what are you reading today?

[NESK]

i dont see how you got that from what i said. i just think atheists for the most part get too much pleasure in rubbing their self-perceived superiority in the face of religious people. books like that one encourage people with good intentions to act just as bad as conservative christian fundamentalists who want to shit on anyones beleifs that arent alligned with their own.

its an intellectual race to the bottom. ill take science over god myself, but i wont shove it in anyones face.

[Eccles]

personally i agree with God and science but I applaud Nesk for voicing an increasingly unpopular opinion

also the most disgusting thing in American Psycho is the reverence for Phil Collins

reading

[NESK]

chronic city was incredible, youre gonna love it.

[sean_]

i came up on a stack of gordon korman books at value village yesterday

taking a break from the serious shit and reliving my childhood with bruno and boots, shit is real.

[Tisswat]

i dont see how you got that from what i said. i just think atheists for the most part get too much pleasure in rubbing their self-perceived superiority in the face of religious people. books like that one encourage people with good intentions to act just as bad as conservative christian fundamentalists who want to shit on anyones beleifs that arent alligned with their own.

its an intellectual race to the bottom. ill take science over god myself, but i wont shove it in anyones face.

You don't need to explain yourself, as I already understood your reasoning. I will even agree with you that some atheists cross the line by unnecessary provocation. However, punching someone in the face over the title of a book he is holding, to me, is just mindless and I don't see how that's any different from torching embassies over a cartoon. I call that terrorism - using violence to force your beliefs upon other people.

[gfunkdocta]

aiyo sufu, recommend me some books

i was just gifted a huge chapters gift cert

always a devious early opening of christmas presents concept

i like emo, existential, elitist stuff

last thing i remember reading was ayn rand

[NESK]

oprah book club son. chapters got you covered.

[gfunkdocta]

don't belittle me, i'm serious

[tmadd]

When did this thread turn into "Whatever you're seen reading in public today must be wholly representative of your political, theological, or moral stance in the world"?

I'm in the middle of re-reading Roughing It, by Mark Twain. Just in case any homophobes see me reading it in a cafe, they should know its about a trip in the American West, not an endorsement of gay sex.

[zander]

Living to Tell the Tale, autobiography by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Murakami is one of my favs!!! You definitely need to read The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, one of those life changers I think....

[redX]

christmas gift from my brother, a really fascinating read

[NESK]

i just bought an esquire fiction anthology because it was 6.99 and has 3 foster wallace shorts plus some delillo, hemingway, roth, etc. sooo thick so itll last me a while.

[jack napier]

just finished:

now reading:

and

and again, one of my favourites:

[yea!]

was a gift from my mother.

[ericdw]

[okonomi]

This must be where Tao of Wu came from... Am I dumb for not knowing that?

[superbeveridge]

wasn't bad... i don't thin eggers will ever come close to the success of heatbreaking work of staggering genius... that reminds me, i have to reread that.

[mpcec]

Anybody read Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman? I got it from my brother for Christmas. Don't have much leisure reading time so I'd like to hear some opinions on it before using the little time I got on it... will just reserve it for summer reading otherwise.

[ericdw]

wasn't bad... i don't thin eggers will ever come close to the success of heatbreaking work of staggering genius... that reminds me, i have to reread that.

a heartbreaking work is the only other eggers book i've read, and what is the what isn't shaping up to be better. but it's good.

Anybody read Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman? I got it from my brother for Christmas. Don't have much leisure reading time so I'd like to hear some opinions on it before using the little time I got on it... will just reserve it for summer reading otherwise.

got it for christmas too, and read a few pages. seemed like sex drugs and coco puffs.

[mpcec]

Is that a good thing or bad thing? Haven't read that either.

[NESK]

closterman is a constant barrage of pop culty references that are supposed to amount to a greater sum but only if youre as neurotic and obsessed as he is. which you probably arent.

its fun stuff. but its just an extended twitter entry posing as ironic intellectual banter.

[ericdw]

that pretty much sums it up. i about 1 or every 4 of the essays in each book, because i don't get all of the references in the other 3

also, downtown owl sucked something horrible

[NESK]

i didnt even come close to it. i cant see him doing much as a novelist.

anyone in canada needs to hit a chapters cause in the sale section there is esquire mag's fiction anthology for 6.99 and its totally kicking my ass right now.

got some macartney, 3 foster wallace shorts, hemingway, delillo and the short that chris nolan based memento on which his brotehr wrote, plus a ton of other shit. its the bomb.

[ericdw]

that sounds good. what's it called?

[NESK]

esquire's big book of fiction

[Yardsale]

I disagree. What is the What really shows how comfortable he is in his prose, heart-breaking work had some schmaltzy parts that I could have done without. He's much more self-assured in his writing now that makes it a lot more enjoyable to read.

[thirteengrand]

pinker - how the mind works

[JTSO23]

[jyoni]

Really good, esp if you have read it both before and after Jurassic Park mania.

[transceiverfreq]

rereading one of my absolute favourites.