Reading Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard.
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Reading Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
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I like mysteries where you can follow the logic and evidence and come to your own conclusion. TGWTDT was a lot like a murder mystery game, if you ever played one. Lots of fun but everyone looks equally guilty by the time you make your guess, and its a lot of circumstancial evidence. Only the killer had no evidence beforehand, they just found ONE PIECE and it was like "What." and it got really surreal from there. And *SPOILER!* I thought the relationship between Lisbeth and Mikael to be kinda creepy and stupid. He's in his 40s, she looks like she's 14. Larsson was a feminist and everyone kinda takes this book as a feminist mystery novel, and I'm not going to lie, thats what perked my interest, but I hate how most men are assholes with no redeeming qualities in this book, and Mikael, the lone feminist man, is a babe magnet because he's just so good and respectful to women. And there must be a romance between him and his much much younger partner, it would've been better if they just became good friends. And his on-again off-again girlfriend Berger is just there to be a drama device, there's not much to her purpose or personality at all save for sleeping with Mikael. That said, it wasn't badly written or anything and I think a lot of the criticism about *SPOILER* a rrape scene being anti-feminist and "eroticizing rrape" was uncalled for, the dude clearly cared about women's issues and as a person who has a really really hard time reading rrape scenes, it wasn't overly prolonged and detailed, I thought, I've read some really graphic and I think eroticizing scenes before and it wasn't like that at all. He wanted it to be horrible but I don't think he had a good time writing about it. Oh, I also read Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow this week, it was good! Not sure what to read next. |
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Finished War Of The Worlds, reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami now.
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I am onto reading Book II of Three Books of the Occult by Aggripa. I've been reading it here and there and decided to just get through all of them. Taking forever.
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The full Necromonicon, tried reading select stories, now i have decided to read cover to cover.
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On Writing by stephen King.
How to raise boys by (can't remember) Hunger (by who knows??) |
I'm almost finished with "The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene. I like it, even though I wasn't expecting to.
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Walden or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau
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Rereading Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
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Sounds alright, a couple of people at work said it was a good read. I'm interested enough to give it a go when I'm done with Infidel but this:
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The communist manifesto and Utopia.
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Berlin Diary by William Shirer.
Re-reading Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin. |
On writing - SK.
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I am reading: "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson. It's about two men during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair: Daniel H. Burnham, the guy in charge of the World's Fair who used his abilities to create something grand; and Dr. H. H. Holmes, a guy who used his abilities (and murder hotel) to become America's first serial killer.
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Everything Matters, by some Currie jr. guy...
pretty good so far! |
Tour Smart by Martin Atkins.
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Just finished "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and will be reading "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" as soon as it comes in the mail.
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Tough guys Don't Dance - Norman Mailer.
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I'll def. get around to that. During ISO meetings, we've been going over Paul D'Amato's "The Meaning of Marxism".
I'm also reading "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer. His explanation of eating meat vs being vegetarian is beautiful. Love love love his writing. |
I've been meaning to pick that up, I heard it's amazing. Is it depressing?
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It IS amazing.
Some parts are sad to the point of me tearing up, but its not really depressing. I've laughed a lot too. Go read it. |
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