Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[Cain]

And better written.

[the last yatto]

the stand is bigger then the new international version of the bible (on top)

And better written.

[the last yatto]

even better apond showing wip the necronomicon
she goes all "THATS DARKSIDED" and rants about it
after about the 3rd your going to hell, i let her know about ZALGO

ps also got a copy of alice's adventures in wonderland (with illustrations by Jason Alexander)

[Messier Undertree]

The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke.

[BigBadCalla]

"I Am a Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter

[Eater of Clowns]

I just started The Sandman by Neil Gaiman.  I was given the unbelievably gorgeous The Absolute Sandman Volume I for my birthday a few months ago, but I've been avoiding opening it because when I finish it the next three volumes are like $90 each.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I finished Pattern Recognition, and I am nearly finished with The Difference Engine. Both turned out better than expected.

[That One Guy]

I'm in the middle of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Fascinating book, so many threads, subtexts, paranoias, characters, etc. that it can be ... interesting to keep track of everything on the first read-through. Good stuff, though.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I started that several times. I should consider getting a dead tree copy.

[Telarus]

Halfway through Colbert's I'm America, and So Can You.

Idea- wire a fairly loud speaker into a copy (I would try to go slim-line or you'll end up cutting out paper) which you could preload some good expressive Colbertisms, set the book out in public in a strange location or situation, say upright in the middle of the sidewalk. Make it loud enough that someone standing next to it would feel self conscious at the attention.

Play loud Colbertisms whenever someone reaches for the book or picks it up until they put it down again.


?????

Profit.

[Bu🤠ns]

 



The Book of Pleasure - AOS

Let's paraphrase the Tao Te Ching and other eastern texts into the western tradition and the most unintelligible victorian language imaginable and expand 3 or 4 basic ideas into 30 some odd pages. 

[Scribbly]

Science and Sanity by Alfred Korzybski.

It's pretty heavy going. But I think I'm starting to get into it. His writing style really doesn't help his message though.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I finished The Difference Engine and now I'm working on The Tao of Physics.

Squid, where did you find Science and Sanity? I really want to read it.

[Scribbly]

I bought it... cost me an arm and a leg too. 

There might be a way to get it, though, but I'm not sure about that so if anyone wants a link I'll PM it to them.

[Bu🤠ns]

I have it i'll send it ask for it via pm's.....I must warn....it's like 900 some page that could probably be condensed down into like 30.