This thread makes me want to read so many books.
At the moment I'm reading a chapter from my DK books each day, starting with Shakespeare, Philosophy and History, Philosophy is unexpectedly turning out to be the difficult read, I'm also reading and I find it really good is Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, I've also got Siddhartha by the same author which I'll start next. Hesse makes me think I want to read more written by Germans. If Germans actually do wind up living their lives like this Steppenwolf dude they're pretty cool (this character also makes me think of Mole a bit too).
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07-11-2018, 01:01 PM #2391
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07-11-2018, 01:06 PM #2392Sassy is the cat in the moment of destiny...
For the cat is cryptic,
and close to strange things which men cannot see.
He is the soul of antique Aegyptus,
and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroë and Ophir.
He is the kin of the jungle’s lords,
and heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa.
The Sphinx is his cousin, and he speaks her language;
but he is more ancient than the Sphinx,
and remembers that which she hath forgotten...
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07-11-2018, 01:15 PM #2393
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I also bought a copy of the collected Divergent cycle books (the last one I think, reduced in the sale section of a bargain books section) and a collection of (Ermegad!) Goose (Burms!) Bumps.
I wanted to read the former from the time I saw the films (there are multiple interesting themes, factionalism, typology, post-apocalypse, uber-mensch/unter-mensch eugenics/genetic engineering ideas and all the way through bonds, relationships, allegiance), it wasnt as well cast as Hunger Games but then I think Donald Sutherland is seriously hard to beat. I'm sorry for him and Martin Sheen that their kids seem to have such issues (I like the Hunger Games cycle too, which I personally think owes a lot of The Great and Terrible Games, or something like that, which was an older sci fi Neo-Rome idea).
Goose Bumps is series that Jame Rolfe recommended, I remember hating it and a lot of young adult publishing at that time, like the Point books, ie Point Horror, Point Fear etc. It was a publishing phenomenon which appealed more to female readers here, although much younger female readers than I think they were intended for. In any case I didnt read them, I was reading other more adult authors (and thought they were shit for the most part). I caught a couple of the episodes of the TV series, it used to get mixed up in the schedule with Are You Afraid of The Dark? (Rolfe recommended it too) And goose bumps did appear to be kind of edgy, like without being explicit about it people died or disappeared (though I liked Eerie Indiana the most, it never seemed to spawn any books, also the original series has no relationship to the spin off if you ask me).
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07-12-2018, 04:50 AM #2394
I'm reading Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov. So far I'm really enjoying it.
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07-12-2018, 01:18 PM #2395
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I'm back to Howard Zinn's 20th Century: A People's History after a very long hiatus. So far, I find it an incredibly comforting reminder that no matter how bad things seem now, they've been the same and worse in the past . It's no excuse for complacency, but I like to understand.
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07-13-2018, 01:01 PM #2396
Julies Vernes 10000 leauges under the sea.
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07-17-2018, 01:59 PM #2397
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Cormoran Strike Series by Robert Galbraith
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07-17-2018, 03:48 PM #2398
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07-21-2018, 09:36 AM #2399
Finshing off Discworld series
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