Books motherfuckers, do you read them?

[Surf314]

I'm finally reading a non-fiction book - Blink. Why did I take so long to do this?

[allondra]

I read Lord of the Flies in English this semester and I liked it

We are going to be reading hamlet soon (not a mother fucking book, but still technically aplicable)

You lucky bastard.  Reading Hamlet for the first time is an amazing experience.  Every time I have read or seen it performed since I have found something new to think about in it.  Truly the original start of the emo movement...

[Eschatos]

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I read Lord of the Flies in English this semester and I liked it

We are going to be reading hamlet soon (not a mother fucking book, but still technically aplicable)

You lucky bastard.  Reading Hamlet for the first time is an amazing experience.  Every time I have read or seen it performed since I have found something new to think about in it.  Truly the original start of the emo movement...
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Meh, I've never liked Hamlet.  An entire play about a guy being a whiny bitch and fucking up because of it. 

[Professor Funbucks]

[quote author=The Generic Name link=topic=1145.msg152659#msg152659 date=1274058705]
I read Lord of the Flies in English this semester and I liked it

We are going to be reading hamlet soon (not a mother fucking book, but still technically aplicable)

You lucky bastard.  Reading Hamlet for the first time is an amazing experience.  Every time I have read or seen it performed since I have found something new to think about in it.  Truly the original start of the emo movement...
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i thought the pioneer of emo was Weezer's Pinkerton album.
At least that's what I've been reading

[rumsfald]

http://boingboing.net/2010/02/17/the-win...-2010.html

I haven't read such good non-formulaic scifi with good characters and no real heros or villains in a long time. The only thing that was dumb was the last 2 pages because they were such obvious sequel bait.

[Tricks]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sag_Harbor:_A_novel

Scouring the NYT’s “Summer Reading List” I picked up Sag Harbor. The writing is, for lack of a better analogy, like putting on somebody else’s well broken-in leather shoes. The comfort and familiarity is there, with rich prose and warm language describing near-familiar language of youth, love, and happiness. But the occasional line strikes you as a very strong reminder that this is not your shoe and you are simply borrowing the memories and imagery for a summer.

It’s a somewhat controversial read, at least for me, but I have been enjoying it so far. Outside of my normal ciruit of reading, at the very least.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/books/....html?_r=1

[rumsfald]

^ what's controversial about it?

[Tricks]

^ what's controversial about it?

It's honestly a story that is sort of post...its own heritage in a way. It's written from the prospective of a young African American who doesn't have to overcome his own environment, but instead is born relativity well-off. There is an awful lot of racial tension in the book itself, but the pressure comes entirely among the group of all African-American friends, and not from outside voices directly (at least not so far).  It's not a world free of racism in America, but a world where where children tease each other about cultural differences almost in good humor rather then out of hate. As a young white male, I can identify with the joking, teasing, and coming-of-age story that the book is. That would be the "worn shoe" I discussed above. But the moments where they felt sort of intellectually bullied away from a certain popular song, piece of clothing, or even far off areas of Sag Harbor (Benji's place to have summer vacation) offers an almost awkwardly honest view of how white culture can threaten and bully others not like us. I think the review says it a lot better then me about what the novel is trying to accomplish:

Post-blackness sees blackness not as a dogmatic code worshiping at the altar of the hood and the struggle but as an open-source document, a trope with infinite uses. The term began in the art world with a class of black artists who were adamant about not being labeled black artists even as their work redefined notions of blackness. Now the meme is slowly expanding into the wider consciousness. For so long we were stamped inauthentic and bullied into an inferiority complex by the harder brothers and sisters, but now it’s our turn to take center stage. Now Kanye, Questlove, Santigold, Zadie Smith and Colson Whitehead can do blackness their way without fear of being branded pseudo or incognegro. So it’s a perfect moment for Whitehead’s memoiristic fourth novel, “Sag Harbor,” a coming-of-age story about the Colsonesque 15-year-old Benji, who wishes people would just call him Ben. He’s a Smiths-loving, Brooks Brothers-wearing son of moneyed blacks who summer in Long Island and recognize the characters on “The Cosby Show” as kindred spirits. “According to the world we were the definition of paradox: black boys with beach houses. A paradox to the outside, but it never occurred to us that there was anything strange about it. It was simply who we were,” Whitehead writes. “What you call paradox, I call myself.”

I guess I'm trying to honestly see life outside of myself in a similar way.

[copulatingduck]

Gonna guess this was already rec'd at some point (probably rummy to luca but too lazy to search it)



Anthony Bourdain owns, book is full of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, I kinda wanna be a chef now

[Luinbariel]

Gonna guess this was already rec'd at some point (probably rummy to luca but too lazy to search it)



Anthony Bourdain owns, book is full of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, I kinda wanna be a chef now

I love this man.

[Tricks]

I love that book. I own that book and Nasty Bits as well.

[rumsfald]

Gonna guess this was already rec'd at some point (probably rummy to luca but too lazy to search it)

Asshole...

Kitchen Confidential was a Good Read.

[copulatingduck]

[quote author=Duck link=topic=1145.msg160133#msg160133 date=1277315046]
Gonna guess this was already rec'd at some point (probably rummy to luca but too lazy to search it)

Asshole...

Kitchen Confidential was a Good Read.

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at least I remembered :-*

[Didzo]

[quote author=Duck link=topic=1145.msg160133#msg160133 date=1277315046]
Gonna guess this was already rec'd at some point (probably rummy to luca but too lazy to search it)



Anthony Bourdain owns, book is full of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, I kinda wanna be a chef now

I love this man.

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[Didzo]

Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

[copulatingduck]

Then we Came To The End  was a neat little book about office life. Simultaneously hilarious and depressing, it's definitely worth checking out, and reminded me of some of the humor of the later seasons of The Office. It's not a particularly deep book, but it has its moments. Following the dotcom burst, employees are fired or come unraveled, and yet those who remain keep on trucking. Liked the humor, but it's very much a mix of light-hearted office shenanigans and darker "and so it goes" moments that remind me of slaughterhouse five.

[KorJax]

Started reading Cosmos by Carl Sagan. Why I've never read it before is beyond me.

It's almost like a non-fiction scifi, which is awesome and humbling at the same time. Very interesting read.  It feels extremely refreshing and insightful to read considering I've not had much intellectual stimulation since I started my graphic design degree about a year or two ago. So that's nice

[Didzo]

Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

Finished it.

It's one of those books with separate, yet interwoven story threads.

It sits at the border of reality, occasionally slipping through the realms of fantasy and science fiction.

Great book.

Read it.

[Greatbacon]

Started reading Cosmos by Carl Sagan. Why I've never read it before is beyond me.

It's almost like a non-fiction scifi, which is awesome and humbling at the same time. Very interesting read.  It feels extremely refreshing and insightful to read considering I've not had much intellectual stimulation since I started my graphic design degree about a year or two ago. So that's nice

Whoa, I started reading Cosmos about a week after you did.  Just finished it today.  You pretty much hit it on the head.  This is a great book filled with wonderful stories of history, elements of physics, math, and astronomy.  The way everything is grounded coupled with the overall optimism for humanity and it's eventual journey into the stars really hit home for me.

[Turtle]

Crime and Punishment is like one of the best books i've ever read and i'm only like 150 pages in