what are you reading today?

[FritzRivera]

[chantheman]

happy birthday dr suess'

“You’re off to Great Places!

Today is your day!

Your mountain is waiting,

So… get on your way!â€

— Dr. Seuss

[into the rain]

i know it's fashionable for most academics to make fun of fukuyama, but lately, with all the political revolutions in the middle-east, i cant help but feel that he is right in some way. interesting book though, even if you dont take him too seriously.

[home]

[josh mullen]

[robbie]

[FrugalPlayer]

[broneck]

i know it's fashionable for most academics to make fun of fukuyama, but lately, with all the political revolutions in the middle-east, i cant help but feel that he is right in some way. interesting book though, even if you dont take him too seriously.

"Hahahahahahahhahahahahah".

- Fukuyama, last.

[broneck]

"HAAHHAHAhahahahha."

- Huntington, shortly after middle east democracy fails.

[broneck]

but in all seriousness, jsut finished Sun Also Rises and decided to step back into modernity

such a fast read, almost 200 in and started yesterday. Not sure where the comparisons to Pynchon come from.

[soundune]

just finished war and peace...phew...now onto art in the age of its mechanical reproduction

[superbeveridge]

just saw adjustment bureau and i thought it was time acquaint myself with philip k dick. bought these right after.

[mmg]

interesting choices, i think many people start with do androids dream of electric sheep or a scanner darkly. any reason you picked those?

[Yardsale]

[superbeveridge]

interesting choices, i think many people start with do androids dream of electric sheep or a scanner darkly. any reason you picked those?

they are collections really and include 15-20 stories per book, got it because it had a lot in it.

[Baeyer-Drewson]

Good buy, superbeveridge. I have a bunch of PKD and I find that even the worst of his books still feature an interesting idea. It's amazing how sporadically prolific he was, probably a result of his passion for stimulants.

Try to find the story he related to the police about someone blowing open his safe with explosives and then stealing his identity documents and manuscripts, it's unintentionally hilarious. At one point he considered the option that perhaps he himself blew open his safe and then forgot about it (although a motive was a little lacking). Definitely an "eccentric" guy.

His short stories are great and it's impressive how frequently they've been used as the source of inspiration for various Hollywood films. In most cases Dick's often brilliant concept is slaughtered wholesale to turn it into the usual Hollywood cash cow.

For those who like PKD and films, here is the short story to film list:

Minority Report (Minority Report)

Second Variety (Screamers)

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Total Recall)

Paycheck (Paycheck)

The Golden Man (Next)

Adjustment Team (The Adjustment Bureau)

Dick was definitely under-appreciated in his own time, probably because his ideas were too far ahead of their time.

[Thisisscotty]

People actually have thread for reading over here! FInally just started reading "Sex, Drugs, and coco puffs"...

[mmg]

superbev -- makes sense. i've only read a few PKD novels myself so i was curious. he's a wild read, sure you'll enjoy it.

if you like him, definitely do check out DADOES. it's the rough basis for Blade Runner, and it definitely got 're-imagined' in the adaptation. i think they're both amazing in their own ways, although maybe not everyone will agree with me on that...

[gramps]

Yuk yuk.

[cphamwong]

Yuk yuk.

woah, tell me how that is. looks like a good read

[josh mullen]

And, because Gramps' post inspired me to pick up my copy...

[chubby]

[superbeveridge]

Yuk yuk.

Used some writing by this author back in my university days. I was taking a fourth year course on Food and Consumption and wrote a paper on how cannibals are less based on reality and are used more as a representation of the dreadful "other". Good reading.

[NESK]

i picked up norwegian wood last week because i was on a small island and i had finished every book i packed, and it was the only title left in the lobby that i reconized. thank god it was in swedish so i can maintain my totally biased and unfounded hate. close call.

[Dead_Wizard]

Just finished this. Was an alright read.

On to

which has been amazing so far.

[gramps]

I cannot rep.

[josh mullen]

[Baeyer-Drewson]

[Leeacto]

I'm readin all these

[ke1]

^Great comic. Along with Planetary, Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns, Sandman, The Walking Dead, and now I'm just ranting....