What Book Are You Reading? — Part II

L’Aleph - a collection of Stories by Jorge Luis Borges. Started reading it today for the second time. Read from it today:
*) Deutsches Requiem: a former Nazi officer who writes about his life and thoughts the night before his execution.
*) Averroes’ Quest: Averroes, trying to write a commentary of the works of Aristotle, fails to grasp the meaning of two words: tragoedia and comoedia, but just then, a conversation with a traveller reveals it to him.

Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka. A dog writing about his life, the institution of dogdom and its laws, and how he doesn’t quite belong in there.

I found a book my dad got for me a long time ago. It seems pretty interesting so i’m going to start reading it :

Building Mental Muscle
by David Gamon and Allen D. Bragdon

“Rare Earth” by Peter D. Ward & Donald Brownlee

It’s really cool, about how extremely low the chances are of finding an earth-like planet in the universe that can sustain intelligent life.

On the Road, Jack Kerouac (the guy in my avatar).

The newspaper published a pic of him, and commented about what a great writer and a role model for humankind he was. I was so shocked I couldn’t help but read again everything I had from him, and now I couldn’t resist buying On the Road (last time I read in Portuguese, borrowed from a friend).

Boy, he’s even influencing my dreams! :shock: Reading his work is cathartical, refreshing, renewing.

The Dream Cycle of H P Lovecraft. Great stuff, at least some of it.

Yes! First post! :content:

I’m currently actually reading Clive Barker’s Book Of Blood 2, but I can’t seem to find the time now that school has started. I also have problems with enjoying dreams a lot in that time.

I just finished that one. Now I’m going to read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. :content:

I’m now reading La Chute (The Fall) by Albert Camus.

Bless me, Ultima. By Rudolfo Anaya

really, really good. Very magical.

Fools Fate by Robin Hobb. Wonderful read, all of her books. Unfortunately I do hardly find time to read these days :eh:

The Inaginary

It’s a philosophical piece that explores perception and imagination, and pretty much everything else that has to do with the conscious and subconscious mind :wink:

Just started Candide by Voltaire.

I’m reading Cross Bones again before I read the lastest one Break no Bones.

Goethe ‘Faust’

I just finished reading Neuromancer again. I just don’t know how I’d live without that book.

:bow: -> William Gibson

Still reading Albert Camus’ The Fall: a man’s monologue about how once he was in grace and then his eventual fall from it.
Also started reading Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche. The subtitle is: “How to philosophize with a hammer”. So yes, basically this book is a declaration of philosophical war against lots of things…

I’ve read that too :cool_laugh:. What do you think of it?

I’m reading “Sophie’s World” at the moment. I’ve tried reading the book before but never finished it because I found it a little too childish… but now I have to read it for my philosophy class, so I’m reading that. It’s actually not as bad as I first thought it would be.

I just finished ‘Angels & Demons’ and now i’m starting ‘Size 12 is no fat’

Now I’m reading Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.

About to start ‘Turn Of The Screw’, although my teacher gave the whole book away to me this morning :ack: If I enjoy this, I’ll pick it as one of my books for my study this year.