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I just finished listening to a Librivox recording of "The Art of War" by Tsun Szu. Don't really know what to say, it was rather informative although i feel like a re-read will be necessary in the future. I'm also still reading "Tales of Old Japan", and might start with Miyamoto Musashi's "Go Rin No Sho" today.
No audiobook for the Book of the Five Rings, though :/
No audiobook for the Book of the Five Rings, though :/
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I really didn't like the book of five rings. It's short enough to justify reading though.
On 11/10/14, at 8:43 PM, Merrimerri wrote:
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> Wow. I've disgusted even myself.
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On 6/2/15, at 10:14 PM, Delispin wrote:
> Wow. I've disgusted even myself.
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I've almost finished reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau, just starting reading the last chapter and it's such an enchanting book. Lovely descriptions on nature and his thought's on society.
Deciding my next book to read will be difficult... C.S. Lewis' Great Divorce? Tolstoy's Family Happiness? WHY IS THIS SO HARD?
Deciding my next book to read will be difficult... C.S. Lewis' Great Divorce? Tolstoy's Family Happiness? WHY IS THIS SO HARD?
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Picking up Japanese SF when I see it on the shelf has got me The Lord of the Sands of Time by Issui Ogawa; it's turning out to be Muv Luv Betas vs time travellers in ancient Japan.
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Reading Persepolis for my Literature class. Thus far it's been an interesting read. It's odd to be reading what is in effect, a comic, in a college class, though.
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Tell me how it goes when you've finished. I got it for Christmas and have heard bad things about it even from Murakami fans, though I'm still going to read it.
EDIT: Finished Ulysses tonight. I'm glad I read Dubliners and A Portrait beforehand and even gladder that I re-read The Odyssey. Lots of it went over my head (I've been told worrying about allusions while reading Joyce is the wrong thing to do) but all the switching between writing styles was great, Buck Mulligan was hilarious, and the ending gave me a much better understanding of Molly and how she fit the role of Penelope.
My favorite section was probably Ithaca, the catechism format was an oddly compelling choice. I still love Telemachus for its humor and straightforwardness, though. Definitely something I'll have to reread in five years.
On 11/10/14, at 8:43 PM, Merrimerri wrote:
fhycjubg beat tge sgut iyt if gun
On 6/2/15, at 10:14 PM, Delispin wrote:
> Wow. I've disgusted even myself.
https://qnuw.wordpress.com/ The hottest new meme, revived in blog form. qnuw/qnuw. qnuw/qnuw. qnuw/qnuw.
fhycjubg beat tge sgut iyt if gun
On 6/2/15, at 10:14 PM, Delispin wrote:
> Wow. I've disgusted even myself.
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So somehow I'm already [s]almost halfway[/s] a good quarter through The Silmarillion.
Just ended up leafing through the foreword on the weekend and found myself reading the Ainulindalë, Valaquenta and a good portion of the Quenta Silmarillion. The plan was to read it after LOTR (as everyone advises) but I'm actually really, really loving it. Sheer mythic wonderment. I mean, it isn't "easy-going", the prose set as an in-universe account/tome of the lore and histories of Middle-Earth and Valinor, but it's so good - Everything as I imagined it would be all this time.
I don't know; maybe because I knew and didn't expect a novel as such, or perhaps it was all those years reading obscure Kirkbridean ES lore texts (when I was more involved in that fandom) but The Sil is going down a treat - Making me feel all warm and gooey on the inside.
Just ended up leafing through the foreword on the weekend and found myself reading the Ainulindalë, Valaquenta and a good portion of the Quenta Silmarillion. The plan was to read it after LOTR (as everyone advises) but I'm actually really, really loving it. Sheer mythic wonderment. I mean, it isn't "easy-going", the prose set as an in-universe account/tome of the lore and histories of Middle-Earth and Valinor, but it's so good - Everything as I imagined it would be all this time.
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Currently up to the account of the Sindar. Denethor was just killed in the first war with the Orcs and it looks like Fëanor and his Noldor followers are going to meet up with Elu Thingol [Elwë] and launch a counter-stroke against Melkor-now-named-Morgoth in the north.
I don't know; maybe because I knew and didn't expect a novel as such, or perhaps it was all those years reading obscure Kirkbridean ES lore texts (when I was more involved in that fandom) but The Sil is going down a treat - Making me feel all warm and gooey on the inside.
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That stuff about Iluvatar and the Void makes me diamonds.
On 11/10/14, at 8:43 PM, Merrimerri wrote:
fhycjubg beat tge sgut iyt if gun
On 6/2/15, at 10:14 PM, Delispin wrote:
> Wow. I've disgusted even myself.
https://qnuw.wordpress.com/ The hottest new meme, revived in blog form. qnuw/qnuw. qnuw/qnuw. qnuw/qnuw.
fhycjubg beat tge sgut iyt if gun
On 6/2/15, at 10:14 PM, Delispin wrote:
> Wow. I've disgusted even myself.
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Yeah, the Ainulindalë is fantastic.
Decided I'm going to read up to the Akallabêth then set it aside and leave 'Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age' until after I've read LOTR. That way it'll kind of leave LOTR read-through untouched, even though I already know what happens for the most part.
Still plan on reading The Shining beforehand, though.
Decided I'm going to read up to the Akallabêth then set it aside and leave 'Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age' until after I've read LOTR. That way it'll kind of leave LOTR read-through untouched, even though I already know what happens for the most part.
Still plan on reading The Shining beforehand, though.
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Suttree is great. It's so funny I can't believe I'm reading something by Cormac McCarthy.
On 11/10/14, at 8:43 PM, Merrimerri wrote:
fhycjubg beat tge sgut iyt if gun
On 6/2/15, at 10:14 PM, Delispin wrote:
> Wow. I've disgusted even myself.
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fhycjubg beat tge sgut iyt if gun
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> Wow. I've disgusted even myself.
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Its pretty good.
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^ Agree with you completely, chee. It just wouldn't be quite the same without his art style.
Is that really so strange? I've got a copy of The Road on my bookshelf, read it twice. Good stuff.
Is that really so strange? I've got a copy of The Road on my bookshelf, read it twice. Good stuff.
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Well only other McCarthy I've read is The Road and Blood Meridian (the undisputed GOAT) so the lightheartedness of Suttree (so far) has come as somewhat of a surprise.
On 11/10/14, at 8:43 PM, Merrimerri wrote:
fhycjubg beat tge sgut iyt if gun
On 6/2/15, at 10:14 PM, Delispin wrote:
> Wow. I've disgusted even myself.
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fhycjubg beat tge sgut iyt if gun
On 6/2/15, at 10:14 PM, Delispin wrote:
> Wow. I've disgusted even myself.
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Neil Gaiman is one of my favourite authors (and probably the closest to the top spot). American Gods is one of his longer novels, but it is extremely good and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet. You should also try The Ocean at the End of the Lane and some of his short story collections, such as Smoke and Mirrors. He also did some magnificent writing for comics; The Sandman is the most famous of these, but The Books of Magic are also pretty epic and he recently returned to writing the Sandman prequel, The Sandman: Overture as well.
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