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Let's talk about books.

on 7/4/2014
Posts: 18

do you read for pleasure? what is the pleasure derived from reading? ive read that reading novels increases empathy.

what are your top 3 or 4 favorite books or authors? what genre do you like?

what books are you reading right now?

what books do you dislike?

my favorites are The Brothers Karamazov (best book EVER), Kokoro, and stuff by Herman Hesse. i very much like philosophical and humorous writing. i read mostly classics but am trying to read more modern stuff (i really liked Orx and Crake by Margaret Atwood). 

i'm currently reading Shining Girls, and sylvia plath's the Bell Jar, but I've been getting into a poetry mood. ive been rereading my favorite scene from Hamlet, and i plan to start in on Elizabeth browning's aurora leigh. 

im not a big fan of madame bovary, or american pyscho.

also, just throwing this out there: book club anyone?

on 7/4/2014
Posts: 34
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The godspeaker trilogy by Karen Miller  (Empress being the first book) is my favorite.

 

Wuthering Heights, The perks of being a wallflower, coraline, sophie's world, looking for alaska, lolita, defending jacob, The list is long. I'll read anything if i find it interesting.

 

when it comes to poetry i guess i go for the Poe kind of stuff. 

 

I'm trying to finish Lord of the flies, it's a classic but i've never read it. 

Book club, i'm in 

on 7/4/2014
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Today I bought The Handy Math Answer Book, The Story of Mathematics, Fundamentals of Geometry and Algebra and the tenth edition of Chemistry: The Central Science.

on 7/4/2014
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I've honestly never been a fan of non-fiction.  I can't seem to become interested in it.  The closest that I can come to fiction is reading philosophy.  Today, I read some John Dewey.  As much as I enjoy reading, I find that e-books and online learning seem to take precedent over physical copies of things.

on 7/4/2014
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Harry Stephen Keeler

Wow...

on 7/4/2014
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Where did you find that guy? ^

on 7/4/2014
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Someone told me about him a while ago. I skimmed a book of his online and thought it was really messed up.

on 7/5/2014
Posts: 3110
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John Donleavy : The Unexpurgated code....(If you can find it). and "The onion eaters". 

Kurt Vonnegut, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Bleak but interesting.

Joe Donelly, Kim Newman , and Luke Rienhardt (who can forget The dice man)

on 7/5/2014
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Lol, interesting.

on 7/16/2014
Posts: 185
Let's talk about books.

Mi planta de Naranja-Lima, José Vasconsuelos.

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