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Post by daveyposhboy on Feb 27, 2018 22:01:03 GMT
So did you ever find out ser chapsworth?
Finished Dubliners at work this morning. Must have read the last two pages to The Dead about 5 times, then spent a good fifteen minutes talking about it with a customer. Unbelievable, absolutely ruined me.
Page 30 of Ulysses and I've finally had to stop and just think "fuck I don't know what's going on". Although admittedly I am using the Joyce project website as I read. Actually making detailed notes as I read, and I plan to re read it as soon as I finish it to see if that helps. I have good feelings about it though (I am aware that being on page 30, when every other sentence has about 3 obscure references is nothing to clamour about lol)
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Post by daveyposhboy on Feb 27, 2018 22:05:02 GMT
Luckily work had a copy of Declan Kiberd's Ulysses and Us which apparently goes along nicely with the 1961 version of the original text, which is the one I've wanted to read (after all, it's somewhat close to how Joyce intended it to be read). I started reading Dubliners to re-familiarise myself with his prose and I am actually really excited to tackle Ulysses. It's absolutely going to take me an age, after a fortnight or more I'm still only halfway through Maugham's Of Human Bondage and that's pretty clean reading. Set myself a target of finishing it (and being able to actually comprehend it) by June 16. Pretentious wanker I know but I've always wanted to visit Ireland and that'll give me more reason SNC Dedalus! How did I only see this haha, ill stand you a coffee and a bun if you're in Ireland that weekend in June
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Post by daveyposhboy on Jun 3, 2018 20:15:34 GMT
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the best novel ever written. Holy fucking hell.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Jun 3, 2018 21:39:49 GMT
Got through How To Survive The End Of The World by @technicallyron on Twitter.
Very, very good book at summarising and explaining anxiety. Not necessarily the best for those suffering it unless you need reassurance that you're not alone with it, but it's a great read for helping people understand how it can affect you so I'm gonna ask a few people close to me to give it a read to try and understand what I sometimes struggle to put into words.
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Post by daveyposhboy on Jul 10, 2018 21:47:50 GMT
Started The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje, as it won the Golden Man Booker Prize and I've got to say it's practically fucking poetry
Manages to be both inspiring and completely disheartening reading it as someone who aspires to be a published author
I've gone and started Faulkner again as well which is just fantastic. Has an unbelievable command of narrative voice.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2018 21:30:14 GMT
Will probably pick up Joey Barton's book tomorrow Very poor altogether not as bad as Crouchy's book. Picked it up cos it's been serialised so much and it looked a good read but it's full of stories and antidotes about other people that are in no way related to him whatsoever. Awful stuff
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Post by daveyposhboy on Sept 13, 2018 10:08:12 GMT
Anyone here study philosophy and got much to recommend? I've ordered in Russell's The Problems with Philosophy to work as a starter, and will likely read Plato's Five Dialogues not long after, but it seems like there is way too much to read in a lot of different directions, from purely scientific to mathematical based philosophy
Mainly want to read Kierkegaard but apparently you can't really appreciate Either/Or, or general existentialism, without understanding the schools that preceded it. So yeah any tips
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Post by notpropaganda on Sept 13, 2018 10:48:40 GMT
Anyone here study philosophy and got much to recommend? I've ordered in Russell's The Problems with Philosophy to work as a starter, and will likely read Plato's Five Dialogues not long after, but it seems like there is way too much to read in a lot of different directions, from purely scientific to mathematical based philosophy Mainly want to read Kierkegaard but apparently you can't really appreciate Either/Or, or general existentialism, without understanding the schools that preceded it. So yeah any tips www.reddit.com/r/AskPhilosophyFAQ/comments/4ifqi3/im_interested_in_philosophy_where_should_i_start/My mate linked me to that^ when I had a similar query last year. He has a masters in philosophy as well and said it was as good a summary as he had seen for starting off. I haven't really followed up on it as I keep getting distracted by fiction these days
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Post by notpropaganda on Sept 13, 2018 10:54:03 GMT
Have any of you read Michael Calvin's books? I listened to a really great interview with him about his latest one called "State of Play" and his stuff sounds really interesting.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Sept 13, 2018 11:40:39 GMT
Living on the Volcano was great for an insight into different managers
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Post by daveyposhboy on Sept 13, 2018 13:43:03 GMT
Anyone here study philosophy and got much to recommend? I've ordered in Russell's The Problems with Philosophy to work as a starter, and will likely read Plato's Five Dialogues not long after, but it seems like there is way too much to read in a lot of different directions, from purely scientific to mathematical based philosophy Mainly want to read Kierkegaard but apparently you can't really appreciate Either/Or, or general existentialism, without understanding the schools that preceded it. So yeah any tips www.reddit.com/r/AskPhilosophyFAQ/comments/4ifqi3/im_interested_in_philosophy_where_should_i_start/My mate linked me to that^ when I had a similar query last year. He has a masters in philosophy as well and said it was as good a summary as he had seen for starting off. I haven't really followed up on it as I keep getting distracted by fiction these days Appreciate ya! I'm in a similar boat tbh. Last couple years I'd planned to go through uni reading lists etc and read more non fiction but couldn't seem to pull myself away from yr booker prize lists, and modern classics, etc. Just now I am finally beginning to tell myself that the fiction I want to read will always be there and actually I'm likely to enjoy it more once I've improved my understanding of things beyond a quick wikipedia lol. Especially post- (&post-post-) modernist fiction which for some bizarre reason I seem to want to lean towards these days
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Post by g7vikings on Sept 14, 2018 10:20:00 GMT
Have any of you read Michael Calvin's books? I listened to a really great interview with him about his latest one called "State of Play" and his stuff sounds really interesting. The nowhere men was really good (about scouts). I have living on the volcano on the back of it but not read it yet. And I watched a documentary about his 3rd book on academies; that was really good too so I’ll definitely read that when I get round to it. I listen to the anfield wrap and they’ve just put out a podcast with him about his new book, will probably be similar to what you’ve listened to.
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Post by Olivier on Sept 14, 2018 10:42:32 GMT
Listened to Barca and Spain The INside Story of La Roja's Historic Treble by Graham Hunter. Give fantastic insight into how the players are as people instead of footballers. Hunter stayed and travelled with the Spain team for all their major competitions.
Most recently finished The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck that started well on perspective etc. but tailed off towards the end where it seemed more like a therapy session for the author than anything else.
Now learning Spanish using Learn Spanish with Paul Noble. Surprisingly easy to pick up and go along with. It's a different style of teaching to usual lists of words and memorising stuff before moving on.
Basically just starting to use all my Audible credits that you get with Amazon Prime.
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Post by Liverpool_96 on Sept 17, 2018 16:19:01 GMT
yeah I'm just coming to the end of Not Giving a Fuck too but I'm still enjoying it, about to start the last chapter but his hypothesis on failing is rather refreshing and rings true in many aspects of life. going to translate it into my lifestyle, especially concerning workouts.
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Post by daveyposhboy on Oct 19, 2018 22:59:06 GMT
On a whim today I picked up The Winter of Our Discontent and I tell you what, the whole "Steinbeck" thing clicked for me. Maybe reading Gaddis' Carpenter's Gothic recently softened me up. Maybe it's just because I've read a ton more since the last time I approached Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath, pretty dense going, and I gave up a third in). But reading it all is just quite something, he has SUCH a masterly control over tone, character and dialogue.
Also read Howl for the first time. Only a little bit of analysis after so it'll take some combing over again and again but honestly that refrain in the third- 'I am with you in Rockland...' absolutely kills me. Amazing.
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