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29 Dec 2016, 4:31 pm

I have been working on Two books 1) NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman (greetings Steve if you see this)
2) How the World Works by Noam Chomsky

and I added Mark Haddon's book "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" a couple of days ago. One that Santa brought me!



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29 Dec 2016, 5:13 pm

I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Such a beautiful book and a story, although it is quite difficult to read.

I've been reading Pooh and the Philosophers by John Tyerman Williams too. It's quite a fun read and a nice way to revisit some philosophical theories I may have forgotten. : D



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29 Dec 2016, 7:39 pm

Jory wrote:
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"The Return of the Sorcerer" by Clark Ashton Smith
"The Hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long

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Pretty lame, both. Lovecraft's imitators had nothing on him.


No, none of them had anything over HPL. Don't know if you knew this, but both Long and Smith were good friends of Lovecraft's.


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29 Dec 2016, 7:49 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
No, none of them had anything over HPL. Don't know if you knew this, but both Long and Smith were good friends of Lovecraft's.


Yeah, and he even named a creature in one of his stories "Klarkash-Ton" after Smith. He encouraged them to write in his worlds and even adopted some of their ideas, kind of like how the Star Wars movies adopted ideas from the expanded universe novels.

It's just too bad that literally every non-Lovecraft Mythos story I've read has been such a waste of time. It's like being a Sherlock Holmes fan; after you finish Doyle's Holmes stories, you move on to other authors, but it's depressing when you realize that 99% of it is garbage.



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30 Dec 2016, 6:27 pm

Bram Stoker's classic horror novel Dracula!


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30 Dec 2016, 6:51 pm

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Bram Stoker's classic horror novel Dracula!


My favorite. I still need to finish my annotated edition...

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...which has a bookmark stuck in it around the halfway point.



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03 Jan 2017, 10:53 pm

Read "The Frolic" and "The Journal of J. P. Drapeau" from this collection:

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03 Jan 2017, 11:53 pm

Jory wrote:
Read "The Frolic" and "The Journal of J. P. Drapeau" from this collection:

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Oh man, oh man, I love Thomas Ligotti!


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05 Jan 2017, 1:13 am

Read "The Yellow Sign" by Robert W. Chambers, from this collection:

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08 Jan 2017, 3:02 pm

The Case for Astrology by John Anthony West

Mainly because I've historically thought and still think astrology is BS but I want to unpack its components and really understand the assertions properly. It also weaves through a lot of areas of personal interest and I've been unnerved by that for a while and I want to figure out which side of esotericism I sit on - ie. spiritualistic, purely psychological, or perhaps stranger a permissive environment that might edify BS by accepting our cultural metadata into the laws it holds over us (and ever there - a split between whether it's something like a meme data in human DNA or a big quantum computer that takes all assertions in to some degree without criticism based on its own laws).


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13 Jan 2017, 6:26 am

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose.


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13 Jan 2017, 12:56 pm

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne



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13 Jan 2017, 2:41 pm

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury


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