I'm almost halfway through Stranger in a Strange Land.  It's entertaining, but not as thought-provoking as I expected (I've never read Heinlein).  Some of the character interactions are REALLY cheesy, I'm talking like anime romance cheesy.  You've got this innocent, socially inept dude from Mars who captures the attention of about 4 beautiful women who all happen to live in the same mansion.  It's like Tenchi Muyo.

keep reading it's absolute garbage

get farnham's freehold next it's gold

then for us, the living

that's all I've read by him. they're all pretty funny but they also made me feel kind of embarrassed for him. I wonder if fanfic writers are inspired by his writing style or if it's just a natural tendency

I'm reading Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches:  The Riddles of Culture by Marvin Harris

i saw that the other day and asked myself: "who the fuck is actually buying and reading this horseshit?"

welp...

i saw that the other day and asked myself: "who the fuck is actually buying and reading this horseshit?"

welp...

how dare they soil the godly work that is pride and prejudice

it makes me so mad grr

i am playing muse

omg me three

no wait i'm playing music. sorry my bad

reading: A BOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE STINKING RICH BUT DON'T KNOW HOW

seriously thats what its called

Gomorra and The Divine Comedy! I'm rich.


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oh, and I think there are some spelling errors in the topic title. You should change that before people say we-who-read can't spell.

http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347

Same here.  I think I might pick up Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters next. 

how dare they soil the godly work that is pride and prejudice

it makes me so mad grr

it's not that... it's just of all the things out there you can read, that's what you're goin' with?  I don't even mean this in too snobby of a way, it's like tabloids, fan-fic-y starwars expanded universe shit, or grocery store romance novels. You just sorta raise an eyebrow and ask "really?"

jane austen is bad enough

it's not that... it's just of all the things out there you can read, that's what you're goin' with?  I don't even mean this in too snobby of a way, it's like tabloids, fan-fic-y starwars expanded universe shit, or grocery store romance novels. You just sorta raise an eyebrow and ask "really?"

eh, a lot of people dont take reading seriously. im just happy they are reading anything at all, i know too many people who go LOL BOOKS!!!!!!!! XD and then watch football all day.

watch football all day read books all night

it's not that... it's just of all the things out there you can read, that's what you're goin' with?  I don't even mean this in too snobby of a way, it's like tabloids, fan-fic-y starwars expanded universe shit, or grocery store romance novels. You just sorta raise an eyebrow and ask "really?"

It's not that I don't like reading good books.  In the last month I've read both of Obama's books, three books on Lincoln, a book on Jackie Robinson's impact on society and baseball, two books on the Civil War, and one about the history of the Negro Leagues.  It's nice to have something light and fun once in awhile.  Besides, I fucking hated having to read her books in my high school English classes.  It's nice to see someone desecrate her work and actually make it entertaining.

idk man, it's still like the literary equivalent of buying a "weird al" album IMO

I'm reading Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood and also some old Gore Vidal essays (they rule, he rules). Also today I picked up a secondhand book on homosexuality from the seventies put out by the Kinsley Institute that was basically a statistical study of diversity within the San Francisco gay community, it's probably really outdated by now but still pretty cool. Apparantly more than half of the males surveyed put their number of sexual partners at 500+ and the authors put a big asterisk after that for a note at the bottom saying MAY NOT BE TRUE.

I am reading Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami and History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. Both are good.

infinite jest

loved it

i saw that the other day and asked myself: "who the fuck is actually buying and reading this horseshit?"

welp...

enough people for this: http://io9.com/5415829/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-will-be-a-miniseries