What are you reading right now?

DwnWthVwls · 10-25-2016, 12:20 PM

Book 2 of the Lunar Chronicle series..

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 10-25-2016, 01:03 PM

I just recently finished Dante's Inferno. I expected to be let down, but I ended up really enjoying it. Maybe it's just because I was so glad to move on from some of the other **** I've had to read for school. Regardless, excited to start Purgatory.

**Frownland** · 10-25-2016, 01:29 PM

Spoiler alert: reading Purgatory is like being in it and the Inferno is the only great one.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 10-25-2016, 01:35 PM

That's what I've been told. We have to read Paradise as well and I've heard that one really drags along. Oh well, I'll take what I can get as long as I never have to read The Confessions again.

**Janszoon** · 11-11-2016, 10:16 PM

Dracula
Wasn't sure what to expect but so far it's great—a whole lot of ominous slow burn and impending doom going on. It's really interesting to read a 19th century novel that's written as a compilation of various journal entries, letters, and captains' logs. I always assumed that kind of writing was a more recent invention. It make this book seem kind of ahead of its time.

innerspaceboy · 11-12-2016, 01:32 PM

It's been a tremendously difficult week. Diligently working with my wife on strengthening our relationship, grappling with politically-sanctioned racism, misogyny, institutionalized oppression of minorities, authoritarianism, and xenophobia, and the loss of lifelong friends who've chosen to side with hate.

I'm diving deep into political and socio-economic philosophy in search of egalitarian solutions and working to open my eyes to resolve misconceptions I have about the physical and digital worlds, (thank you, Adam Curtis!)

Thankfully, this lovely literary treasure just landed on my doorstep.

I need a little fiction right now.

**Goofle** · 11-29-2016, 05:56 AM

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The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . .

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the century's most potent visions of the future.

Seems pretty great so far, and definitely more enjoyable than Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Zhanteimi · 11-29-2016, 06:04 AM

My favorite book, Jane Eyre, for the umpteenth time.

Zhanteimi · 11-29-2016, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Dracula

In Kedvesem's top 5 books of all time.

avant93 · 12-01-2016, 12:25 PM

currently reading The Trials and Tribulations of Lenny Bruce...very insightful on the law's stance on him, and analysis of his cases and reception.

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Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	Dracula Wasn't sure what to expect but so far it's great—a whole lot of ominous slow burn and impending doom going on. It's really interesting to read a 19th century novel that's written as a compilation of various journal entries, letters, and captains' logs. I always assumed that kind of writing was a more recent invention. It make this book seem kind of ahead of its time. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

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avant93 Groupie Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 2	currently reading The Trials and Tribulations of Lenny Bruce...very insightful on the law's stance on him, and analysis of his cases and reception.