Books You're Reading/Books You've Read (review/rate it)

Led for your Head · **Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:00 am

Condensing the two most populated threads makes sense to me.

Erock · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:24 pm **Posts:** 155

Last book I read- Less Than Zero by Ellis

9.5/10

Currently reading Persuasion by Austen for class. I read 1 chapter so far, not particularly excited for the following, but its at the least readable.

godwand · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:15 pm **Posts:** 206

Reading White Oleander by Janet Fitch and loving every word. The protagonist, Astrid, is so well-written it's ridiculous.

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:11 am **Posts:** 5089

I'm currently in the middle of:

Hubert Dreyfus - Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I
Cornel West - The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism

I'm sort of in the middle of More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow, but I don't think I'll finish it because it's not very good.

Two Headed Boy · **Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:55 pm

Anyone here familiar with the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper"? First thing that came to my mind after reading it was Von Trier's Antichrist.

Woodgod · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:16 pm **Posts:** 324

Finally read The Way of The Rose by Umberto Eco and it actually is as good as people say it is. It's definitely the best thing I've read by him.

I'm currently reading The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jack Zipes, mainly so I'll be able to appreciate any references made to them in the Fables volumes I've recently acquired (if there are any at all).

timewarne404 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:32 pm **Posts:** 553

bloodredchaos wrote:

Finally read The Way of The Rose by Umberto Eco and it actually is as good as people say it is. It's definitely the best thing I've read by him.

I'm currently reading The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jack Zipes, mainly so I'll be able to appreciate any references made to them in the Fables volumes I've recently acquired (if there are any at all).

don't you mean the name of the rose? also, i agree it's a very good book

Woodgod · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:16 pm **Posts:** 324

timewarne404 wrote:

bloodredchaos wrote:

Finally read The Way of The Rose by Umberto Eco and it actually is as good as people say it is. It's definitely the best thing I've read by him.

I'm currently reading The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jack Zipes, mainly so I'll be able to appreciate any references made to them in the Fables volumes I've recently acquired (if there are any at all).

don't you mean the name of the rose? also, i agree it's a very good book

Yeah sorry.

Dreww · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:11 pm **Posts:** 5810

Two Headed Boy wrote:

Anyone here familiar with the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper"? First thing that came to my mind after reading it was Von Trier's Antichrist.

Crrrrrrrraaaaaaaaazy ladies!

Two Headed Boy · **Posted:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:31 pm

Dreww wrote:

Two Headed Boy wrote:

Anyone here familiar with the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper"? First thing that came to my mind after reading it was Von Trier's Antichrist.

Crrrrrrrraaaaaaaaazy ladies!

Don't you think there are a lot of parallels? Husband being a doctor(knows best), rest-cure(ish in the movie), postpartum depression in the short, depression from the child's death in the movie. Idk maybe I'm way off but I truly felt like there was no way it couldn't have been an influence.

timewarne404 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:32 pm **Posts:** 553

i really like that story (yellow wallpaper). Today i'm just going to chill out and try and finish Light in August

Dreww · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:11 pm **Posts:** 5810

Two Headed Boy wrote:

Dreww wrote:

Two Headed Boy wrote:

Anyone here familiar with the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper"? First thing that came to my mind after reading it was Von Trier's Antichrist.

Crrrrrrrraaaaaaaaazy ladies!

Don't you think there are a lot of parallels? Husband being a doctor(knows best), rest-cure(ish in the movie), postpartum depression in the short, depression from the child's death in the movie. Idk maybe I'm way off but I truly felt like there was no way it couldn't have been an influence.

No I think you're right.

Chemical Ali · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:57 am **Posts:** 2564

Michel foucault - power
Michel Foucault-Ethics

beyonddeities · **Posted:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:05 pm

Erock wrote:

Last book I read- Less Than Zero by Ellis

9.5/10

Currently reading Persuasion by Austen for class. I read 1 chapter so far, not particularly excited for the following, but its at the least readable.

How was Less Than Zero? Keen to read Imperial Bedrooms, but as it's apparently a sequel I should get to reading LTZ...

Gonna give The Hunger Games a shot. Last book I read being TinTin.

Sid_Vicious_24 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:33 pm

I read The Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milan Kundera. I really really enjoy it. It's kinda love story, with the ideas from the author all over the place. You know, all that philosophical stuff. The characters are just amazing, the way they roll through the book. You really get into their lives, you share the story with them. You know, you're just one more guy in the story. And maybe you don't notice it... but you will laugh of how ridiculously thruth is what this guy says.
9/10, or some shit like that. I don't usually qualify the art with points. The book is awesome, that's all you have to know.

Now I think I'll start Grapes of Wrath, or maybe HP 7 once again. The movie is about to come and I have to remember the story.

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