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What are you reading?; assuming you can read of course :P
Topic Started: Jan 14 2012, 07:32 AM (626 Views)
Melapolis
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I'm currently reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Odyssey by Homer. Is anyone else reading anything interesting?
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frattastan
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I just finished reading If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino. :)
Currently reading The Society of the Spectacle, though it's more of a philosophy work.
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Melapolis
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I've read excerpts from If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
:D thank you Cornelia Funke for beginning each of your chapters with excerpts
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frattastan
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Some plays by Bertolt Brecht.
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Melapolis
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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Green Day
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Anime & Philosophy.
Pretty good overall.
When life gives you lemons,turn on Green Day!
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Melapolis
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hmm, never heard of it. What's it about?

Also I'm reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson and I think its absolutely wonderful
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lol,at the risk of sounding like a smart ass,it's about anime......& philosophy.

Ok,now serious;
One thing it talks about is how many animes portray a future where cyberization of the human body is "normal" and common.However,the book argues that this has already occured but people don't realize it or sub-consiously don't accept it.For instance;we use pacemakers to control a persons heart beat,we replace missing limbs with prosthetic ones,and we use special medicines to control aspects of our bodies like blood suger and such.These are on the spot examples,the book could explain it better but thats a brief example of what the books about.
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Melapolis
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That sounds really entertaining. I never really looked at anime in that way but now that you've mentioned it, cyberization is reoccurring theme.

If you find that interesting, you might want to look into transhumanism. Its crazy, especially the do-it-yourself-ers. The only way I can explain it is that people aren't patient enough to have humanity evolve into x-men so they implant magnets and things like that into their finger tips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QTuKhMBxWU
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Tim
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World War Z.

I was bored :P
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I have just finished: It Is Dangerous To Be Right When The Government Is Wrong by Judge Andrew P Napolitano.

I'm currently reading: The Evil Princes of Martin Place: The Reserve Bank of Australia, the Global Financial Crisis and the Threat to Australians' Liberty and Prosperity.

Epic sub title...
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I've read World War Z :) I really liked it a lot

I'm on to The Awakening by Kate Chopin....I'm not really looking forward to reading it but its for a class :P
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frattastan
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Slaughterhouse 5.
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Melapolis
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And now I'm on to The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest and The Hunger Games :D
I feel like a nerd because I'm the only one to post regularly
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Wopruthien
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The Alexander trilogy by Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Taking an age to get through them
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frattastan
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Only because you're an archaeologist it doesn't mean you have to read historical fiction. :P

A friend of mine is a fan of Manfredi's books. :)
Edited by frattastan, Mar 26 2012, 01:28 PM.
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Wopruthien
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haha but I like historical fiction.

Favourite is David Gemmell's Troy series.

I like the Manfredi's books but he's not great on the action scenes, and does get sidetracked easy with subplots and side stories.
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Kogvuron
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Re-reading Catch-22 by Heller. Such a great book
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Melapolis
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I finished the Steig Larrson trilogy and the first in the Hunger Games...

Now its Song of Soloman for english class >.< I hate it so much
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Just started a rather dry book called, Brain-Friendly Strategies from the Inclusion Classroom by Judy Willis, MD.
I'm also reading The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins because a friend suggested it.
Lastly, recently finished re-reading a classic and favorite, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

This is just personal reading. The ones required for school are sometimes interesting and sometimes not.
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul." - John Muir
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Melapolis
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Sense and Sensibility!

I'm hoping to get 50 Shades of Grey next ;)
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WAAAAKE UP!
I'm reading this thread. How about you?
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<@Melapolis> see this is why I like Democracies; people help when you mess up
Many minutes later......
<@Melapolis> this should be a dictatorship!
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I'm reading the Reply Screen
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The Periodic Table (re-reading).
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I've just started reading 'the lost world' by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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