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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: the_bub_from_the_pit on September 10, 2009, 03:49:24 pm
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I've noticed quite a few people mention that they don't really read or anything so I think its time for a READING CONSENSUS!
Tick all the types of books you read or if you read any then tick the last one.
BUT WHY? How have you managed to avoid Twilight? don't you see the fun in reading real literature? haven't you given in to peer pressure and read The Da Vinci Code?
TELL ME
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I read that "the human zoo" book once.
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I don't enjoy reading fiction.
I do read non-fiction.
For uni, for my thesis, and the rare book for myself.
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Where's the love for Fantasy? Also, non-fiction. I tend to read a lot of magazines lately, too, like Scientific American and Maclean's and Popular Mechanics (and Reader's Digest *welp*).
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I enjoy reading spin off topics
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Non-fiction, bitches.
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PS. i can't seem to edit the poll so you're going to have to pick 1 option
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You should all read The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.
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You should all read The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.
I stole this from a charity shop once. I read half of it but can't remember why I never finished it. I can't remember anything about it though, since I was 15 at the time.
I'll be honest in saying most of the books I read are christian books so fiction/non fiction delete as appropriate. I've often been told to "read a novel or something." I probably really should.
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you stole from a charity shop yet your a christian
your going to hell dude
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Actually all sins are forgiven through Jesus Christ. Why don't you READ the New Testament someday bro heheh
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I read a lot more non-fiction than fiction.
Usually on social issues or science. But the occasional narrative is good. I once read a 600 page hardcover about Antarctica, and specifically Shackleton. That was a really long book to read, you wonder how one can fill 600 pages on the subject of Antarctica.
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recommend me some good nonfiction books.
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Where's the love for Fantasy? Also, non-fiction. I tend to read a lot of magazines lately, too, like Scientific American and Maclean's and Popular Mechanics (and Reader's Digest *welp*).
is maclean's actually any good? it just looks like a canadian time/newsweek
i have heard good things about 'freakonomics' you could try that out if you think you can wrap your head around it
right now i'm reading an anthology of dfw essays, that mcsweeney's that chris ware did, some comic analysis book, crying of lot 49, and the sound and the fury. i have also read a small part of dan brown's body of work, gonna look into some susan stewart collections because she's a cool lady, and i have been hoarding redundant issues of boulevard for a while but idk if i will ever open one. i should probably finish yiddish policemen's league since i started it before i left for school. someone left this book about eating bugs on a table so i read half of that and that was pretty interesting and non-fiction, it was this one (http://books.google.com/books?id=QjuEMfQ9kM0C&dq=man+eating+bugs&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=7MRjtG8F0V&sig=Xn3lMoMRik_cFpPRQfmulhb-hsY&hl=en&ei=jk-pSqnRKojIMemxnKgG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false). i don't think i could eat a tarantula, it would not feel right. anything else would probably be ok though. i don't know, they seem too mammalian. actually they probably don't have the hairs anymore since those are irritants.
i have been meaning to check out z magazine and off our backs and believer for a while but the only one i've actually looked at is believer, note to self read things
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Yeah I mostly read non-fiction.
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mostly non-fiction. I recently finished a pretty cool book about how the 'back to bop' movement has ruined jazz, and at the moment I'm going through Che Guevarra's diaries (read his cuban one, halfway through bolivian and got motorcycle to go). They're really good, it's weird seeing how his actions contrast with those he's fighting against, and how compassionate he is. I wouldn't wear one of those t-shirts, but still he seems like a great man.
I haven't read much fiction in a while, i used to read star wars books, but they're terrible and don't count. I never understood why Harry Potter and LOTR were so great, and Twilight or Da Vinci code are just as bad if not worse than Star Wars books, so I'm avoiding those like the fucking plague.
I don't read more than a few hours a week though, hopefully more when uni starts back up and I have two train journeys every day to fill-up. Other than that it's various Art History books, and that kinda shit. It's interesting and fun though. Max Ernst and Alchamy is a great read.
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You should all read The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.
the good thing about this book was in 4th form chemistry i knew bromide water is used to stop people getting randy. aside from that it's not that great, the writing style is really lazy and some parts are plain ridiculous.
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I read alot and have done most of my life. It really has helped me in my life with literacy/writing/spelling whatever in school.
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The last book i read was called "Holy Fire" by Bruce Sterling. if you go to amazon.co.uk it costs around £120 to buy brand new (i got it for like, £3 i think) last time i checked. its an ok book but nothing really happens in it.... still it had interesting things in it like people using fungi to clean themselves, it grows into there pores, and then it dies and when it comes out it takes all the dirt with it. there are even talking dogs, one had its own TV show.
