What Book Are You Currently Reading?

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Atlas Shrugged

oh, you're like clay to be molded.  Don't take this forum so seriously.

By the way, once you get past the first five hundred pages, it actually starts to get interesting.  You'll fly right through next five hudred pages. 


Me?  I just started another Tony Hillerman novel, Hunting Badger. 

when Dagny Taggart had sex with John Galt I could no longer pretend to take the whole thing seriously.

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Non-Fiction: The Making of the English Working Class by E.P Thompson. Needless to say I am interested in the views of one particular forummer this book. I´m about half way through

848p? Christ you just made my bag back to NY heavier

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Al have you read any Debs biographies? I picked one up last night, written by a prof. I'll be taking next semester. the prof. was active in a Brooklyn Teamsters Local in the 70s and his last name is Salvatore, so I'll watch my words carefully.

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Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Jean-Paul Sartre - The Age of Reason.  three chapters in.  certainly a lot of negative things I can imagine people saying about it but it's entertaining to me.

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Reading the great Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, but terribly worried about a bad translation

all I've ever read of the Russian authors is Constance Garnett, who is probably heavily criticized, but I've managed to enjoy myself all the same... try not to worry about it.

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'A Life' was the best subtitle the six figure editing department could come up with?

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just bought a Kindle yesterday.  trying to avoid the gadgets as a rule but made an exception, this one seemed like it had a chance to be actually edifying.  fun stuff.

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I've also been going through Bill Clinton's newest book, mostly for amusement.

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'A Brief History of Neoliberalism' by David Harvey and 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole

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'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole

Approve

Greatly Approve. Obvious influence on Opebo there.

was recommended to me by my half-brother, who named his dog Ignatius in honor.

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'The Breathing Method', a novella by Stephen King.  I took a hint from the 1996 The Get Up Kids song, one of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS3Xc4FN9fw

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just picked up Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont.  they reputedly go through and tear Lacan, Kristeva, etc. a new asshole.  I don't plan to read the whole thing, just to amuse myself.

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recently read 'The Inspector General' by Gogol and 'A Very Brief Intoduction to Socialism' by Michael Newman.  currently working on 'From Ritual to Record' by Allen Guttman and Susan Brownell's 'Beijing's Games: What the Olympics Mean to China'.


significantly cutting back on / ceasing alcohol use has made reading much more enjoyable/possible

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I finished The Brothers Karamazov earlier this week, in terms of pleasure reading.

thoughts?

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re-read the opening parts of David Harvey's A Brief History of Neoliberalism; picked up Civilization and Its Discontents from an (awesome) used bookstore on Saturday night.

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The Double by Dostoevsky

insufferable in parts.  still worth reading, to see where he came from.

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Thanks for the suggestions guys.

It looks like we're going with the Great Transformation by Polyani, which I am looking forward to.

I didn't like it as a reading-book but I suppose it's something that you 'should' read.

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bought my first Eric Hobsbawm book yesterday, his most recent.  though I had pirated .pdfs of about three others.

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bought my first Eric Hobsbawm book yesterday, his most recent.  though I had pirated .pdfs of about three others.

You naughty boy...

ah, I was just about to tell you how that sounded creepy, and I only like it when women talk to me like that, and in clicking through to your profile I discovered that you were a woman.  keep it up!

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How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism

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Just finished Atlas Shrugged. Amazing book

no.  say whatever you want about the 'theme', she is a formally terrible writer.  read some real literature.

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Beyond the Pleasure Principle

atta boy!

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coming soon!

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been binging on New Left Review.  so good.

http://newleftreview.org/