BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)

[hinto]

^Ouch.
I suppose you read that one after Silas Marner ;) ?
-Hinto

[wuxmedia]

Everybody I've met has a problem with (late) victorian writings (so far just you and my mum) admittedly, the language does get somewhat floral, and indeed the situations of the main characters are generally desolate.
But I quite like that. The fact of the oppressive victorian society, yet the 'heroes' of the story do pretty much what they want but are wracked by guilt and a resolution to put things to rights, yet digging themselves deeper into the pit of their own despair.

I found Eliot's writings to be rather readable.
I'd like to read that book.

[hinto]

As Victorian goes, don't forget "The Last of the Mohecans", where the American Indians speak Victorian English ;)
-Hinto

[GekkoP]

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Not an easy one, but still interesting.

[GekkoP]

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[wuxmedia]

Just finished this one, very auto-erotic.. 8)
driving afterwards takes on a new excitement.

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Sort of wanting to watch the film now.

[GekkoP]

^ film is awesome. :)

[rhowaldt]

^ indeed, the film is very good.

i just finished re-reading the Illuminatus! trilogy for the 3rd time around. now starting 'The Confessions of Aleister Crowley'. ordered 'The Story of Jazz' as well recently, so will be reading that after the magickian's story :)

[wuxmedia]

Cool, I will be watching the film soon then.

Reading this now:

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Really good, might be watching the film of this too 8)

[GekkoP]

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As I'm approaching the end of the first half of that huge Sherlock Holmes anthology I posted about before, this one is just arrived. It was already available for free online, but I'm too old school for that. :)
Don't know if you know anything about Wu Ming. It is a group of Italian writers, they wrote A LOT of good stuff: 54, Q, etc. I think some is available translated, and also everything is for free on their website.
NEW THING just seems to be addressed to me: free jazz, black culture, paranoia. My kind of thing.

[bones]

I enjoy reading quirky fiction from/about Oregon, currently reading this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Mink-River-Brian- ... 0870715852

[p120d16y]

The Redbreast- Jo Nesbo

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment 2nd Edition - W Richard Stevens & Stephen A. Rago

and I have The Shellcoder's Handbook, by a fuckton of security researchers on it's way from Barnes&Noble. (Fuck, I realize *now* why I got it so cheap; bought the 1st edition, not the 2nd.) Zero fucks given.

[GekkoP]

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment 2nd Edition - W Richard Stevens & Stephen A. Rago

I still have this around and I'm so proud of it. I bought it when I was 18 years old, and it really was hard for me at first (especially because of my poor English skills back then). Then I love it and even made a dissertation thanks to this book. Thanks for making me feel old. ;)

Anyway, that NEW THING up there quickly became one of my favorite books.

[p120d16y]

^It's a great book, Gekkop. Still all rings true.

[GekkoP]

A kind present from the missus.

[GekkoP]

I studied some of it when in school ages ago and loved it. Time to go back to it and love it again.

[machinebacon]

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Diet, Life-Style, and Mortality in China: A Study of the Characteristics of 65 Chinese Counties

I was lucky to get this as first print from 1990, for the fair price of 30 USD.

This is not really a book for reading, but one of the most complete (or maybe even *the* most complete) documents that gathered mortality rates from 48 forms of cancer in the mid 1970s and compared them with those from the mid-80s. The numbers stem from 6500 patients in 65 counties in China and were used to show correlation between nutrition, life-style and health issues.

See some of the findings (untwisted) here: http://www.paleo.sk/the-china-study

The big book is the base for the (not to be trusted) "best-seller" 'The China Study' (I call these things "train station bookstore reading material") that was released a few months ago. Unbelievable how they twisted and turned the numbers until it fits to fill 400 pages of "shithouse graffiti" :))

[ivanovnegro]

Got this for my birthday from my little sister:

It fits into my work.

[machinebacon]

^ Well indeed, the question is "who is/isn's a gypsy?", here is a scientific article if you are interested in the anthropological and genetical side of (Roma) things: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1235543/

[ivanovnegro]

Thanks Bacon. Of course, one thing is genetics and the other is identity. Complex anyway. ;)