EDIT: ummm yeah i read a lot, pretty much all the time, have so many novels floating about, a lot of fantasy, some sci-fi.
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recently i read long winded postmodern mega novels. i enjoying them thorough!!
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I used to read a lot and enjoyed it, but I think I just somehow forgot about it :ganja:
nowadays I just read whatever's on this forum, the bbc news site (just because firefox has it a defaulted rss thing or whatever, i live in canada..) or just other random shit on the internet. But I guess those things don't really count.
Oh last summer I was really fucking bored so I re read HOLES in like 2 days
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you stole from a charity shop yet your a christian
your going to hell dude
To clarify it was in such terrible condition they were going to throw it away anyway.
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I like to read biographies (but only by people who actually knew the guy otherwise it's mostly name dropping of people they barely knew or guesses) for non-fiction.
For fiction I mainly read Charles Bukowski or Stephen King. I know you can make fun of my fiction choices but whatever, they are entertaining enough to keep me reading without necessarily being great literature.
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recommend me some good nonfiction books.
What kinds of topics? All of these are good (a few aren't non-fiction):
http://doktormartini.wordpress.com/booklist/
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What kinds of topics? All of these are good (a few aren't non-fiction):
http://doktormartini.wordpress.com/booklist/
Doktormartini, how to say this... Da Vinci Code? You are too casual martini! You should read more alternative literature!
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is maclean's actually any good? it just looks like a canadian time/newsweek
pretty much yeah but I eat that stuff up. I read Newsweek and Time, too, at doctor's offices (though they aren't nearly as good as Maclean's imho).
For non-fiction, I've read The God Delusion, The Science of Good & Evil, Freakonomics, Cartoon History of the Universe I, II & III, In Praise of Nepotism, Intelligence in Nature, A Short History of Nearly Everything, How to be a Canadian, Dave Barry books and collections, Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw, A Shortcut Through Time, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, God, the Devil and Darwin, Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World's Food Crises and a bunch more, usually along the lines of:
-Science in general
-atheism or secularism
-nature
-intelligence
-evolution
-economics
-humor
-history
I also mostly just read non-fiction. The last book I read was God is Not Great by Hitchens.
How was this, by the way?
EDIT:
Oh yeah, I also read a fair number of game design books, like Theory of Fun in Game Design, Swords & Circuitry, and something like Interactive Storytelling (can't remember the title at the moment)
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can't stand anything too esoteric these days on top of all the reading i do for class
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I haven't read shit the past several months. I've read most of Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, but it's not as good as the show...
I enjoy reading the most when I am busy. I haven't been busy since I graduated from university. All I do is play video games.
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Why wouldnt you read? Reading is an automatic thing like going to the washroom or staring at hot chicks.. you do it subconsionsly, you are reading this rigth now,also I am incerting subliminal messages into your brain at the moment, have fun trying to bite off your own @#$% tomorow.
No problem.
EDIT: Just a random fact... rpg players actually read more than people who read books.
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interesting non-fiction. could be anything but I have a weakness for culture, history or civilizations.
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for whatever reason i just got inspired to visit a used book store and get some books. thank you. thanks you.
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I haven't read a book start to finish in a long while. The last thing I read was the metamorphosis, that was about a month ago, and about two months before that I read the trial. That's pretty much all I can remember - I've made a bunch of attempts since January to read books but I always lose enthusiasm somewhere along the way - sometimes it's 10 pages in, sometimes it's 200 but I never finish, at any rate.
It's terrible. I used to read a whole lot. I have become extremely lazy and no longer put any effort into the things I thought I was cultivating that made me proud of myself.
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I read mainly scifi and fantasy, but also some horror (CELL) varied manga, nonfiction ( there was one about the first black family in Levittown)occasional erotic webcomics- a mixture.
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occasional erotic webcomics
Please feel free to pm.. you know for intelectual purposes.
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already given up on trying not to be creepy?
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i chose the tolstoy option because even though i haven't read any tolstoy (yet) i'm assuming thats the classic literature button.
pretty much since i'm going to be an english major i thought it would be a good idea to catch up on the literary must-reads so that's what i've been doing lately. up next on the list: Faust
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The only reason I don't read much fiction is because I really have no idea where to begin. Apart from the classics like To Kill a Mockingbird and whatever I really have no idea which books and authors are supposed to be any good. I don't want to just stumble into a book store are take any random book out. It's much easier to find a good non-fiction book that you'll enjoy since all you really need is to have some interest in the book's subject matter. Also I find that non-fiction gets better promotion. I watch a lot of Daily Show and Bill Maher and pretty much every episode has some writer giving an interview and plugging their book, and nine times out of ten it's probably a non-fiction book. Whereas with fiction, if TV is any indication, then the only books released in the last 10 years have been Harry Potter, Da Vinci Code and Twilight.
hit me up sometime for a couple pointers. i could probably think of some shit right up your alley.
i don't read as much as i should anymore. i've got a couple random books sitting around that i've been meaning to read, none that i'm particularly enthusiastic about diving into. i haven't been a bookworm type for ages. usually i just write instead
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school sucks no time to read what i want have to read anatomy books and gay shit about economics who cares
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TEXTBOOKS I AM BORING
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I read a lot of fiction, mostly among the lines of Fantasy (Robin hobb, jaqueline Carey, McIntosch)
or Mystery and Horror (King and stuff). Finished the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series a few
weeks back.
