Reading Material?
- Otohiko
- Joined: Mon May 05, 2003 8:32 pm
Bah, House of Leaves is gonna have to slip down a couple of weeks again; there's three books that I currently need to catch up on.
Our very own religion thread made me reach for "Views from the Real World" (early talks of Gurdjieff) and Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra", both of which I'd like to re-read in light of things I've been thinking about lately.
Then there's the massive and well-illustrated tome of "United States Submarine Operations in World War II" by Roscoe, a subject in which I need a crash course due to the imminent release of Silent Hunter IV
Our very own religion thread made me reach for "Views from the Real World" (early talks of Gurdjieff) and Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra", both of which I'd like to re-read in light of things I've been thinking about lately.
Then there's the massive and well-illustrated tome of "United States Submarine Operations in World War II" by Roscoe, a subject in which I need a crash course due to the imminent release of Silent Hunter IV
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…
- starcat09
- Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003 9:22 am
Popping in to mention an interesting site: http://www.shelfari.com. It's a site where you can make your own virtual bookshelf of books you have, or the ones you want. It seems to run partly on Amazon.com, and it includes manga. The tagging system makes it easy to sort through your books, too. You can leave opinions on books, ask questions, or just rate books.
- Flint the Dwarf
- Joined: Wed Jan 16, 2002 6:58 pm
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Bah, I've been meaning to read that one for years and only recently remembered it because it made an appearance in Little Miss Sunshine. I really need to get to the library, but I'm always so tired.Otohiko wrote:Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra"
Kusoyaro: We don't need a leader. We need to SHUT UP. Make what you want to make, don't make you what you don't want to make. If neither of those applies to you, then you need to SHUT UP MORE.
- Otohiko
- Joined: Mon May 05, 2003 8:32 pm
I'm reading through it and I'm pretty surprised not so much by how it echoes some of the thoughts I've been having, but by the fact that Nietzsche uses a lot of the same terminology.
Perhaps not that surprising, though, since despite not having been a keen Nietzsche reader before, I've been raised in a family where both parents highly respect his work (my father is one of the rare people who actually espouses the correct view of Nietzsche as a poet rather than philosopher per se, which I think is often forgotten in the many distortions of his work).
Perhaps not that surprising, though, since despite not having been a keen Nietzsche reader before, I've been raised in a family where both parents highly respect his work (my father is one of the rare people who actually espouses the correct view of Nietzsche as a poet rather than philosopher per se, which I think is often forgotten in the many distortions of his work).
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…
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- Otohiko
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Mein Kampf should be easily available at any library.
For the record, though fascinating as an account of a personality, Mein Kampf is actually a pretty crappy (as in badly-written) book. Hitler was a great speaker but as a writer, he pretty much sucked.
For the record, though fascinating as an account of a personality, Mein Kampf is actually a pretty crappy (as in badly-written) book. Hitler was a great speaker but as a writer, he pretty much sucked.
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