What are you reading?

[Faust]

I couldn't get through that one either, yay. If you do, let me know how it went.

[Resonkuken]

I finished "Pereira mantains" a few months back. I liked quite a bit. I should watch the movie again to see how faithful it was. I watched in college some years ago as part of an assignment.

[Faust]

Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

[petricor]

"The Cosmic Apprentice" by Dorion Sagan.

[deltapie]

"The Plague" by Albert Camus.

[GucciAmen]

Finished "De Profundis".

Now onto "Ballad of Reading Gaol".

Wilde never disappoints.

[yay]

finished blindness on thursday, ironically the day before i got lasek surgery. maybe not the best time to read such a book

still don't know if i liked the book or hated it, or if i can recommend it. it's definitely the opposite of fun to read, and the general type of story is kinda overdone in my opinion. but i don't regret reading it, that's for sure. i liked the impersonal writing style alot. not sure if i liked the ending.

so i guess i still know nothing about this book even after reading it :D

[Faust]

Well, now you have to read Seeing :)

[petricor]

stokes "man and the biosphere" 1992

stokes "man and the biosphere" 1992
toward a co-evolutionary political economy.

anyone into teilhard de chardin and noospherics?

[Defender]

The Universe in a Single Atom by the Dalai Lama

All of his books are very good and very helpful.

This one is about the relationship between science and religion, specifically Buddhism.

If anyone here studies Buddhism hit me up for a chat if you like.

[Magic1]

Faust, how's The Pain of Others?

[Faust]

It's solid, like most of Sontag's writing. She was no genius, but an acute observer and she had the ability to put things in order. I admit that I put it down half way and am now totally engrossed in Generation Kill. Will pick Sontag back up once I'm done with that.

I also began rereading Camera Lucida by Barthes, but for some reason it's just fucking annoying. Intellectual masturbation.

[Magic1]

I very much liked on photography and notes on camp. She's a wonderful, sharp writer.

[Kœnig]

Just finished Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami, bizarre and very enjoyable. Waiting for Babylon by Viktor Pelevin to arrive, the premise is intriguing, though I've never read anything from him before.

[yay]

^that one (coin locker babies) is on my to-read list, should be perfect for my taste