Macbeth
Banned
+2,444|5807

Almost finished with the Napoleon book. I just preordered this for when I'm done
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I'm more interested about the life of Charles V than I am of Cortes and the other conquistadors the book goes into. It'll still be interesting to learn about the period right before Pax Hispanica though.
13rin
Member
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Last week

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Interesting, yet abysmal end.

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I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something.  - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
Jenspm
penis
+1,716|6953|St. Andrews / Oslo

Long shot, but...

I've seen these in book stores and online before, but the publisher escapes me completely.. I had a feeling is was Harper Perennial, but I can't find them on their site.

It's a collection of banned books - paper backs, black base colour, gold lettering down the spine. Can't even give you any titles, didn't have a chance to give it a proper look. Sold individually.

Any ideas?
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Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6896|Canberra, AUS
Out of interest I had a look at the US inflation numbers, just because everything that seems to be going on must surely be starting to push it...

CPI-U, US City Average, All Items:

NSA
+0.1% in Jul 2011 Historical Data

SA
+0.5% in Jul 2011 Historical Data

NSA
+3.6% since Jul 2010
If 3.6% was the figure here then the RBA would start to be getting very jumpy - it looks a bit high. Is it a bit high for the US? Stagflation could be kind of painful.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Jenspm
penis
+1,716|6953|St. Andrews / Oslo

Sounds like a good read.
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Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5579|London, England

Spark wrote:

Out of interest I had a look at the US inflation numbers, just because everything that seems to be going on must surely be starting to push it...

CPI-U, US City Average, All Items:

NSA
+0.1% in Jul 2011 Historical Data

SA
+0.5% in Jul 2011 Historical Data

NSA
+3.6% since Jul 2010
If 3.6% was the figure here then the RBA would start to be getting very jumpy - it looks a bit high. Is it a bit high for the US? Stagflation could be kind of painful.
It is artificial inflation induced by the government to trick businesses into thinking we're out of this depression so they hire more workers and pull us out of the depression for real.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
Kampframmer
Esq.
+313|5064|Amsterdam
Bought Homer's The Odyssey and The Iliad. Also bought The old man and the sea.
I wanted to buy some literature, but I'm a sucker for greek mythology and stories.
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6822|132 and Bush

Xbone Stormsurgezz
Kampframmer
Esq.
+313|5064|Amsterdam
Finished the old man and the sea yesterday.
It was just the right amount of pages for a one session read. Brilliantly written, for such a short story he really made every word count. I love how, to break the loneliness later on, the old man more or less splits up into 2 characters, his clear minded thoughts and his more deed driven voice talking and arguing.

Which one shall i read next, The Odyssey or The Iliad?
I guess the Iliad would make more sense, as it follows Achilles before and during Troy and the odyssey follows Oddyeus after Troy.
presidentsheep
Back to the Fuhrer
+208|6182|Places 'n such
Going to start reading Homage to Catalonia tonight
I'd type my pc specs out all fancy again but teh mods would remove it. Again.
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6896|Canberra, AUS

Spark wrote:

Out of interest I had a look at the US inflation numbers, just because everything that seems to be going on must surely be starting to push it...

CPI-U, US City Average, All Items:

NSA
+0.1% in Jul 2011 Historical Data

SA
+0.5% in Jul 2011 Historical Data

NSA
+3.6% since Jul 2010
If 3.6% was the figure here then the RBA would start to be getting very jumpy - it looks a bit high. Is it a bit high for the US? Stagflation could be kind of painful.
Wow how the fuck did this post end up here? Fuck I'm a moron.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
FEOS
Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate
+1,182|6632|'Murka

Spark wrote:

Spark wrote:

Out of interest I had a look at the US inflation numbers, just because everything that seems to be going on must surely be starting to push it...

CPI-U, US City Average, All Items:

NSA
+0.1% in Jul 2011 Historical Data

SA
+0.5% in Jul 2011 Historical Data

NSA
+3.6% since Jul 2010
If 3.6% was the figure here then the RBA would start to be getting very jumpy - it looks a bit high. Is it a bit high for the US? Stagflation could be kind of painful.
Wow how the fuck did this post end up here? Fuck I'm a moron.
Shit...I've been looking all over for that book, too! Why didn't you say something sooner?!
“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
AussieReaper
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+5,761|6374|what

Kampframmer wrote:

Finished the old man and the sea yesterday.
Just started that myself. I had ask what Hemingway book is the best to start with, and the concensus by a long margin was The Old Man and the Sea.
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Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,813|6327|eXtreme to the maX
I read it multiple times as a kid. Why was nothing we did in English lit that good?

