Metal Reviews

Yeah, I've got a best of H.P. Lovecraft book, it's awesome. Which do you have? The actual title of mine is "Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft". Which is the most complete collection for the price, if you ask me. As for The Wheel of Time, I read half of the first book, and though I liked it I eventually stopped reading it because it was just another fantasy book to me. Maybe I should try again.

Anyway, purchased Ringworld by Larry Niven on Amazon last week and expect it to arrive in the next couple days. Has anyone on the forum read it?

Hannah Arendt - On Revolution
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics

Arendt is so annoying.

Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Kant
Three Dialogues by Berkeley
Metaphysics by Aristotle
Tis a Pity She's a Whore by John Ford
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
Knight of the Burnin Pestle by Francis Beaumont

Renaissance drama is awesome. Aristotle is heavy readin'. Berkeley is frustrating. Kant seems pretty cool so far.

Kant is cool. Berkeley's dialogues are the best to read of his and I just never got into Aristotle.

I kinda like Aristotle. He's hard to read but figuring out what he's saying is like deciphering a puzzle in a good way and the little hints of his ethics I've gotten so far makes them seem very neat.

Written in that excessively wordy British aristocratic style, but still interesting.

'Salem's Lot

Finished the new Wheel of Time, Towers of Midnight. Decent after the first five hundred pages of incredibly slow buildup, but ultimately a step down after the very good Gathering Storm. Some of the plot twists and climaxes work, but others are either cheesy, over too quickly or just really dumb. Only one more to go, thank the Jesus...

Now reading...

Larry McMurtry- Lonesome Dove

It's western time, cocksuckers (this is obviously coinciding with a Deadwood rewatch)

Finished my school reading for the semester so I'm starting up Pynchon's Mason and Dixon again.

Just finished World War Z. Very enjoyable.

V for Vendetta

Already liking it better than the movie.

Salman Rushdie- Shame

I haven't settled in to what I'm reading during the break. I guess right now I'm reading Wild Things by Dave Eggers. I tried some Habermas but it was too dry to enjoy.

I may end up reading Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin which is the classic radical feminist book which is pinned as getting feminists labeled as hating sex. The book basically describes the power relations in all the different personae sex puts women in.

Power Play by Gavin Esler. Proud to be the one lowbrow reader on the site (apparently...)

I got bored of Wild Things when he got to the wild things part of it.

I'm trying to think of a good French novel to read. I took French immersion in elementary/high school and trying to think of something that won't be too easy or too hard, while still being an entertaining book. So far the only suggestion I have is The Count of Monte Cristo.

finished "Caim" (Cain) by José Saramago. very good, the ending is kind of disappointing but up until the very last pages it's a joy to read. his style isn't for everyone i guess, but if you like anything else by him then Cain is definitely up your alley.

I'm loving Dave Eggers writing on childhood. He's doing what the original storybook did for me as a kid for me a young adult looking back at being a kid if that makes any sense. I hope I don't get bored when the wild things enter the picture.

I'll raise your Dumas and say the Three Muskies is better than Count of Monte Cristo. Rio recommended me Zola's Germinal a while back and I loved it. Hell, there's also Proust if you want to be ridiculous. Camus' The Stranger or The Plague, if you feel philosophical. Sade and 120 Days of Sodom if that's what you're into.

Hoping to build up to reading Proust and Foucault in French but don't want to scare myself off by jumping right into those.

Agree about the first part of Wild Things, actually. Have you read any of Eggers' other books? I read Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity in a couple days each.

Psychology of predictors, predictions and those who follow them. A useful and interesting read for anyone curious about how our evolution both helps and hinders how we view the future, as well as use the past.

Oh man, skip the Proust for just the Foucault. I'm such a big fan of him. If you're reading these French novels in French, I would seriously look to Camus. His writing style has that terse, plain form which I think would make it a really good starting point.

I haven't read any Eggers actually. I have Heartbreaking on the shelf so it'll come about one of these days.