centipede
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Post by centipede on Jan 27, 2016 9:45:24 GMT
What are you reading?
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stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on Jan 27, 2016 11:52:06 GMT
Books I remember reading at some point:
- The 4-Hour Work-Week ~ Timothy Ferris
- The Aeneid ~ Virgil
- A New Earth ~ Eckhart Tolle
- La Araucana ~ Alonso de Ercilla
- Ask and it is Given ~ Esther Hicks
- Azul ~ Rubén Darío
- The Bible ~ Various Jewish Authors
- El Cantar del Mío Cid ~ Unknown
- The Divine Comedy ~ Dante Alighieri
- Do You! ~ Russel Simmons
- Einstein ~ Walter Isaacson
- How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
- The Iliad ~ Homer
- Jícaras Tristes ~ Alfredo Espino
- The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery
- The Master Key System ~ Charles Haanel
- The Metamorphoses ~ Ovid
- The Metamorphosis ~ Franz Kafka
- Mitología Cuscatleca ~ Miguel Angel Espino
- The Nag Hammadi Library ~ Various Jewish Authors
- The Odyssey ~ Homer
- The Popol Vuh ~ Various Mayan Authors
- The Power of Now ~ Eckhart Tolle
- Psycho-Cybernetics ~ Maxwell Maltz
- Rich Dad Poor Dad ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- Rimas y Leyendas ~ Claudio Dominguez Bastida
- Steve Jobs ~ Walter Isaacson
- Stillness Speaks ~ Eckhart Tolle
- The Tao Te Ching ~ Laozi
- Think And Grow Rich ~ Napoleon Hill
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Jan 27, 2016 15:20:03 GMT
I read everyday before I go to bed. Right now I'm reading The Four Books of Confucianism, which is The Great Learning, The Analects, Mencius and Maintaining Perfect Balance. Afterwards I'm going to read Xunzi (which is also about Confucianism). Then perhaps Tao Te Ching. I like philosophy, and lately it has been all about Chinese books. Which reminds me, I finished Romance of The Three Kingdoms not too long ago.
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Pimpjira
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Post by Pimpjira on Jan 27, 2016 16:06:48 GMT
Yes, although I haven't read too much recently.
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Jan 27, 2016 16:35:29 GMT
I've also been trying to find the Five Classics from the Confucian canon, but they just don't exist in English.
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Post by Mister Xiado on Jan 27, 2016 18:51:56 GMT
I stopped reading after I picked up on a horrible pattern in writing. After reading about 7 Robert Jordan novels in a row, I found his pattern, and now all written fiction is revealed to me as MadLibs and tropes, peppered with barely-changed archetypes. I can predict when jump-scares will happen, which lines are fail or death flags, and predict the end of a story arc a few moments into its start, barring any direction changes made at random through editorial mandate.
So I used to read, but now I do not. It's just a series of reading and predicting what will happen, until my dissatisfaction with the predictability of the book makes me stop reading it.
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Post by Imperial Khador on Jan 27, 2016 19:48:26 GMT
Out of curiosity Mister Xiado, do you find that had steered you from any other form of fiction in media? The same tropes are present in games, television and film as well.
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lukefonfabre388
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Post by lukefonfabre388 on Jan 27, 2016 21:06:27 GMT
I have been reading maritime dominion and the triumph of the free world. Naval campaigns that changed the world. By peter padfield.
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Guilion
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Post by Guilion on Jan 27, 2016 21:21:34 GMT
Generally speaking I do read, from history books to crappy fanfiction. The last book I remember reading was The Broker and the one I'm currently reading is The Trigger.
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Jan 28, 2016 6:46:32 GMT
Just finished The Four Books yesterday and started reading Xunzi.
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Post by Mister Xiado on Jan 28, 2016 6:59:52 GMT
Out of curiosity Mister Xiado, do you find that had steered you from any other form of fiction in media? The same tropes are present in games, television and film as well. Television, specifically. I quit watching TV back in about 2007. |
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centipede
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Post by centipede on Jan 28, 2016 8:48:24 GMT
Does anyone know a good urban sci-fi? Mister Xiado If you read a lot to tvtropes.org, yeah, I can totally see you anticipating things. |
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Post by teddykongcountry on Jan 28, 2016 9:03:23 GMT
Does anyone know a good urban sci-fi? Mister Xiado If you read a lot to tvtropes.org, yeah, I can totally see you anticipating things. Three actually. Necromancer, R.U.R. and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I would recommend the latter two; the first is a bit dry and complex for my taste. |
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centipede
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Post by centipede on Jan 28, 2016 9:27:17 GMT
Actually, what I meant was a sci-fi set in the present day, like the X-Files or Back to the Future.
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Post by Cervantes on Jan 28, 2016 9:30:12 GMT
This is personal information (which I try to avoid here in the pub), but I'm a professor of Literary Theory. Besides work-related stuff, I've just finished reading Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain (one of the originators of arthurian legends), I am in the middle of Goethe's Werther and have been reading a lot of stuff written by the awesome argentinian Jorge Luis Borges (either my favourite writer or my second one, since Cervantes is right up there). I was also reading a very well researched new translation (direct from the arabic) of "One thousand and one nights", but I got stuck in the first volume since last year and don't know when I'll go back to it, as I have a lot in my plate right now. centipede - There are the José Saramago's works, like "Blindness". It's all kinds of awesome and a very bleak dystopia (it's about a blindness epidemic). |
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