Need a book by Malthus - to the library!
Fuck Israel
Kampframmer
Esq.
+313|5064|Amsterdam

AussieReaper wrote:

Kampframmer wrote:

Finished the old man and the sea yesterday.
Just started that myself. I had ask what Hemingway book is the best to start with, and the concensus by a long margin was The Old Man and the Sea.
Thats because is such an easy read.
So short and well written, 99 pages without a dull moment.
13urnzz
Banned
+5,830|6719

Just started The Eleventh Day. proudly reading it electronically [although i do miss Uzique sometimes, he can suck my ballsack on his opinion on electonic media ]
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6822|132 and Bush

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13urnzz "reading it electronically"
Xbone Stormsurgezz
13urnzz
Banned
+5,830|6719

nice - Job's would've wanted it that way, lol
Macbeth
Banned
+2,444|5807

I ordered this today among a few others
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My second DFW book and his first novel. It's a bit less than half the size of Infinite Jest so it won't be a job like that book was.

I was also going to try Orientalism by Said but backed off and decided to try something a little lighter and easier though in the same vein so I picked up "Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes". Plus it's less of a diversion from my typical history regiment.
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years.

In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. He clarifies why our civilizations grew up oblivious to each other, what happened when they intersected, and how the Islamic world was affected by its slow recognition that Europe—a place it long perceived as primitive and disorganized—had somehow hijacked destiny.
If I like it I'm going to peel off from European history for a while and dig more into Middle Eastern. We'll see how it goes.

In b4 "Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me"

Last edited by Macbeth (2011-11-20 18:07:07)

globefish23
sophisticated slacker
+334|6545|Graz, Austria
I'm reading Jasper Fforde's 'Thursday Next' novels at the moment.
Very good sci-fi-ish, alternate reality stuff, that still isn't completely out of touch, slapping you around with space craft, lasers and aliens.

I randomly picked one at the book store and grabbed the first in the series, before I even knew that it was a series.
Jenspm
penis
+1,716|6953|St. Andrews / Oslo

Macbeth wrote:

I ordered this today among a few others
Sweet cover.

Macbeth wrote:

I was also going to try Orientalism by Said
'tis on my to-read list.. Too much work to do nowadays to read anything though.. *sigh*
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Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6692
lol second year undergrad too much work to read anything else

said's orientalism is great. i'm not much of a fan of poco theory though. has taken over humanities departments all over the western world and steered pretty much all academic discourse in its direction. the new feminism, tbh.
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
Macbeth
Banned
+2,444|5807

Broom of the system is no infinite jest.

I am a bit over 50 pages in and it hasn't trapped me yet. IJ trapped me in the first section/date/year of the book.

I feel a bit letdown.
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6692
read pale king like i told you to. broom of the system is his awkward first novel. he wrote it whilst an undergrad ffs.
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
Macbeth
Banned
+2,444|5807

I don't want to read the Pale King since it's unfinished. From what I have read of DFW, IJ and Broom, I understand that a lot of his stuff is about the 'journey' rather than the story itself. Despite that I won't be able to get into PK if I know that much of it isn't going anywhere or be explained/resolved. After I finish my other reading I'm going to pick up Conversation with Hideous men. I have a big to read pile right now so that could take awhile...
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IJ is in there for size reference

I knew Gravity's Rainbow was going to be a big one and I was planning on getting through Parallel Lives after exams next week. I bought God's war and thirty years war after seeing them in Harvard press's European history section and ordered it through BnN without looking at the page count. I try to do at least 75 pages a day (which isn't much I know) and usually have a cut off at 500ish depending on the subject. I've done books larger than them obviously but just seeing so many big ones stacked like that is a bit intimidating. I guess I will be able to claim to be an expert on 17th century Germany and the Crusdes afterward.

Why am I the only posting one still posting in this thread? I feel like I'm writing soliloquies.

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