Books, books and more damn books
Oct 7 2005 21:04
This week I've been mostly reading
Pretty Straight Guys, by Nick Cohen, almost makes you think the war in Iraq was right.
The Divided Self by R.D. Laing
Marxism and Form by Frederic Jameson, the simplest book on Adorno I've ever read.
And The House of the Dead by good ol' Dogstoyevsky
Plus as an esoteric bonus, Na Klondykers by Iain F. Macleoid
Anyone else? 
Oct 7 2005 22:13
#2
Bodach gun bhrigh wrote:
This week I've been mostly readingPretty Straight Guys, by Nick Cohen, almost makes you think the war in Iraq was right.
The Divided Self by R.D. Laing
Marxism and Form by Frederic Jameson, the simplest book on Adorno I've ever read.
And The House of the Dead by good ol' Dogstoyevsky
Plus as an esoteric bonus, Na Klondykers by Iain F. Macleoid
Anyone else?
what, all in a week? are you an insomniac?
Oct 7 2005 22:14
#3
i've been reading the guardian, by the way, and a Polish phrasebook. So you both beat me.
Oct 7 2005 22:20
#4
I swap between the guardian and the independent, usually.
I hate both, but I'm a student so I have to.
Oct 8 2005 00:56
#5
People's History and Socialist Theory - by a collection of Trots I believe, which doesn't spoil it surprisingly.
Oct 8 2005 10:22
#6
oh and I've been reading the new Organise! from the AF. Issue 65! Has anyone seen it? It's brilliant, really interesting stuff in it. Definitely get it at the bookfair!!
Oct 8 2005 11:10
#7
enelpozo wrote:
what, all in a week? are you an insomniac?
Well I was last night, and I said reading not read.
Oct 9 2005 15:08
#8
Fucking hell i've been reading the same book since the start of august, its not even very good. This week however i have managed to dig into The panda's thumb by Stephen Jay Gould and Bookchin's 'post-scarcity anarchism'.
Oct 9 2005 17:04
#9
I have just finished "Undefeated" by the former World boxing champion Terry Marsh - the title refers not just to his boxing career but his various legal cases!
Currently reading "The Riddle of the Sands" by Erskine Childers, which is regarded as the first real spy novel. I am a fan of the penguin classics series, especially as they are so cheap.
I bought Kropotkin's memoirs on Saturday in Freedom, a book that will either give me some good beard growing techniques, or a bit of a take on anarchist history.
Oct 9 2005 17:05
#10
enelpozo wrote:
i've been reading the guardian, by the way, and a Polish phrasebook. So you both beat me.
bardzo dobra!
bardzo mi miło, nazywam się oisleep, jesteś dzielny!
dobra szczęście
Oct 9 2005 22:11
#11
oisleep wrote:
enelpozo wrote:
i've been reading the guardian, by the way, and a Polish phrasebook. So you both beat me.bardzo dobra!
bardzo mi miło, nazywam się oisleep, jesteś dzielny!
dobra szczęście
dzien dobry. but i've only really got as far as the pronunciation and the basics. i take it you're fluent?
Oct 10 2005 10:36
#12
greets
Terry Pratchett "Going Postal"
Cornelius castoriadis "Imaginary institution of society"
rough guide to conspiracy theories.
recently finished martha ackelsberg "free women of spain" (v.good it is too!)
mal
Oct 10 2005 10:39
#13
"The Scramble for Africa" - Thomas Pakenham
Was having a discussion with a bloke in a pub a couple of weeks back, about the causes & effects of the European partition of Africa, and remembered I had this book on the shelf unread.
Very good it is, too.
If anyone's seen the Eddie Izzard thing about empire-building by walking around and saying, "Flag!", well, that's what it was like.
Oct 10 2005 17:56
#14
enelpozo wrote:
oisleep wrote:
enelpozo wrote:
i've been reading the guardian, by the way, and a Polish phrasebook. So you both beat me.bardzo dobra!
bardzo mi miło, nazywam się oisleep, jesteś dzielny!
dobra szczęście
dzien dobry. but i've only really got as far as the pronunciation and the basics. i take it you're fluent?
nah far from it mate, although it does get markedly easier once you've mastered the pronounciation and various rules and stuff, it looks a lot harder to learn than what it actually is once you've done that stuff. Unlike english there's not really that much deviation from the basic rules/pronounciation/structure, so you can really get good at it quite easily once over that initial step
Oct 10 2005 20:37
#15
this week i hab bin mostly readin' 'siberian shamanic societies, and soviet anthropology' by professor gustav kantorian of dresden university
Oct 12 2005 18:15
#16
That sounds good.
Today I have been reading "Ecology and Anarchism" and "Kropotkin- the politics of community" by Brian Morris. Both quite interesting, and he's my lecturerer so I have the added bonus of hearing his crazy excitable Black Country voice in my head when I read it.
I have also been reading "The birth of the clinic" by Foucault, which is getting on my tits, cos I'm sure I know what the point is supposedto be, I just can't find it yet. And if it's there, it's definately not in the chapters on my reading list 
And some other stuff about development and discourse.
