YoungMasterGold
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Ayn Rand's Philosophy: Who Needs It.
So far, I'm reminded of why I dislike Rand's way of doing philosophy; her absurd American jingoism, and that, to quote - IIRC, Robert Solomon - Nietzsche said it better.
Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas.
It's a bit slow moving, but I'm sure it'll pick up. His writing style is quite fluid, so it's been okay but pleasurable so far.
Unfortunately, I keep finding myself busy with other things, so it might take a while to finish Rand's book.
So far, I'm reminded of why I dislike Rand's way of doing philosophy; her absurd American jingoism, and that, to quote - IIRC, Robert Solomon - Nietzsche said it better.
Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas.
It's a bit slow moving, but I'm sure it'll pick up. His writing style is quite fluid, so it's been okay but pleasurable so far.
Unfortunately, I keep finding myself busy with other things, so it might take a while to finish Rand's book.
YoungMasterGold
Rookie
Just got done reading Murakami's IQ84.
How was it? I've been thinking of picking it up for a while.
YoungMasterGold
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i need some new philosophical science-fiction piff on the level of Dune
even a dope fantasy/wizard style book would be nice right now
Rothfuss better hurry his ass up with that 3rd KingKiller chronicle
Read Flowers for Algernon, if you haven't already. It's not Dune-esque, but it's a relatively quick sci-fi with intelligence. Almost anything by Philip K. dikk, too. I'm a massive fan, so I supposed I'm biased towards him, but I've enjoyed even his "weak" stuff. He gets the brain working. I'll say Neil Gaiman's American Gods, too. That's more fantasy, though.
Its split between 2 main characters, which I hate. You inherently will be more attached to one over the other and I tend to lose interest in the second characters storyline. That being said, the woman lead's story is much better than the male lead's. His doesn't get good until like 500 pages in honestly (its a 1000 page book) once the stories start to meld together and the second woman takes precedent in his story. Its not scifi but there is a parallel world that the book centers around. All in all, it was a good read but you have to power through a few hundred pages to get to it. Similar to Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I wouldn't recommend it unless you have alot of time on your hands. Payoff is moderate.
T-K-G
Veteran
Hmm. I'm not reading anything myself right now. How do you feel about urban contemporary fantasy?I loooooove Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series (werewolves). I read every book within a day or two.
http://www.patriciabriggs.com/books/
Karen Chance (vampires, witches & warlocks)
(book one)
http://www.karenchance.com/books.html
My brother read those as well and liked them so... let me know if they're too "girly".
I'll come back when I think of something else.
i'll peruse through these and see if any of em stick with me, good looks on always coming through with a suggestion tho
lemme correct myself, i should NOT have said somethine like Dune cuz i honestly dont think any other sci-fi series is coming close to that
I've read a got bit of Neil Gaiman as well
he's pretty dope but im not sure about american gods, just going off of the summary idk i have very specific taste in books
in the sci-fi realm(barring Dune of course) i'd read something like Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson or even Fire Starter by Steven King
in fantasy i LOVE shyt like Patrick Rothfuss's KingKiller chronicle series(recommend that to anyone who fukks with magic in any kind of way, shyt is Harry Potter-level god status wizardy
pure piff) or The Left Hand of God trilogy by Paul Hoffman and the His Dark Materials trilogy (the golden compass, etc.) by Phillip Pullmanim basically an adventure junkie
T-K-G
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but they definitely came with quality shyt
T-K-G
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Perks of Being a Wallflower and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Been reading 'dancing in the glory of monsters'
It's about Africa's so called Great War between so many countries in Eastern Africa.
Great book if you want to know about what's happening in the Congo right now and how it all started.
It's about Africa's so called Great War between so many countries in Eastern Africa.
Great book if you want to know about what's happening in the Congo right now and how it all started.
Roberto Dinero
Dropped from #TnT
This is a hustler's scroll. It is definitely NOT for square dudes.
I wouldn't mind reading this guy's book. I friended him on Facebook!
His youtube interviews are hilarious.I don't read much but I'm trying to get into it. I read Prodigy's book a couple of months ago. I've also read the bible recently. Front to back the whole thing. This is my 1st post in this thread.
Right now I'm reading Joe Glenton's book "Soldier Box". Joe Glenton is a British soldier that refused to return to Afghanistan after his first tour and was imprisoned. He did 5 months and the government ended up releasing him.
Next I got this book on the history of opium. Should be interesting.