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What are you reading at the moment?
olor1n:
I'm in love with this book, with its characters, setting, humour, and the intrigue and foreboding wrought throughout its pages. It's a mystery, a ghost story, a period piece, and a coming of age tale laced with warm nostalgia. Fermin Romero De Torres, a sidekick, is truly the wisest man in the Universe.
MuppetFace:
"[Bubbles] is . . . the first volume to be translated of Sloterdijk’s Spheres trilogy: the other two are due for an English release over the next year or two. Each volume uses the motif of the 'sphere' in different yet complementary ways to refer to 'spaces of coexistence' between and among human beings. Bubbles is devoted to micro-spheres, the most intimate of originary spaces: the womb; the relationship between lovers; and that between God and the human subject. The second and third volumes deal with other kinds of spheres: the world considered as a single cosmopolitan macro-sphere, and then our contemporary decentralized network of social and cultural spheres, in which the concept of a central, self-structuring totality — religion, myth, science, enlightenment — has collapsed, and we find ourselves living in a complex sea of fragmentary yet contiguous spheres, which Sloterdijk likens to a 'foam.'"
Anaxilus.:
I'm still learning....
Questhate:
Good thread, olor1n. I was meaning to make a similar one, but not sure how well it would be received.
My book tastes are certainly more "pop" than some of the academic luminaries we have here. I'm working on these two now:
I recently got into minimalist running to try to counteract my planar fasciitis, so a friend recommended this to me. It's about the writer's encounters with a tribe of ultra-distance runners from South America. It reads like a popcorn movie -- very fast read, and the narratives culminate into this big ultra-marathon event in the Copper Canyons. Pretty interesting if you're curious about minimalist/barefoot running, or marathons in general. There is a chapter that goes into the history of the running shoe, starting with the Nike Cortez, and how runner's injuries have increased exponentially with the advancements in running shoe technology. It calls into question the philosophy behind running science and typical running shoe designs (more padding = good) and makes a case to the notion that less = more.
Cool laymans physics book. He talks about the history of the universe, and all things microscopic and macroscopic. It's gotten to the point in the book that tackles quantum physics, and I'm finding it a bit too theoretical to hold my interest at this point. I may end up not finishing it.
BoxerOrBag:
http://www.amazon.com/Six-Impossible-Things-Before-Breakfast/dp/0393332039/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350000321&sr=8-1&keywords=six+impossible+things+before+breakfast
I really enjoy this book when I read it, real funny. if you have a sense of humor
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