Off Topic: What are you been reading this days?

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Lately, I've read Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs and Cesar Millan's Dog Whisperer.


I just finished Running With Scissors. I have to admit that I was somewhat underwhelmed. I know the author is limited by the extent of his experiences so I can't fault him that nothing much happened. What annoys me is that these people he lived with weren't so much counter-culturish as they were disgusting slobs. I thought he'd have some sort of revelation about what is and isn't important in life and perhaps that's to his credit that he doesn't, but I at least expected some kind of realization of what it all meant to him in a sort of summation of his younger years. It didn't seem to mean very much and yet, in his next book, he's drinking as though he was severely traumatized by life.

Picked up the new Johnny Cash biography someone gave me as a present and its pretty good. I was just planning to scan it because I have a juicy biography of Julius Caesar I'm wanting to dive into, but this is pretty well written and I'm really savoring his recreation of the dust bowl era and the squalor into which "JR" was born.
 

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Barack Obama's "The Audacity of Hope," and "Oswald's Tale," by Norman Mailer. . .one an insightful assortment of ponderings by the Illinois Senator and the other an study of the netherworld of alleged Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald . . .not another Grassy Knoll rant, either. Both highly recommended!:wink:
 

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For sociological theory:

Therborn, Goran. "La ideología del poder y el poder de la ideología".

Aulagnier, Piera. "Los destinos del placer".

Furtado, Celso. "El desarrollo económico: un mito".

Lechner, Norbert. "La crisis del Estado en América Latina".

For philosophy:

Foucault, Michel. "Historia de la sexualidad".

Ricoeur, Paul. "Sí mismo como otro" ("Soi-même comme un autre")
 

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I reread Americn Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, then found a copy of The Doom that came to Sarnath and The DreamQuest of Unknown Kadath and by H.P. Lovecraft.

But recently I've been writing a lot of stuff.

How fun.
 

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I reread Americn Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, then found a copy of The Doom that came to Sarnath and The DreamQuest of Unknown Kadath and by H.P. Lovecraft.

But recently I've been writing a lot of stuff.

How fun.

I love HP Lovecraft! He was a man before his time.

I've committed myself to reading the entire Dune series, but I"m only 50 pages into the first book. (This may take a while)