Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm still reading Illuminatus!, Stiff, The Great Mortality, Pyramids, Winesburg Ohio, Fragile things, Beowulf, and John Dies at the End.

[hooplala]

Right now I am reading 'At Swim Two Birds' and 'the Psychopath's Bible'.

[Iason Ouabache]

World War Z by Max Brooks which I received as an early Xmas present.  Best fiction book I've read in a long time.

[Cain]

Cultural Populism - Jim McGuigan
Deconstruction in Theory and Practice
The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory

[Bu🤠ns]

i finally started illuminatus ... ON AUDIO!! yeah..

[Mangrove]

In the middle of 'Abramelin' (new translation of ye olde 14th century German grimoire)
Just started 'Reclaiming History' by Bugliosi.

[VIDEODROME]

Daywatch by Sergio Lukyanenko

[Requia ☣]

George RR Martin - A Storm of Swords (third Fire and Ice novel.  Requires more unexpected deaths).
The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism

I started the first George RR Martin book and I tossed by page 100, there was already too much incest, pedophilia, and rape for me to handle.  No wonder nerds like it so much.

Hmm, I don't remember any pedos till the second book...

[BADGE OF HONOR]

George RR Martin - A Storm of Swords (third Fire and Ice novel.  Requires more unexpected deaths).
The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism

I started the first George RR Martin book and I tossed by page 100, there was already too much incest, pedophilia, and rape for me to handle.  No wonder nerds like it so much.

Hmm, I don't remember any pedos till the second book...

some 13 year old girl gets married to some dude and on their wedding night she gets all wet on his dick (cause yeah that's real believable, of course, any girl who is petrified the entire day is naturally going to suddenly become warm and willing after getting macked on for a few minutes)

[BADGE OF HONOR]

By the way, I'm reading Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Choderlos de Laclos) in the original french, which also contains pedophilia, but at least that 15 year old chick doesn't enjoy getting raped.


for fuck's sake.

[LMNO]

I prefer my rapes be entirely consensual.

[Manta Obscura]

World War Z by Max Brooks which I received as an early Xmas present.  Best fiction book I've read in a long time.

I just finished that, Iason. It's really, really good.

We'll have to nerd out about zombies, lobos and the Shield Society when you get done.

[Cain]

Dark Medecine: rationalizing unethical medical research.

This is fascinating.  I'm familiar with Unit 731 and the Nazi experiments but this is a book about how doctors in particular supported genocide programs, eugenics and medical torture.  Most interestingly, many were far from cranks and sadists and were willing to turn a blind eye to the methods of procurement in order to get their hands on exotic tissues - such as metally damaged children's brains in large numbers.  There is a good chapter which suggests bioterrorism was used by US forces in the Korean War as well.

At the end it also raises the sinister possibility of modern eugenics programs being launched, and where 'Baconian' scientists (in the sense of scientists who believe the rule of sciece should be the bedrock of social organization) could lead.

And before anyone jumps in, the book was written and contributed to by numerous scientists, so its not one of those crank Christian/Scientologist "zomg the psychiatrists are fascists" type books.  It just raises....disturbing possibilities.  Especially in conjunction with the New Atheist crowd, some of whom may be receptive to such a message of enlightened scientific rule.

[Richter]

The Epic of Gilgamesh

[Manta Obscura]

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Cool. What translation are you reading, Richter?