yes, for sure. I buy hardcovers for any book that I know I want to keep. I'm positive I own at least two copies of some books, in hardcover and paperback editions. I have some hardcopies signed by the author. For all my books, it's about far more than just going to the bookstore and purchasing a new story. There's a certain amount of thrill to buying, reading, and maintaining a book collection. Calling it a fetish isn't too far off.Uzique wrote:
i find amassing and collecting books a bit of a pleasure-in-itself, really... book fetishism, perhaps. the way i look at it is that books are a belonging that will never age or lose value like another ordinary item would. once you buy a book - especially a classic - it's there for life, to be read and reread and passed around forever. it won't age and it'll never lose its 'value' (in material and intellectual regards). i have a shitload of books at my house at home, and my dad has a 'library' room.
Anyone else like the smell of old books??
If I ever get a house with a spare room i'm turning it into a library/study and just filling the walls with old books and having a massive comfy armchair in the middle of it with a lamp next to it.
Maybe a table for my brandy to sit on to
If I ever get a house with a spare room i'm turning it into a library/study and just filling the walls with old books and having a massive comfy armchair in the middle of it with a lamp next to it.
Maybe a table for my brandy to sit on to
I'd type my pc specs out all fancy again but teh mods would remove it. Again.
o/presidentsheep wrote:
Anyone else like the smell of old books??
if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out.
And a fireplace to throw books into that are terrible.presidentsheep wrote:
Anyone else like the smell of old books??
If I ever get a house with a spare room i'm turning it into a library/study and just filling the walls with old books and having a massive comfy armchair in the middle of it with a lamp next to it.
Maybe a table for my brandy to sit on to
I never understood getting a book signed.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
yes, for sure. I buy hardcovers for any book that I know I want to keep. I'm positive I own at least two copies of some books, in hardcover and paperback editions. I have some hardcopies signed by the author. For all my books, it's about far more than just going to the bookstore and purchasing a new story. There's a certain amount of thrill to buying, reading, and maintaining a book collection. Calling it a fetish isn't too far off.Uzique wrote:
i find amassing and collecting books a bit of a pleasure-in-itself, really... book fetishism, perhaps. the way i look at it is that books are a belonging that will never age or lose value like another ordinary item would. once you buy a book - especially a classic - it's there for life, to be read and reread and passed around forever. it won't age and it'll never lose its 'value' (in material and intellectual regards). i have a shitload of books at my house at home, and my dad has a 'library' room.
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I wouldn't mind a signed copy of Microsoft Bob with Bill's signature. Depends on what floats your boat. I have several signed books, but most were bought that way. Doesn't really give me much of a sense of accomplishment unless it was a signing in person or by a well-established author.
so for the last 4 weeks i've been going through ulysses and finnegan's wake with one of the top joyce scholars in the world...
these books are fucking insane. insanely difficult but insanely complex and developed. so much more to them than almost anything i have ever read before. really incredible. what roland barthes would call in critical terms a "complete literary cosmogeny"; a "mathesis" for the high-modernist era. if you want an intellectually challenging read that will demand that you know everything of high artistic culture from the ancient greeks through to the modernist-now, and if you're feeling fluent in 3/4 languages (including ancient greek/latin) and also have a good grip on popular culture of the 19th and 20th century... pick them up. they are infinitely rewarding books.
just have a dictionary and wikipedia to hand
these books are fucking insane. insanely difficult but insanely complex and developed. so much more to them than almost anything i have ever read before. really incredible. what roland barthes would call in critical terms a "complete literary cosmogeny"; a "mathesis" for the high-modernist era. if you want an intellectually challenging read that will demand that you know everything of high artistic culture from the ancient greeks through to the modernist-now, and if you're feeling fluent in 3/4 languages (including ancient greek/latin) and also have a good grip on popular culture of the 19th and 20th century... pick them up. they are infinitely rewarding books.
just have a dictionary and wikipedia to hand
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I attempted Finnegan's Wake on my own last summer. Made it 1/4 the way through and realized I was missing more than 3/4 of the references and completely failing to comprehend his genius. I may attempt Ulysses with the aide of a guide book this coming summer if I feel up to the challenge.
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
Definitely. Might just buy all of jeremy clarksons books for that exact purpose.AussieReaper wrote:
And a fireplace to throw books into that are terrible.presidentsheep wrote:
Anyone else like the smell of old books??
If I ever get a house with a spare room i'm turning it into a library/study and just filling the walls with old books and having a massive comfy armchair in the middle of it with a lamp next to it.
Maybe a table for my brandy to sit on to
I'd type my pc specs out all fancy again but teh mods would remove it. Again.
i'm absolutely in love with ulysses. a big article was written on my joyce professor and his work on finnegan's wake in a december issue of the london review of books, and it scared me off it... for now. my prof is running additional seminars and reading sessions to try and help people decipher FW, but i've got enough on my plate for this finalist-period with both ulysses and a la recherche du temps perdu to battle with .Pochsy wrote:
I attempted Finnegan's Wake on my own last summer. Made it 1/4 the way through and realized I was missing more than 3/4 of the references and completely failing to comprehend his genius. I may attempt Ulysses with the aide of a guide book this coming summer if I feel up to the challenge.
can't wait for the summer so i can read lots of non-prescribed stuff!
