What are you currently Reading? (5 Viewers)

[nerdasdasd]

anyway keeping a journal is great everyone should do it

Ceebs.

 

[enoilgam]

anyway keeping a journal is great everyone should do it

Like I said before, there are just somethings better kept in my head.

 

[kfnmpah]

what if you forget

what if you get old and forget or get alzheimers

lost 4eva

 

[enoilgam]

what if you forget

what if you get old and forget or get alzheimers

lost 4eva

Nothing lasts forever, even memories.

 

[Amaranth_]

currently rereading The Fall by Albert Camus

one of my favorite books, probably reading it for the 6th time lol

...Always find something new in it that I'd missed previously

 

[kfnmpah]

Nothing lasts forever, even memories.

it does if you write it down

i guess there is definitely merit to not writing things down, in a Proustian way. events/experiences are always exaggerated (good and bad) in your memory and they usually surpass any and every possible reality.

e.g. homemade food when you're a child. nothing else is ever "just right"

currently rereading The Fall by Albert Camus

one of my favorite books, probably reading it for the 6th time lol

...Always find something new in it that I'd missed previously

i have this book on me windowsill
should i read it (will it rape my brain?)


i'm reading "pedagogy of the oppressed" by Paulo Freire

 

[enoilgam]

it does if you write it down

i guess there is definitely merit to not writing things down, in a Proustian way. events/experiences are always exaggerated (good and bad) in your memory and they usually surpass any and every possible reality.

e.g. homemade food when you're a child. nothing else is ever "just right"

I think Proustian type experiences are definitely the most vivid in terms of remembering, but I will say that with writing, you can capture your exact thoughts at that moment. Past thoughts tend to become clouded with present judgements and views, so sometimes it's hard to remember exactly the way you felt at that point (if that makes any sense).

 

[Amaranth_]

i have this book on me windowsill
should i read it (will it rape my brain?)


i'm reading "pedagogy of the oppressed" by Paulo Freire

It's a largely philosophical book, and requires you to think.
Nonetheless, it's a good book - it may only be a 200 pages or so but it's quite heavy.

 

[kfnmpah]

will read during holidays

 

[Amaranth_]

will read during holidays

I reckon its one of his most underrated books IMO

 

[Solution]

Reading through a WHOLE compilation of Christina Rossetti's poems and prose fiction and my brain hurts

Her poems are so sombre and downhearted, it's making me feel depressed! So tired of trying to interpret everything she writes so I've been reading her prose fiction which has been okay relative to the poems. Positively, there are a plethora of new words for me to learn. Tempted to read a book I found on the web yesterday: 'Life's Dominion: An argument about abortion, euthanasia and individual freedom'.

Trying to finish this massive book in 2 weeks destroys my brain!

 

[kfnmpah]

nicomachean ethics - aristotle
and
The wall (collection of short stories) - Sartre
10 pages of the wall left doe and then i'ma start les belle images - de beauvoir or Iron in the soul - sartre but idk. maybe the rebel - camus doe

 

[kfnmpah]

Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit
"Judith Butler" - Moya Lloyd
Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
Writing and Difference - Derrida

jesus

 

[Amaranth_]

Struggling through Dante's Inferno while doing the hsc

 

[JustDance]

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

 

[DannyBoy33]

Gandhis biography

 

[Quadro]

Johnny Cash by Robert Hilburn. I recommed you all to try reading it, really good.

 

[DannyBoy33]

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club is going to be next. I've watched a movie long time ago, everybody says the book is acctually much cooler. IMO most of the books stories are better as books.

 

[JustDance]

William Gibson - Neuromancer

 

[MissSquiggly]

Hmm.. I'm doing some research for my English Extension 2
I'm reading a really honest and sincere, slightly quirky memoir - "Just like someone without mental illness only more so" by Mark Vonnegut

I am also reading "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens <-- But this is only for entertainment. I may have to skim through it because it's almost overdue ;_____;