Currently re-reading "Clive Barker's Book of Blood"
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War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges. He's really frustrating. He has a lot of experience in war zones and has awesome insights, and I liked Collateral Damage since it was mostly Iraq Veterans talking about their experiences while Hedges' voice barely entered.
And yet, he seems to miss his own points. Like he goes on about how war is terrible and war crimes happen because of the very nature of war, even if you're on the "good side", being exposed to terrible acts of violence fucks you up. That said, he says he's not anti-war, and that the US should intervene in cases like Bosnia and Rwanda and the blood is on our hands because we didn't. Nevermind its the same intentions that got us into Afghanistan and Iraq. And its like, you know, maybe Africa is in the situation its in because of colonialism and imperalism and white dudes thinking they should interfere in everyone's business. Oh, and maybe we should not fund genocidal dickheads to begin with. http://i.imgur.com/XQ6ON.jpg |
the war against the euro.... more terrifying than S.King's books :eek:
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On the fifth book of Preacher, War in the Sun. The weakest yet, but the series has been kickass enough that I'm still jonesing for the next one already.
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The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin.
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Society and Solitude - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think Emerson has replaced Dr. Samuel Johnson as my favorite writer. |
Voltaire's Candide. It's been sitting on the bookshelf downstairs for years and I've wanted to read it for years. The books are all very nice hardcovers and I'm just soo used to thinking of them as decorations, since I'm not used to reading hardcover books that look like that, and they've always been there my whole life.
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Within tentation The Unforgiving, a comic short series... not bad not good..
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Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
I've heard so many things about this book, so I bought myself a $3.50 paperback copy. So far, so good. |
Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy. I've read it before but picked it up for the shitter & got engrossed all over again. Fucking spectacular.
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just finnished Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Dale Peterson and Richard Wrangham an incredible book. i highly recomend it one of the best books i have read in decades. grim reading at times but worth it.
now im of to see if i can give myself a brain hemorrhage by finally trying to read The Ants by E. O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler. |
I was reading Dexter series, but now I have it on MP3. I'm reading Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz. Love it so far!
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koontz certainly spins an entertaining yarn. i havnt read any koontz for years i should pick up something soon...
phant? NO! |
hot head......
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It's about two NY firefighters one of whom has a crush on his bestie and all the homophobic crap that they go through. Written in first person I like the voice of the main character... plus I'm having trouble finding romance books written by guys. |
Right now A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce. I should definitely read Ulysses...
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The Girl Who Played With Fire. Just finished The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. To say I am becoming obsessed with this trilogy is an understatement.
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My last important exam is tomorrow, after which I can finally read something of my own choosing as opposed to a prescribed text! I'm so excited. I think I'm going to start "The Virgin Suicides" as it has been recommended to me by several people whose opinions I trust.
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I'm reading The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice, signed by Anne Rice herself <3
My girlfriend sent it for me for my B-day ;) |
Polished off John Dies At The End and Hell House. Working my way through Jim Butcher's Side Jobs now.
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Communion by bell hooks. Its giving me a lot to think about. Its part memoir, part analysis on feminism's discourse, or lack thereof, on love. Its still pretty pertinent when she talks about sexual liberation and the reaction men had to it:
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Finished Side Jobs. Onto Fellowship of the Ring.
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Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis.
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I'm about halfway through ****** now and gosh it's getting horribly sad. I was intrigued by the theme of obsession, the whole underage thing being sort of incidental, but as the book goes on it becomes a bigger part of the story and it's gone from slightly disturbing to really creepy to entirely sordid. Brilliant writing though.
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