What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (5 Viewers)

[Lili Marlene]

Like an advert for facebook. Dreadful.

 

[rettucs]

finished this. Its grand and all but jaysus it goes on a bit.
Found this my kindle so reading it now;

about one-third through it and generally its very good (if a tad tedious at times)

yeah, so stay away from this. Its all over the shop. I'm struggling to stay interested.

 

[Lili Marlene]

On reading and why we do it- Love, Loot, and Lit - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

@Jim Daniels I think you might like this

 

[the_jen]

yeah, so stay away from this. Its all over the shop. I'm struggling to stay interested.

Right? "..five page lecture about house cats.." said Richard.

 

[Jim Daniels]

On reading and why we do it- Love, Loot, and Lit - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

@Jim Daniels I think you might like this

Wow, that's a great piece of writing. I'm going to have to take the time to read it more closely. I was always interested in that topic - whether there is a peculiar difference between reading something for pleasure and/or for academic purposes, and where the lines become blurred. Cheers John.

 

[Lili Marlene]

edit: deleting cos i'm sick of complaining in here

 

[nooleen]

i'm sick of complaining in here

moan moan moan

 

[jonah]

back on this and enjoying it more this time even though its kind of hard going. still one of my absolute favourite authors though.

 

[Lili Marlene]

moan moan moan

"informative"

 

[Jim Daniels]

The NRYB classic editions are beautiful looking. Pretty much want them all.... judging them by their covers

The NYRB Winter Sale | New York Review Books

 

[Lili Marlene]

The NRYB classic editions are beautiful looking. Pretty much want them all.... judging them by their covers

The NYRB Winter Sale | New York Review Books

I have read, and heard, of zero of them

well except maybe SInbad

 

[St. Fechin]

I have read, and heard, of zero of them

well except maybe SInbad

LOL

 

[Lili Marlene]

Not LOL.

 

[St. Fechin]

Classic Lili Marlene

 

[Lili Marlene]

Lack of classics Lili Marlene : (

 

[Jim Daniels]

I have read, and heard, of zero of them well except maybe SInbad

Ha! Same here. They look like classics though!

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I think I read The Glass Bees, but I can't be sure

 

[hydromancer]

Albert Hofmann mentions Ernst Jünger in his book
LSD, My Problem Child · Radiance from Ernst Junger

"Moreover, I seem to perceive in our time less of a taste for the phantastica than for the energetica—amphetamine, which has even been furnished to fliers and other soldiers by the armies, belongs to this group. Tea is in my opinion a phantasticum, coffee an energeticum—tea therefore possesses a disproportionately higher artistic rank. I notice that coffee disrupts the delicate lattice of light and shadows, the fruitful doubts that emerge during the writing of a sentence. One exceeds his inhibitions. With tea, on the other hand, the thoughts climb genuinely upward."

 

[ann post]

This edition of this. Her writing style is really easy and research is fascinating.

I'm never eating again though.

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/...620/Not on the Label by Felicity Lawrence.jpg

 

[Jim Daniels]

This edition of this. Her writing style is really easy and research is fascinating.

I'm never eating again though.

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article8985307.ece/alternates/w620/Not on the Label by Felicity Lawrence.jpg

I've meant to read this for a while. It's amazing our capacity to block out/ ignore the reality of how the food we eat is produced.