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Post by Raz V5.0 on Nov 7, 2004 12:54:54 GMT -5
I'm working my way through the new Warcraft Novel.
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Post by The Giant-Size Man Thing on Nov 7, 2004 13:26:05 GMT -5
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells. It's due tomorrow and I haven't started it.
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Post by Triyun on Nov 7, 2004 14:05:57 GMT -5
Clashes of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order.
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Post by Craze on Nov 7, 2004 14:51:03 GMT -5
Still trudging merrily through House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
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Post by NeoEllis on Nov 8, 2004 17:15:35 GMT -5
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post by DarkAries on Nov 8, 2004 20:15:55 GMT -5
Shogun Vol. 2, by James Clavell.
Japanese people make so much sense now...
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Post by Meyo-san on Nov 10, 2004 9:36:45 GMT -5
Musashi, a historical fiction novel that spawned a manga series, and a film trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune. And in my opinion, the best look into 17th century Japanese society, as it has historical characters without any changed names (Oh, come on, in the novel Shogun, "Lord Toranaga" is a thinly disguised Ieyasu Tokugawa)
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Post by Craze on Nov 10, 2004 17:19:37 GMT -5
Oh man:
The Butter Battle Book and The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.
Two of my favorite books as a kid, it feels so weird that I still enjoy them.
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Post by DarkAries on Nov 10, 2004 18:54:25 GMT -5
Musashi, a historical fiction novel that spawned a manga series, and a film trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune. And in my opinion, the best look into 17th century Japanese society, as it has historical characters without any changed names (Oh, come on, in the novel Shogun, "Lord Toranaga" is a thinly disguised Ieyasu Tokugawa) Well, yeah. Aries means... duh...Clavell changed the names in order to keep the reader in suspense. How does Aries know? Well, those of us who have a clue about Japanese history know who he is, and that the Anjin-san actually existed around the time of Sekigahara, but if you give that book to a layperson, they wouldn't be able to just look Tokugawa's name up and see 'Oh, he won at Sekigahara anyway! I know the ending now, I guess I really don't have to read the rest of this book...' He's allowed to do that, dammit. It's a damn fine book.
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Post by Fireball on Nov 10, 2004 20:25:42 GMT -5
I'm reading:
Bram Stoker's Dracula
and
Louise de la Valliere by Alexander Dumas-pere
also rereading
America the Book, by the Daily Show Crew.
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Post by Cygnus X-1 on Nov 11, 2004 17:27:44 GMT -5
Musashi was good. Not my cup of tea, though. I'm a slave to European literature.
Anyway:
notes from the Underground, Dostoevsky. This has to be the most cynical, nihilist, anger-filled novel that I have ever read.
The Russian Revolution, Alan Moorhead. This is my absoulte all-time favorite non-fiction book. I read it when I was twelve, but I'm sure a lot of it went of my head then.
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Post by DarkAries on Nov 11, 2004 18:03:47 GMT -5
Notes from the Underground, Dostoevsky. This has to be the most cynical, nihilist, anger-filled novel that I have ever read. ...Somebody needs to show up on your doorstep with a bottle of champagne and a plate of cookies, girl. You're starting to scare Aries.
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Post by Cygnus X-1 on Nov 11, 2004 19:27:38 GMT -5
I think that would do the trick. I'm a happy drunk.
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Post by Rose on Nov 12, 2004 0:25:27 GMT -5
Does the latest OPM count? >>;
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Post by Meyo-san on Nov 12, 2004 18:07:12 GMT -5
Well, yeah. Aries means... duh...Clavell changed the names in order to keep the reader in suspense. How does Aries know? Well, those of us who have a clue about Japanese history know who he is, and that the Anjin-san actually existed around the time of Sekigahara, but if you give that book to a layperson, they wouldn't be able to just look Tokugawa's name up and see 'Oh, he won at Sekigahara anyway! I know the ending now, I guess I really don't have to read the rest of this book...' He's allowed to do that, dammit. It's a damn fine book. You know that the same could happen with Musashi, and his duel with Kojiro Sasaki, and how Musashi lost no battles? I wasn't attacking his novel, I was attacking your thinking that it showed how the Japanese thought. Anyway, reading Taiko, same author as Musashi, this time set in the time of the Warring States, and the time of Nobunaga.
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