Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[Dildo Argentino]

Haven't read any Banks.

Lucky you!

I read a Bruce Sterling story collection (Visionary In Residence or something)

He has a collection called A Good Old-Fashioned Future which, I think, has some of his best writing in it.

Rucker.

Now you're talkin'! 

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

As of the beginning of the month I finally finished reading The 120 Days of Sodom all the way through

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm still reading The Elements and I'm almost finished with Freakonomics, which I'm fairly certain I've read before. I just started a chemistry textbook and I'm halfway through Electrified sheep.

BOOKS: YOU CAN'T EAT JUST ONE.

[Lenin McCarthy]

From the Christiania Boheme, by Hans Jæger.

Jæger was part of the Christiania Boheme, a group of infantile anarchist artists in Norway in the late 1890s, and he was very opposed to the conservative sexual morals of the time, probably because he was tired of screwing working class girls.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

I'm reading Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore. One of the characters is based on Emperor Norton.

[Dildo Argentino]

Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom. A fascinating book, especially considering it is 70 years old. The author asks all the right questions, then struggles with the answers, largely on account of the conceptual apparatus not being in place. Quotes:

"Modern European and American history is centered around the effort to gain freedom from the political, economic, and spiritual shackles that have bound men. The battles for freedom where fought by the oppressed, those who wanted new liberties, against those who had privileges to defend. While a class was fighting for its own liberation from domination, it believed itself to be fighting for human freedom as such and thus was able to appeal to an ideal, to the longing for freedom rooted in all who are oppressed. In the long and virtually continuous battle for freedom, however, classes that were fighting against oppression at one stage sided with the enemies of freedom when victory was won and new privileges were to be defended."

"Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self."

[EK WAFFLR]

Shit Magnet by Jim Goad.
I disagree with almost everything the man has to say, but he is a brilliant wordsmith.

[minuspace]

I got like 3/8ths through The Filth, the comic thingie.

[Juana]

Still reading Ghost Wars, which is about the CIA's adventures in Afghanistan during and after the Soviet war with the Saudis and Pakistan's intelligence organizations. Also reading The Peace to End All Peace, which is about the creation of the modern Middle East.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't even know what I'm reading anymore. Mind Over Ship by Marusek, and Beyond Oz by somebody, and some other books.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I got like 3/8ths through The Filth, the comic thingie.

The Filth is so good. It's hard to push through, though; it just sort of compounds upon itself in disgust. Like Eraserhead. But, the ending is in good Grant Morrison style.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Now I'm taking a second shot at reading Godel, Escher, Bach

[Sano]

Every time I read this thread I feel like I know nothing about fiction. I'm probably going to use it as a reading list. It's been a looong time since I read fiction books, sadly.

Anyway, the books I'm reading at the moment for college are Deleuze's Cinema 1 (which is kinda dull if you don't get much of the movie references, which actually sounds obvious in retrospect - his bits about Bergson are actually nice though), Foucault's The order of things (which I should have started reading, but I still haven't), bits and pieces of something by Duns Scotus, and something by Ayer which I completely forgot the name now.

Not for college, but I really should finish reading Guns, Germs and Steel soon (so I can start reading Collapse, which I already bought). I also managed to buy a nice detailed annotation of Confucius' Analects, which I should start reading soon. Will probably start reading Homo Ludens soon as well. I am rereading the first book of Euclid's Elements, just for fun. And I think that's basically it.

[Eater of Clowns]

Every time I read this thread I feel like I know nothing about fiction. I'm probably going to use it as a reading list. It's been a looong time since I read fiction books, sadly.

Anyway, the books I'm reading at the moment for college are Deleuze's Cinema 1 (which is kinda dull if you don't get much of the movie references, which actually sounds obvious in retrospect - his bits about Bergson are actually nice though), Foucault's The order of things (which I should have started reading, but I still haven't), bits and pieces of something by Duns Scotus, and something by Ayer which I completely forgot the name now.

Not for college, but I really should finish reading Guns, Germs and Steel soon (so I can start reading Collapse, which I already bought). I also managed to buy a nice detailed annotation of Confucius' Analects, which I should start reading soon. Will probably start reading Homo Ludens soon as well. I am rereading the first book of Euclid's Elements, just for fun. And I think that's basically it.

Have you seen this thread?

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,19988.0.html

It's a good one for fiction suggestions that a lot of people here agreed on.

[Sano]

Every time I read this thread I feel like I know nothing about fiction. I'm probably going to use it as a reading list. It's been a looong time since I read fiction books, sadly.

Anyway, the books I'm reading at the moment for college are Deleuze's Cinema 1 (which is kinda dull if you don't get much of the movie references, which actually sounds obvious in retrospect - his bits about Bergson are actually nice though), Foucault's The order of things (which I should have started reading, but I still haven't), bits and pieces of something by Duns Scotus, and something by Ayer which I completely forgot the name now.

Not for college, but I really should finish reading Guns, Germs and Steel soon (so I can start reading Collapse, which I already bought). I also managed to buy a nice detailed annotation of Confucius' Analects, which I should start reading soon. Will probably start reading Homo Ludens soon as well. I am rereading the first book of Euclid's Elements, just for fun. And I think that's basically it.

Have you seen this thread?

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,19988.0.html

It's a good one for fiction suggestions that a lot of people here agreed on.

Wow, I really didn't. Thanks!