BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)

[rhowaldt]

i just finished Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising, and have now started reading Alan Watts' 'The Book on the Taboo against knowing who you are'. very little computers, very much weird shit :)

[pidsley]

[machinebacon]

^ Thanks for posting this - something that bothers me very much, not only in the US.

[bones]

And the second book, just finished it. Damn, these were cool books. This one really pulled it all together. I highly recommend these, great story! I had a hard time putting them down.

[ivanovnegro]

^ It is about what?

[RandomCharacter]

I recently finished The Abominable by Dan Simmons. Besides it being an excellent novel with engaging characters, I learned more about mountain and rock climbing than I ever imagined I would.

Now, I have started Doctor Sleep by Stephen King.

Tim

[GekkoP]

Before going to sleep, here's what keeps me company.

[wuxmedia]

this is what putting me to sleep tonight:

[bones]

Just finished this one. Really enjoying this guy's books, hard to put down:

[bones]

Next up, a little break from fiction:

[GekkoP]

^ I read some parts of it (in PDF) while installing OpenBSD for the first time. A very good book.

[ivanovnegro]

@Bones: Thanks for this. I will put in my list.

[GekkoP]

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Essay on the 'other music'. Basically everything that it is not rock, pop and electronic music. Also it explores how often so-called experts, without doing proper research, misunderstood traditional music and live registrations.

[ivanovnegro]

It is after 100 years, so I got some book about the "Great War".

[GekkoP]

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Essay on the 'other music'. Basically everything that it is not rock, pop and electronic music. Also it explores how often so-called experts, without doing proper research, misunderstood traditional music and live registrations.

I already brought it back to the library. It is plagued by the horrible "Italian academic" writing style: huge paragraphs with no full stops for more than five lines. Only a mess of commas and parenthesis. I'll never understand why Italians do it this way. We even have an awesome Italo Calvino's book explaining how to keep it simple and why the simpler the better. I guess nobody read it.

[GekkoP]

(thanks Pidsley)

[GekkoP]

I bought this 4 years ago, actually. Been through some pages, but my English wasn't that good back then. Now it is easier to understand. An awesome book so far. Like Amazon reviewers use to say: if anyone is remotely interested in Jazz and black music this is a must read.

[rhowaldt]

^ cool, thanks for the tip, i might want to read that.

[GekkoP]

^ you're welcome. I read another Gioia's book years ago, also very good: The Imperfect Art. It is a superb essay on music and especially jazz.

[wuxmedia]

Getting a few classics under my belt.

Jude the obscure - Thomas Hardy.