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What book are you currently reading?

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Just finished "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.

It is quite a concept. Highly recommended. The version I read also had a foreword added by Huxley twenty years after the fact which mentioned some changes he would have made were he to rewrite the novel at that time.
 
have just revisited William Gibson's sublime 'Neuromancer'. i forgot how incredibly rich it is... there's this fragmented, fleeting-impressions beauty about it. the whole book is suffused with layers of druggy, sensual descriptive paintspatter.

also reading 'Killing Pablo', by Mark Bowden. it exists in that weird contemporary-popular-history-airport-book space... it's too breathless and light on detailed analysis to really keep your interest, whilst also being too narrative-y to engage the imagination. nonetheless the subject matter is pretty interesting, so it's worth it for the story alone.

and finally revisiting Walter Map's 'Courtier's Trifles' (De Nugis Curialium), which is just supercool. Map writes with fierce intelligence and fiercer cynicism - it's a sarcastic, spiteful, satirical collection of stories and chronicles... there's weird magic, stupid monks, gossiping servants and randy merchants, and the whole enterprise is shot through with a kind of Chris Morris-esque strand of chronic pisstaking. and it's damn near a thousand years old!
 
zophen said:
I'm banned from that area, why I dunno.


What language is Walter Maps book in ? Like readable English ? ( for the uneducated peasant you understand )
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yes it's not particularly pleasant (that space)

De Nugis Curialium is available in a fine parallel English translation... i.e. Latin on one page and the English on the facing page. it's eminently readable! but you might have to look around (interlibrary loan from British Library perhaps?) because it's quite rare. oh and it costs about £100 to buy :(
 
Reading the Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson, the biography by Paul Perry. What a nut and a legend Mr. Thompson was!

Last book I read was 1984 by George Orwell. Extremely interesting read, and useful aswell for understanding the world we live in today.

Next will probably be Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Already seen the movie (and loved it) but reading about Hunter's life has given me a renewed interest!
 
^ I'd recommend 'Kingdom of Fear' or 'The Great Shark Hunt' myself.

I've just finished Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut by P. J. O'Rourke t'was entertaining.
 
haven't read a book in years (most readings been internet meanderings)

but one that i'll never forget is steppenwolf by herman hesse.

infact there's someone with the name steppenwolf here :)

but yea corrr, excellent book. didn't want it to end ever
 
The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying: Sogyal Rinpoche

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tibetan-Boo...4760446?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189106598&sr=1-1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tibetan_Book_of_Living_and_Dying

I've only read a few chapters (started it earlier today) but I'm already hooked. Very facinating thus far
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I'd recommend 'Kingdom of Fear' or 'The Great Shark Hunt' myself.
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Yeah I would as well!

when it comes to medieval stuff i'm afraid the internets really are in the dark ages
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One day when you aren't witticising, perhaps you could scan the book page by page and add to the fount of knowledge available on the net. Kinda see yourself as 'liberating' knowledge~ anti elitist stance type thing. Go on you know you want to...........
 
the great shark hunt is indeed excellent - was my favourite thompson book until an ex stole it :(

i am actually setting up a medievalist's online resource with a scholarly friend from norway :) out-of-copyright books etc. and journal links!
 
interesting question - generally speaking, it is my understanding that there is no copyright held over the text of the manuscript, but any publications thereof (including scanned images to show illuminations/illustrations) are subject to copyright, on a first-come-first-served basis. anyone preparing a critical edition (i.e. edited / translated / both) of a text will require substantial access to the original manuscript, but most of the institutions who own these things see them as being available for the greater good.... provided the greater are suitably qualified, that is.

generally the people who make money from editions of manuscript texts are the publishing houses. the community around manuscript studies are a pretty communally-minded, texts-without-frontiers group of academics.
 
I'm doing 'Mr Nice' for a second time, picked it up at a second hand book store the other day. My Howard Marks is such a genial chap :D

Speaking of HST, does anyone have the book with his essays as an early writer? Can't remember which one it was bjut there was a wonderful essay he wrote when Hemingway shot himself, would be a poignant read now I'd imagine.
 
High - By Brian O'Dea

basically his life as a dealer, starting off with weed at college, progressing to massive amounts of coke, the law finally catching up with him, time in prison, beating his own addictions, helping addicts out afterwards. Really good read actually, im on my second reading now after i got bought it for last christmas by my brother.
 
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