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Post by Captain Leela on Aug 7, 2010 6:03:09 GMT
This could be a crazy cool place where we can discuss what we are reading and how that reading has affected our perception of the universe. Enlightenment comes in many different forms. To begin with, the following titles are some books/series that have shaped my understanding of myself: The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne), We All Fall Down (Cormier), Atlas Shrugged (Rynd), The Dark Tower Series (King), and The Prophet (Gibran).
Ohhh ohhh! We could do poetry too!
God, I'm such a nerd. Poly says no one will come to my thread. How is that different from the rest of my life? 
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Post by Poly on Aug 7, 2010 6:08:06 GMT
Well I came to your thread. Good start!
And guess what? I'm telling you to read Ishmael again. (Quinn)
Also just to clear the air of the most likely smart-ass response you'll receive...
"I'm reading this thread."
MIND BLOWN oh poetry you say? Salamut likes that.
Also Haikus have been popular among us as well.
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Post by Vespid on Aug 7, 2010 9:32:23 GMT
I just finished reading "The Mote in God's Eye" by Niven and Pournelle.
Pretty good hard Sci-Fi/Politics. Quite intelligent.
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Post by Psychosis on Aug 7, 2010 10:01:34 GMT
Just finished Dante's Inferno. Kind of "meh."
I've also been reading a lot of Dean Koontz. It's whats on the shelf.
I got 3 books in to the Dark Tower series before I couldn't find the 4th and got fed up with it. You have to love box sets.
Oh, and I read the Book of 5 rings by Musashi on Tuesday. May need to pick it up again, since I'm in to it for some reason.
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Post by salamut2202 on Aug 7, 2010 11:58:56 GMT
exposure. from what i can tell it's the story line from shakesphere's othello but instead of sex and war then it's celebrities and politics now.
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Post by Enigma on Aug 7, 2010 15:25:48 GMT
I'm reading Mr. Peanut. No it's not a picture book.
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Post by kaosherald on Aug 7, 2010 16:07:29 GMT
The Horus Heresy: Fulgrim
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Post by 1deadcop on Aug 7, 2010 17:21:54 GMT
^ dude how is the HH ? i've always wanted to read them
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Post by Poly on Aug 7, 2010 21:18:24 GMT
I haven't been reading much.
The last book I read was called
Phantoms In The Brain: Probing The Mysteries Of The Human Mind. (Ramachandran)
*EDIT*
I'm a psyc student, but I read it years before just out of interest. Odd things like blind sight & phantom limbs are commonplace in this excellent venture into the human mind.
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Post by westrider on Aug 8, 2010 5:42:06 GMT
I just finished reading "The Mote in God's Eye" by Niven and Pournelle. Pretty good hard Sci-Fi/Politics. Quite intelligent. Old Niven and Pournelle is really good. They both have gotten pretty bitter in their old age, though, and their newer stuff isn't nearly as enjoyable. 1deadcop: The only HH book I've read was Legion, and I have to say, it's why I won't be reading any of the others. It just destroyed a ton of the established fluff about the Alpha Legion, completely inverting several of the points that drew me to them in the first place. I've mostly been on a (Military) SF kick lately. Lots of David Weber and Elizabeth Moon. That said, the things that have really got me going recently were a couple my friend Luke loaned me: The two books that are out of Peter Brett's Daemons series (The Warded Man, The Desert Spear), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. The Brett stuff has a cool, well worked out world, some just great badass bits in it, and a culture that I swing back and forth between loving and hating with whiplash speed. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, on the other hand, is one of the most intense bits of psychological...thriller isn't quite the right word, but it's been a long day and I can't think of a better one yet. All about the messed up things that can go on in apparently perfectly healthy relationships, and people just being brilliantly horrible to each other. |
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Post by 1deadcop on Aug 8, 2010 5:55:51 GMT
rereading soul hunter, cuz the new night lord book/ CD tape is coming out this month,
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Post by FungusA on Aug 8, 2010 10:04:07 GMT
I'm reading: 'The Goblin Universe' By 'Ted Holiday & Colin Wilson'
It's a book about various theories of the paranormal (OH NO, NOT ANOTHER ONE!) But it's very good, otherwise, I wouldn't be reading it.
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Post by Dangeresque on Aug 8, 2010 11:05:58 GMT
I'm currently skim-reading "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", "Othello" and "1984" for school. It's a shame, because I would have liked 1984 otherwise. I'll read it in ten years.
When that's FINALLY DONE I'm hopping straight back into my book of Roald Dahl short stories. The implications of "The Sound Machine" were terrifying!
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Post by Alta on Aug 8, 2010 16:51:17 GMT
Currently reading: The Inquisitor rulebook (which I bought for £1)
Recently re-read all the discworld novels I have....
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Post by kaosherald on Aug 8, 2010 19:03:00 GMT
^ dude how is the HH ? i've always wanted to read them I have enjoyed all of them! Some better then others, but none bad. I have one chapter left in Fulgrim. |
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Post by Poly on Aug 9, 2010 0:42:16 GMT
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
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Post by Dangeresque on Aug 9, 2010 0:50:03 GMT
I thought that was Hyper K's... or Vespid's.
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Post by Poly on Aug 9, 2010 0:52:09 GMT
Well the idea came from that book no doubt.
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Post by braid on Aug 9, 2010 19:54:32 GMT
Past two days I just read through Raymond E. Feist's Darkwar Saga. Three books I skimmed over rather quickly. It helped
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Post by CK on Aug 11, 2010 0:15:40 GMT
The Space Wolves Codex... I'm using the codex structure with my Dark Angel models.
Meanwhile... Nemesis by James Swallow, the latest of the Horus Heresy books. I have the entire series and have enjoyed reading all the books despite some ups and downs.
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