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Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 04 Oct 2017, 16:45
by happiness and harmony
recommended
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 06 Oct 2017, 08:18
by User
Ninny wrote:My mum gave me 'Dokter aan de wisselmeren', written by a doctor in Papua new guinea early 50's. It describes Papua daily life, very interesting
It has a touch of colonialism, things have changes so fast. My daddy visited these lands while he was in the navy, he didn't talk much about these days so now I have a picture
i have never been to PNG but have some family connections there, my grandparents met there
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 06 Oct 2017, 16:57
by happiness and harmony
you should find the sheets
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 12 Oct 2017, 19:09
by vO)))id
Book 5 of HP.
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 13 Oct 2017, 00:16
by -M-
iamgoat wrote:Book 5 of HP.
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 16 Oct 2017, 15:37
by happiness and harmony
the book of hit points
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 17 Oct 2017, 21:39
by Ninny
User wrote:Ninny wrote:My mum gave me 'Dokter aan de wisselmeren', written by a doctor in Papua new guinea early 50's. It describes Papua daily life, very interesting
It has a touch of colonialism, things have changes so fast. My daddy visited these lands while he was in the navy, he didn't talk much about these days so now I have a picture
i have never been to PNG but have some family connections there, my grandparents met there
After a war these Papuans count casualties and then kill among their group to settle scores. In this way making the number of dead even
This seems a fair deal, a tip for the UN maybe
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 20 Oct 2017, 17:28
by happiness and harmony
that seems untenable
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 21 Oct 2017, 12:23
by jawn galliano
reading posts, mainly
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 25 Oct 2017, 00:34
by vO)))id
Book 6 of HP
When I'm done with 7 (second time reading all this), Imma start with GoT.
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 20:10
by malgoth
just started this one. pretty good so far.
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 03 Nov 2017, 17:45
by happiness and harmony
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 05 Nov 2017, 23:35
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 06 Nov 2017, 00:43
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 06 Nov 2017, 02:06
by happiness and harmony
from now on, all black
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 10 Nov 2017, 01:04
by -M-
Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 12 Nov 2017, 00:33
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 12 Nov 2017, 01:33
by happiness and harmony
a chokeweb
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 17 Dec 2017, 07:38
by Ninny
A scanner darkly
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 28 Dec 2017, 17:02
by happiness and harmony
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 30 Dec 2017, 10:23
by Inverted Crosses And Gorebongs
Misery Obscura - Eerie Von. Lots of very cool old Misfits and Samhain photos.
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 02 Jan 2018, 16:29
by happiness and harmony
i am exactly halfway through a pretty illustrated version of a christmas carol
had never read it before
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 02 Jan 2018, 23:21
by vO)))id
Still in HP book 6.
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 04 Jan 2018, 00:21
by Ninny
Ninny wrote:A scanner darkly
Close to the end and I'm lost
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 04 Jan 2018, 03:09
by -M-
Milan Kundera - Powolność. Polish translation of Slowness (La Lenteur)
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 17 Feb 2018, 06:05
by deckard
hitch 22
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 18 Feb 2018, 21:20
by Holocaust
Profiles in Courage
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 02 Dec 2018, 19:13
by Ninny
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 02 Dec 2018, 20:22
by Paste Human
Ninny wrote:Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The ending of that one is tattooed into my mind. Was it used for any of the films? It's beautifully written, but visually I think it would be kind of clunky.
I've been re-reading parts of Blood Meridian after discussing it with a fellating lover at work. I should probably find out if he actually wants to borrow it because I always worry that when I lend someone a book they'll feel obligated to read it regardless of how much free time they have, and then for whatever reason before finally handing it off I always develop a strong desire to re-read it.
Some day I'll pull out a dictionary and look up the hundreds of words in that one that I've never even seen before (most are contextually obvious) but for now I'm content following the narrative on a basic level and being in awe over every aspect of the delivery.
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 02 Dec 2018, 20:48
by Ninny
Strangely enough I can't remember any of the movies
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 03 Dec 2018, 00:40
by jawn galliano
Paste Human wrote:Ninny wrote:Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The ending of that one is tattooed into my mind. Was it used for any of the films? It's beautifully written, but visually I think it would be kind of clunky.
I've been re-reading parts of Blood Meridian after discussing it with a fellating lover at work. I should probably find out if he actually wants to borrow it because I always worry that when I lend someone a book they'll feel obligated to read it regardless of how much free time they have, and then for whatever reason before finally handing it off I always develop a strong desire to re-read it.
Some day I'll pull out a dictionary and look up the hundreds of words in that one that I've never even seen before (most are contextually obvious) but for now I'm content following the narrative on a basic level and being in awe over every aspect of the delivery.
this reminds me that i lent my copy out to a coworker like 2.5 years ago and never got it back
things i have read recently or am currently reading:
surveillance valley by yasha levine
capitalist realism by mark fisher
k-punk by mark fisher
the city & the city by china mieville
the great transformation by karl polanyi
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 03 Dec 2018, 08:42
by User
i am reading "the history of south africa" and i just finished "i gave my life for thee"
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 26 Feb 2019, 14:31
by vO)))id
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, book 4 of 6 from the bundled stories.
So good
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 16 Mar 2019, 17:04
by Ninny
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 21 Mar 2019, 19:34
by happiness and harmony
just finished this a few days ago
my reading muscles have atrophied considerably, i must exercise them
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 21 Mar 2019, 23:08
by zim
i read slow these days
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 01 Apr 2019, 18:50
by happiness and harmony
nothing adam but i have a book coming in the mail
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 10 Jul 2019, 04:32
by Verbal
i sometimes consider reading non text books
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 10 Jul 2019, 16:25
by happiness and harmony
currently reading the handmaid's tale
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 19 Jul 2019, 07:02
by Verbal
that is also a tv show
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 19 Jul 2019, 16:14
by happiness and harmony
i finished reading the handmaid’s tale yesterday
the epilogue is intensely unnecessary and unsatisfying but everything that came before the epilogue is the exact opposite of those two things
i will be reading more books by margaret atwood now
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 19 Jul 2019, 17:06
by zim
i'm reading lord of the rings for the first time
only two chapters in and I'm sick of hobbits
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 19 Jul 2019, 17:17
by Verbal
i never got past chapter 1 of the hobbit
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 30 Aug 2019, 16:53
by User
did you know President Abraham Lincoln enjoyed chloroform, a recreational drug back in the day
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 17 Sep 2019, 02:29
by Shredlord
Atwood's sequel to
The Handmaid's Tale. So far, so good.
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 03:38
by Ninny
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 31 Mar 2020, 10:30
by Paste Human
In the rare occasion I hear anything about A Confederacy of Dunces it's given tons of praise and regarded as hilarious. Has anyone here read it? I was thinking of ordering a copy, but I'm hesitant to buy more books given that I still have a few sitting around that I haven't gotten to yet.
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 31 Mar 2020, 12:00
by jawn galliano
i don't have any input on that book
but i am absolutely shaken by the fact that i had k-punk, city & great transformation in 2018. i have not finished any of them. also added jia tolentino's trick mirror & matt stoller's goliath to the list of "books i have acquired and started and will probably never finish" though what little i've read of both are wonderful
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 08 Apr 2020, 19:48
by happiness and harmony
leadership in turbulent times
by doris kearns goodwin
it is a worthwhile book, even if it is a reshaping and repackaging of several of her other thoroughly good books
Re: now reading 2.0
Posted: 15 May 2020, 19:58
by User
i jut finished THE TALL MAN and now reading SHAMEFUL FLIGHT