong, they both make really good points about gov't and thought control and what have you. But as stories, they are highly lacking. Nothing happens in the whole second half of 1984... you just listen to some gov't shill preach his propaganda. It may have just been a letter to the editor instead of a novel.
As social commentary, they're decent. As works of literature, they both fall short, imo.
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:30 pm
by Fender
I just finished The DaVinci Code, first book I've read in quite some time. I should read more... dunno what's next.
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:32 pm
by Freakaloin
'i fuck men' by duhard...easy reading...
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:34 pm
by Nightshade
A bunch of papers on quadrotor UAV attitude stabilization and Simulink aerospace blockset documentation.
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:34 pm
by Freakaloin
Nightshade wrote:A bunch of papers on quadrotor UAV attitude stabilization and Simulink aerospace blockset documentation.
someone ban this nerd...
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:42 pm
by MKJ
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:55 pm
by Grudge
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:31 pm
by seremtan
Freakaloin wrote:'i fuck men' by duhard...easy reading...
many endnotes?
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:00 pm
by Ryoki
thx for the tip
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:00 pm
by Underpants?
and lots of anal anecdotes!
*shakes fist at rydutchie
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:33 pm
by Turbine
Antwone Q. Fisher -- Finding Fish
It is a memoir/bibliography/drama
You might have seen a movie
loosely based on it's 7th chapter. Called
Antwone Fisher http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168786/
CitizenKane, aren't you that dude with the super long silly name? Now changed.?
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:45 pm
by Hannibal
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
Sources of the Self by Charles Taylor (2nd time)