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Just read this:
Now, before the flames start...
I read it on a lark. I've been struggling to finish up a course and needed a break. I wanted to see what Beck could do with fiction. He's a surprisingly good writer. His use of language, particularly descriptive language is exceptional. The structure of the book leaves something to be desired. It's relatively simplistic and it's clearly used as a platform for his messaging. But his ability to take facts and weave them into a fictional tale, using the central theme of the Overton Window as a teaching point overall was interesting. Sourcing the facts at the end of the book was a nice touch, as well.
Award winning fiction? Not by any stretch. But not a bad freshman effort...assuming one doesn't consider his previous work to be fiction, of course.
Now, before the flames start...
I read it on a lark. I've been struggling to finish up a course and needed a break. I wanted to see what Beck could do with fiction. He's a surprisingly good writer. His use of language, particularly descriptive language is exceptional. The structure of the book leaves something to be desired. It's relatively simplistic and it's clearly used as a platform for his messaging. But his ability to take facts and weave them into a fictional tale, using the central theme of the Overton Window as a teaching point overall was interesting. Sourcing the facts at the end of the book was a nice touch, as well.
Award winning fiction? Not by any stretch. But not a bad freshman effort...assuming one doesn't consider his previous work to be fiction, of course.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
Didn't he write some short Christmas novella?
glen beck
exceptional descriptive language?
someone hasn't read much classic fiction
exceptional descriptive language?
someone hasn't read much classic fiction
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He did. I was talking about his first foray into "serious" fiction.Hurricane2k9 wrote:
Didn't he write some short Christmas novella?
Glad to see you've read the book, Zique. Oh wait.
And yes, I have read plenty of classic fiction.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
He won't be getting anything. All proceeds are going to charity.Dilbert_X wrote:
Anyone getting the Rumsfeld book?
I'll get it from the library, not paying that guy a cent.
Reviews are interesting
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/seealso/2011 … onald.html
I can't believe you hate veterans.Rumsfeld’s book was first announced in 2008. Rumsfeld received no advance and will donate all proceeds to veterans charities.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
Thats like throwing a pack of bandaids after you've shot up the boat isn't it?
Fuck Israel
da nanananana Ghost-writers!Uzique wrote:
glen beck
exceptional descriptive language?
someone hasn't read much classic fiction
*da nanananana Batman
well that's an even poorer argument then, isn't it.AussieReaper wrote:
da nanananana Ghost-writers!Uzique wrote:
glen beck
exceptional descriptive language?
someone hasn't read much classic fiction
*da nanananana Batman
"glen beck's ghost writer doesn't have a bad style!"
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006080037
i've also read the first few samples pages from google books - here
fucking wow if you think this prose has anything worth talking about. you've read plenty of 'classic' fiction? classic as in tom clancy? did your have your eyes closed the entire time? cliche-ridden, single-utterance sentences; no subtlety in political or thematic intent; identikit characterisation; standard thriller plot devices... wow, what a revolutionary read!
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Currently halfway through this one ...
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
About the last great explorer of the Amazon Percy Fawcett that went missing in 1924 with his son looking for what he thought to be a hidden city, the author himself follows in his footsteps 80 years later ...
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
About the last great explorer of the Amazon Percy Fawcett that went missing in 1924 with his son looking for what he thought to be a hidden city, the author himself follows in his footsteps 80 years later ...
Wait behind the line ..............................................................
My sister bought me The Christmas Sweater the Christmas before last.FEOS wrote:
He did. I was talking about his first foray into "serious" fiction.Hurricane2k9 wrote:
Didn't he write some short Christmas novella?
Glad to see you've read the book, Zique. Oh wait.
And yes, I have read plenty of classic fiction.
meh..
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i'm already looking forward to when this thread is returned to a state of normality without glenn fucking beck needing to be mentioned in the same breath as the words 'classic fiction'. jesus tittyfucking christ...
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Blame feos.
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Well, I agree that Beck writes fiction.
He's good at stand-up comedy too.
Next book for me "Fundamentals of Microsystems Packaging" by Rao Tummala.
Read it before, can't remember how it compares to Dickens or Nietsche in terms of sentence structure, quality of prose and imagery, need to read it again for a new job. Better start now...
Next book for me "Fundamentals of Microsystems Packaging" by Rao Tummala.
Read it before, can't remember how it compares to Dickens or Nietsche in terms of sentence structure, quality of prose and imagery, need to read it again for a new job. Better start now...
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Fuck Israel
who talks about sentence structure, quality of prose or imagery in dickens or nietzsche?
hahahhaaha wow, just wow.
"the sentence structure in little dorrit really helps me empathize with the protagonist"
jesus christ dilbert sentence structure? it's painfully obvious you left literature behind at high-school age 15 level and never looked back
so stop trying to be condescending in a thread about fucking LITERATURE
hahahhaaha wow, just wow.
"the sentence structure in little dorrit really helps me empathize with the protagonist"
jesus christ dilbert sentence structure? it's painfully obvious you left literature behind at high-school age 15 level and never looked back
so stop trying to be condescending in a thread about fucking LITERATURE
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