BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)

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Re: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)

Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu May 23, 2019 8:10 pm

oh time to read! Like read an actual whole chapter of a book :D
last thing I read was actually 'The tangled web' By Michał Zalewski
Very good (and the previous one - Silence on the wire) if you want to understand better how web stuff works. (I didn't, and still don't fully)
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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Fri May 24, 2019 12:25 pm

I have so many books but not the time.

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Re: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)

Unread post by vic » Fri May 24, 2019 9:10 pm

I do not read mmuch nowadays, but have read two third of a trilogy by Rachel Cusk. It consists of, "Outlines", "Transit" and now I am looking forward to the last one called "Kudos". After the first book I were like....wtf was that?????????????? Thought something like...who cares, sometimes it just is not your cup of tea. Did not think about it for a while, then suddenly, four months later I made a weird discovery whilst reading about another book, that seemed to have a somewhat similar concept. That the first book "Outlines", were kind of, and still is in fact, living it`s own life inside of me, very vivid, very present. So I decided to read it again, and now I have just finished "Transit" for the second time. Looking forward to "Kudos", which I also plan to read two times. :)
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Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Jun 03, 2019 1:25 pm

I always find time to read. Can't live without books, geek as I am. :)

Started Roberto Bolaño's first novel today: "La Pista di Ghiaccio".

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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Tue Jun 11, 2019 2:44 pm

The title alone makes me want to read it. Thanks for sharing.

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Unread post by GekkoP » Fri Jun 21, 2019 3:10 pm

^ Finished this morning, a fantastic read. She also did a documentary on the same themes: https://www.whatisdemocracy.info/
And she is married to Jeff Mangum, of Neutral Milk Hotel fame, whose In The Aeroplane Over the Sea stormed my life years ago.

Anyway, currently I am reading this:

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Unread post by GekkoP » Sun Jun 30, 2019 9:33 pm

I followed that with "The People's Platform" by Astra Taylor, but I found it too US centred for my interests. No offence intended, I know where Silicon Valley is, I just was expecting something more global.

Now I moved to this:

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Which is the Italian translation of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ego_and_Its_Own

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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Mon Jul 01, 2019 12:51 pm

^ Great.

I am reading a book in German right now. The title would be translated like The war before the war - How propaganda decides about life and death. I cannot find an English version though the book is originally in German by Ulrich Teusch. It is about journalism and how mainstream media actually never prevented a war instead they fueled them.

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Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Jul 01, 2019 2:58 pm

^ I need that! :)

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Unread post by pidsley » Wed Jul 03, 2019 2:29 pm

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I love etymology, and this book has lots of it.

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Unread post by GekkoP » Wed Jul 03, 2019 3:13 pm

^ Wow! Thanks for that, immediately added to my read list.

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Unread post by pidsley » Wed Jul 03, 2019 11:49 pm

^ There's not as much etymology as I thought -- there is a lot about her travels in Greece and other stuff. But it's still an interesting read. I love my Kindle for etymology -- I used to read with a dictionary so I could look up the origins of words, but the Kindle has it built in.

Now I need to find a book or two about Latin/English etymology -- knowing Italian must help you with that.

I recognize a lot of Latin/Greek roots from when I learned them as an undergrad and graduate student, but it still fascinates me. English steals words from everywhere.

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Unread post by GekkoP » Thu Jul 04, 2019 7:10 am

^ Absolutely exploiting the Kindle's dictionary facilities here too. Italian helps with Latin, but Greek is stronger beast to tame for me.

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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:06 pm

^ On my list now. Thanks.

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The Italian translation of "Oppression et liberté" by Simone Weil.

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Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:38 am

^ Superb reading, and incredibly relevant today even though it was written in 1934. Highly recommended.

I gave up on this:

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Couldn't really stand the writing, it felt like the author was on a pedestal imparting life-lessons using the most obnoxious vocabulary he could find. And now I'm on something lighter because I need a break from other studies:

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Re: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Mon Jul 15, 2019 4:32 pm

^ My better half bought also an edition.

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