What are you reading right now?

TheBig3 · 05-06-2013, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Just a heads up. Posting in the Lounge doesn't raise your post count, so if you wanna spam you're just wasting your time.

Helps to quote, bro. Looks like you're talking to yourself.

LoathsomePete · 05-06-2013, 12:35 PM

Or we could, you know, not talk to obvious spammers like they're people because you're going to look like you're talking to yourself when we inevitably delete their spam.

Hitch · 05-06-2013, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I know. I read Atlas Shrugged back when I was a libertarian retard and I still gave up halfway through. As many times as the political/economic/social rants had me cheering (back then at least) I just couldn't get past all of the boring god awful crap. Seriously, a whole chapter about a train ride? I know that it's a metaphor for giving birth or whatever, but it's a ****ing boring metaphor about giving birth or whatever. I quit somewhere around when they were searching for some super engine. An engine. Here's a clue Ms. Rand. No one gives a **** about some engine. Stick to nonfiction or go kick rocks. I know she's dead, but if she can here me in hell then I will be satisfied.

Pity that I had paid for that waste of pulp - only thing that prevented me from tossing it out the window and onto some poor unfortunate soul. The kind of libertarian retard she reminds me of is Paul Ryan - and I'm sure that the rest of the world is relieved that such a squeamy little toad isn't getting anywhere close to the white house yet. Even his name has a strange resemblance to Ayn Rand.

Blarobbarg · 05-07-2013, 01:29 AM

Just started...

Utopia, by Sir Thomas More. Not reading it in the original Latin, obviously. I'm not that smart. I'm not too far in, but I'm already enjoying the outdated yet fascinating criticism of the royalty, cleverly covered by ironic "praise." It's pretty obvious More was doing something incredibly ballsy, and though his opinions are rarely applicable in the modern world, I still appreciate them.

God In A Cup, by Michaele Weissman. I'm not 100% sure what this is supposed to be, but it appears to be a history of the economics/trade/making/growing/etc of coffee. Also, opinions, interviews, stories, and various other whatevers. It's too formal to be a coffee table book (har har), but too informal to really be scholary. Nonetheless, I'm a few chapters in, and it's already quite enjoyable. I bought and read the start of it today, drinking coffee, appropriately.

jackhammer · 05-08-2013, 08:21 PM

Just read:

Apart from the section where Lemmy passed out after 3 consecutive Blow Jobs I found this far more pedestrian than it should have been.

The Batlord · 05-09-2013, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

Just read:

Apart from the section where Lemmy passed out after 3 consecutive Blow Jobs I found this far more pedestrian than it should have been.

Lemmy kind of depresses me these days. He's got too much integrity to put on a fake personality and rave about his new album or this or that about his career, so he just ends up sounding kind of tired and unenthusiastic about everything now. It's nice to see some emotional honesty, but it just brings it home that he's an old man who makes enough money off touring to live but not enough to be able to retire so he kind of has to keep playing the game.

WWWP · 05-25-2013, 08:07 PM

Starting reading this immediately after taking my last final of the semester. Really disappointed in myself for having taken so long - I'm completely immersed.

CrazyVegn · 05-30-2013, 06:14 PM

The only black family on the Titanic:
The Laroche Family on the Titanic - Neatorama

http://science.howstuffworks.com/env...uestion373.htm

NSW · 06-02-2013, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon

Starting reading this immediately after taking my last final of the semester. Really disappointed in myself for having taken so long - I'm completely immersed.

This is an amazing piece of sci-fi and a great book all around. Hope you love it, it's in my top 5 books of all time.

Right now, I'm in the middle of reading this:

Perhaps I lack the enlightenment, or the ability to think abstractly enough to appreciate this book, but it's not doing a damn thing for me. I've been vacillating between boredom and mild disgust through the first 100 pages, though I've been assured that once I've finished it, and read the author's notes and supplemental materials at the end that I will have a new appreciation for it. It's supposed to be a classic and a literary masterpiece and all that but yeah...no.

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 06-02-2013, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by nonsubmissivewife

This is an amazing piece of sci-fi and a great book all around. Hope you love it, it's in my top 5 books of all time.

Right now, I'm in the middle of reading this:

Perhaps I lack the enlightenment, or the ability to think abstractly enough to appreciate this book, but it's not doing a damn thing for me. I've been vacillating between boredom and mild disgust through the first 100 pages, though I've been assured that once I've finished it, and read the author's notes and supplemental materials at the end that I will have a new appreciation for it. It's supposed to be a classic and a literary masterpiece and all that but yeah...no.

Yeah I couldn't even like it, I read it high even

The Cat Inside is a better book by him, imo

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05-07-2013, 01:29 AM	#4684 (permalink)
Blarobbarg Do good. Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Posts: 2,065	Just started... Utopia, by Sir Thomas More. Not reading it in the original Latin, obviously. I'm not that smart. I'm not too far in, but I'm already enjoying the outdated yet fascinating criticism of the royalty, cleverly covered by ironic "praise." It's pretty obvious More was doing something incredibly ballsy, and though his opinions are rarely applicable in the modern world, I still appreciate them. God In A Cup, by Michaele Weissman. I'm not 100% sure what this is supposed to be, but it appears to be a history of the economics/trade/making/growing/etc of coffee. Also, opinions, interviews, stories, and various other whatevers. It's too formal to be a coffee table book (har har), but too informal to really be scholary. Nonetheless, I'm a few chapters in, and it's already quite enjoyable. I bought and read the start of it today, drinking coffee, appropriately. __________________ https://rateyourmusic.com/~Blarobbarg ｡･::･ﾟ★,｡･::･ﾟ☆　^my RYM^　｡･::･ﾟ★,｡･::･ﾟ☆ (◠‿◠✿)

05-08-2013, 08:21 PM	#4685 (permalink)
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05-30-2013, 06:14 PM	#4688 (permalink)
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