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'The Crying of Lot 49'

^ Was told I have to read Gravity's rainbow soon. Looks interesting.

dreamizm wrote:

hayze99 wrote:


Havn't started it yet, but looking forward to it.

Just added to my Amazon wishlist. Looks good!

My dad passed me this, really wanted me to read it. 60 pages in I couldn't do it anymore. Too new agey, yet trying to cite sciences for its arguments... idk.


Finished


Reading these simultaneously:

Part 1 (pixel limit)



Hadn't read it before, and a friend strongly recommended it. I have to say, I'm enjoying it.

Part 2



It's a good book, but Dawkins is painfully aware of his intelligence, and stresses it to excess.

I am only at the beginning at the moment but it is pretty interesting already.
(btw: a 3D fantasy adventure film based on this novel will be released in december 2012.)

AllNightDayDream wrote:^ Was told I have to read Gravity's rainbow soon. Looks interesting.

you should. it's great.

Milk, sulphate and alby starvation.

It's about a part time speed dealer in brixton who listens to the fall, collects comics and has an assassin trying to kill him who was hired by the milk board.

bulgakov is the man, he parred stalin harder than anyone and straight to his face

and finally found a copy of

& It's Damn good too!

just started

and

i always have at least 3 books on the go at once, one in the loo, one for on the bus and one on the bedside table.

Coppola wrote:just started

and

i always have at least 3 books on the go at once, one in the loo, one for on the bus and one on the bedside table.

that's two books, Ben...

Finished dem 2 bitches.

Onto this



Delving back into fiction will have to wait

i sat down for a few hours and sort of read a fair chunk of this when i was buzzing my nut off at a party.

AllNightDayDream wrote:

really thought i understood it at the time. completely forgot the next day.

'Terra Incognita'

clifford_- wrote:i sat down for a few hours and sort of read a fair chunk of this when i was buzzing my nut off at a party.

AllNightDayDream wrote:

really thought i understood it at the time. completely forgot the next day.

I jut got back into studying Marx and this was definitely loaded, the kind you'd have to come back to. Gotta read Hegel to understand the connection he's talking about, although a good chunk of the book is more or less describing how marx's later followers splintered his thought into various cliques, same way hegel's followers did. Still good though, well worth it.

@AllNightDayDream

What you recommend as the best starter/introduction to Marxism. I've always wanted to read into it but I'm never quite sure where to begin.

Probably should start with the Manifesto. Critique of the Gotha Program is supposed to be really good too, as I think it goes into a bit more detail, but I haven't read it yet.

And everyone interested in socialism needs to read Kropotkin. I'm not convinced about anarchism, but I think there's a lot of good stuff in his writing.

i'm reading Gulliver's Travels and its fucking awful
so, so long winded and old
(the original unabridged) i dunno why im fucking bothering tbh