Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[LMNO]

Average length of time between penetration and orgasm for a man: 7.3 minutes

Kinsey, yes.

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Honestly I'm surprised it's that long.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Average length of time between penetration and orgasm for a man: 7.3 minutes

Kinsey, yes.

That sounds about right. I don't really go for extended periods of in-out; it gets boring, and chafey. However, there's usually a lot more going on before the in-out.

Kinsey was an advocate of good sex; that's why he started studying human sexuality.

[Cain]

God's War - A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman.

Needs moar Is'maili's.  Other than that, good so far.

[Anch]

Casanova's memoirs
Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"
Duerrenmatt's "The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel" and "Suspicion"
Sartre's "Le Mots"

Yay for book jumble sales!

[Cain]

Casanova's memoirs are the shit.  One of my favourite pieces of reading, ever.

I'm reading Reich of the Black Sun, a book that tries to make the case that Nazi Germany was ahead of the Allies in nuclear technology, actually made nukes in 1945 and tested them, but had no delivery system to drop them on London or New York.  It would certainly explain some irrational behaviour on troop placements as the Allies advanced on Germany (excessive protection given to Thuringia and the area around Prague), as well as Hilter's raving about a super-weapon, but....on the other hand, I don't know.  Its a very extraordinary claim, and the science seems a little shakey in places.

[BootyBay]

10 Days That Shook the World by John Reed

[Triple Zero]

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Whaling, by Gideon Defoe

[ShoobyDB]

I just finished the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman.
I am currently (slowly) reading Ulysses by James Joyce and Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais.

[Cain]

I just finished the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman.
I am currently (slowly) reading Ulysses by James Joyce and Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais.

I keep meaning to read the His Dark Materials trilogy.  Recommended?

[ShoobyDB]

I highly recommend. The movie doesn't really do the book any justice, but they never do. It has a lot of stuff in it that you can take for more than just fiction. I'd like to tell you more, but I don't want to ruin it.

[Cain]

Cool, thanks.  I havent seen the film yet, but I may download it one day, once I've finished reading the series.  I find doing it other way around is usually a bad idea.

[ShoobyDB]

Agreed. I read the first two books and then saw the movie while reading the third. Although, if you watch the movie first, then the story line gets better when you read the book instead of the movie just being dissapointing.

[Reeducation]

I'm reading the Kalevala. Again. Damn hard to read, even when it is written in finnish. These poems, poems... (Beyond Good and Evil is on pause)

"The Kalevala is a book and epic poem which the Finn Elias Lönnrot compiled from Finnish and Karelian folklore in the 19th century. It is held to be the national epic of Finland and is traditionally thought of as one of the most significant works of Finnish language literature. Karelians in the Republic of Karelia and other Balto-Finnic speakers also value the work. The Kalevala is credited with some of the inspiration for the national awakening that ultimately led to Finland's independence from Russia in 1917."  Wikipediaaa.....

[Cain]

The Changing Images of Man - The Standford Research Institute