Summer reading

welsh said:
I am also looking for a read that is part hard-boiled detective and part lovecraftian. Any suggestions?
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Best I can think of is "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Poe, but that's not really a novel, but a long short story.
CC said:
*explodes in Blade's face*

Gore Vidal is in the guy who was all for the "myth" of cambodian genocide in the '70s?
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Like I give a shit. I'm reading his books, twerp, I'm not going to marry him or do his laundry. Get a life, you politically obsessed weirdo, there's more people who think he's a damn good writer.
 
Kharn said:
Rereading War & Peace, then I'll pick up Barrington Moore's piece on democracy and dictatorships.
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Funny, I was going to suggest that you read the rerelease of the HOward's Conan series.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=ZYw1fcupgV&isbn=0345461517&itm=1

Pulpish, non-pc reads of blood, courage and buxom wenches. Good stuff.

Barrington Moore should be fun. There are a few others that I could recommend. Skocpol's book on social movements and revolutions is kind of interesting. Spruyt's take on the creation of sovereign states vs other forms of organization is also nice.

Tolstoy is beginning to annoy me with his arrogant remarks about historians. What a fuckhead.

There are no good detective stories beyond Holmes and a stack of Frenchies.
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You read too much serious fiction. Got to have some fun sometimes.

Patricia Highsmith is wicked and dark fun.
 
Believe it or not NMA spurred me to try to broaden my horizons. I get tired of you philosophy and religion weenies talking about shit I didn't know anything about, so I picked up "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought" by Pascal Boyer. The topic and reasoning, while dense, fits well with by scientific training.

Anybody ever heard of him?
 
welsh said:
Funny, I was going to suggest that you read the rerelease of the HOward's Conan series.

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Pulpish, non-pc reads of blood, courage and buxom wenches. Good stuff.
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Heh, maybe I will.

welsh said:
Barrington Moore should be fun. There are a few others that I could recommend. Skocpol's book on social movements and revolutions is kind of interesting. Spruyt's take on the creation of sovereign states vs other forms of organization is also nice.
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Maybe I will pick up those two, but I had my sights on another autor. Alas, forgot the name.

welsh said:
You read too much serious fiction. Got to have some fun sometimes.
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Tolstoy ís fun fiction

In fact, for me, all fiction is fun to serve as distractments between chapters of siociological or historical works.

I generally can't stand pulpy fiction. Pulpy movies or series, ok, but I can't stand to waste that much time on something so meaningless.
 
Summer reading?

Ok, so what are you presently reading.

Me- For fun I hope to read all of Robert Wilson's Bruce Medway series- Hardboiled detective fiction in West Africa- good stuff. Currently into The Big Killing.

ALso Children of Cthulhu- modern Cthulhu fiction- some good ones but some disappointments too. Get it from the library. For a better read involving the problems with "other" Gods- check out Brian Hopkins El Dia de los Muertos in which an archeologists seeks to commune with an Aztec God in modern Mexico City.

A few others on the shelf for the summer-
Ghost Wars- about the secret wars in central asia from about 1979- 2000.

Otherwise, dissertation stuff- reading about Botswana and Mauritius and lots of qualititive methodology. Kind of boring.

What about you?
 
I'm reading:

'Operating systems I'
'Compiler design II'
'Advanced microprocessor architectures'
'CISC and RISC microprocessor architectures'
'Demystified C++'

Oh, and 'Stone of farewell', by Tad Williams.

I'm such a nerd! :mrgreen:
 
"Western Civilization in World History" - Peter N. Stearns

"Centuries of Difference" -- Wim Blockmans & Peter Hoppenbrouwers

"The history of the Modern World" -- R.R. Palmer, Joel Colton & Lloyd Kramer

"Early Modern European Society" -- Henry Kamen

"History of the Netherlands" -- J.C.H. Blom & E. Lamberts

"Paradise Lost" -- John Milton

"Les Fleurs Du Mal" -- Charles Baudelaire

The sex! The drugs! The rock 'n roll!
 
I finished Crighton's State of Fear

Right now im reading Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo

After that i'll probably read Catch-22
 
Gone Audio

Gone Audio


Book's On CD.

Re-doing the Patrick O'Brian historical novels, after years of catch as catch can, in order, 'mate'.






4too
 
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzche

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer

America - Jon Stewart

The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan (re-read. DAMN good book!)

The Holy Qu'ran - Allegedly God?


More as I think of them...I'm reading quite a bit this summer.
 
I got the first four Dark Tower books for my birthday in April. Ive read them all and recently got the fifth, sixth, and last book and I plan to finish them by the end of the month.

Once those are done I bought "Guards! Guards!" by Tarry Pratchett and "Mort". If they're as good as everyone raves I'll be happy.

Dont worry though...its not all entertainment. I found some cheap books in my college stores that were only a few years old and I found a abnormal psychology book for only a few dollars. I like studying psychology though I wont work in it and decided this is a good way to learn with no class at my own pace.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
I feel pretty dimb after reading this thread. I'm not reading anything especially noteworthy, just

Deathlands - Shaking Earth
 
Reading:

Fermats Last Therum
The Bolivian Diary of Che Guevara

In my pile of books to read/reread:
1984 - George Orwell (Again)
The Life Of Pi - Yann Martel
The Salmon Of Doubt - Douglas Adams
To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
 
I have gotten to the yellow admiral in the Patrick o'brian series. I hope to finish the series by the end of summer.
 
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