So roughly (give or take) how many books have you read? Apologies if you've answered this already.
So roughly (give or take) how many books have you read? Apologies if you've answered this already.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Not many. There are about 450 books on the list I'm working from for this thread. I'd guess that leaves off 100 or so that I read as a kid and have forgotten. I'm also excluding hundreds of picture books (Dr. Seuss, Bearenstein Bears, a whole series of weird autobiographies of famous people, etc.).Quoting Qrazy (view post)
EDIT: actually, it's probably a lot more than 100 that I'm forgetting, since there were a few years where I read almost all day long.
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Thank you for making me not feel so weird about being rather ho-hum on "Love in the Time of Cholera".
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
That's still a commendable amount.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
it kinda is in thailand. so is asterix.
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Pretty sure lovejuice could get through that many books in a weekend. And apparently kuehnepips could do it in an afternoon.
Maybe it's just North America where it isn't so widely read.
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This is so awesome, I don't know what to say.
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Except Friday.
I always want to read and review it for the newspaper, expecting myself to be lukewarm toward it.
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*To be read in the Dos Equis guy voice*
I don't always read. But when I do, I prefer
Martin Heidegger
Henri Bergson
Walter Rudin
John Milnor
V.I. Arnold
James Joyce
Melville
Poe
Sam Beckett
Solzhenitsyn
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Phillip K. Dick
William Gibson
Why am I just now hearing about these commercials?
Awesome.
That's some hardcore reading.
Is this the guy you mentioned yesterday?
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58. We (Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921)
Genre: dystopian frenzy
Rating: 10
Astounding. Explosive. Prose of mad rhythms. Words like fire. Lacerating psychology. Sublime frenzy. Totalitarianism as insane logic, kinematics, ritual. Love as insane liberation—from both the Self and the They. Love as imagination, imagination as soul, as living, trembling receptivity.
Or, in Zamyatin's own words, "The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity—but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage."
Quote: I saw him grab her rudely with his shaggy paws, rip her thin silk, sink his teeth—yes, I remember clearly: his teeth.
59. Pride & Prejudice (Austen, 1813)
Genre: insipid social commentary and romance
Rating: 1
My most loathed novel. Wit in service of the mundane, the proudly banal middle. An endorsement of the prejudices that it purports to attack, so charmed by its vapid central characters and so mocking of its peripheral ones that it forgets to tell us anything significant about any of them. Austen not only forgives but even takes delight in the faults of her main characters while creating others solely to mock. I sympathized only with Mr. Collins, a character I was obviously supposed to love to hate, solely because he wasn't in on the author's joke. Tedious and despicable.
Quote: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
60. Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein, 1961)
Genre: sci-fi/New Age sex-romp
Rating: 2
The first half is an unremarkable thriller; the second half, an advocatory exposition of sexual liberation and New Age spirituality. It's kinda lame. Kinda really lame.
Quote: Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.
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Which Ballard collection do you think is most up my alley?
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with that promise, yeah, it's not very good. heinlein believes in his ridiculous orgyligion too much to explore the pro and con of it. the moon is a harsh mistress actually addresses the issue, and is quite a good book, imo.
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Hmmmm..my favorite economics institute just literally yesterday put out a brand new copy of this in their store.
This line is prominently featured in the nook advertisements, which I see every day pretty much, many times, working at B&N as I do. It drives me bonkers, more and more, every time I see it.
I can't speak for Davis, but I'm just finishing up The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard and it's consistently great. At 19 stories/300 pages is able to cover his many facets, though his fascination with time and space in every sense of the words is pervasive, without being an overwhelming task.
Also, I bought We and will be reading it soon. You have set the bar high.
Have you read the book? The line is tongue-in-cheek, but it's indicative of the novel's irritating tone.
I remember Davis offered to send me his copy of that, but at the time I was trying to minimize my acquisition of books. I really should've taken him up on the offer. Time and space are two of my favorite subjects.
Nice. Let me know what you think of it.Also, I bought We and will be reading it soon. You have set the bar high.
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You can read it and The Blithedale Romance together. They make an interesting pair of critiques of the rigid, unreal logic of socialist idealism. Throw in Darkness at Noon, too.
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I can't answer that.
I am thinking about re-reading Being and Time. This will be #3 for me.
As far as math books are concerned, I consider these to be among the most appetizing.
The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1993)
Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012)
Sydney (Anderson, 1996)
El ángel exterminador (Luis Buñuel, 1963)
I would just read the collection, The Best Short Stories of JG Ballard.
The link above goes to the Google books version!
This is my favorite collection of short stories. There was also a recently-released complete collection of short stories, totally worth the asking price.
This is the one. A brilliant collection from start to finish. Ranges from his most straightforward narratives to his experiments with language and form.
Lovin' it. This is a great thread.
I haven't read Pride & Prejudice as of yet because I once forced my way through Emma, a novel I found every bit as loathsome for reasons similar to those you describe here. Worst piece of literature I read during my time as an undergrad.
Giving up in 2020. Who cares.
maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka) ***½
Without Remorse (Stefano Sollima) *½
The Marksman (Robert Lorenz) **
Beckett (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino) *½
Night Hunter (David Raymond) *
Psst, Melville. Question for at the Comic book thread.
Loving this thread, incidentally. I'll be reading, and simultaneously teaching, Hawthorne's novel in the fall. You have my hopes high.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
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