Other than that, I'm addicted to filling my head with senseless information, so I read lots of educational
books. These consist mostly of Oxford and Cambridge books, Books on literature (which is silly in many
ways), Psychology, Philosophy and all that Jazz.
Currently working through Dante's divine comedy. After that, I want to finish Voltaire's "Candide". It's
hilarious, a shame I never had time to finish it.
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you're all a bunch of literature philistines
-lit major
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you're all a bunch of literature philistines
-lit major
Oh you got some fancy paper saying you wasted 2 years of your pointless life listening to some bold faggot talk about old books and shit and analizing them.. when you can read by yourself and come up with your own definition?
Good for you, have you ever toguth of "suicide" or atleast coming to my town so I can beat the fuck out of you?
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I feel a bit of a draft in here.
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Oh you got some fancy paper saying you wasted 2 years of your pointless life listening to some bold faggot talk about old books and shit and analizing them.. when you can read by yourself and come up with your own definition?
Good for you, have you ever toguth of "suicide" or atleast coming to my town so I can beat the fuck out of you?
Truly, have you never even considered behaving like a decent human being, or does being a jackass
just give you *that* much twisted pleasure?
And Evangel, being a lit major doesn't give you the right to decide what country i'm from.
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I've been itching to start reading again once I got my summer break from univeristy so this summer i've been reading a lot.
I had a booklist compiled and I've been progressively working through it -- stuff like infinite jest, the road, borges' ficciones, fitzgerald's babylon revisited/great gatsby, the prodigy, venus in furs, the fall, etc etc. so really mostly classics.
oh and i'm 1/3 through 2666
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Has anyone read A Confederacy of Dunces? That shit's pretty hilarious.
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i only read textbooks because that is all the time that I have for reading these days
also I never really got into like novels all that much anyways, like I'm just not the kind of person who really enjoys like sitting down with a good book, maybe this explains a lot about me I don't know?
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Maybey your just a "prefer's the movies" kinda person?
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I'm thinking of picking up The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life, by Philippe Zimbardo. watch in HQ
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does anyone else always feel like philip zimbardo has weird ulterior motives whenever you see him talking in his videos
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i think it has to do with the fact he's a weird mix of christopher walken and ras al ghul
why watch in hq?
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Maybey your just a "prefer's the movies" kinda person?
it's "maybe" not "maybey" or "maybay" or whatever random variations you keep using. Why do you do that?
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maebie he is a foreign. didnt you ever think of that????
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MAYBE HE SHOULD LEARN AMERICAN BETTER.
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MAYBE HE SHOULD LEARN AMERICAN BETTER.
Which American? North, Central, Latin, South...etc
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you dont speak american you stupid person, it called "united stats" please educate yourself better
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united States of Eurasia ALOL
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does anyone else always feel like philip zimbardo has weird ulterior motives whenever you see him talking in his videos
i have inherent bigotry towards people who look like they have just staggered out of the tanning salon
also i should point out that this guy only had ONE marshmallow at the end. wouldn't that make him moody/indecisive/envious/despicable/gypsy/faggot?????
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no freckles? no friend of mine.
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like i'm fine with mexicans and black people as long as they're pale.
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like i'm fine with mexicans and black people as long as they're pale.
who said anything about being fine with mexicans??????????????
don't you dare put words in my mouth.
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I've read alot fiction a few years back, but trying to pick it up again. Softing up with Phillip K. Dick shizzle and just started reading Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse since i'm not comfortable enough with english to read the Divine Comedy and Tropic of Capricorn yet (accidently kinda got my latest batch of books in english) >_>
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i read
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And Evangel, being a lit major doesn't give you the right to decide what country i'm from.
golden post this is a really funny post.
I'm reading "A Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley now, and after that it's "Through the Looking Glass" (Alice in Wonderland), then either Anna Karenina by Tolstoy or...
Finnegan's Wake.
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Phillip K. Dick
Aldous Huxley
I'm not particularly well-read, but I had a lot of fun with these authors. :naughty:
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I like to read very much and I am a great fan of fantasy. Harry Potter is my favourite book!