What Are You Reading?

[d.Nox]

Algeo and Pyles, The Origins and Development of the English Language

[Vexik]

Dracula, by Stoker (by a strange but boring series of coincidences)

d.Nox - How do you like Origins? Is it about the language as a whole, or does it focus on spoken, written, or assimilated words?

[raggedyanne]

I'm reading Queen of the Damned, again

[Nevan]

I'm reading 'The Game' by Neil Strauss. Pretty disturbing stuff, considering it's not fiction.

[raggedyanne]

ooh, good book. I read Kira Kira for class. It's a lot like plays by Chekov in that you want it to get better, but right when the characters seem to start solving the issue, it all goes to shit.

[d.Nox]

d.Nox - How do you like Origins? Is it about the language as a whole, or does it focus on spoken, written, or assimilated words?

So far, it's pretty good. It covers pretty much the entire history, from Indo-European up to the modern day, written and spoken.

It's a textbook, originally written in the 40's and updated a few times since then to incorporate new findings. Unlike most textbooks written today, it shows a fair degree of scholarship and wit, and makes for a pretty entertaining read.

[Azaezl]

I'm reading 'The Psychology of Satan' by NM Howes, great book, fantastic author!

[insertwittyname]

Non fiction book on early witch hunts. and The Physician's Tale by Ann Benson. Which is pretty morbid. It goes to the tales of ppl's live in a someone after today time where some sort of plague has wiped out almost everyone and people are reverting to how they lived in the medieval times. And switches back to the medieval times to the tales of a Jewish doctor.

Oh, and the witch hunts? People liked to accuse people of being witches because they couldn't keep their willy up, that person is richer, blah. And my fav? What concluded to make a witch. Kissing animals under the tails, screwing animals with human genitals, anal intercourse, saying Satan was God, eating babies, killing babies, making wax out of unbaptised babies. I think the people back then thought of such horrid things because their thoughts were so turned to be pure that when something snapped they went ALL the way.

[Green.Lady]

Originally Posted by ImmortalVampyre

mhmm, I am currently reading Dracula and ******** Bellanger's Psychic Vampire Codex.

Seriously, what the hell? They blur out m i c h e l l e and l o l i t a but not shit fuck asshole, etc.


I'm reading Treasure Island again. Blast from the past, y'know.

[Rorschach Twin]

Cabal by Clive Barker.

[Tara Poison]

The Almost moon by Alice Sebold.

[erotomaniac87]

Right now I'm reading Poor Things by Alasdair Gray and also The Metamorphosis, for the second time, by Franz Kafka.

[bleedingheart344]

Shadowmancer by G. P. Taylor.

[Stupot]

I'm currently reading a collection of suspense stories compiled by Alfred Hitchcock called "Alfred Hitchcock: My Favourites in Suspense". The first story is The Birds and it's interesting how different it is from his movie version. The ending is much darker.

[mfiend1138]

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime by Immanuel Kant

It all comes back to aesthetic theory.

-R.

[DeathToLems]

I've waited a month for the last series of Saikano to arrive so i can finish reading/looking at it.

It's a Manga about a girl who becomes an ultimate weapon. She didn't want this to happen. All she wanted to do was fall in love but she ends up wiping out cities with her uncontrollable power during Wars in Japan.
The film made me cry v_v;

[xCuriosity_Killed_Herx]

Re-Reading Anne Rice's 'The Mummy: Or Ramses the Damned'

[drewsilla]

Originally Posted by xCuriosity_Killed_Herx

Re-Reading Anne Rice's 'The Mummy: Or Ramses the Damned'

I enjoyed the hell out of that one! I wish Anne wrote like that still, instead of being on her God-kick.

I'm re-re-re-reading An Encyclopedia of Occultism by Lewis Spence. Good stuff all around!

[mfiend1138]

The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman (Author), Marc Hempel (Author), Frank McConnell (Introduction), Neil Gaiman (Author), Frank McConnell (Author)

-R.

[zeronegativeplus]

"The God Of The Witches" by Margaret Alice Murray

[xCuriosity_Killed_Herx]

In between being seduced by Ramses the Great, I'm reading 'The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales'...its a sampling of gothic short stories ranging from the eighteenth century to today.

[BLEED REBELION!!!]

I reading Carolyn Ainscough and Kay Toon.
Its called "Surviving childhood sexual Abuse"...........................

[zeronegativeplus]

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It was first published in two volumes in 1890; the third edition, published 1906–15, comprised twelve volumes. It was aimed at a broad literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's Age of Fable. It offered a modernist approach to discussing religion, treating it dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon rather than from a theological perspective. Although the worth of its contribution to anthropology will be newly evaluated by each generation, its impact on contemporary European literature was substantial.

[PersephoneX]

Am reading someone else's diary. Should i feel guilty? This person did it to me...

[DeathChii]

"Heavier than heaven"
Amazing
I <3 Kurt Cobain