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philosophe

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Kafka, The Trial
Andre Aciman, Call Me By Your Name
 

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The elephant in the Greek and Roman World by H H Scullard
 

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Just finished Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. An enlightening read to say the least.
 

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Originally Posted by Connemara
Just finished Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. An enlightening read to say the least.

Could you summarize it in two sentences?
 

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I'm currently reading 'The Godfather', and it's definately living up to my expectations. A great read, would recommend it to all fans of the film! And anyone else in general, I think it really is that good.
 

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Originally Posted by Alter
Could you summarize it in two sentences?

Religion (well, old Christianity) blows. Nationalism blows.
 

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Clockers - Richard Price
 

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A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway

Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
 

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Originally Posted by AlanC
I'm reading Commodore Hornblower, by C.S. Forester.

Have you read the others too? The Hornblower books are perfect novels... intelligent but a little fluffy... impossible to stop reading... so good...
 

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bringing this back because of the HP post...

right now i'm reading On the Road (Kerouac) cause i've never read it!
next i have Middlesex (Eugenides) lined up cause my friend and i traded, and i lent her Lunar Park (Ellis).

anyone else?
 

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Hey, I forgot about this topic. Right now I'm re-reading Against the Day (Pynchon), re-reading The Road (MCarthy) for the third time, re-reading The Communist Manifesto (Marx), going back and reading through all The Complete Peanuts sets that have come out thus far (trying to take it slow and savor it this time) and I re-read Ice Haven (Clowes) last night. Nothing this year has struck a nerve with me outside of comics, but I've been meaning to check out Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible and I'm kind of anxious to read Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein, which comes out tomorrow.
 

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Originally Posted by jonglover
Hey, I forgot about this topic. Right now I'm re-reading Against the Day (Pynchon), re-reading The Road (MCarthy) for the third time, re-reading The Communist Manifesto (Marx), going back and reading through all The Complete Peanuts sets that have come out thus far (trying to take it slow and savor it this time) and I re-read Ice Haven (Clowes) last night. Nothing this year has struck a nerve with me outside of comics, but I've been meaning to check out Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible and I'm kind of anxious to read Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein, which comes out tomorrow.
Just a question, but why would anybody bother to read the Communist Manifesto twice? Once is bad enough as the thing is nothing more than a propaganda pamphlet. If you want to read Marx and see why he was, in fact, brilliant you should really read Das Kapital. I liken the Communist Manifesto to one of those creepy Jews For Jesus pamphlets that they used to try to distribute after football games. I also didn't like On the Road and think Kerouac is probably the most overrated writer of the 20th century. I think a lot of people claim to like him because they are too afraid of being ridiculed for not.
 

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American Pastoral
so so...

Next I'm looking for some recs similar to Murukami.
 

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