What are you reading?

[kay]

I loved Shadow of the Wind...it's very similar in style..to be honest, I'm shocked you didn't like it.

I know about 6 people who didn't think much of it. It was ok, but from the rave reviews I think we'd all thought it was meant to be amazingly stupendous.

Yeah, my wife can't get into it either. I just thought maybe she was crazy...I really enjoyed it.

Possibly it might be to do with the fact that I read mostly sci-fi and fantasy stuff, so none of it was particularly new or different. I think it was also that not much actually happened through most of the book.

Have you read this? Pretty sad, but a great book...

Nope, not read that.

[64hz]

just read demian.

1 question: how is 'demian' pronounced?
day mee an
deh my an
dee my an

[limb]

dharma bums Jack Kerouac it is awesome

[64hz]

dharma bums Jack Kerouac it is awesome

my favourite book i've read so far.
i've got visions of cody sitting on my table that im gonna start soon.

[limb]

dharma bums Jack Kerouac it is awesome

my favourite book i've read so far.
i've got visions of cody sitting on my table that im gonna start soon.

It's his best that I've read so far, and I've read a few.

[64hz]

same, the latest i read was Big Sur, together with Dharma Bums its his best work imo(from what i've read). its like his own critiscism of the 'beat generation' he spawned.

[jaydot]

At the minute Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Gray

[2manynoobs]

[*grand*]

The Ascent of money: A financial history of the world, by Neil Ferguson. It's an entertaining read. It basically talking about how financial innovations, and the flow of stores of value have shaped the rise and fall of nations since the 1500.

Grand

[skitz_0]

rereading

[64hz]

http://cyber.eserver.org/unabom.txt



its actually a good read.

[bright maroon]

..still reading the 1885-1888 Sir Richard Burton version of 1,001 Arabian Nights
...is taking me that long to get through it.


endless caliphate and wazir 'z

[inaya]

Camus' Les Justes

[k_k]

im reading like the preface in my copy of james joyces uylesses at the minute, will start the actual book soon.
also reading a collection of short stories by flannery o'connor, the last one was "the geranium" i believe

[Milky Pirate]

Im currently reading World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War by Max Brooks.. its awesome, being made into a major film by brad pitts production company..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z

[64hz]

can anyone translate egyptian heiroglyphs?

i just bought war and peace from a secondhand bookshop and there was a piece of papyrus with heiroglyphs on it. i tried to translate it myself on the web, but there where a couple of glyphs that i couldnt identify.
i imagine its just a tourist trinket that the previous owner used as a bookmark, but it would be cool to find out what it means.

[kwami]

[laurent__duval]

really enjoying this. wanna get on some more of his stuff. seems like a brilliant man as well, proper adventurer.

[kay]

can anyone translate egyptian heiroglyphs?

i just bought war and peace from a secondhand bookshop and there was a piece of papyrus with heiroglyphs on it. i tried to translate it myself on the web, but there where a couple of glyphs that i couldnt identify.
i imagine its just a tourist trinket that the previous owner used as a bookmark, but it would be cool to find out what it means.

I have some friends who might be able to. I also bought a book on it but would probably fail.

[64hz]

thats pretty cool man, ill stick a scan up tomorrow, dont bother with it if you cant be assed, it will probably just be something like 'simon was in cairo' or something.