What are you reading right now?

OccultHawk · 11-01-2018, 06:57 AM

Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg

and...

edit to add one more:

Beyond Future Shock by Alex Alaniz

Oriphiel · 11-01-2018, 07:36 AM

I'll start with Dying Inside, and then read through the rest

OccultHawk · 11-01-2018, 08:00 AM

Have you read 2001 and the other biggies by Clarke?

He’s still the gold standard imo

Oriphiel · 11-01-2018, 08:36 AM

I've never read any of his works

OccultHawk · 11-01-2018, 08:41 AM

ffs brother

start there

Oriphiel · 11-01-2018, 09:11 AM

Maybe later

innerspaceboy · 11-05-2018, 04:07 PM

I was lying in bed trying to conceive my next project and the title of a book manifested in my mind - I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R Hofstadter. I never made it through his epic 1979 tome, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid as I am not equipped with the necessary mathematical knowledge to grasp it, (specifically propositional calculus), but Strange Loop's exploration of the nature of consciousness seemed like it might be more palatable for me.

Strange Loop opens with a proposed Socratic dialog Hofstadter drafted as a teen, and I was instantly captivated. This should be a rewarding read.

OccultHawk · 11-05-2018, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy

I was lying in bed trying to conceive my next project and the title of a book manifested in my mind - I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R Hofstadter. I never made it through his epic 1979 tome, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid as I am not equipped with the necessary mathematical knowledge to grasp it, (specifically propositional calculus), but Strange Loop's exploration of the nature of consciousness seemed like it might be more palatable for me.

Strange Loop opens with a proposed Socratic dialog Hofstadter drafted as a teen, and I was instantly captivated. This should be a rewarding read.

Do you ever enjoy reading things you don’t understand

like Joyce or whatever - like this insanity is spewing out but you’re only catching a small fraction of it but like who cares?

Sometimes I’m reading something and I’m like wtf I’m so ****ing lost!!!!But then when I’m finished I read about what I just read and it turns out I understood more than I thought.

You seem like the type that would really want to fully understand whatever you read. Sometimes I’m just reading lazily and then I get lost or miss something important, obviously that’s a bad reading habit but I also think you can go too far the other way. As in being overly meticulous about understanding.

~~[MERIT]~~ · 11-05-2018, 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by innerspaceboy

I was lying in bed trying to conceive my next project and the title of a book manifested in my mind - I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R Hofstadter. I never made it through his epic 1979 tome, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid as I am not equipped with the necessary mathematical knowledge to grasp it, (specifically propositional calculus), but Strange Loop's exploration of the nature of consciousness seemed like it might be more palatable for me.

Strange Loop opens with a proposed Socratic dialog Hofstadter drafted as a teen, and I was instantly captivated. This should be a rewarding read.

What an amazing book that is! If you like it, I would recommend Thomas W. Campbell's "My Big T.O.E." trilogy.

Damn it, for all the sh*t that I get around here [mainly from OccultHawk], my website had ~ 3,500 PDF's that people could read and download for free. Books that were hard to find and woth while.

innerspaceboy · 11-05-2018, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Do you ever enjoy reading things you don’t understand

like Joyce or whatever - like this insanity is spewing out but you’re only catching a small fraction of it but like who cares?

Sometimes I’m reading something and I’m like wtf I’m so ****ing lost!!!!But then when I’m finished I read about what I just read and it turns out I understood more than I thought.

You seem like the type that would really want to fully understand whatever you read. Sometimes I’m just reading lazily and then I get lost or miss something important, obviously that’s a bad reading habit but I also think you can go too far the other way. As in being overly meticulous about understanding.

I appreciate the response! There are indeed times when I enjoy swimming into the deep waters of the unknown. Finnegans Wake is one of my all-time favorite challenges. I had a difficult time with Roger Scruton's treatise on the aesthetics of music, and Alex Ross' The Rest Is Noise was similarly challenging, each simply because I lack a fundamental education in the history of classical music. I've tried various informational resources but none of them have really grabbed me as of yet.

I'm hopeful that this latest read will resonate with me, and if it does perhaps I'll give the mathematical logic of GEB another shot.

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11-01-2018, 07:36 AM	#6282 (permalink)
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11-01-2018, 08:00 AM	#6283 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Have you read 2001 and the other biggies by Clarke? He’s still the gold standard imo __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

11-01-2018, 08:36 AM	#6284 (permalink)
Oriphiel Ask me how! Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: The States Posts: 5,354	I've never read any of his works __________________ ---------------------- \|---Mic's Albums---\| ---------------------- ----------------------------- \|---Deafbox Industries---\| -----------------------------

11-01-2018, 08:41 AM	#6285 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	ffs brother start there __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

11-01-2018, 09:11 AM	#6286 (permalink)
Oriphiel Ask me how! Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: The States Posts: 5,354	Maybe later __________________ ---------------------- \|---Mic's Albums---\| ---------------------- ----------------------------- \|---Deafbox Industries---\| -----------------------------

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