Weapon X Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Alright, I just re-started on a book I bought for myself over the holidays called "Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact" by John Cornwell. I'm only 60 pages in, but damn, this book is awesome! I am learning much about the history of European science, dating back from the eighteenth century. This book makes you think a lot about the ethics a scientist may or may not hold while doing their work. Anyone who is into European history, science, or just a plain old book that makes you think, check this out. Symbols, I'm looking at you. What book are you reading? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hulk hogan Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 On McCluhan : Foward through a Rearview Mirror Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 The Reconing It's Papal intrigue in the end times and very well written. yo weapon.... you should pick up a copy. I found mine at shoppers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast546 Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 My fiance got me forensics book about the body farm in Knockville, Tenn. called Deaths Acre. If you have never head about this place, here's a CNN article about it... http://archives.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/31/body.farm/ Creepy and fascinating! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloner Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 drawing on the right side of the brain and i got this for christmas..but i still look at it almost everyday autograf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velocet Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Just finished four books.. The Castle - Franz Kafka Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain Crash - J.G. Ballard The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon Fucking weird combinations. And now I have no more books to read.. and its super hard to find English books where i'm at. Here's the description on the back of Crash: In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an internationally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting-edge fiction, Crash explores both the disturbing implications and horrific possibilities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations. I usually love Kafka's stuff but wasn't really feeling The Castle.. .No wonder he never finished it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLICKCLACKONER Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut halfway through and possibly the worst shit he's ever written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLICKCLACKONER Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Originally posted by velocet@Jan 5 2005, 02:08 PM Crash - J.G. Ballard Quoted post i saw the movie with james spader, that shit was so fuckin' twisted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velocet Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Haha.. Vonnegut is awesome though. Have you read anything by Theodore Sturgeon? It has been said that that author was Vonnegut's inspiration in creating his recurring Kilgore Trout character. Such Sturgeon titles are as follows: -The Saucer of Loneliness -Baby Is Three -Killdozer! -The Dreaming Jewels -Venus Plus X etc..etc... I wanna get my hands on one of these but I can't find his stuff anywhere.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 I just finished the new Clive Cussler book. Dirk Pitt is my hero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLICKCLACKONER Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Originally posted by velocet@Jan 5 2005, 02:16 PM Haha.. Vonnegut is awesome though. Have you read anything by Theodore Sturgeon? It has been said that that author was Vonnegut's inspiration in creating his recurring Kilgore Trout character. Such Sturgeon titles are as follows: -The Saucer of Loneliness -Baby Is Three -Killdozer! -The Dreaming Jewels -Venus Plus X etc..etc... I wanna get my hands on one of these but I can't find his stuff anywhere.. Quoted post cool, gotta check out ol' Theo. have you ever read any and are they short stories? ya, vonnegut is one of my favorite writers. i think in timequake he's just too old and don't give a shit anymore. Breakfast of Champions blows this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velocet Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Originally posted by JesusMachine@Jan 5 2005, 02:20 PM cool, gotta check out ol' Theo. have you ever read any and are they short stories? ya, vonnegut is one of my favorite writers. i think in timequake he's just too old and don't give a shit anymore. Breakfast of Champions blows this out. Quoted post The Sturgeon books I listed are all novels, not shorts.. I haven't had the chance to read any because they're hard to find. And apparently dude has wrote tons of books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalist Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 I need to get my hands on some good reads, since I'm not going to school this semester, i finally have time to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathoræ Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 I've really been into "dystopias" lately... (a la 1984, Brave New World, etc...) Still haven't been able to get my hands on We but I stumbled upon this long list of other books... Right now I've got about 50 pages left of Jack London's Iron Heel then it's on to: Island - Aldous Huxley A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 334 - Thomas Disch The Giver - Lois Lowry ...mmm James Spader. The Secretary was such an awesome movie... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeroshoes Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Just finished Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card...it was entertaining but I was kind of disappointed. Before that I read The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley, a book of Bukowski short stories, and Crime and Punishment. All wonderful. Now it's back to school stuff...I think Plato is up next. And yeah, Timequake doesn't come close to anything else I've read by Vonnegut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledzep Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 The 911 comission report. I was reading it on the flight back home and I got some funny looks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 I just got finished reading the Douglas Adams biography "Don't Panic" by Neil Gaiman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Originally posted by Xeroshoes@Jan 5 2005, 03:40 PM Just finished Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card...it was entertaining but I was kind of disappointed. Quoted post now you HAVE to read 'ender's shaddow'. it's the same story but from Bean's perspective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Originally posted by <KEY3>@Jan 5 2005, 02:16 PM I just finished the new Clive Cussler book. Dirk Pitt is my hero. Quoted post Hell yes. His latest are lacking a bit in excitement, but Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino rule everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 just got done with naked pictures of famous people. in the middle of a book that documents the real accounts of some western "badmen" in the 1800's. i'm also re-reading glue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_b0b Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Gulag: a history. I read A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich a while ago so this is fascinating background information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haunts Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 im working on god is a veb for my personal reading but i have a gang of books on their way here for school. some of the highlights this semester are savage god-a study of suicide and against empire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrChupacabra Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 I'm reading Crime And Punishment for a class. Only about 100 pages in, but it seems good so far. I think i'd enjoy it more if i could read it at a more leisurely pace, but i'm actually enjoying the discussions on it, which doesn't usually happen. I don't read as much as i should, and i have so many books i need to get to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T=E=A=S=E Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 -Quarterlife Crisis - The unique challenges of life in your twenties. -The complete asshole's guide to handling chicks (someone here posted a link to it, and the first couple pages looked hilarious, had to cop it.) -The System (a get laid today book) kind of a joke... but its like the asshole's one, pure comedy. and it never hurts to hear another's ideas on getting some. especially in my current state. How to be a gentlemen. (brushing up my manners). -Life and Def ...Sex, drugs, money + god by russel simmons the def jam owner. (finished this already, awesome book i thought. lot of hiphop history, and the man is a pure fucking genius.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted January 5, 2005 Author Share Posted January 5, 2005 haha, I like tease's books! Have you tried Chicken Soup for the Hurtbag? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crave Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Originally posted by El Mamerro+Jan 5 2005, 03:42 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (El Mamerro - Jan 5 2005, 03:42 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-<KEY3>@Jan 5 2005, 02:16 PM I just finished the new Clive Cussler book. Dirk Pitt is my hero. Quoted post Hell yes. His latest are lacking a bit in excitement, but Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino rule everything. Quoted post [/b] Indeed they do. Currently: Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler Just Finished: IBM and the Holocaust (I suggest this one) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanity Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 just finished dreadstarr #1.... the plot was cool, but the writing sucked... art was alright. props for making fun of the dark pheonix though start up the dune mini series tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 it;s only because Drik is a family man now. Rudy Gunn is starting to become a bit more of a man. Atlantis Found was pretty decent but I really enjoyed the newest on 'Trojan Odessy'. Plus Cussler writes himself into the ending which was both enjoyable and pure cheese at the same time. plus I hear Matthew McConnehey (sp) is looking at the film version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilgore Trout Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 The latest was Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard. And I finally got my copy of The Da Vinci Code back, so I will reread it soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahyoulose Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 uhhmm some shitty book called "the garden of beasts" by Jeffery Deaver... the problem is once i start a book i MUST finish it.. same thing with movies OCD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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