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Posted by micron on 08-15-2003 11:49 PM:

what are you reading right now?

during blackout yesterday, i picked up catcher in the rye again. never finished it the first time around for reasons unknown. holden is phony himself, nice poststructural touch to it.


Posted by tm11 on 08-16-2003 12:05 AM:

I'm reading a book called Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity, I read another book by the author and really liked it, I think it had a profound effect on me and the way I think now, this other book's a lot like that.

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Posted by JuJu on 08-16-2003 06:27 AM:

elephants can remember by agatha christie

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Posted by kiggaplease on 08-16-2003 11:36 AM:

INTARNET FOR DUMMEES


Posted by AzNmAgE on 08-17-2003 05:47 AM:

i have been reading the Dragonlance saga (main one), which is about 8-10 books.........i have read 4 in july..and i hope to finish this month ^^

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Posted by kRypTic_nABi on 08-17-2003 06:05 AM:

i'm still reading great expectations..i'm almost done with it. i'd read..if only it didn't make me feel sleepy after the first couple of chapters.


Posted by J-DraGoNz on 08-17-2003 07:48 AM:

The Peoples History

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Posted by Alchemist on 09-10-2003 10:36 PM:

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency


Posted by aaqthree on 04-09-2005 07:15 AM:

Re: what are you reading right now?

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Originally posted by jusunlee
during blackout yesterday, i picked up catcher in the rye again. never finished it the first time around for reasons unknown. holden is phony himself, nice poststructural touch to it.


Dude Holden wasn't phony. Yeah he had his moments of "phoniness" but that wasn't the same as the commentary on the society itself. He actually believed in his ideals. The problem was that he was too idealistic, and those ideals are just not possible in reality.

Like some people I know. Or rather, some people I used to debate idealism/cynicism with.

(too bad jusun will probably never read this. to anyone wondering what i'm talking about, jusun went to the same high school as me for his senior year, we had many a debate on that topic. juse never won.)


Posted by Alchemist on 04-10-2005 06:48 PM:

Re: Re: what are you reading right now?

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Originally posted by aaqthree
Dude Holden wasn't phony. Yeah he had his moments of "phoniness" but that wasn't the same as the commentary on the society itself. He actually believed in his ideals. The problem was that he was too idealistic, and those ideals are just not possible in reality.

Like some people I know. Or rather, some people I used to debate idealism/cynicism with.

(too bad jusun will probably never read this. to anyone wondering what i'm talking about, jusun went to the same high school as me for his senior year, we had many a debate on that topic. juse never won.)



How the hell do you not win a debate? Everyone wins debates, or at least you never lose. It's like playing tick tac toe, you don't lose, it's unacceptable.


Posted by aaqthree on 04-11-2005 02:21 AM:

You lose if you get owned.


Posted by Alchemist on 04-11-2005 04:42 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by aaqthree
You lose if you get owned.


That's not supposed to happen.


Posted by aaqthree on 04-11-2005 03:41 PM:

We are talking about juse here.

Though I should, for the sake of honesty, point out that, at times, the odds were stacked against him. He was arguing against me and ricky, sometimes, and it's pretty damn hard to refute us both.

He wasn't too great in one-on-ones either, though.

Silly idealist. Impossibile conceptions of reality are for kids!


Posted by Alchemist on 04-11-2005 05:10 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by aaqthree

Silly idealist. Impossibile conceptions of reality are for kids!



Oh man you totally gotta do the evil clap before saying this.

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Posted by kRypTic_nABi on 08-10-2005 07:15 AM:

Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis.


Posted by MellowYellow on 07-27-2006 10:45 PM:

The Picture of Dorian Gray.

I've been trying to read it since Christmas break. lol.

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Posted by tea on 07-29-2006 06:50 PM:

i am reading the gayest thread ever

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Posted by MellowYellow on 08-15-2006 08:25 PM:

quote:
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i am reading the gayest thread ever


You only think that because you don't read books... cretin.

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Posted by tea on 08-17-2006 07:22 AM:

wrong! playboy is a picture book. softcover

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Posted by PsychoSnowman on 08-18-2006 08:09 AM:

Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene.

At first i found it too elementary and cringed at greene's tendency to make everything tangible by mentioning the reader far too often, but now he has subsided and the ideas more interesting, concepts more tangible, and the way he writes is eloquent and witty. It also is great because he possesses a great deal of self-conviction and does not ride the idealism train. He continually points out shortcomings. It is a good read, i am about 3/4 through it now, i shoudl finish it by school starting.

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