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  • goethe
    Member
    • Oct 2006
    • 47

    #46
    Re: What are you reading?

    just stared E.M. Cioran's A Short History of Decay. It's really interesting, but a bit slow in the beginning.

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    • RobbertJan
      Junior Member
      • Oct 2006
      • 7

      #47
      Re: What are you reading?



      past 2 weeks: on the road by kerouc, re-read 1984, reading junky by burroughs now.</P>

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      • tweeds
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2006
        • 246

        #48
        Re: What are you reading?



        i seem to read at half the pace of the next person...</p>

        i've been sitting on E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel for about a week or so now. i've been reading and re-reading passages...that's how fine his craftsmanship is, it really bears closer inspection - and these are only oral lectures. amazing. </p>

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        • Faust
          kitsch killer
          • Sep 2006
          • 37852

          #49
          Re: What are you reading?

          [quote user="tweedlesinpink"]

          i seem to read at half the pace of the next person...</p>

          i've been sitting on E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel for about a week or so now. i've been reading and re-reading passages...that's how fine his craftsmanship is, it really bears closer inspection - and these are only oral lectures. amazing. </p>

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          Sounds like something I would enjoy. [Y]</p>

          Don DeLillo - Cosmopolis. Not his best work.</p>
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          • interman
            Member
            • Dec 2006
            • 88

            #50
            Re: What are you reading?

            I'm definitely not a literature buff, but for the Christmas I'm reading Lucky Man, by Michael J. Fox, one of my big childhood heroes.

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            • thelion1856
              Junior Member
              • Dec 2006
              • 17

              #51
              Re: What are you reading?



              I just got 2 books, one is really super short already read a bit of it, The Trendmaster's Guide (Get A Jump On What Your Customer Wants Next) by Robyn Waters</P>


              and..... Why We Buy (The Science Of Shopping) by Paco Underhill. Have not started this book yet.</P>
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              • interman
                Member
                • Dec 2006
                • 88

                #52
                Re: What are you reading?

                Those sound interesting. Is the first one worthy of a purchase? I'm about to order a small truckload of books on amazon, so I might add a few more.

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                • Faust
                  kitsch killer
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 37852

                  #53
                  Re: What are you reading?

                  [quote user="thelion1856"]

                  I just got 2 books, one is really super short already read a bit of it, The Trendmaster's Guide (Get A Jump On What Your Customer Wants Next) by Robyn Waters</p>


                  and..... Why We Buy (The Science Of Shopping) by Paco Underhill. Have not started this book yet.</p>
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                  is that a professional interest of yours?</p>
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                  • laika
                    moderator
                    • Sep 2006
                    • 3787

                    #54
                    Re: What are you reading?

                    [quote user="Seventh"]

                    Re-reading, "Delirious New York" by rem koolhaas -- my favorite thing koolhaas has built or written</p>

                    recently read, "Cannery Row" by john steinbeck -- sweet and nostalgic (in mostly a good way)</p>

                    slowly reading, "Perspective as Symbolic Form" by erwin panofsky -- because I must know these things, and once you parse the language it can be quite interesting...</p>

                    almost finished and trying to let it linger, "The Rings of Saturn" by w. g. sebald -- I am a huge fan of sebald, i get incoherent with joy reading his books...
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                    [/quote]</p>

                    Awesome reading list. I completely agree about the Koolhaas book--it's brilliant!</p>

                    Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture by Lisa Robertson. SO GOOD.
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                    ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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                    • thelion1856
                      Junior Member
                      • Dec 2006
                      • 17

                      #55
                      Re: What are you reading?



                      [quote user="interman"]Those sound interesting. Is the first one worthy of a purchase? I'm about to order a small truckload of books on amazon, so I might add a few more.
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                      Well the first one is a good book, yes. Its about 15 bucks brand knew i believe, but it is extreamly short. You can probly read the entire thing during a short barns and nobel visit. If u want to add it to your collection to look it over in the future its worthy i guess.</P>


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                      No its not a professional interest but im the text book type reader, i dont like reading fiction books, my book intrest is strictly history type books (on anything), books on wine, books on physics, space, psychology, medical books, bizniz, philosophy ect. Always been like that. saw these 2 books at the bookstore and they looked interesting.</P>
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                      • tweeds
                        Senior Member
                        • Sep 2006
                        • 246

                        #56
                        Re: What are you reading?



                        having gotten forster out of the way on the plane, i picked up Noam Chomsky's "Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World" while in bangkok...</p>

                        reading Philip Roth's American Pastoral at the moment though. trying hard to get through it - and not really succeeding. i mean, i love Roth and his passion, but it gets hard after awhile.
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                        • interman
                          Member
                          • Dec 2006
                          • 88

                          #57
                          Re: What are you reading?

                          Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman. Seems promising so far.

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                          • Faust
                            kitsch killer
                            • Sep 2006
                            • 37852

                            #58
                            Re: What are you reading?

                            J.M. Coetzee - Elizabeth Costello
                            Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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                            • darkanimal
                              Senior Member
                              • Sep 2006
                              • 212

                              #59
                              Re: What are you reading?

                              I just picked up my first Ayn Rand last night. "Fountainhead" for 44 cents at Strands, it's practically free.

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                              • xcoldricex
                                Senior Member
                                • Sep 2006
                                • 1347

                                #60
                                Re: What are you reading?

                                elephant vanishes - murakami

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