What are you reading now?

[Pappa]

Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese


There's some great stuff in this book; light reading that made me laugh out loud and clamp my hand over my mouth on the train yesterday.

[leo-rcc]

Schitterend!

In 'Brilliant!', a smoothly written and witty book by 17-year-old Kris Verburgh, we get to know the most riveting ideas and views of the cosmos. It includes the big bang, black holes, wormholes, the solar system, the planets, the expansion of the universe and the geometry of space, star systems and their origins, the end of our star system, higher dimensions, hyperspace, the multiverse, quantum mechanics, extraterrestrial life, paradoxes of time, the concept of time--and much more. We get a look at the work of Einstein, Newton, Hubble and Friedmann in clear, accessible language that, in addition to pure science, makes room for emotion and awe.

Very good book actually.

[Animavore]

At home

in work

in work also (again).

[Pappa]

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

[Dasein]

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Oh, it's heavy, beautiful, and heartbreaking.

I gave up on Ferdydurke for now and just began:

[Pappa]

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Oh, it's heavy, beautiful, and heartbreaking.

I've been struggling with it for a while. I've picked it up several times, but my mind wanders off during the first 2 pages. This time I got through that and I seem to have struck the mother lode.

[Chinaski]

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate. I cannot STAND that book. I loathe it completely. I even wrote an essay comparing it to De Sade's 120 Days using Aristotle's definition of Great Art as a criteria and completely owned it. I cannot stand that book.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

24th Congress] 174 [2d Session.
MESSAGE
from the
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate,
With copies of Correspondence in relation to the Seizure of Slaves on board the brigs "Encomium" and "Enterprise."
February 14, 1837.
Read, and ordered to be printed.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I have moved Exi and Ani's discussion on Nietzsche to its own thread HERE. It wasn't really a derail - I just felt it might get a wider audience and more responses in the Philosophy section.

[JimC]

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Oh, it's heavy, beautiful, and heartbreaking.

I gave up on Ferdydurke for now and just began:

Aldiss is a great Author, I loved Hothouse...

Currently reading "What next" by Chris Patten, which has some interesting observations about the international scene...

[Xamonas Chegwé]

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate. I cannot STAND that book. I loathe it completely. I even wrote an essay comparing it to De Sade's 120 Days using Aristotle's definition of Great Art as a criteria and completely owned it. I cannot stand that book.

If you read this to the end and did not cry out loud, you have no heart. It is the most poignant tale of mans helplessness in the face of mans inhumanity that I have ever read and yet, it never completely dims the light of hope. The ending is so bleak, yet at the same time oddly uplifting - we do what we need to do in order to survive, not because today is worth surviving for but because tomorrow may be better.

[Trolldor]

Nothing. I feel so deprived.

Well.. technically I'm reading "The Death of Ben Hall", but it's not voluntarily. (Not that it's bad, but... ah fuck it.)

[klr]

The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer:



http://www.amazon.com/Bloody-White-Baro ... 0465014488

... about the mad, bad and very dangerous Roman Ungern (von) Sternberg:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Ungern_von_Sternberg

This is Palmer's first book, and a very good one IMHO.

[Bella Fortuna]

[Brian Peacock]

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