what are you reading? - Page 54

nomadicfollower · 03.30.2008, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by m1rr0r dash

same paper, different book

I tried to read Birth of the Prison but had a little trouble and stopped.

Sonic Youth 37 · 03.30.2008, 08:35 PM

In addition to Ulysses:

For my Roman History class

looking glass spectacle · 03.30.2008, 09:04 PM

Inhuman · 03.31.2008, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by nomadicfollower

I tried to read Birth of the Prison but had a little trouble and stopped.

Neat, that's what my brother's reading.

I'm reading:

Gogogonorrhea · 03.31.2008, 01:14 PM

Although it gets on my nerves that "Also sprach Zarathustra" is translated into "Thus spake Zarathustra". "Sprach" in german is just the ordinary past tense. Translators should write their own book if they want to be creative.

Tokolosh · 04.02.2008, 06:36 AM

An essay.
Descartes's Météores and the Rainbow Fountain
SIMON WERRETT

and various science books on how to generate artificial rainbows.

pao-lino · 04.02.2008, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by _slavo_

I guess it's a pretty difficult book to read.

It's one of my fave delillo novel.
I usually don't like his writing in first person, not difficult, but a little bit "heavy" although he's considered the master of "minimal post-modern", but here is perfect, very personal and fluent, bizarre and deep.
cool dialogues, that family is wonderful, the kids are amazing.
have a nice time reading it!

at the moment I'm reading great jones street, always by don delillo, but honestly is nothing special... also here first person narration, lot of contemplation on old-fashioned details, the story is not even that interesting... talks about a rockstar hiding from celebrity.
RUNNING DOG is another cool one by dondelillo, and so is MAOII. once he came in italy for a reading festival years ago and he is a really smart and polite person, he answered many stupid questions in a very intelligent way.

Everyneurotic · 04.10.2008, 05:32 PM

finished naked lunch yesterday and started this bad boy:

pbradley · 04.10.2008, 05:59 PM

Finished Heidegger's lectures The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics and Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In keeping with the class material, I've began Gadamer's Truth and Method as well as Bruno Latour's The Pasteurization of France.

Sonic Youth 37 · 04.10.2008, 06:06 PM

Ulysses, page 260. It took me 4 hours to read 80 pages 2 days ago.

!@#$%! · 04.11.2008, 02:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37

Ulysses, page 260. It took me 4 hours to read 80 pages 2 days ago.

that's pretty fucking fast for ulysses

✌➬ · 04.11.2008, 02:51 AM

Several books on Diane Arbus, and Richard Hamilton.

Toilet & Bowels · 04.11.2008, 03:04 AM

i started this on the wy to work this morning:

george orwell - down & out in paris & london

truncated · 04.11.2008, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37

Ulysses, page 260. It took me 4 hours to read 80 pages 2 days ago.

I didn't think any sane being read that unless it was mandatory.

!@#$%! · 04.11.2008, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

i started this on the wy to work this morning:

george orwell - down & out in paris & london

that is one fucking awesome book. more fun in paris than in london. chicken/elevator = YES.

gmku · 04.11.2008, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

that's pretty fucking fast for ulysses

Ha, no shit. True story: My college freshman English prof (none other than David Morrell, author of First Blood and many other "thrillers") assigned us Ulysses. He told us to read the first and last 50 pages or something like that and he would tell us all about the rest in between. And this was for an English lit course for my major, not a core class. I loved him for that. He was a great teacher.

Sonic Youth 37 · 04.11.2008, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by truncated

I didn't think any sane being read that unless it was mandatory.

It's more of a test of my willpower. The way I see it, if I can read Ulysses, I can read anything. My major consists of reading A LOT of Latin translated to English and it drives me insane and I don't have time to learn fluent Latin right now. Latin jokes, puns, and insults do not translate well at all into English. Apuleius can kiss my golden ass.

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

that's pretty fucking fast for ulysses

My goal is to have it finished in two more weeks or less. Page 292, right now.

!@#$%! · 04.11.2008, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37

It's more of a test of my will power. The way I see it, if I can read Ulysses, I can read anything. My major consists of reading A LOT of Latin translated to English and it drives me insane and I don't have time to learn fluent Latin right now. Latin jokes, puns, and insults do not translate well at all into English. Apuleius can kiss my golden ass.

if it's a test of athleticism then you should go after finnegan's wake. that's where i throw the towel.

and shouldn't you change your major to something you can actually read in the original? this reminds me of the professor of hitler studies who couldn't read german.

Sonic Youth 37 · 04.11.2008, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

if it's a test of athleticism then you should go after finnegan's wake. that's where i throw the towel.

and shouldn't you change your major to something you can actually read in the original? this reminds me of the professor of hitler studies who couldn't read german.

Well, what I said is a half-truth. My major is History, but I haven't decided on which branch yet, so I'm in an early Roman Empire class right now because I know the professor pretty well. Ideally, my concentration will not be Roman History. I'll still take all his classes, though, along with whatever I choose to focus on.

I'm going to go back after I finish Ulysses and read Portrait of the Artist (I was about 1/4 finished with it....a year ago), then finish off the rest of Joyce.

NWRA · 04.11.2008, 12:52 PM

I'm skim-reading In Search Of Lost Time again, because Proust is easily my favourite writer: the way that he describes the tones and textures of things, the subjects that he writes about (the psychological idiosyncrasies of people, his philosophies, 'society') and the long, intertwining storyline which is so full of surprises (and retrospective irony)... I just can't comprehend that there will ever be anything written that can match it. And he was gay.

I'd be grateful if anyone could help me with these questions:

1) I love New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. What is his second-best book?

2) I once tried to read Anna Karenina but stopped after 200 pages, at the point where Levin goes back to his farm and Tolstoy starts describing ancient Russian farming-techniques. I just thought 'why am I reading this?'. Should I try again, and be more patient?

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Gogogonorrhea little trouble girl Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 84	Although it gets on my nerves that "Also sprach Zarathustra" is translated into "Thus spake Zarathustra". "Sprach" in german is just the ordinary past tense. Translators should write their own book if they want to be creative. __________________ "If there's one kind of piracy I hate, it's conspiracy."
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pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	Finished Heidegger's lectures The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics and Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In keeping with the class material, I've began Gadamer's Truth and Method as well as Bruno Latour's The Pasteurization of France.
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Sonic Youth 37 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it Posts: 9,443	Ulysses, page 260. It took me 4 hours to read 80 pages 2 days ago. __________________ "One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
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04.11.2008, 12:52 PM	#1080
NWRA children of satan Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Leeds Posts: 367	I'm skim-reading In Search Of Lost Time again, because Proust is easily my favourite writer: the way that he describes the tones and textures of things, the subjects that he writes about (the psychological idiosyncrasies of people, his philosophies, 'society') and the long, intertwining storyline which is so full of surprises (and retrospective irony)... I just can't comprehend that there will ever be anything written that can match it. And he was gay. I'd be grateful if anyone could help me with these questions: 1) I love New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. What is his second-best book? 2) I once tried to read Anna Karenina but stopped after 200 pages, at the point where Levin goes back to his farm and Tolstoy starts describing ancient Russian farming-techniques. I just thought 'why am I reading this?'. Should I try again, and be more patient?
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