Tyler Durden Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Wow, two people reading Lolita. I've never read it, but have read a bunch of Nabakov's short stories. He's really good. Those Russians are always good, it seems. It's extremely funny, read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of Hell Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Just finished re-reading some Lovecraft shorts, and before that I re-read DUNE. Right now I'm on the Amazing adventures of Cavalier and Clay, which i'm sad to say I never finished years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosa312 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 I just finished American Gods on the suggestion of a friend... that book was dope... I got into it and read for almost 4 hours before I set it down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheepOrDie Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five' and Ian Glasper's 'the Day the Country Died'. Awesome books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CACashRefund Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Super interesting if you like numbers. Dude comes up with some great stuff: A spin off of this book is this one Honest and entertaining, Columbia University professor Venkatesh vividly recounts his seven years following and befriending a Chicago crack-dealing gang in a fascinating look into the complex world of the Windy City's urban poor. As introduced in Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's bestseller, Freakonomics, Venkatesh became involved with the Black Kings—and their charismatic leader J.T.—as a first-year doctoral student at the University of Chicago. Sent to the projects with a multiple-choice test on poverty as his calling card, Venkatesh was, to his surprise, invited in to see how the drug dealers functioned in real life, from their corporate structure to the corporal punishment meted out to traitors and snitches. Venkatesh's narrative breaks down common misperceptions (such as all gang members are uneducated and cash rich, when the opposite is often true), the native of India also addresses his shame and subsequent emotional conflicts over collecting research on illegal activities and serving as the Black Kings' primary decision-maker for a day—hardly the actions of a detached sociological observer. But overinvolved or not, this graduate student turned gang-running rogue sociologist has an intimate and compelling tale to tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SukiSukiNow Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 I bought this Candy Candy comic book but in Korean so I can improve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpo Marx Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 I read lolita last year. I know the term is cheap now but Nabokov is absolutely brilliant. That book is so intricate and so carefully written it makes my head spin. He also does his translating himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpo Marx Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Oh and these Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceLeroy Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 just started William Copper's Behold A Pale Horse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a kid growin up Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Maus. It's a comic book about the holocaust. The Jews are the mice the Nazis are the cats Polish are the pigs and the Americans are dogs. It's pretty interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicenemyno.3 Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 ^that books great. i read textbooks, i dont have time for much else these days. kurt vonnegut's the man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qawee Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 I'm reading this book called Assassins its about the rise of the Ismaili sect of Islam Its pretty interesting, but it can be a little hard to follow as there are a ton of people and dates and such Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Flu Sanwich Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 House of Sand and Fog. It's for a fiction film studies class. Next I'll be reading 2001: A Space Odyssey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 i'm filling my annual quota of shitty fantasy books... THE SERPENT WAR SAGA by Raymond Feist. (books 1-4) pretty amusing, but by no means is it outstanding literature. next up: Suttree by cormac mccarthy and 3 cups of tea by greg mortenson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunt double Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 this is a great read, an interesting narrative recount of the formation of the black panther party, as well as a treatise on their political and social stance in their own words... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CACashRefund Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 3 cups of tea by greg mortenson i actually met this dude and we chopped it up for a bit and then he said he liked me and gave me his book and signed it for me i havent gotten around to reading it though i have a fat stack of books that need to get read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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