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Literature Please come visit. People get upset, write poetry about it, and post it here. Sometimes we also talk about books. |
11-18-2012, 09:35 PM
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#3101
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Alamo City, USA
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Reading before bed is "R@pe: Sex Violence History" by Joanna Burke after seeing MissA and Saya discuss it in another thread. It's one of the most informative, and difficult, non-fiction books I've ever read.
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11-18-2012, 11:32 PM
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#3102
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Hell, it's other people & both of them are you
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Oh, sweetie.. it is not 'before bed' type of reading.
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11-19-2012, 12:43 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Alamo City, USA
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Yeah, I kinda figured that. The stats and even the arguments that have been made just in modern times alone are fucking infuriating.
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11-19-2012, 02:45 PM
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#3104
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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I really appreciate the focus she puts on rapists though. I wish there was a statistic for how many people are rapists alongside how many people are victims.
That said, the book made me appreciate how awful the criminal justice system can be, even for rapists and alleged rapists (did you get to the part yet about the black guy who was falsely accused, but became a rapist in the prison system? The one To Kill A Mocking Bird was based on? Can't remember his name...)
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11-19-2012, 08:41 PM
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#3105
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Alamo City, USA
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Yeah, I remember that part. I was so pissed off I put the book down for a few days. I'm just now working my way through the exhibitionist chapter.
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11-20-2012, 07:51 AM
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#3106
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: North Cackalacky
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A bunch of Flannery O'Connor shorts.
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11-26-2012, 04:50 PM
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#3107
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 176
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I've been skimming the Vivekachudamani.
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12-16-2012, 12:13 AM
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#3108
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Sandman Slim. It's okay thusfar, nothing brilliant.
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12-20-2012, 01:59 PM
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#3109
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Columbine by Dave Cullen. Only a little ways in and already its making me realize that we still have huge assumptions about it.
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12-30-2012, 09:52 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I read The Contract With God trilogy by Will Eisner, it was pretty good. I gotta trust the Goodreads recommendations more.
I also read The Exorcist, was actually not scary. It was obscene, and I'm not for censorship or anything like that, but I notice a huge difference between how men write sexual violence and how women and everyone else writes sexual violence. Like I notice with men it feels more gratuitous, its shocking and gross but it also doesn't feel as horrible as it should be; in the Exorcist yeah the demon making Regan masturbate in front of everyone is gross and what I mean when I say obsence, and its truly the worst the book has to offer. But its gross for the spectator, Regan herself is totally unaffected, has no memory, is not traumatized, etc, it has nothing to do with her. The movie did include those scenes only it was way toned down and overall I think the movie is way scarier and way better.
Now reading A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.
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01-03-2013, 03:01 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 708
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Just finished the third volume of Sandman, by Neil Gaiman, and so far I'm just completely blown away. I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of Neil's fiction, but perfect it ain't... this, though... it's without flaw. Fucking brilliant. I've been meaning to read it for years, and am just kicking myself for taking so long to get around to it.
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01-03-2013, 06:02 AM
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#3112
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Georgia
Posts: 15
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The Taker By Alma Katsu.
The main character's thirst is something else.
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01-08-2013, 10:14 AM
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#3113
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Alamo City, USA
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Just finished "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline and rather enjoyed it. Full of amusing moments if you get the 80's references plus it's a total gamer's story.
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01-08-2013, 08:00 PM
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#3114
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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A Small Killing by Alan Moore. I think this might be my favourite thing by him.
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01-09-2013, 02:14 AM
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#3115
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
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Shhh... don't tell anyone but I'm reading Why people hate america. I'd hate for it to get out that I occassionally reed books that arnt fiksion.
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01-11-2013, 10:43 PM
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#3116
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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I had to quit reading Spinoza...he just doesn't click with me like the others.
I am skipping ahead to Hegel or maybe Kierkegaard. I think reading all of Nietzsche before any other philosopher (except Plato/Socrates) spoiled me and now others have a high standard to meet.
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01-11-2013, 11:52 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I can't say I've read a terrible amount of Kierkegaard, but I really liked his interpretation of the sacrifice of Isaac.
Read The Turn Of The Screw today while the power was gone, going to try to squeeze in The Kingdom Of God Is Within You before school readings overwhelm me.
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01-14-2013, 09:42 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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"Eaters of the Dead," by Michael Crichton, again.
Got a kick out of the excerpt in the original version from Ibn Fadlan's description of the Vikings being 'as tall as trees, with legs and arms like tree trunks' and how they were swinging their 'gigantic' hand axes over their heads and about their 'terrifying' war yells and then he goes on to say, "...and that's just their women."
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01-20-2013, 03:28 PM
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#3119
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 89
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Nothing, right now. Trying to figure out what to read next. I'm thinking something sci-fi. Any suggestions?
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01-25-2013, 08:50 PM
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#3120
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 44
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Last Exit to Brooklyn-Hubert Selby Jr.
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02-05-2013, 01:06 PM
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#3121
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Alamo City, USA
Posts: 764
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The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick. I'm only halfway through the second chapter and holy shit, there's a shitload that's not mentioned in high school classes.
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03-01-2013, 05:35 AM
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#3122
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
Posts: 2,594
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listening to the light.
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03-10-2013, 01:39 PM
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#3123
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Finished In Cold Blood last night. It was good, I got it mostly because I was getting sick of the unicorn book I was reading XD Too much whimsy, I needed to read something horrific. But seriously, good book. I like how it wasn't gratuitous when it came to the violence and didn't include pictures, just eyewitness testimony and then the confessions of the killers.
Reading Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal now by J. Jack Halberstam. Not far into it but I'm glad the author is talking more of the idea of Gaga and not idolizing her or pretending she invented this.
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03-18-2013, 09:15 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Just finished Gaga Feminism. I don't know whether to recommend it or not. Like there's definitely great points made, but also really shitty points, and its not very coherent as to what being gaga feminist means, basically, don't be traditional in any aspect, don't get married, don't be religious, don't be normal in any way. Be childish and unpredictable. How is this accessible? How does gaga translate to the real world? I have to give it the same criticism Gender Trouble got, in that creating gender trouble still by and large isn't safe for a lot of people. As a white academically successful genderqueer, it might be safer for the author than a transwoman, especially a transwoman of colour.
And what's wrong for liking any kind of tradition whatsoever? Is lets say Solumina by being in an open marriage less radical or gaga in comparison to unmarried couples who are emphatically monogamous?
THIS BOOK RAISES TOO MANY PROBLEMATIC QUESTIONS.
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03-19-2013, 10:05 PM
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#3125
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Alamo City, USA
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Finished "The Untold History of the United States" by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick. I highly recommend my fellow Yanks to pick up a copy and read it, even if you hate history. It's very eye opening and shows you why we're dealing with the shit we are now in the U.S. and the effects with the rest of the world, confirming some of the things I felt when I deployed to Iraq or was stationed overseas in Germany and South Korea.
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