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30 Sep 2011, 8:38 pm

I'm currently going through a Cees Nooteboom overdose.

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30 Sep 2011, 9:21 pm

gravities rainbow sounds interesting. I was trying to read atlas shrugged for a book club with some of my friends. I kind of failed. not that i couldnt start again but its been a while. Have Origin of Species on my dashboard. there is probably a list of at least ten books i have started reading.

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30 Sep 2011, 9:25 pm

I'm in eternal gratitude to the acquaintance who borrowed my Atlas Shrugged and never returned it.

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30 Sep 2011, 9:29 pm

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I'm in eternal gratitude to the acquaintance who borrowed my Atlas Shrugged and never returned it.

Throwing it in the fireplace would have been better. The fact that it still exists just means that more people are going to read the damn thing.

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01 Oct 2011, 5:38 am

Jory wrote:

carturo222 wrote:

I'm in eternal gratitude to the acquaintance who borrowed my Atlas Shrugged and never returned it.

Throwing it in the fireplace would have been better. The fact that it still exists just means that more people are going to read the damn thing.

People should read it, it's an invaluable insight into the mindset of the American right, and it gets referenced and parodied in so many different places it's good to read it to recognise them.

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01 Oct 2011, 6:27 am

Pygmalion by G. B. Shaw.

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01 Oct 2011, 8:58 am

Ambivalence wrote:

Jory wrote:

carturo222 wrote:

I'm in eternal gratitude to the acquaintance who borrowed my Atlas Shrugged and never returned it.

Throwing it in the fireplace would have been better. The fact that it still exists just means that more people are going to read the damn thing.

People should read it, it's an invaluable insight into the mindset of the American right, and it gets referenced and parodied in so many different places it's good to read it to recognise them.

My point exactly. Burning books is never a good idea, no matter how awful the book. Humankind is enriched by every masterpiece and every piece of rubbish ever produced.

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01 Oct 2011, 10:58 am

carturo222 wrote:

Ambivalence wrote:

Jory wrote:

carturo222 wrote:

I'm in eternal gratitude to the acquaintance who borrowed my Atlas Shrugged and never returned it.

Throwing it in the fireplace would have been better. The fact that it still exists just means that more people are going to read the damn thing.

People should read it, it's an invaluable insight into the mindset of the American right, and it gets referenced and parodied in so many different places it's good to read it to recognise them.

My point exactly. Burning books is never a good idea, no matter how awful the book. Humankind is enriched by every masterpiece and every piece of rubbish ever produced.

Here here! Even with books that are absolute donkey dung, at least with those you learn how not to write a book :lol:

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01 Oct 2011, 1:41 pm

I'm trying to read a whole bunch of books right now. One on the anarcho-syndicalist movement in pre-Franco Barcelona, two about the Norse in Greenland, two by Lovecraft, one on restoring historical objects, several general fiction books.

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02 Oct 2011, 2:40 pm

The Outline of History has defeated me. Too racist and just plain wrong about too many things for me to be able to stand reading it.

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03 Oct 2011, 1:35 pm

Prelude to Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.

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03 Oct 2011, 7:12 pm

The Music of Life by Hazrat Inayat Khan

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04 Oct 2011, 5:05 am

Gormenghast trilogy

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04 Oct 2011, 7:47 am

reading a few actually.
the meaning of marxism by paul d'amto
feminism and socialism by various authors
women and revolution in iran by various authors
and of course tony attwoods complete guide to aspergers.

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04 Oct 2011, 4:36 pm

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Gormenghast trilogy

me too. they're my favourites so I'm rereading the second book. Who's your favourite character? I like Steerpike but also Fuchsia and the Doctor. At first I didn't like Titus but now I think I can relate to him.

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04 Oct 2011, 6:11 pm

buryuntime wrote:

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Gormenghast trilogy

I'm still on the first book so Titus is still a baby. The person I relate to the most is Sepulchrave, but I am by nature a depressive.

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