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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Obviously the Café. But what else these days?
These days I'm trying to work through Heidegger's Sein und Zeit. So far I haven't got past page one. Let's see, I'm also working (wrong word, for it's a pleasure) through H.P. Lovecraft, Tales (the Library of America edition). I'm currently on "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". Sometimes I get diverted. I spent all day Thursday reading The Oxford History of the Classical World, which made me very angry with sentences like these (regarding Cicero): "Precisely because he was not an original thinker, Cicero helps us to recapture the intellectual habits of his generation." Tut tut. Generally I'm reading four to six books at a time, unless I get in a crime novel mood, in which I don't read anything else but that novel, and I don't really read it as much as devour it: I ignore wife, child, and even food until I'm finished. So, what's everyone reading right now? Any recommendations? |
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Bill Nuvo Inner circle 3094 Posts or 2742 Posts |
Right now I am reading my own post as I am typing it
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Hoff Man Loyal user Ohio 258 Posts |
“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy. Actually reading it for the second time.
“The Last Battle” by C.S. Lewis. My son and I started reading the series from start to finish recently, kind of like our own little book club. If we can agree on a book that all of us will enjoy, this is something I try to share with my children as much as possible. Their nimble minds help me to keep the characters and plot straight too. Steve |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Man, it's nerd confession time. I am currently reading one novel Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay. I'll finish the last essay in Stephen Jay Gould's Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms this morning. On my nightstand is Douglas Hofstader's I am a Strange Loop. And like Jeff, I have a philosophy book--Wittgenstein's Lectures, Cambridge 1932-1935 --that I'm not making much progress with.
Jeez, even I'm bored reading this list. John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
The last novels I recently completed reading were 'Blindness' by Portuguese author José Saramago and 'Spanish Fly' by Will Ferguson. I also recently finished 'That Reminds Me: Finding the Funny in a Serious World' by Michael Close.
I haven't started any new novels since then, but I hope to start 'Exit Music' (Ian Rankin), 'Pattern Recognition' (William Gibson), 'Black Man' (Richard Morgan), and 'Seeing' (José Saramago) sometime soon. Lately, I've been reading non-fiction, such as magic books (e.g., The Magic of Ascanio, Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks), some work related materials (papers and books), and some travel books and guides about Ireland.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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JRob Veteran user Central South Carolina 395 Posts |
The Secret Life of Houdini
"Jim Roberts, AKA: Professor Jay Rob "<br>
The Professor's Facebook Page |
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Cliffg37 Inner circle Long Beach, CA 2491 Posts |
The Physics of the Impossible by Dr. Michio Kaku
It is an excellent "make you think" book. I like to alternate my reading between fiction and non fiction.
Magic is like Science,
Both are fun if you do it right! |
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DStachowiak Inner circle Baltimore, MD 2158 Posts |
"Five Families" by Selwyn Raab
"Ever Since Darwin" by Stephen Jay Gould "Blind into Baghdad" by James Fallows "Trout" by Ray Bergman and as always, "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" is in its usual place on my nightstand.
Woke up.
Fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across m' head. |
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Skip Way Inner circle 3771 Posts |
Eric Evan's and Nowlin Craver's The Secret Art of Magic following an excellent suggestion in a Busking thread. Pretty much everything I read these days is performance career or marketing based.
How you leave others feeling after an Experience with you becomes your Trademark.
Magic Youth Raleigh - RaleighMagicClub.org |
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Josh the Superfluous Inner circle The man of 1881 Posts |
The Magic of Josh Riel
It's more of a pamphlet than a book. A damp pamphlet.
What do you want in a site? "Honesty, integrity and decency." -Mike Doogan
"I hate it, I hate my ironic lovechild. I didn't even have anything to do with it" Josh #2 |
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
"up the down staircase", by Bell Kaufman, about teachers. Ive been working on a PJ Orourke book, "Peace Kills", "armageddon in retrospect' by Kurt Vonnegut. Everyone has been telling me about "the pillars of the earth"by follet. gonna have to get it soon
kevin
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
"History will be kind to me, as I intend to write it"- Sir Winston Churchill |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
I'd second (or third or thirty-fifth) the Pillars of The Earth suggestions. It's a good one. Also by him, I'm partial to The Man from Saint Petersburg (which is a much shorter read).
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Corona Smith Inner circle Airstrip One 1689 Posts |
Just finished 'Confederacy of Dunces', now reading 'Ragged Trousered Philanthropist'.
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Leland Stone Inner circle 1204 Posts |
Just finished "Night," and re-read "Shadowlands."
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Poliphilo New user 57 Posts |
A strange and curious book with an equally strange and curious title
The hypnerotomachia poliphili |
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michaelmystic2003 Inner circle 3062 Posts |
Just finished reading The Ruins by Scott Smith... definitely not for the squeamish!
Learn more about my upcoming book of close up magic and theory SYNTHESIS & SECRETS: A Magic Book in Four Acts: https://www.michaelkrasworks.com/synthesis-secrets
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
Rereading one of the most incredible of books...'The Variety Of Life, A survey and a celebration of all the creatures that have ever lived' by Colin Tudge. Oxford University Press.
All the creatures and all the plants actually. Scholarly and ambitious, outrageously dense with investigation and classification of species and diversity. When I complete the nearly 700 pages, I will have to start again a third time...and as with the second time through, I intend to be surprised...again.
Higley's Giant Flea Pocket Zibit
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Quote:
On 2008-04-20 19:37, Doug Higley wrote: I've never heard of this. It sounds just too cool. I'm off to the library tomorrow... John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
I wish you luck in finding it. Published in 2000. Be prepared for an overwhelming assault of Latin derivitives.
Higley's Giant Flea Pocket Zibit
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
About to dig into "Raw Shark Texts"
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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