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Brandsmannen wrote:I'm jealous of y'all having the time to read. After I'm done with all my readings for uni my mind craves guitar/video games/movies. I'd love to get back into it though

Dude just try and get someone to pay you to read. Then you can go home and play video games to unwind.

Chank: Death Ship is super duper cool. If you're ever had a truly awful job, this will resonate. Shades of Kafka, Marx, early twentieth century anarchism...all wrapped in a pretty engaging adventure story (dude wrote Treasure of the Sierra Madre).

Also, no one really knows who B. Traven is...he famously wrote that 'the creative person should have no biography other than his works.'

Just started N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season.

Invisible Man wrote:

Brandsmannen wrote:I'm jealous of y'all having the time to read. After I'm done with all my readings for uni my mind craves guitar/video games/movies. I'd love to get back into it though

Dude just try and get someone to pay you to read. Then you can go home and play video games to unwind.

Chank: Death Ship is super duper cool. If you're ever had a truly awful job, this will resonate. Shades of Kafka, Marx, early twentieth century anarchism...all wrapped in a pretty engaging adventure story (dude wrote Treasure of the Sierra Madre).

Also, no one really knows who B. Traven is...he famously wrote that 'the creative person should have no biography other than his works.'

Sounds like I gotta get a copy of that.

I bought some books (old paperbacks because I love the cheesy art and musty smell of old paper) for my SS assignment. Kinda tempted to keep one or two for myself and pass on something from my library that's near and dear.
I'm gonna ask the readers here what they think.
I think I gave a personal book away last year because I thought that person HAD to read it, but I never heard if they thought it was cool or not.
I'd love it if someone gave me a book they'd loved throughout the years, but I'm a tool like that.

Haven't started it yet but it should get here on Monday:

morange wrote:

Stranger in a Strange Land

(or: How Space Jesus Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sex)

I'm grokking this now too! Robert Anton Wilson turned me onto the Church of All Worlds, then I heard the book was banned in Schools and Libraries for decades because it supposedly inspired Charlie Manson. Couldn't put it off very long after those kinda reviews!

Got this from DD for last year's SS. Started reading it late last night. Seems promising!

Ha I didn't know that, kaeth.

Currently reading Between the World and Me be Ta-nehisi Coates. ''Twas a Christmas present, along with a kindle. Anything I should snag for that? I had been pretty against them until I saw people with their school books on one. Makes so much sense for the university.

best read all year, and probably my only read all year.

http://vitriolrecords.bigcartel.com/pro ... ook-vit032

morange wrote:

You are a stronger man than I. Could not stick with this all the way through, Downfall of Numenor is a bitching read though. I should revisit the whole LotR series, its been longer than a long time.

'salem's Lot the title of which is now fully capitalized

morange wrote:

I slogged through The Silmarillion in the original version years ago. I had no copy in German at hand. It was not too enjoyable.

Started reading this, based on a recommendation on Warren Ellis' newsletter (like 50% of the books in my "to read" list I guess).

"Everything belongs to the future" by Laurie Penny.


And still finishing that excellent book about raising bilingual children (because, well, that's my life now). I bought another one that was crap, this one is written by a proper researcher, cites its sources all the time and there's a whole long chapter at the beginning about language acquisition, etc. Great read.

"Raising a Bilingual Child" by Barbara Zurer Pearson

One good thing about really long flights is having time to read! Did about 200pages in crime and punishment today, and from being low key kinda boring it got really really good. I can't wait to finish it