Just finish a novel written by Humayan Ahmed.

Just finished Ethan Hayden's critical analysis of Sigur Ros' ( ).

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Ethan Hayden is a linguistics expert, composer and performer currently pursuing a Ph.D. in music at the University at Buffalo, US. I had the pleasure of attending one of his performances of his work, "…ce dangereux supplément…" in 2015. The work is a set of phonetic studies for voice, video, and electronics in which Hayden makes a wide range of vocal sounds, none of which are coherent expressions of any known language.

This made Hayden a fitting author to tackle Sigur Ros' ( ) album for an edition of the popular 33 1/3 book series. The parenthetical album is sung entirely in the nonsense Hopelandic language created by the members of Sigur Ros.

So what does one write about an album with no discernible theme or statement? And how would one begin to describe the nonsense sounds of the Hopelandic language? Over the course of 150 pages, Hayden expertly addresses these questions, and presents both a critical analysis of Hopelandic and a philosophical perspective on the recording itself. The book adds a fascinating critical dimension to the album and works like it and it aims to help listeners approach these works with a greater sense of understanding.

I just finished The Sun Also Rises and am onto A Farewell to Arms. Also reading...

• P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters edited by Sophie Radcliffe
• The Last Lion: Volume 1: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• Law of Success by Napoleon Hill
• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Bowie: The Biography by Wendy Leigh

Reading a novel about our Liberation War 1971.

Like usual, I'm reading a bunch of things at once:

Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything
Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread
Pierre Joseph Proudhon - What is Property
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels

Go ahead, call me a pinko commie.

Hey all. So I'm very unread. I'm trying here to get back into reading novels, but am dumb and don't really know where to start besides just looking up some classics or whatever.

Someone give me some book recs that they think I'll enjoy just based on idk what you'd just assume I might like.

For a bit of context: the last book I read fully for pleasure was probably 3-4 years ago - Faust by von Goethe (yes really a play but whatever). It's also taken me over 4 years to read the first half of The Trial twice. So I'm just looking to start fresh.

I don't know what to tell you, bro, but before you do anything else, look down at your post count, and then never post again.

Catch-22, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Slaughterhouse five are all fun and classic reads. I also recommend Lovecraft's short stories and The Turning of the Screw if you're into Faust. Since I've started talking about short stories, you (and everyone else) should read The Yellow Wallpaper.

Also if anyone has good recs based off of my recs, I'm all ears (which means I don't know how to read).

I'm not sure how into science fiction I am. I'm skeptical, although a couple of those sound interesting. Namely Time Enough for Love and Stranger.

Kurt Vonnegut was on my shortlist of writers I want to check out - almost took out Night Mother from the library, and probably will later. They didn't have Slaughterhouse Five but Im keeping an eye out for it.

All of the rest intrigue me as well. Added to my list of things to get to, though it might be a while since I'm slow and stuff.