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What y'all reading?

  1. 2019-03-10 at 12:14 AM UTC
    #21
    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    Okay, On Topic:

    I am an habitual / pathological multitasker, so I have a lot of books I'm currently reading...

    One is "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Chemistry". It's pretty much just for review, because it's been a few years since I took any chemistry classes, but I wanna brush up.

    I'm also itching to read "Gödel, Escher, Bach", but it's long and I have a short attention span so I keep putting it off, but it's at the top of my books-to-read stack.

    The last book I read any significantly long sequences from without reaching maximum ADD mode and putting it down was Heidegger's "Being and Time". Damn that book is a trip. Pretty fucking dense, though. Not exactly light reading.

    Admittedly, it was mostly for a class, but I read a bit past the required reading sections because it's some heavy shit.
  2. 2019-03-10 at 12:31 AM UTC
    #22
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    I'm reading Huxley's Doors of Perception. It's better than I was expecting.

    Originally posted by gadzooks Okay, On Topic:

    I am an habitual / pathological multitasker, so I have a lot of books I'm currently reading…

    One is "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Chemistry". It's pretty much just for review, because it's been a few years since I took any chemistry classes, but I wanna brush up.

    I'm also itching to read "Gödel, Escher, Bach", but it's long and I have a short attention span so I keep putting it off, but it's at the top of my books-to-read stack.

    The last book I read any significantly long sequences from without reaching maximum ADD mode and putting it down was Heidegger's "Being and Time". Damn that book is a trip. Pretty fucking dense, though. Not exactly light reading.

    Admittedly, it was mostly for a class, but I read a bit past the required reading sections because it's some heavy shit.

    I've been "reading" GEB for years lol. It's not as super mega dense and technical as people make it out to be, there are sections that are just comedy and aside from a couple pages of proofs here and there it's not like you need to grind through. But it's not a book you want to read in 10-30 minute chunks on the bus which is how I get most my reading done, so the only time I pick it up is when I go on vacation or something.
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  3. 2019-03-10 at 1:48 AM UTC
    #23
    SHARK Houston
    Of course Gaydzooks would reference Cuxley.
  4. 2019-03-10 at 1:59 AM UTC
    #24
    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    The Dome - Stephen King
  5. 2019-03-10 at 2:13 AM UTC
    #25
    Ajax African Astronaut [rumor the placative aphakia]
    Originally posted by -SpectraL The Dome - Stephen King

    I assume you mean Under The Dome. If so, it’s not bad. It’s worth slugging through the 1,000+ pages if I recall correctly. Also, per usual, the book is better than the mini show series that was adapted.
  6. 2019-03-10 at 2:28 AM UTC
    #26
    Octavian motherfucker
    Originally posted by Ajax I assume you mean Under The Dome. If so, it’s not bad. It’s worth slugging through the 1,000+ pages if I recall correctly. Also, per usual, the book is better than the mini show series that was adapted.

    Yeah the series didn't really pull me in per se.

  7. 2019-03-10 at 2:35 AM UTC
    #27
    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    Originally posted by SHARK Of course Gaydzooks would reference Cuxley.

    That was Lanny, tard.

    But Huxley is some good readin'.

    Maybe you should open your doors of perception rather than opening your anus to any long-donged stranger with a five dollar bill.
  8. 2019-03-10 at 2:36 AM UTC
    #28
    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    If you want to read a really amazing book, read The Talisman by Peter Straub and Stephen King. An extraordinary page-turner. It's linked in with The Dark Tower as well. The followup to The Talisman is Black House, also by Peter Straub and Stephen King, and it, too, is a hell of a page-turner.
  9. 2019-03-10 at 2:38 AM UTC
    #29
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    You've been plugging that piece of mediocre teen fiction for years spectral, give it a rest, it's really not very good.
  10. 2019-03-10 at 2:38 AM UTC
    #30
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Except the pedo-rape parts
  11. 2019-03-10 at 2:59 AM UTC
    #31
    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    Originally posted by Lanny You've been plugging that piece of mediocre teen fiction for years spectral, give it a rest, it's really not very good.

    Have you read The Talisman and/or Black House?
  12. 2019-03-10 at 3:57 AM UTC
    #32
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by -SpectraL Have you read The Talisman and/or Black House?

    I have, which is why I feel justified in calling it mediocre.
  13. 2019-03-10 at 4:26 AM UTC
    #33
    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    Originally posted by Lanny I have, which is why I feel justified in calling it mediocre.

    Ok, well, you're an egghead, so that's most probably why you didn't enjoy it.
  14. 2019-03-10 at 5:19 AM UTC
    #34
    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    Originally posted by Nil Beyond Freedom and Dignity - B.F. Skinner

    Man this one kinda slipped under my radar somehow...

    I know a lot about Skinner's work (being a psych major, it was par for the course), but I've never actually read any of his primary sources.

    How far into it are you?

    Does he talk about the Skinner Box? Or about Walden Two or any of that?
  15. 2019-03-10 at 7:03 AM UTC
    #35
    SHARK Houston
    Originally posted by gadzooks Man this one kinda slipped under my radar somehow…

    I know a lot about Skinner's work (being a psych major, it was par for the course), but I've never actually read any of his primary sources.

    How far into it are you?

    Does he talk about the Skinner Box? Or about Walden Two or any of that?

    Faggot
  16. 2019-03-10 at 7:10 AM UTC
    #36
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by -SpectraL Ok, well, you're an egghead, so that's most probably why you didn't enjoy it.

    The reason I didn't enjoy it is because the writing was subpar. King should stick to horror in modern settings, as soon as he tries to write fantasy it gets cringey. I actually enjoyed the first couple of dark tower books, but the man can't write an action sequence that doesn't come off like an angsty 15 year old wrote it to save his life.
  17. 2019-03-10 at 9:13 AM UTC
    #37
    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    Originally posted by SHARK Faggot

    Do you use behavior modification to train your faggot army to suck your dick every morning?

    Do you use fixed positive reinforcement or variable positive reinforcement?

    You probably suck their dicks to try to train them but it doesn't work and you just end up with a jizz stained mouth hole every day.

    "Dear diary, day 56 of my experiments in forced faggotry once again leave me cum soaked and slaveless. Will continue trying until publishable results are achieved."
  18. 2019-03-10 at 9:18 AM UTC
    #38
    F0N Yung Blood
    The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus like the angsty teen I was a decade ago and, apparently, still am. Oddly I didn't need existentialism/absurdism then, but it certainly is some sort of shield from suicide.
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  19. 2019-03-10 at 9:23 AM UTC
    #39
    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    Originally posted by F0N The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus like the angsty teen I was a decade ago and, apparently, still am. Oddly I didn't need existentialism/absurdism then, but it certainly is some sort of shield from suicide.

    I remember reading parts of that back in like '07 when I went through an Existentialism phase. I mean, don't get me wrong, there are a lot of valid ideas worth considering that grew out of the whole so-called Existentialist movement.

    I had a friend back then who was a devout Absurdist, it was awesome.

    The Sisyphean condundrum is absolutely central to the human condition. Camus himself boldly stated that "the only important philosophical question is suicide."

    Sartre was a tad off his rocker, though.

    And Heidegger too, but I kinda like Heidegger. Sure, he was a full-fledged member of the Nazi party, but he literally rewrote Western philosophy like Aristotle, Descartes, and Hegel were mere charlatans.
  20. 2019-03-10 at 11:35 AM UTC
    #40
    Octavian motherfucker
    I read "The s-t-r-a-n-g-e-r" by Camus years ago but didn't find it as good as I thought it would be.
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