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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:56 pm
by cosmic_surgeon
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Typical of Heidegger; rich, dense, profound, difficult, original, and extremely enlightening. I'd even call it essential reading (with patience). Studying Heidegger over the last 9 months has been incredible biz.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:25 am
by AxeD
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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:38 am
by jameshk
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Seeing what the fuss is about.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:00 am
by borrowed
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Just finished this. Saddest book ever.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:30 am
by kingldub
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Never read anything by him before, seen a few lectures and interviews though. Intersting stuff.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:38 am
by Motorway to Roswell
Got this in the post a couple of days ago. Hopefully going to start it shortly.

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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:49 pm
by 64hz
i'm reading Willie Suttons autobiography, that man is my new hero.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:25 pm
by iamallthings
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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:56 pm
by thelostone
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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 2:34 am
by JemGrover
A novel about a Neanderthal tribe who adopt a modern Cro-Magnon girl after her parents die in an earthquake, called Clan of the Cave Bear

The main protagonist is full of existentialist turmoil (eh...?!)

It's possibly the shittiest thing I have ever read.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:28 am
by christophera
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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:37 am
by karmacazee
Re-reading this. Possibly one of my favourite books. It's wildly original, and the ending is very intense.


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Highly reccommended for sci-fi fans. Also the Demolished Man by Bester is terrific.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:43 am
by firky
Read this:

Probably one of the toughest books I have read but very rewarding. It's utterly horrific but gives you some understanding into how people succumb to genocide.

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Reading this at the moment, a Buddhist Thai thriller, very good and dead easy to read after Kindly Ones:

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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:43 am
by isiahfire
Just finished 'A Farewell To Arms' by Hemingway, pretty baffling.

Read 'Saturday' by Ian McEwen not long ago which was fucking brilliant.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:31 pm
by manillathrilla
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This^

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:16 pm
by apmje
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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:58 am
by 64hz
i'm looking to read more scifi so who should it be:
Ian M Banks
or
Alfred Bester
or another not yet mentioned in this thread

my manager leant me the nights dawn trilogy by peter hamilton, fairly epic shit! need more mindblowing scifi though.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:30 pm
by gettingcolder
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Typical of Heidegger; rich, dense, profound, difficult, original, and extremely enlightening. I'd even call it essential reading (with patience). Studying Heidegger over the last 9 months has been incredible biz.
Do you know this one?
RĂ¼diger Safranski: Martin Heidegger. Between Good and Evil

Was reading this (mainly) intellectual biography over the weekend (in German) and was so delighted. It's not only interesting as to the historical/political background. It's also a very good book on the philosophy itself. It neither paraphrases Heidegger in his own words nor approaches him with alien concepts that miss the point of his thinking.
And, although it is delightful, 'easy' reading even, it has all the complexity and insight I was after. All my respect to this book.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:03 pm
by koro inu
finishing this:
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before that was on:
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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:27 pm
by cosmic_surgeon
gettingcolder wrote:
cosmic surgeon wrote:Image

Typical of Heidegger; rich, dense, profound, difficult, original, and extremely enlightening. I'd even call it essential reading (with patience). Studying Heidegger over the last 9 months has been incredible biz.
Do you know this one?
RĂ¼diger Safranski: Martin Heidegger. Between Good and Evil

Was reading this (mainly) intellectual biography over the weekend (in German) and was so delighted. It's not only interesting as to the historical/political background. It's also a very good book on the philosophy itself. It neither paraphrases Heidegger in his own words nor approaches him with alien concepts that miss the point of his thinking.
And, although it is delightful, 'easy' reading even, it has all the complexity and insight I was after. All my respect to this book.
Not familiar with that one at all mate, but I'll be sure to have a look! Thanks for the reccomendation.