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I got halfway through Turing's Cathedral (a history of computing), and The Signal and The Noise (Nate Silver's book on why people are really bad at statistics). They've both been sitting on my shelf for a few weeks, need to get back to them.
 
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I finally gave in and started reading A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin . I'm actually quite enjoying it and am glad I've been pretty good at avoiding spoilers.
 
Two classics, currently: Lolita and The Bell Jar.

I actually semi-read (read: skimmed) Lolita in high school, but I was a lazy fuck so I didn't read it too closely despite enjoying the parts I payed attention to. And I came extremely close to finishing The Bell Jar a few years back--like, I would say I was maybe an hour from finishing the book--but I had a severe depressive episode and figured it wouldn't be a good book to read in such a state, and of course by now I don't remember most of it, so I need to start from the beginning. Ah well. :P

I have a shitton of books on my to-read list, but those two are currently taking priority.
 
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Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation. It's a pretty good pop history book, and nowhere near as sensationalist crap as the title would suggest.
 
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Hellblazer said:
Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation. It's a pretty good pop history book, and nowhere near as sensationalist crap as the title would suggest.
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So long as it doesn't grasp at straws trying to connect the Knights Templar to the founding fathers I'd probably really enjoy that.
 
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So long as it doesn't grasp at straws trying to connect the Knights Templar to the founding fathers I'd probably really enjoy that.
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I highly recommend it. I'm about halfway through now (It's my dedicated work breaks book, so I don't read it at home at all), and there isn't really any stretching connections or pushing any viewpoints that I've noticed.
 
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Since I wanted to get back to reading, I started with this book right here. It's about Liverpool FC's time under the terrible owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. And yes, it's soccer-related. /sperg
 
Ancani said:
Two classics, currently: Lolita and The Bell Jar.

I actually semi-read (read: skimmed) Lolita in high school, but I was a lazy fuck so I didn't read it too closely despite enjoying the parts I payed attention to.
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Nabokov is a fucking treasure and I will never forgive the internet for tainting his work with their child porn bullshit memes.

His best work is Pale Fire, though. It's an intense read because it's just a mediocre poem and the accompanying obsessive commentary, and the entire story is subtextual. You have to infer most of the important details from the way in which the commentary is presented by the unreliable narrator. It's basically a puzzle in book form. There is no greater book to discuss at length written in English as far as I'm concerned, or if there is I haven't read it.
 
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Nabokov is a fucking treasure and I will never forgive the internet for tainting his work with their child porn bullshit memes.

His best work is Pale Fire, though. It's an intense read because it's just a mediocre poem and the accompanying obsessive commentary, and the entire story is subtextual. You have to infer most of the important details from the way in which the commentary is presented by the unreliable narrator. It's basically a puzzle in book form. There is no greater book to discuss at length written in English as far as I'm concerned, or if there is I haven't read it.
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That sounds incredibly fascinating--I'll definitely add it to my to-read list!

I really love Nabokov's writing style, it's just so rich and evocative. <3
 
To Kill a Mocking Bird -- Harper Lee. I found it really sad when George had to shoot Lennie.

But seriously, Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut. I read it when I was 16 and I'm reading it again for the first time. I forgot how depressing it is.
 
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