What have you read lately?

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Amazing. WTF is wrong with Hollywood. Movie is not even the same damn thing.

I only got through half the audio book so far which is amazing love the atmosphere throughout it. Thats the thing though with movies its a lot of content to try put into a film which is fair enough things have to be missed but they will never be forgiven for that ending, total crap! They missed out some really tense moments from the book which could have been portrayed very will in the film ahh well..

I'm currently going through this at the moment, quite a fun read actually!

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Hey, someone could point me in the direction of some enjoyable classics of literature of your countries?

Germany:

Franz Kafka's works

Goethe's Faust (very old, but significant)

Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit

just some that came to my mind

Kafka's work is indeed magnificent!

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Currently reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks.

Books I read before this

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Elie Wiesel - Night

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Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Emperor of All Maladies

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Chris Hadfield - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

The Gunslinger. This will be read number 3. I couldn't get into the other books so I just keep rereading this one. I also heard it gets pretty fucking stupid anyway, so I just pretend it's a one book series so I don't have to worry about it.

Wicked. Thanks for the recommendation Sprony. I remember looking at some of his stuff for Alien Isolation (even though we weren't supposed to look at Aliens, shhhhhh!). Will give this a read.

Here's some stuff I've read/listened to recently that I enjoyed quite a bit, mostly sci-fi classics:

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And slowly going through this monster of an audiobook (it's over 50 hours long of pure madness but it's interesting as fuck if you like Philip K Dick)

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Love me some Vonnegut. I don't think I've read Sirens of Titan. How is it?

My dad just gave me a copy of Timequake, I'll proabably read that next.

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On 4/13/2017 at 2:04 PM, AlexM said: Love me some Vonnegut. I don't think I've read Sirens of Titan. How is it?

My dad just gave me a copy of Timequake, I'll proabably read that next.

Man, Sirens of Titan is the only book that has ever made my cry. Not that it's sad or anything, just plain beautiful

And here's a funny trivia: Apparently Vonnegut wrote the whole storyline in one night.

Wow, that's A LOT of stuff @Minos, how long to get through that material?

I finished "The Virgin Way" by Richard Branson just coming in the new year (book about management is done in Virgin and generally best practices). I also read, overlapping to it, a minor sci-fi novel about mind-swap, but can't remember the title and I'm not at my home to check...

I'm reading "Videogame Storytelling" by Evan Skolnick (link) and I have also started the classic "IT" by Stephen King in light of the new movie. I calculated I need to read 10 pages per day to make it in time for release. I knew it was a thick book about 1K pages long, but I wasn't prepared to the weight this brick of 13xx pages has. Don't understand why they didn't publish in two volumes or something.

This is the kind of book that justifies the purchase of an e-reader, and I started thinking of sending it back and buy a Kindle if I can find a good used deal. I have been trying to avoid buying books in the recent years, trying to get through what I had on the shelf to then get e-reading, then gf peer pressure made me buy some books

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On 3/27/2017 at 3:38 AM, Sprony said: The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist

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From the man that brought you Blade Runner and Aliens among other things. I'm sure people like @(HP) and sci-fi designers like @PogoP will appreciate this.

That's a strong cover, really like that second pic!

Crime and punishment

I tried to read this whole book for a month, and some motherfucker told me the ending...

Still didn't read the whole book tho.

I have been thinking of getting the ereader for plain novels, and leave shelf space and money for higher quality prints like comic volumes or artists book like the one you got @Sprony

Those are books that I read in the past 3 years or so, some of them were audiobooks that I listened at work

Sprony: Though I haven't read A Scanner Darkly, I think that's the movie that captures his work the best imo. At least the feeling of what it is like to read one of his novels.

By the way, here's a really cool series that talks about a bunch of sci-fi authors (Philip K, Heinlein, Arthur C Clarke, Asimov, etc...) and their major works: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2091018/

Gosh, a bit scary to read Scanner Darkly captures his narrative at best ?

I read Ubik in Italian, then Scanner Darkly (and Do Androids…?) and Svanner was so difficult for me. Was one of the first novels I read in native English but man it's trippy… I mean was really making me feel disoriented, so if that was intentional he fully achieved, but still such a hard read that I didn't really found entertaining.

I remember finding the full talk (I might even have created the playlist) but in this bit PKD suggests we live in the Matrix

"Mentes Perigosas" (translated as "Dangerous Minds"). It's about how to identify psychopaths. Now I want to read "Almost a psychopath".

The reason for reading those is that I found myself in a forum where the admin does certain things that are similar to what a psychopath would do. No, he is very very far from being one, but there was a day that somebody joked about psychopaths and he admitted that he was, in fact, compared to one in life.