Current book being read/just finished

[Kraftster]

lol @ Ayn Rand.

What's hilarious is her gall to call out Nietzsche, when in fact his perspectivism, which he didn't even break a sweat over, completely obliterates objectivism, her entire philosophy.

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[SirMario66]

A Prayer for Owen Meany. solid read

[largegarlic]

I'm reading David Foster Wallace's posthumously published, partially-finished The Pale King. I read his Broom of the System a couple years ago and didn't really like it, but I read The Infinite Jest last fall/winter and have really gotten hooked on his writing. I usually don't like the more post-modernish writers, so this is somewhat unusual for me.

[legame]

Just finished: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris, detailing TR leaving office in 1909 and leading up to his death in 1919 and K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist by Peter Carlson about Khrushchev's trip to the United States in 1959.

[Troy Loney]

Finished All the Pretty Horses last week...originally thought i was going to read the trilogy straight through, but changed my mind. Grady is quite the Man's Man, a little too over the top at times.

This weekend I read a play for the first time since college, went with Ibsen's Doll House. very interesting, i wanted to wiki it to get a bit of a better understanding of the context, but apparantly wiki is blocked again on my work network....

Started Crime and Punishment yesterday, about 60 pages in and am anxious to get back at it.

[obhave]

Finished the Mysteries of Pittsburgh this weekend. Seemed overly descriptive. It was his first novel so my guess is he went a bit overboard. It was nice reading a novel where I knew all the settings though.

[canaan]

Finished All the Pretty Horses last week...originally thought i was going to read the trilogy straight through, but changed my mind. Grady is quite the Man's Man, a little too over the top at times.

This weekend I read a play for the first time since college, went with Ibsen's Doll House. very interesting, i wanted to wiki it to get a bit of a better understanding of the context, but apparantly wiki is blocked again on my work network....

Started Crime and Punishment yesterday, about 60 pages in and am anxious to get back at it.

if you wanna read the summary at work (if it works): http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/allthepretty/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Troy Loney]

Finished the Mysteries of Pittsburgh this weekend. Seemed overly descriptive. It was his first novel so my guess is he went a bit overboard. It was nice reading a novel where I knew all the settings though.

I read that book in the summer after i graduated from pitt....probably the best time to read that book.

The movie was absolutely terrible.

[Troy Loney]

Finished All the Pretty Horses last week...originally thought i was going to read the trilogy straight through, but changed my mind. Grady is quite the Man's Man, a little too over the top at times.

This weekend I read a play for the first time since college, went with Ibsen's Doll House. very interesting, i wanted to wiki it to get a bit of a better understanding of the context, but apparantly wiki is blocked again on my work network....

Started Crime and Punishment yesterday, about 60 pages in and am anxious to get back at it.

if you wanna read the summary at work (if it works): http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/allthepretty/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That worked. I feel like i've not consumed enough of that american frontier culture to completely understand what mccarthy is doing.

[canaan]

That worked. I feel like i've not consumed enough of that american frontier culture to completely understand what mccarthy is doing.

read Blood Meridian--you'll get him.

[obhave]

Finished the Mysteries of Pittsburgh this weekend. Seemed overly descriptive. It was his first novel so my guess is he went a bit overboard. It was nice reading a novel where I knew all the settings though.

I read that book in the summer after i graduated from pitt....probably the best time to read that book.

The movie was absolutely terrible.

Didn't even know there was a movie.

[Troy Loney]

Finished the Mysteries of Pittsburgh this weekend. Seemed overly descriptive. It was his first novel so my guess is he went a bit overboard. It was nice reading a novel where I knew all the settings though.

I read that book in the summer after i graduated from pitt....probably the best time to read that book.

The movie was absolutely terrible.

Didn't even know there was a movie.

Forget i mentioned it.

[columbia]

I re-read the book recently and enjoyed it a lot more when I was 23.

[Point Breeze Penguins]

Started reading the "Saxon Stories" by Bernard Cornwell. Excellent series so far.

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Also began reading Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series.

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[Rob UK Pen]

'Home Ice' by Jack Falla.

An interesting, well written and at times poignant read.

[Troy Loney]

Just finished Crime and Punishment. That was really intense.

Reading Democracy in America by De Toquerville now.

[Kraftster]

Just finished Crime and Punishment. That was really intense.

Reading Democracy in America by De Toquerville now.

Wow, you read a full-length Dostoevsky in a week. Kudos.

[Troy Loney]

Just finished Crime and Punishment. That was really intense.

Reading Democracy in America by De Toquerville now.

Wow, you read a full-length Dostoevsky in a week. Kudos.

Well...just got out of my relationship and have been turning to books for distraction/entertainment. plus i took the day off after that deer wreck and churned out about a third of it in one sitting.

[Kraftster]

Just finished Crime and Punishment. That was really intense.

Reading Democracy in America by De Toquerville now.

Wow, you read a full-length Dostoevsky in a week. Kudos.

Well...just got out of my relationship and have been turning to books for distraction/entertainment. plus i took the day off after that deer wreck and churned out about a third of it in one sitting.

Ah, I was unaware of those circumstances. Good book reading circumstances indeed.

[Shyster]

Recently Finished:

- Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution—and What It Means for Americans Today

- The Truth About Obamacare

Now Reading:

- Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR’s Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of her Survivors

[Froggy]

About to start reading House of Leaves. I hear it's a tricky read, but pretty creepy.

[Kraftster]

About to start reading House of Leaves. I hear it's a tricky read, but pretty creepy.

yessss!! So enjoyable!

[Troy Loney]

Just finished Crime and Punishment. That was really intense.

Reading Democracy in America by De Toquerville now.

Wow, you read a full-length Dostoevsky in a week. Kudos.

plus i'm some who get motivated whenever i'm reminded of my ignorance. I bought this from borders' liquidation sale a few weeks ago (which is what acted as the reminder)

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so i'm engaging on that. i plan on going through a lot of philosophy and will likely try and participate in your philosophy thread.

[Kraftster]

Just finished Crime and Punishment. That was really intense.

Reading Democracy in America by De Toquerville now.

Wow, you read a full-length Dostoevsky in a week. Kudos.

plus i'm some who get motivated whenever i'm reminded of my ignorance. I bought this from borders' liquidation sale a few weeks ago (which is what acted as the reminder)

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so i'm engaging on that. i plan on going through a lot of philosophy and will likely try and participate in your philosophy thread.

Nice! Good to hear.

[Gaucho]

I plan on reading a lot of Cormac McCarthy and Richard Stark in the next few months.