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10-09-2009, 10:53 PM
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#174
10-23-2009, 09:29 AM
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#175
11-15-2009, 12:46 PM
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just finished 'the girl with the dragon tattoo' by stieg larsson - superb thriller (i'm not usually one for the genre) now onto the second book in the trilogy. recommended...
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11-15-2009, 01:18 PM
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recently read:
If Chins Could Kill - Confessions of a b-movie actor, autobiography of Bruce Campbell, the ultimate B-movie star  Really funny and full of great anecdotes. If you liked the Evil Dead films this is well worth reading. Overlord by Max Hastings. WWII history about the D-day invasion and subsequent struggle for the breakout into France in 1944. I read his book Armageddon about the final battle for Germany which I found a gripping read. WWII has always fascinated me enormously and Hastings manages to bring it to life in vivid detail, all the way from the big strategic overview to the personal experiences of the people on the ground, while at the same time challenging a lot of the preconceived notions about it. I've now started in Nemesis, his book about the war in the Pacific against Japan. This one is even bigger than the other two books so it will take me a while I think... Also I just got part 3 of the Discworld series for my birthday so I'll start that pretty soon as well
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11-15-2009, 01:22 PM
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#178
11-15-2009, 05:10 PM
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partially read - 'loup' by lady newell and friends, an art collective who likes little victorian child stories and linking them with actual topics, this time with the song 'wolf at the door' by radiohead.
over the rack - 'siutico' by oscar contardo, which is an analysis of the behaviour of the high classes in chile. wanted to read this book for quite a while, my boss brought it to work one day and asked me if i wanted to read it. |
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#179
11-19-2009, 05:32 PM
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Just finished Plato: a very short introduction. Nice punchy little guide. I'm a sucker for wanting to collect every book in a given series, but there are over 200 of these cute little buggers, so that won't be happening anytime soon. Still, some very interesting topics covered, and they're a good way into a subject you might otherwise not think about studying. Archaeology will be next I think.
Currently working my way through Dawkins' 1976 classic The Selfish Gene (30th anniv edition). A beautifully explained gene's eye view of life, but still having to concentrate as I'm definitely no biologist. Having to keep reminding myself that it's a metaphor. His speculation about how life might have emerged from the primordial soup is fascinating. Coming up next: I've just had the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide posted to me from the US, a lovely leather-bound collection of Adams' five Hitchhiker novels. Unbelievably, I've reached my mid 30's and never read any of these (so I figured I'd do it in style ).
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#180
11-20-2009, 01:00 PM
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Currently I´m reading Michael Jackson - Moonwalk. (Yes, I´m one of those who discovered MJ too late, in other words after his dead.)
The more I read about him now the more fascinating I find that substantiality and spirit he gathered around himself. All the riches he gained by engaging all those talented artistic people is more than amazing, besides his own contribution of course. But who is the real winner from a mortal/earthly perspective? The one who manage to get thousands to serve his/her interest or the one who´s just watching the spectacle? ...and then there´s another perspective that Ingmar Bergman described so ingeniously... "...you can never figure out or capture human holiness... Only the poets, musicians and saints may depict that which we can but discern: the inconceivable. They´ve seen, known, understood, not fully, but in fragments..." Private Confessions - Ingmar Bergman ( ) MJ seemed to be a rather interesting person with one foot always leaping in the dark, in the unknown, just like Bergman ...and I still wonder... is it only musicians and poets who are privileged or are there any other saints out there besides me?
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