Vhat Booke Arrr Ye Reedin'?

[Dracon II]

The "Hitchhikers guide" series and the "Dirk Gently" got me through my lonely junior high school days with everything intact. Certainly saved my sense of humour.
David Eddings and Raymond E. Feist were big pluses then too.

Nowadays I tend to read several books at a time quite intermittently. I've been enjoying Philip K. Dick. "The Simulacra" is just weird, "The Man in the High Castle" is interesting, and "VALIS" is as insane as the author was at the time, no doubt.

Haven't got around to finishing "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Camus, or "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" by Paul Kennedy yet... because I have to do a lot of reading for uni... but I will.

Foucault's pendulum sounds quite fascinating.. might give it a shot. Does it's title refer to a use of Foucault in the book or just Eco's friendship with him? I imagine it would have been reading around or after his death.

[Eli]

Electromagnetic Fields, Energy and Waves.



And that new Churchill book by some guy whose name I cant remember. Best something.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by alva


Say, have you ever gotten around to reading "Journey to the end of night" by Celine? A long while ago you said you were going too, so.

I read that ages ago, my little moule. You have me confused with somebody else.

Also read 'Death on the Instalment Plan' by the charming chap too.

[alva]

I guess I did then. Not sure about being your little moule though, my big cod..

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by alva
I guess I did then. Not sure about being your little moule though, my big cod..

Je vous prie de me pardonner.


Indeed you are a very whelk.


Happy Paques, by the by, alva. Eat some choccies for me.

[alva]

Nothing to excuse, you coquilles st-Jacques you. (I'll be ending this now btw... )

and I'm not a big chocy eater. You never really appreciate what you can have, do you.

[Hueij]

I just finished "Another Roadside Attraction" by Tom Robbins

Ah, thanks for mentioning Tom Robbins Time to read Cowgirl again.

[Nostromo]

Foucault's pendulum sounds quite fascinating.. might give it a shot. Does it's title refer to a use of Foucault in the book or just Eco's friendship with him? I imagine it would have been reading around or after his death.

It has nothing to do with Michel Foucault. It refers to Léon Foucault's pendulum. You can see the pendulum at the Panthéon in Paris. I've seen it and its pretty impressive. For your culture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%E9on_Foucault

[TechWins]

Originally posted by nostromo


It has nothing to do with Michel Foucault. It refers to Léon Foucault's pendulum. You can see the pendulum at the Panthéon in Paris. I've seen it and its pretty impressive. For your culture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%E9on_Foucault

Thanks for getting to the answer of that question.


Basically I see Foucault's Pendulum has the older and better version of The Da Vinci Code from everything I've heard, especially based off of what my teacher had to say.

[Nostromo]

Basically I see Foucault's Pendulum has the older and better version of The Da Vinci Code from everything I've heard, especially based off of what my teacher had to say.

I've read a recent interview with Eco. According to Eco, the difference between him and Brown is that Brown takes this stuff seriously. While Foucault's pendulum is meant as a criticism of the occult and conspiracy theories. It seems that in Italy, after the 70s, communist or left-wing bookshops gradually became occult bookshops...

[JohnT]

It seems that in Italy, after the 70s, communist or left-wing bookshops gradually became occult bookshops...

From one pseudoscience to another, eh?

[Ted Striker]

Bookes

Brooke Burke

[Space05us]

Bookes

Brooke Burke

Brooke Burke endorsing Burger King

[Nostromo]

From one pseudoscience to another, eh?

Yep, but Marx is a lot more interesting than John Edwards, who is the greatest douchebag of the universe. The worse part is that a friend of mine is translating Edwards in french.

[Verto]

I picked up The Time Machine yesterday, I expect to start reading it in a couple days.