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Whatcha Reading?; War and Peace? Best of Jugs? I'm curious
Topic Started: Apr 26 2006, 05:09 PM (3,438 Views)
karmicaria
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Too...much...Lovecraft-like stuff. It does strange things to your brain. :blink:
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karmicaria,Jun 7 2007
11:12 PM
Too...much...Lovecraft-like stuff. It does strange things to your brain. :blink:

Try reading some cryptid stuff before bedtime. Every time you hear a noise outside your window the first thing you think of is Mothman, bigfoot, the Jersey devil, or chupakabras. :lol:

Mysterious America:The Ultimate guide to the nation's weirdest wonders,strangest spots,and creepiest creatures, by Loren Coleman
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I actually just finished reading Dracula yesterday afternoon and then I started on The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Stoker needed an editor as bad as Rowlings did.
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But Wilde didn't.
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I'm currently reading The Confessions of Saint Augustine. Shocking, I know.
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The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi - brilliant, very funny, and doesn't try to get too serious (that, or I had a particularly vapid reading of it)
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh - rubbish, occasionally amusing but not even worth it as a lightweight comic thing
Almost Like A Whale by Steve Jones - modern rewriting of Origin of Species, obviously with greater emphasis on genetics; half read it in school; it's quite entertaining, but his obsessive side-referencing wears a bit thin beyond useful parallels: I question, for example, "evolution, like the US constitution, has many checks and balances"
How To Read: Darwin by Mark Ridley - excellent, very useful, will hopefully help me get a bit more out of Origin and The Descent of Man
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by Carl Jung - variable; I like his style of writing, and agree with some of what he says, but I don't follow his proof of the collective unconscious because there are too many unknown variables, and some of his interpretation just seems like one particular form of lit crit with no particular claim to exclusive validity

Currently on Of Time And The River by Tom Wolfe, and Evolution by Mark Ridley.

I'm thinking of starting a comparative religion bent because I'd quite like to look at the I Ching and Tibetan Book of the Dead, partly because they've cropped up in a lot of recent reading, partly in preparation for Gruenberg's Grand Acid Trip, and partly so I can have some evidential basis for rubbishing people who still believe in this shit (Ursula Le Guin graciously excluded). Also, embarrassingly, I've never read the Bible, so probably should.
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I actually just finished reading Dracula yesterday afternoon and then I started on The Picture of Dorian Gray.

I've not read Wilde's novel, but just finished Dorian: An Imitation by Will Self. I often enjoy his writing but this felt too much like an 'ooh, aren't I clever?' wankathon for my liking. Commendably debauched, though.
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Gruenberg,Oct 1 2007
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I'm thinking of starting a comparative religion bent because I'd quite like to look at the I Ching and Tibetan Book of the Dead, partly because they've cropped up in a lot of recent reading, partly in preparation for Gruenberg's Grand Acid Trip, and partly so I can have some evidential basis for rubbishing people who still believe in this shit (Ursula Le Guin graciously excluded). Also, embarrassingly, I've never read the Bible, so probably should.

I picked up a copy of the Analects to give me some background in my East Asian history class, and coupled with my abridged copy of the I Ching it's very helpful to understand. If you are planning on looking through the I Ching, I'd suggest getting one with lots of commentary and analysis, because it's very murky and confusing at times.

Another book, if you can find it, is Intellectual Foundations of China by Frederick Mote. It's a little older, but it gives a competent introduction and analysis of early Chinese thinking through the Warring States and Han period. It doesn't deal with Buddhism; focusing on Taoism, Confucianism, Legalism, and the Mohist school. To follow up with Buddhism, Buddhism In Chinese History by Arthur Wright is an excellent analysis of Chinese development of Buddhist ideas.

I tried to read the Tibetan Book of the Dead a while back but couldn't hack it.
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The Evil Smurfs,Oct 1 2007
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Stoker needed an editor as bad as Rowlings did.

Actually, all Stoker really needed was to make the book about 20 pages longer so he could do a better job with the ending...otherwise, awesome book! :lol:
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Jenster,Oct 1 2007
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Actually, all Stoker really needed was to make the book about 20 pages longer so he could do a better job with the ending...otherwise, awesome book! :lol:

Well, it's been about a decade since I read it, but I remember it severely bogging down about every other chapter... when he would use newspaper clippings and journal entries. Sometimes that method works, but usually it just sucks.

I tried reading Picture (for some reason, I always want to say 'Portrait'), but found it impossibly boring. I should try again some time.
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Im reading this book called Shogun: A novel of Japan by James Clavell, its pretty good
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Cookesland,Oct 2 2007
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Im reading this book called Shogun: A novel of Japan by James Clavell, its pretty good

Excellent novel. I read it two years ago in about three days. Of course, he took most of the story of Tokugawa Ieyasu and simply changed the names; but at least it was a good story.
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james clavell was an excellent writer.. I think my favorites of his books was Shogun, Tai-pan, and King Rat.
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