Read, read, read!!!! education, imagination, humour

Does exactly what it says on the tin. Some of the nonsense contained herein may be very loosely related to The Sisters of Mercy, but I wouldn't bet your PayPal account on it. In keeping with the internet's general theme nothing written here should be taken as Gospel: over three quarters of it is utter gibberish, and most of the forum's denizens haven't spoken to another human being face-to-face for decades. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Above all else, remember this: You don't have to stay forever. I will understand.
Bartek
Underneath the Rock
Posts: 6086
Joined: 17 Sep 2005, 10:47

not-long time ago I finished two books about latest most important event of my home town, which was a calling it a stronghold (Festing) and defending it, commonly known as battle over Festin Breslau. Now I'm reading book about my a part of Wroclaw where I grow up, and what was in 90% destroyed as a result of said battle over Festun Breslau.
User avatar
Kutan
Gonzoid Amphetamine Filth
Posts: 309
Joined: 22 Jan 2007, 15:27

Not only is Stuart's stuff generally quite good, but The Light Beneath the Waves is especially fine. Highly recommended!

Currently reading "THE COLLECTED JORKENS Vol. 2" by Lord Dunsany. Cost me a fortune, but it's worth it.
Bartek
Underneath the Rock
Posts: 6086
Joined: 17 Sep 2005, 10:47

Misha Glenny: DarkMarket. Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You.
User avatar
Alex66
Gonzoid Amphetamine Filth
Posts: 271
Joined: 25 Mar 2015, 09:06
Location: Ne Where Every Where
Contact:

At the moment I am slowly going through 100 Artists Manifestos, The various Dada-ist ones are great.
The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph. - Walter Benjamin
Driver powered by Cigarettes, Caffeine and Vitriol
User avatar
markfiend
goriller of form 3b
Posts: 21181
Joined: 11 Nov 2003, 10:55
Location: st custards
Contact:

Kutan wrote:Not only is Stuart's stuff generally quite good, but The Light Beneath the Waves is especially fine. Highly recommended!
Indeed!
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
Bartek
Underneath the Rock
Posts: 6086
Joined: 17 Sep 2005, 10:47

Couple books about meine Stadt and Brave New World by A. Huxley.
User avatar
sultan2075
Overbomber
Posts: 2305
Joined: 04 Mar 2005, 19:17
Location: Washington, D. C.
Contact:

Currently reading I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe.

I don't read much fiction, so it's been a pleasure. I've already come across a few passages that will probably end up in my classes.
--
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
Bartek
Underneath the Rock
Posts: 6086
Joined: 17 Sep 2005, 10:47

ended few days ago: Charles Chaplin: My Autobiography.
Now: J. Joll, G. Martel: The Orgins of the First World War.
(And few more in-beetween, as I'm reading two books).
User avatar
Big Si
School Bully
Posts: 6741
Joined: 19 Nov 2002, 00:00
Location: Glesga Central

The further adventures of 'Juice' Terry.... :D

Image
Wyrd bið ful aræd...

mybelgiannemesis
User avatar
million voices
Slight Overbomber
Posts: 1005
Joined: 10 May 2006, 22:31
Location: The Ballrooms Of Mars

I recently JG Ballard - Cocaine Nights which I enjoyed immensely.
I don't know if he got the title from the line from "Dandy In The Underworld" but one likes to thinks so

I had tried "Crash" several months ago but couldn't get past the first few pages.
Well you must know something
'Cos we're dying of admiration here
Mastering obscure alternatives
Bartek
Underneath the Rock
Posts: 6086
Joined: 17 Sep 2005, 10:47

I love Ballard, Unlimited Dream Company, Millenium People, Crash, Kingdome Come.
Recently I ended reading Marcus Aurelius: Meditation, now on the list is Pierre Hadot: Inner Citadel, and few books by Peter F. Drucker.
User avatar
laperouse
11 Imaginary Boys
Posts: 20
Joined: 26 Mar 2013, 13:41
Location: Bern, Switzerland

Recently bought and took in one breath "William Bolts.
A Dutch Adventurer under John Company", by N. L. Hallward, brand new reprint from Cambridge 1920 issue.
paint it black
Black, black, black & even blacker
Posts: 4949
Joined: 11 Jul 2002, 01:00

The last ever TP book :(
Goths have feelings too
User avatar
iesus
Overbomber
Posts: 4433
Joined: 15 Mar 2006, 11:15
Location: x-EU

Philip Kerr - Berlin Noir
Finished March Violets, near half The Pale Criminal and will end with the "A german requiem"
'Are we the Baddies?'...
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
Bartek
Underneath the Rock
Posts: 6086
Joined: 17 Sep 2005, 10:47

Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Last edited by Bartek on 07 Sep 2015, 23:00, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar
iesus
Overbomber
Posts: 4433
Joined: 15 Mar 2006, 11:15
Location: x-EU

you mean Gibbon :) right ?
'Are we the Baddies?'...
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
Bartek
Underneath the Rock
Posts: 6086
Joined: 17 Sep 2005, 10:47

iesus wrote:you mean Gibbon :) right ?
Yes, that's what I wrote. :wink:
User avatar
million voices
Slight Overbomber
Posts: 1005
Joined: 10 May 2006, 22:31
Location: The Ballrooms Of Mars

Oh, I thought you said Gibbon
Well you must know something
'Cos we're dying of admiration here
Mastering obscure alternatives
Bartek
Underneath the Rock
Posts: 6086
Joined: 17 Sep 2005, 10:47

Among few others:

Ben Collins - How to drive.
I must say that is well written book and it gives lot of useful information.
User avatar
sultan2075
Overbomber
Posts: 2305
Joined: 04 Mar 2005, 19:17
Location: Washington, D. C.
Contact:

Been reading Descartes' Discourse on Method and Meditations, since I decided to teach them this term. Haven't read either in ages.
--
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
User avatar
lazarus corporation
Lord Protector
Posts: 3426
Joined: 09 May 2004, 17:42
Location: out there on a darkened road
Contact:

"Marshland: Dreams and Nightmares on the Edge of London" by Gareth E Rees
User avatar
Alex66
Gonzoid Amphetamine Filth
Posts: 271
Joined: 25 Mar 2015, 09:06
Location: Ne Where Every Where
Contact:

Just finished Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained by susie Hodge, thoroughly enjoyed it even if it was a bit light on art theory. I get wound up with people saying oh there is no skill there etc so thought it would be interesting.
Currently reading a translation of Baudelaire's The Flowers Of Evil and a collection of Poems by Walt Whitman.
The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph. - Walter Benjamin
Driver powered by Cigarettes, Caffeine and Vitriol
Bartek
Underneath the Rock
Posts: 6086
Joined: 17 Sep 2005, 10:47

Chapters of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot)
Intersting taking fact that in Judaism as in Protestantism (all creeds) "holy" books are interpreted more freely by "supporters", more to be use in current Times, everyday, than in Catholicism. Yet, at some level SAMO as in every reigion.
User avatar
eastmidswhizzkid
Faster Than The Light Of Speed
Posts: 9743
Joined: 24 Mar 2005, 00:01
Location: WhizzWorld
Contact:

Image
quality observational humour and youth culture (well, our age culture now i suppose) insight as always; bit slow moving but £2 from the bargain bookshop.
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"

:bat:
Post Reply