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RE: What are you reading right now? - i3670 - 05-12-2014
Let's bring back some literary culture to the off-topic section.
Have you guys read anything interesting lately? I have read quite a lot due to a university course in English literature.
As of now I have read:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Hamid
Beloved - Morrison
Trumpet - Kay
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Wuthering Heights - Brontë
I am currently reading:
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Going to read:
Written on the Body - Winterson
RE: What are you reading right now? - DavidS - 05-12-2014
Hmmmm, I have the problem that I buy too many books, but can`t read them fast enough...
Currently reading these paralell:
Total Recall - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Guest in Space - Stanislaw Lem
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
And here is a moderate selection of "to reads" that lie in wait in my small library:
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Mask - Stanislaw Lem
An Ernest Hemingway collection
Death Of A Salesman - Arthur Miller
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
+ about 5 other ones that are untouched or unfinished
RE: What are you reading right now? - Red - 05-12-2014
Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi.
Have to read it twice, it's so crazy yet brilliant.
So crazy that one read isn't enough to completely understand its bizzare story.
RE: What are you reading right now? - CorinthianMerchant - 05-12-2014
Frans G. Bengtsson - The Long Ships
RE: What are you reading right now? - i3670 - 05-12-2014
(05-12-2014, 02:00 PM)DavidS Wrote: Hmmmm, I have the problem that I buy too many books, but can`t read them fast enough...
You seem to be having the same problem as my brother. He has two Ayn Rand books, one of which is Atlas Shrugged. Crime and Punishment, Doctor Zhivago and a bunch more that he has barely opened. He has begun reading a few though.
RE: What are you reading right now? - Bridge - 05-12-2014
Reading Don Quixote at the moment - an English translation unfortunately. I'm embarrassed by how little I've read so I'm trying to remedy that.
RE: What are you reading right now? - i3670 - 05-12-2014
Watch out for those windmills!
Also, I forgot, I've also read Brave New World by Huxley, which is interesting because they use a drug called SOMA...
RE: What are you reading right now? - Bridge - 05-12-2014
(05-12-2014, 09:11 PM)i3670 Wrote: Watch out for those windmills!
Also, I forgot, I've also read Brave New World by Huxley, which is interesting because they use a drug called SOMA...
Yeah, it is no doubt a reference.
RE: What are you reading right now? - Alex Ros - 05-13-2014
http://www.rushkoff.com/life-inc/
RE: What are you reading right now? - Froge - 05-14-2014
The Better Angels of Our Nature