Books you are currently reading

[grind/bro]

Nothing should need to be censored unless it is causing people harm (ie. a "let's kill Joe Thomas" mass-circulated paper)

Stop trying to silence me.

[Hollow]

people should read more science textbooks and less da vinci code

But what if the science textbooks are teaching that man evolved from damn dirty apes?!?

[Mikey]

Zombie Spaceship Wasteland; Patton Oswalt

would recommend for fans of things that are fun and thoughtful
would not recommend for grumpy old men

[officespace]

FINALLY finished Tropic of Cancer by Miller. Started it in January and just finished it tonight after reading for a couple hours straight. I suck. I am starting Crime and Punishment tomorrow

-Warren

[dave mac]

Capital - Marx
Macroeconomics - Benarke
Applied Calculus - a bunch of peeps
The Republic/other dialogues - Plato

can't wait for the semester to be over.

I have a stack of books I WANT to read rather than have to. That's not to say that both Capital and The Republic aren't both fascinating. It's nice to read capital as a whole, not just cherry picked parts. I'll admit It gets a little tedious after Marx has repeated the same thing 100 + times... you kinda want to tear the book into shreds and yell at it "yeah man, I get it, a commodity's value is embedded human labour". Imagine my dismay at a prof who tells us that his coat is the embodiment of human labour at least 10 times a class...

[dave mac]

clockwork orange is essentially just the narration of the movie with some extra bits. it's really short too, a pretty easy read once you get used to stumbling past the jargon.

also about sedaris, I went to the reading/signing last year! haha. he was a cool guy.

I personally think the book blows the movie out of the water, the movie straight up cut out the final chapter of the book..and removed/altered many other small things that irritated me, hahaha. For instance, I felt like the movie made the Alex character seem kind of funny at times, and a lot of fucked up shit he does kind of just seems to come off in a "woaaaaah he's craaaazy!" kind of way...but in the book you can genuinely feel how fucking twisted and insane Alex is supposed to be. Like, if half of the fucking punks/skins who emmulate the shit out of that movie read the book, they'd probably think twice about dressing up as a droog for halloween! I had never bothered to read the book for years (even though I've been a fan of the film for ages), but I'm glad I finally did last year.

Book is better than the movie... the fact that burgess wrote it with heavy use of invented slang is pretty impressive. though I do like the ending of the movie better... I am a pessimist when it comes to human nature so... yeah.

That being said, I love the movie... all Kubrick is brilliant and I find placing his work in a hierarchy or calling things 'overrated' (possibly the most meaningless of critiques next to 'it was boring') to be... (redundant) pointless. It's a fascinating film, which only grows on you with repeat viewings (true of all kubrick).

Oh and Eyes Wide Shut is sooooooooooooooooooooooo good. I fucking love it.

[dalamar501]

Oh and Eyes Wide Shut is sooooooooooooooooooooooo good. I fucking love it.

[officespace]

I used to put Eyes Wide Shut at the bottom of Kubrick's cannon. But after re-watching it a few months ago I would put it near the top. Better than Dr. Strangelove, Paths of Glory/ The Killing/ 2001? nah. But it is probably better than FMJ/The Shinning/Lolita/Clockwork. I dunno though Kubrick was a true genius when it came to making film and never made a terrible film.

[blowuptheworld]

Reading Will Durant's "The Story of Philosophy" and the classic "Don Quixote". But really fucking slowly cause im busy with school.

Also re-read "American Psycho" a little while ago. I actually go to the same barber as Pat Bateman, although I have a slightly better haircut.

[keith.]

[CodyCreepcore]

i'm reading some D&D books on The Legend of Drizzt

[grind/bro]

keith hasnt that book been in your house for years?

[keith.]

keith hasnt that book been in your house for years?

yea it was under the stereo shelf for awile then i saved it and i re-found it in a box in my closet recently

[keith.]

i'm reading some D&D books on The Legend of Drizzt

aw hell yea

back in my nerdier days of highschool i read the Dark Elf Trilogy and the IceWind Dale Trilogy as well. i think a few others, but Drizzt was a boss

[blowuptheworld]

ahaha badass. I remember that series.

[darcy]

Currently reading Dracula.
Scary shit!

[CodyCreepcore]

staring from the beginning. gonna real the whole thing

[KYLESTYLE]

Hell's Angels: A Strange And Terrible Saga - Hunter S. Thompson.
SO good. i want a bike.

[righteousxjames]

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

Pretty decent semester so far.

[darcy]

Finished Dracula. I would definitely recommend it to those interested in a slow-paced horror or for those who like the adventure novels of Conan Doyle (Prf. Challenger).
Now I'm starting i, Robot.