What Book Are You Currently Reading?

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Why is the penis shaped like that? ... and other reflections on being human, by someone by the name of Jesse Bering.

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C.P. Snow, Corridors of Power. The things you find at fleamarkets... first Penguin imprint, 1966. Prize marked as 6 Shillings on the backcover.

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C.P. Snow, Corridors of Power. The things you find at fleamarkets... first Penguin imprint, 1966. Prize marked as 6 Shillings on the backcover.

I have found that the likes of Snow and Anthony Powell make great escapist reading.

EDIT: Where did you find the picture in your sig? I believe it's from a Flemish Television show (Man Bijt Hond), no?

Slinkachu.

Been aware of his work for a while, but got the idea of sigging him from... uh... some noob (now who was that? Red avatar IIRC) ... having another one of his in their sig.

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Ouch, just noticed whose sig that is. Tik's. Not a noob by any stretch of the imagination.

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Birthday gift!

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I just read Meta Maus.

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Fustel de Coulanges, the Ancient City

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i've got altogether too many on the go at the moment:

23 things they don't tell you about capitalism by ha-joon chang

Bit lightweight. I lent this back to my mother who gave it to me as a Christmas gift (after reading it, of course). Unlike me she can actually learn something from it.

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Yeah. Reread Moby Dick. Now.

Reading through Edgar Hilsenrath's lesser works atm, interrupted by a short book on the Bikini and Eniwetok Islanders' plight and cultural reactions to it.

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Crossreading Karl Kraus essays (god, that man could write. Why am I only reading him now?) and the Godfather.

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I'm left wondering if there is any text, other than the New Testament, that can give me a clear picture of Jesus' life.

How could there possibly be? He lived a life of perfect obscurity. (And you can quite leave the supplementary clause out. It is and must remain our primary source, but it's hardly an unbiased account or one that was written with modern audience's knowledge horizon in mind.)

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Almost through Infinite Jest

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What dost thou make of it?

Well the part after I posted this was pretty wtf... as in, "wait, this is the end? So what ended up happening?"

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What dost thou make of it?

Well the part after I posted this was pretty wtf... as in, "wait, this is the end? So what ended up happening?"

The first chapter of the book is the ending. Of course, this is difficult to remember after slogging through the whole thing.

Not exactly. That's more than a year after, and all additional info I deduced from rereading it after was an unexplained absence of John Wayne at that year's Whataburger and an oblique reference to him "in a Donald Gately mask". Obviously... the crisis Hal's slithering into at the end of the book lead to Hal as we see him at the beginning, but there's rather a lot more loose ends lying around at the end.
Unless I'm missing something way, way obvious here.

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it's pretty clear that Orin doesn't die.

Yep, forgot that but it's also in the intro.

However he got out of that tumbler.

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Local history:

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(in German, though.)

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Dead Souls

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Rereading the Third Policeman, I also got a Glaßbrenner edition for christmas that I'll start on after.

Oh, and the Monkey of Hartlepool.