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ADD - What are you reading?

nuke said:
Speaking of fiction, I began The Brother Karamazov recently, good stuff.
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Weird coincidence...I picked it up at about the same time, mid-late March, and I rarely read fiction. Just finishing now. Great book.

I've been dying to use the word scoundrel recently.

...or perhaps saucy jackanapes!

;)
 
I think the question is........what have you read? Honestly, the wall street journal is what i read daily.....(particularly the finance section....ie. the page with all the graphs and data that most over-look). In terms of fiction......im re-reading the, as we say in the US, the 'Koran' (still is enigmatic for me) and, Tagore's 'Gitanjali':
 
Haha, and rightly so! Though I've seen the movies :(

Speaking of Dostoyevsky, I got Notes from underground and the double (as 1 book) and they're both really good, need to read some others.
 
working my way through "The Pot Book: a complete guide to cannabis" edited by Julie Holland, MD.
lined up to read after that I have "Storming Heaven - LSD and the American Dream" by Jay Stevens.

Of course, as soon as the semester ends I'll have 2 rather dense books about Scanning and Tunneling Microscopy and Surface Science as well as a plethora of papers about pentacene derivatives concerning their applications to Organic Photo-Voltaics
 
Working on The Cult of Pharmacology by Richard DeGrandpre and Tweak by Nic Sheff. I can't ever read just one book at a time.
 
negrogesic said:
I think the question is........what have you read?
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Yeah, the question should be stated more precisely, ie. if only books are counted, or only books with emphasis on drugs, or if scientific journals count too, or any journals, etc...

As a suggestion, let's stay with any book that you have read :)
 
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Just put down Infinite Jest temporarily (it's a beast!) to read Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse.
 
That Hesse is great, but my favorite is still Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game)...such a fab idea, and it reeks of psychedelia. Or at least that is my skewed interpretation of it. :D

Do finish Infinite Jest. Incredible book..It took me many tries over several years and I only finished it when I brought it along while backpacking through India. I figured I had to after carrying the behemoth around in my backpack for months on end. I left it in a palm frond hut in Gokarna, hoping some lost soul would find it and it would effect them as heavily as it did me. ;) Nothing short of spectacular, easily one of the best novels of the late 20th century....
 
Dondante said:
Just put down Infinite Jest temporarily (it's a beast!) to read Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse.
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That book didn't take off for me until about page 300... but when it did, it was really amazing. Hesse is really fantastic too.
 
I just finished Donna Tartt - The Secret History. I had about zero expectations but the book turned out to be absolutely brilliant.
 
nuke said:
That book didn't take off for me until about page 300... but when it did, it was really amazing. Hesse is really fantastic too.
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I'll definitely get back to it.

Of Hesse, I've also read A Journey to the East, Siddhartha, and Demian. I preferred the latter two, but they're all good. Demian seems to be a lesser known Hesse novel, originally published under a pseudonym, but it's a fantastic read. It's a picture of Hesse in his Jungian phase, drawing on his own experience of youth, and examining the existential conflict created by duality, flesh vs. spirit, light vs. dark.

Narcissus and Goldmund is a very powerful book too, not just intriguing on an intellectual level, but also moving in a very visceral way. It explores similar themes of duality, with a particular emphasis on Nietzsche's Apollonian vs. Dionysian dichotomy, the rationalist and the passionate artist. Great reading.
 
I do but only through my university Document Delivery Service, Infotrieve.
Its free (perks or being a grad student) but not exactly "on demand," if I put in a request for the article, they'll email me a pdf... when they get around to it.

If no one else can get you a copy sooner PM me and I'll get you one as soon as I can.
(I just put in a request on our online thing; I'd say they won't even look at it until monday however....)
 
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