All frightfully acaddemic and high-brow, you see.
I have also been reading Marie Claire. Uh, for my dissertation, um, honest...
Oct 12 2005 19:00
#17
I've been reading "A civil war without guns", the SP history of the miners strike, which I got off them after talking to them on a stall on Saturday about how much we hated the IRA and the SWP.
It's shite tho.
Oct 13 2005 12:28
#18
Im stuck reading Plato for my philosophy class. If you think freedom of information is bad now - Think youself lucky western governments don't take after him more than they already do. 
Oct 13 2005 20:00
#19
Jack wrote:
I've been reading "A civil war without guns", the SP history of the miners strike, which I got off them after talking to them on a stall on Saturday about how much we hated the IRA and the SWP.It's shite tho.
I'm sorry Jack what's that?! Who paid for it?!
It's HALF MINE but seeing as it's shit, you can keep it.
I made my Dad get me some books out of the loft yesterday(his teenage anti-psychiatry and anarchism stuff), and clothes too, which are far more fun.
Oct 13 2005 21:26
#20
you have a loft!
Nov 4 2005 23:51
#21
Me posting on own thread, finding that my reduction in medication has loosened my brain a bit, I can read more than twenty pages at a time, and have thus finished 4 books this week and started on a fifth.
In order of wonderfulness
1. The Thought Gang (funny, but makes me shiver)
2. Death and the Penguin (Spy thriller set in the Ukraine, with a Penguin)
3. White and Red(Too many drugs)
4. Headcrusher (Stupid but good)
5. The Blue Lantern (worth it for the story about hell and the one about communing with the dead, with a Siberian shamaness)
I found out today that the girl I sat next to in Physics for two years is working in a Deli round the corner, although she said she was working in the West End, the skank, this amused me, because our teacher at the time was a total nutter, he once spent a whole period shouting at an Asian lad cause he hadn't taken off his jacket, imagine my chagrin when I went into hospital for a psychiatric outpatients appointment and found my ex-teacher sitting in the booth next to me. Anyway, I thought I'd freak her out by going in and saying how me and hairy were now blood brothers, brothers in arms, we're both crazy wacko losers, but I didn't although I did spend the entire journey up and down the street in peals of laughter, imagine, me and weirdos being comrades, changed days.
Nov 5 2005 00:02
#22
Just finished Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left, Murray Bookchin, then the new Aufheben.
Just started - Anarchy's Cossack, by Skirda.
Nov 5 2005 00:04
#23
edit:@ bodach, not catch 
8)
Nov 5 2005 00:56
#24
i'm now reading revolutionary history volume 6 no 1 the polish left
and the mafia the first hundred years by some plums (it's shit and i'm about to give up, it was only two quid in hmv though)
Nov 5 2005 01:00
#25
Bodach gun bhrigh wrote:
2. Death and the Penguin (Spy thriller set in the Ukraine, with a Penguin)
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not bad, if you like that i recommend victor pavlevin who ahs written some excellent post soviet russian head fuck novels, the best being 'the clay machine gun' which features schizophrenia, magic mushrooms, the russian revolution, budhism, sex, violence, cocaine, vodka,and the nature of reality
Nov 5 2005 01:25
#26
oisleep wrote:
edit:@ bodach, not catch8)
Yeah I didn't think my current reading warranted that kind of attention.
Nov 5 2005 12:45
#27
kalabine wrote:
Bodach gun bhrigh wrote:
2. Death and the Penguin (Spy thriller set in the Ukraine, with a Penguin)
.
not bad, if you like that i recommend victor pavlevin who ahs written some excellent post soviet russian head fuck novels, the best being 'the clay machine gun' which features schizophrenia, magic mushrooms, the russian revolution, budhism, sex, violence, cocaine, vodka,and the nature of reality
Yeah, I've read Omon Ra, which is good, especially the bit where all the space cadets get their legs cut off for no reason, and the Blue Lantern's by him as well. I ordered the Life of Insects from Amazon about 2 months ago, cause you can't find it in the shops but it still hasn't arrived
Nov 16 2005 00:10
#28
ello folks, has anyone read Seeing Double by Patrick Wilmot, it's great, a novel about the total corruption in Africa, primarily in a fictionalised country called Niagra, probably based on Nigeria, where he was a lecturer. A bloody great book.
Cheers
Bodach
Nov 16 2005 14:05
#29
Bodach gun bhrigh wrote:
1. The Thought Gang (funny, but makes me shiver)
It's the BOLLOX! (why the shiver?) Have you read "under the frog"?
This week i have mostly been reading A+ Certification, By the cool named Michael Meyers!
Nov 16 2005 17:32
#30
BB wrote:
It's the BOLLOX! (why the shiver?) Have you read "under the frog"?
I don't know why it made me shiver, it just did, under the frog is wonderful, and second in my list of all time favourite books.
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 - Orlando Figes
Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800 - 1914 - Robert Gildea
And I'm about to start Early Medieval Europe, 300 - 1000 - Roger Collins