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What are you reading?

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Mandieta6

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I like the subject of existentialism, but I haven't really read any of the existentialists. I've read the Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger. I like it, but I'm not sure I would have if I were not consciously aware (or looking for) absurdist themes. I love Beckett though and have read a bunch of his stuff. Camus considered Melville to be an absurdist and I read one of his short stories, too.
 
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Tosiek;3627171 said:
Do you enjoy it? I tried it once and I couldn't read more than one chapter. It makes my eyes feel tired. That's why I stick to paper books.
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I do. I prefer paper books because several small reasons, but I feel I read faster in the kindle, and I have no problems with it, it doesn't glow, the battery lasts like a week and has a lot of cool info about how I read.
 
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How many pages/words I read per minute/hour/week/month, it suggests similar books to my collection to buy, in which parts of a book I advance the most and stuff like that.
 
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Existentialism is an interesting subject, me thinks. I enjoyed Camus' Myth of Sisyphus...The Stranger was ok. Nietzsche, I love and reread for fun.

I've been thinking about snatching books from the library too...the classic fiction novels and stuff by Bakunin & co. that I know I want to read but just haven't found the time to check out...I should come up with some dorky ass name for that operation to make it more interesting. (H)

Reading HG Wells' The Time Machine...it's meh.

Back Door Skip;3627242 said:
I have a Kindle and have not one single ebook in it. I'm a disgrace.


I prefer real books, though.
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You should read Dios es Redondo by Juan Villoro...it's about soccer. Villoro is a huge Barca supporter, you'd probably like it...
 
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Mandieta6;3147477 said:
Also recently read Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clark Ha Ha. For some reason I wanted to read a Roddy novel, and saw it and went for it, not sure if it's his usual style, which it probably isn't, or if it's his best work, but it was nice. Told from the viewpoint and in the style of a small boy, it makes for a different read. Made me nostalgic too, what with one chapter dealing with some boys playing footie and fighting over who gets to be George Best.
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Read it again for an essay I'm gonna write. It's weird how differently the book feels after 3 years. It's still a lovely book, and it does make you feel nostalgic because the portrayal of childhood is sublime but this time I felt much more of a weight in my stomache when I put it down. It's not a particularly sad story, but because it's told from the perspective of a 10 year old it is so poignant. I highly recommend this book, hopefully I'll get The Woman Who Walked into Doors because I've been told Doyle gets into the midset of the woman just as well as he does with the child in Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
 
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Mandieta6;3630356 said:
Read it again for an essay I'm gonna write. It's weird how differently the book feels after 3 years. It's still a lovely book, and it does make you feel nostalgic because the portrayal of childhood is sublime but this time I felt much more of a weight in my stomache when I put it down. It's not a particularly sad story, but because it's told from the perspective of a 10 year old it is so poignant. I highly recommend this book, hopefully I'll get The Woman Who Walked into Doors because I've been told Doyle gets into the midset of the woman just as well as he does with the child in Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
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Speaking of getting in the mindset, has anyone else read the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time? Haddon gets in the mindset of someone with Aspergers brilliantly IMO
 
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Just finished On the Border of Jazz. Fascinating analysis of the origins and roots of jazz. Although, I must admit that I couldn't really follow the fragments that describing the complexities and nuances of jazz. I'm still a dilettante when it comes to jazz.
 
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We're studying Hemingway in my American Lit class now and my teacher said that Hemingway was a repressed homosexual. Shifty, Sir_Didier_Drogba, thoughts?
 
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