24-03-2005 18:20									#91
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The "Hitchhikers guide" series and the "Dirk Gently" got me through my lonely junior high school days with everything intact. Certainly saved my sense of humour.
David Eddings and Raymond E. Feist were big pluses then too.

Nowadays I tend to read several books at a time quite intermittently. I've been enjoying Philip K. Dick. "The Simulacra" is just weird, "The Man in the High Castle" is interesting, and "VALIS" is as insane as the author was at the time, no doubt.

Haven't got around to finishing "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Camus, or "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" by Paul Kennedy yet... because I have to do a lot of reading for uni... but I will.

Foucault's pendulum sounds quite fascinating.. might give it a shot. Does it's title refer to a use of Foucault in the book or just Eco's friendship with him? I imagine it would have been reading around or after his death.

	24-03-2005 19:29									#92
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Electromagnetic Fields, Energy and Waves.



And that new Churchill book by some guy whose name I cant remember. Best something.

	24-03-2005 22:35									#93
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quote: Originally posted by alva Say, have you ever gotten around to reading "Journey to the end of night" by Celine? A long while ago you said you were going too, so.

I read that ages ago, my little moule. You have me confused with somebody else.

Also read 'Death on the Instalment Plan' by the charming chap too.

	24-03-2005 23:56									#94
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I guess I did then. Not sure about being your little moule though, my big cod..

	24-03-2005 23:58									#95
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quote: Originally posted by alva I guess I did then. Not sure about being your little moule though, my big cod..

Je vous prie de me pardonner.


Indeed you are a very whelk.


Happy Paques, by the by, alva. Eat some choccies for me.

	25-03-2005 00:10									#96
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Nothing to excuse, you coquilles st-Jacques you. (I'll be ending this now btw... )

and I'm not a big chocy eater. You never really appreciate what you can have, do you.

	25-03-2005 01:43									#97
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quote: I just finished "Another Roadside Attraction" by Tom Robbins

Ah, thanks for mentioning Tom Robbins Time to read Cowgirl again.

	25-03-2005 02:29									#98
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quote: Foucault's pendulum sounds quite fascinating.. might give it a shot. Does it's title refer to a use of Foucault in the book or just Eco's friendship with him? I imagine it would have been reading around or after his death.

It has nothing to do with Michel Foucault. It refers to Léon Foucault's pendulum. You can see the pendulum at the Panthéon in Paris. I've seen it and its pretty impressive. For your culture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%E9on_Foucault

	25-03-2005 03:32									#99
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quote: Originally posted by nostromo It has nothing to do with Michel Foucault. It refers to Léon Foucault's pendulum. You can see the pendulum at the Panthéon in Paris. I've seen it and its pretty impressive. For your culture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%E9on_Foucault

Thanks for getting to the answer of that question.


Basically I see Foucault's Pendulum has the older and better version of The Da Vinci Code from everything I've heard, especially based off of what my teacher had to say.

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quote: Basically I see Foucault's Pendulum has the older and better version of The Da Vinci Code from everything I've heard, especially based off of what my teacher had to say.

I've read a recent interview with Eco. According to Eco, the difference between him and Brown is that Brown takes this stuff seriously. While Foucault's pendulum is meant as a criticism of the occult and conspiracy theories. It seems that in Italy, after the 70s, communist or left-wing bookshops gradually became occult bookshops...

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quote: It seems that in Italy, after the 70s, communist or left-wing bookshops gradually became occult bookshops...

From one pseudoscience to another, eh?

	25-03-2005 09:50									#102
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Bookes

Brooke Burke

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Bookes

Brooke Burke

Brooke Burke endorsing Burger King

	25-03-2005 21:15									#104
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quote: From one pseudoscience to another, eh?

Yep, but Marx is a lot more interesting than John Edwards, who is the greatest douchebag of the universe. The worse part is that a friend of mine is translating Edwards in french.

	25-03-2005 21:36									#105
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I picked up The Time Machine yesterday, I expect to start reading it in a couple days.

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I'm still working my way through ancient historical fiction... I've read about 30 of the 75 books I've identified.

Just starting 'I, Claudius' by Robert Graves.

	26-03-2005 02:16									#107
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Good choice

	26-03-2005 05:13									#108
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I checked out a bunch of graphic novels from the library. Bone by Jeff Smith, Rising Stars: Born in Fire by J Michael Straczynski, Swamp Thing: Love and death by Alan Moore. Caricatures by Dan Clowes, Camelot 3000 by Mike W Barr/Brian Bolland.

And to balance this a really old and stuffy book by the dutch historian Johan Huizinga which deals with the life, ideas, art, and behaviors of the upper classes of Burgundy in the 14th and 15th centuries.

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quote: I picked up The Time Machine yesterday, I expect to start reading it in a couple days.

	27-03-2005 21:57									#111
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quote: Originally posted by Kamrat X I checked out a bunch of graphic novels from the library. Bone by Jeff Smith, Rising Stars: Born in Fire by J Michael Straczynski, Swamp Thing: Love and death by Alan Moore. Caricatures by Dan Clowes, Camelot 3000 by Mike W Barr/Brian Bolland.

If you haven't already, make certain you read Watchmen by Alan Moore, The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, and V for Vendetta by Alan Moore. Probably the best graphic novels out there.

	27-03-2005 22:10									#112
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I´ve read them all. But thanks anyway.

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	28-03-2005 08:39									#113
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Finished 'I, Claudius', and am now moving on to 'Claudius the God'.

I have to say, that of all the ancient historical fiction I've read, the sweep of Colleen McCullough's 'Masters of Rome' series through the two Graves books has been stunningly great. Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Julius and Augustus Caesar, the early empire... incredible history, incredible research, incredible writing. It's a lot of work, though... 8 books and something like 7000 pages. Worth it: the most impressive epic I've ever had the pleasure of, in any form, and real history to boot. I'd add in that Wallace Breem and Gore Vidal are the only two other such authors that I'd laud at this level.

For other fans of the form, the recent popularity of it, as expressed by the likes of Pressfield, Ford, Dietrich, et al, while fun, is by comparison like watching a Bruce Willis blockbuster movie. I like those too, but they just don't hold a candle.

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	28-03-2005 09:07									#115
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White Wolf's Orpheus, which isn't really a book...

And Dan Simmon's Fall of Hyperion.

	28-03-2005 09:39									#116
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"Beyond Good and Evil"---Friedrich Nietzsche

"The 48 Laws of Power"---Joost Elfers

"Animal Farm"---George Orwell.

"Shadows of the Empire"---Star Wars book.

Switching off between these books, but right now I'm reading more of the Star Wars book...followed by BGAE.

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Just started "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman. Mentally, it's kind of hard to wrap your mind around a portion of the 20th century where Kings and Queens and royalty still mattered.

	28-03-2005 21:18									#118
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My brother just finished that book, and found it to be incredibly illuminating.

	28-03-2005 22:12									#119
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Also, in the past couple of weeks, I read James Stewarts new book DisneyWar, about the reign of Michael Eisner at Disney. I kind of prefer his Den of Thieves, even though in the last book he spent WAY too much time recounting the story of Dennis Levine, a nobody finance guy who made a few illegal trades.

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quote: Originally posted by Lorizael My brother just finished that book, and found it to be incredibly illuminating.

I'm growing increasingly interested in WW1, but am having a little bit of difficulty finding a good "overview" of the conflict... the books I've looked at so far are a bit too detailed in the various troop and regiment movements for my tastes. I tried Stevenson's Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy, for example, which was called "The best comprehensive one-volume history of the war yet written." This will be a fine work in the future, but for now assumes a familiarity with the period that I, frankly, don't have.