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Kmar wrote:

Question. Do you guys, or maybe I should say can you guys, listen to music when you read?
I guess it really depends on the book for me.

Most of the time, especially when its a difficult book, i can only read when its completely quiet. Now im talking about 100% soundless. Of course you can never achieve this so music is a better alternative to the background noise of the outside world.
Especially conversations get me completely out of my read. I will slowly start to listen to the people talking more and more than paying attention to the book.
Music serves as soundproofing and a great, relaxed atmosphere while reading (always with IEMs or headphones, never ever on speakers it just doesnt work with them)

Last edited by Kampframmer (2012-01-06 12:49:56)

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

I picked up Orientalism again last night. It started with me trying to refresh my memory on something, then I just decided to re-read the whole thing. It's an interesting perspective

Uzique wrote:

probably one of the most influential areas of academic discourse nowadays... from marxism to feminism to postcolonialism, social academia is having a field-day. i liked orientalism when i read it. said is a very astute critic of joseph conrad. he's also pretty easygoing to read, which is rare in these criticism/theory tomes.

Have had this on my to-read list for quite a while now, but I wasn't aware that it was a direct critique of Conrad.. (or are you just referring to Said in general?)

If it is - how much of the book is 'on' Conrad? Would I have to read Conrad (Heart of Darkness, I assume?) for it to be worth while?

Kmar wrote:

Kmar @ Goodreads

If you liked "The Sociopath Next Door" try finding yourself a copy of "The Mask of Sanity". IIRC it was the first thorough analysis of sociopathy. It's a very interesting read and does a good job of shattering some of those notions of sociopathy our media has drilled into us. If you don't care for reading 200+ pages of complex psychological analysis it does provided a bunch of very interesting stories of people who were confirmed sociopaths. You might enjoy the 200 pages of sociopath short stories. According to good reads the whole SND book is only a bit over 250 so yeah. Much more in-dept book 'the mask of sanity'.


A quick google search finds two editions from BnN.

If that is a bit too expensive for you there is a PDF of an earlier edition.





Don't ask me why I was checking your good reads account

Last edited by Macbeth (2012-01-13 20:29:02)

Macbeth wrote:

Kmar wrote:

Kmar @ Goodreads

If you liked "The Sociopath Next Door" try finding yourself a copy of "The Mask of Sanity". IIRC it was the first thorough analysis of sociopathy. It's a very interesting read and does a good job of shattering some of those notions of sociopathy our media has drilled into us. If you don't care for reading 200+ pages of complex psychological analysis it does provided a bunch of very interesting stories of people who were confirmed sociopaths. You might enjoy the 200 pages of sociopath short stories. According to good reads the whole SND book is only a bit over 250 so yeah. Much more in-dept book 'the mask of sanity'.


A quick google search finds two editions from BnN.

If that is a bit too expensive for you there is a PDF of an earlier edition.


Don't ask me why I was checking your good reads account

I added it to my "to reads". I haven't had a chance to pick it up yet. I'll check out what you posted as well.

Finished 'A farewell to arms' by Hemingway.
It seems to become a real trend for me every time i buy a book to buy a Hemingway as well.

I know his work tends to have grim endings, but I just couldn't see it happening with this one (even though I knew it would have one), and even then he managed to flip all the good times upside down in the last 10 pages or so.
An easy and entertaining read, although the ending might not be too suited for the hopeless romantics among us.

Kampframmer wrote:

To fill the time till my next visit to the book store I am going to be reading 'The turn of the screw' by Henry James.
I have no idea what to expect. never read anything from or about henry James, but It's only 100 pages and appareantly a popular classic.

Has anyone read it?

Me.

It's a ghost story which is a commentary on the nature of literary criticism. At least that's how the prof pitched it.

hipster author

No I took it on holiday and let my mate read it for a bit while I read his book (stephen fry autobiography) but then he just kinda didn't give it back.

I bought James Joyce's  Dubliners.
I managed to resist the urge of buying another Hemingway.

Starting this book/series now.