[quote="Ashinow"]The book was okay, typical Murakami. Maybe a bit too typical. Yeah, the section in the middle was a bit flawed maybe.
I enjoyed the book, but it was rather short. Too short actually to have a lasting impact.[/quote]

It is maybe too typical. South of the Border is even worse about that though... it's almost like reading a Murakami parody.

Speaking of Murakami, Norwegian Wood is coming to the Portland International Film Festival, and I'm gonna try and catch it. Glad to get the opportunity to see it in the theater.

[quote="discovolante"]it's almost like reading a Murakami parody.[/quote]Hmm. . .that sounds fun in its own way.
[quote="discovolante"]Speaking of Murakami, Norwegian Wood is coming to the Portland International Film Festival, and I'm gonna try and catch it. [/quote]I've seen it some time ago. There was one character who had a lasting impact on me. It was not the protagonist, nor any female character. I vividly remember a scene in which their was a conversation with the protagonist, his friend and the girlfriend of his friend. . at a diner table with a white table-cloth in a private suite at a chique restaurant.

yeah, you will get to know what I'm talking about when you see the film. Enjoy
Don't forget to give a short review of it here.


Just read the first part of 'Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy: don't panic'. Yeah, it definitely had some good parts. It even made me laugh aloud one time. To give you a impression of the book's humor:

"[i]For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.[/i]” - Douglas Adams.

[quote="Blank"]

[quote="rockman240"]I'm 25% into The Basic Writings of Nietzsche. [color=#FF0000]B[/color][color=#FF8000]r[/color][color=#FFFF40]i[/color][color=#00FF00]ll[/color][color=#0000FF]i[/color][color=#8000FF]a[/color][color=#BF40FF]nt[/color] thus far. He is quickly becoming one of my most favorite people ever.[/quote]

Have you read any Kierkegaard or Heidegger?[/quote]
I came across another man, well parts of him, well parts of his thoughts. . . okay some words that are ascribed to him.
His name is Peter Wessel Zapffe. He seems to be a wit, in the sense that he uses some humor in his writing.
I haven't read anything of him yet, but scanning a bit on wikipedia and reading a bit from this article
http://www.philosophynow.org/issues/45/ ... unt_Zapffe
It sounds quite interesting (ofcoure, because I agree with him mostly)
Are you familiair with his writings Blank?

[quote="Marekenshin"]Island by Aldous Huxley[/quote]Reading it right now. Easy read, but entertaining and still timely.

http://www.shelfari.com

It's a site where you can show what books you've read,
and I think there's more to it,
but I'm new to it.
I think it's quite useful.

My shelf: http://www.shelfari.com/o1515057363/shelf
(not up to date yet)

Finally got 1Q84 from the library and cranking through it.

[quote="terra"]Finally got 1Q84 from the library and cranking through it.[/quote]
I will never read this book. I bought it on release day and read about two pages. I'm so American.

I've been reading [i]Ready Player One[/i] by Ernest Cline. Pretty sweet, it's like a game developer's take on Charlie and the chocolate factory.

I've been reading Battle Royale, something I've been meaning to get around to for a long time. It's very…interesting.

Although, with the advent of the Hunger Games, does this make me a hipster now?

No, it makes you BETTER. There's an important difference.

[quote="Orochi"]I've been reading Battle Royale, something I've been meaning to get around to for a long time. It's very…interesting.

Although, with the advent of the Hunger Games, does this make me a hipster now?[/quote]
The book is actually really good. I think it adequately characterizes all 42+ characters. Also, the villain in the book is just SO MUCH better than the movie version.

The movie does a really poor job of explaining the back-story, which is quite interesting on its own.

Just recently finished reading Xenocide and I'm really eager to start the next one. Right now I'm reading Stephen King's "Different Seasons" its got 4 stories including "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" I enjoy the flashbacks I receive from the movie as I read along.

[quote="Brye916"]Just recently finished reading Xenocide and I'm really eager to start the next one. Right now I'm reading Stephen King's "Different Seasons" its got 4 stories including "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" I enjoy the flashbacks I receive from the movie as I read along. [/quote]

Xenocide was...okay. I really didn't care for Children of the Mind. Ender's Shadow was awesome though.

[quote="Blank"][quote="Brye916"]Just recently finished reading Xenocide and I'm really eager to start the next one. Right now I'm reading Stephen King's "Different Seasons" its got 4 stories including "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" I enjoy the flashbacks I receive from the movie as I read along. [/quote]

Xenocide was...okay. I really didn't care for Children of the Mind. Ender's Shadow was awesome though.[/quote]

I'm still going to enjoy the read even if it doesn't stand equal to any of its brothers. I heard good things about Ender's Shadow. Can't wait to read it.

I'm actually looking forward to re-reading the later books now that I'm older, I bet I'll appreciate them a lot differently.

[quote="Orochi"]I've been reading Battle Royale, something I've been meaning to get around to for a long time. It's very…interesting.

Although, with the advent of the Hunger Games, does this make me a hipster now?[/quote]

No, I'm a damn hipster because I read it like 5, oh wait, 8 years ago before you even heard of it.

Um. Wow. It really has been that long.

That reminds me, I should finish reading the Ender books. I think I read through Children of the Mind, but never read Ender's Shadow.

You can't be a hipster if you're married. Now you're just an adult.

"Back in my day..."