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pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:11 am **Posts:** 6217

David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein - The Blue and Brown Books

Tudwell · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:06 pm **Posts:** 4283

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:43 pm **Posts:** 5612

enjoyed this part of the book's review on amazon

Quote:

Armed with such a detailed aural roadmap, even a troglodyte--or a heavy metal fan--can explore these pivotal works anew. But it's not all crashing cymbals, honking tubas, and somber Germans stroking their chins.

Dreww · **Posted:** Sat May 14, 2011 10:36 pm

Bought Friday Night Lights based on the amazing prologue.

Snoogans · **Posted:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:29 pm

Summer Reading:

Cervantes - Don Quixote
Richard Fariña - Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice
Robert Coover - The Public Burning
Joseph Heller - Something Happened
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:11 am **Posts:** 6217

James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Richard Ellman - James Joyce
Stuart Gilbert - James Joyce's Ulysses
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces

beaverteeth92 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:09 pm **Posts:** 1154

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood (given away to me by my college for a summer reading assignment)
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Secrets of Mental Math - David Benjamin and Michael Shermer

Jess · **Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:06 am

Dreww wrote:

:lol:

Bought Friday Night Lights based on the amazing prologue.

is it good? i thought the movie was really good.

SanTropez · **Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:35 am

I fucking LOVE the book Friday Night Lights, and I thought the movie was mediocre at best.

Dreww · **Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:29 pm

Book was very good. Only part of the movie I liked was the music. From what I've seen of the show it's way better.

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:11 am **Posts:** 6217

Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji

Ok I'm done for like a year. Except I promised a friend at school that I'd buy Gadamer's Truth and Method so I could discuss it with him. But after that I'm done. Seriously. No more books. (Ha!)

beaverteeth92 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:09 pm **Posts:** 1154

Which translation? I have both the Whaley and the Tyler one.

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:11 am **Posts:** 6217

Tyler. Found it in hardcover at a used bookstore that's a 10 minute walk from my house (this bookstore usually kind of sucks and is expensive, but yay finding this).

beaverteeth92 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:09 pm **Posts:** 1154

I didn't even know it came in hardcover. I have this edition:

http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Genji-Pengui ... 0670030201

The number of footnotes is ridiculous.

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:11 am **Posts:** 6217

Haha, the bookstore had that edition as well, but since it cost two dollars more than the hardcover and was in worse condition (plus being a paperback generally), I opted for the hardcover (which had been discarded by a public library here).

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