What are you currently reading?

[DavidW]

I was gently prodded into reading Araby by James Joyce.  An interesting short story, worth the read.  It helped me being able to discuss it with an expert though.

[Bogey]

I was gently prodded into reading Araby by James Joyce.  An interesting short story, worth the read.  It helped me being able to discuss it with an expert though.

Hey David!

[Karl Henning]

How 'bout that House of the Seven Gables, Davey?

[DavidW]

I'll have to come back to that Karl, I wasn't into it.  I need to approach it in summer when I have the time and am carefree.

[CaughtintheGaze]

All the volumes:

Mindblowing. The books that I'm reading currently tend toward things that are oriented toward my research, so under the Communication auspice or specifically rhetorical theory.

[Karl Henning]

I'll have to come back to that Karl, I wasn't into it.  I need to approach it in summer when I have the time and am carefree.

Understood.

[DavidW]

I might read some more from the Dubliners, in the meantime though the Dark Tower awaits...

[CaughtintheGaze]

Currently reading:
The Ghost in the Shell Volumes 1 and 2

New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism by Kennedy
Greek Rhetorical Origins of Christian Faith by Kinneavy
Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866-1910 by Johnson
First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity by Matthews
Amid the Fall, Dreaming of Eden by Stull
The Rhetoric of Redemption: Kenneth Burke's Redemption Drama and Martin Luther King Jr.'s I have a Dream Speech by Bobbitt
Yes We Can: Barack Obama's Proverbial Rhetoric by Mieder
Three Centuries of American Rhetorical Discourses edited by Reid

Recently just finished:
Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition by Kennedy
In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification by Pitts
Tokyo Cyberpunk by Brown
Cyberspace, Cyberbodies, Cyberpunk edited by Featherstone and Burrows
The Prosthetic Impulse edited by Smith and Morra

[Brahmsian]

The Stand - Stephen King

The complete and uncut version.  I'm finding it extremely riveting so far! 

[DavidW]

The Stand - Stephen King

The complete and uncut version.  I'm finding it extremely riveting so far! 

The villain of the piece is the low level villain in The Dark Tower fyi.  In the fourth volume the Gunslingers wander into the world of The Stand, and encounter R. F. at the end.  The Stand is one of his best novels, and I wasn't even disappointed with the ending.

[Florestan]

Time and again I revisit this classic masterpiece. One of the most passionate, principled and clear pleads for liberty that have ever been proposed. Unfortunately, also one of the most ignored...

[Ataraxia]

Good stuff.
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This was really great. An impressive debut for this author. If you like apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic fiction (in this case, an asteroid smashing into the earth and the aftermath), you should definitely consider it.

[Karl Henning]

. . . The Stand is one of his best novels, and I wasn't even disappointed with the ending.

Dang it, Davey, you've got even me considering the possibility of reading a Stephen King book . . . .

[jwinter]

Quote from: karlhenning on Today at 01:21:47 PM>Dang it, Davey, you've got even me considering the possibility of reading a Stephen King book . . . .

The Stand is definitely King's masterpiece-- or at least it was until the Dark Tower books came out, which I still haven't read (but mean to).  It's one of my all-time faves, in any genre.

And, if you get the ebook, you can always tell anyone who asks that you're reading Proust!   

[Drasko]

Just finished Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and I need now something bit different and maybe slightly easier to read. I thought I had no Jane Austin, but dug out a copy of Northanger Abbey, paperback of 60 year old Serbian translation. Most interesting is that publisher changed the title to Katarina (Catherine), probably thinking that Northanger Abbey is too tongue breaking and not catchy enough, though later publications of the same translation reverted to original title. Found picture of the edition on line, my copy looks about equally worn:

[Karl Henning]

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The Stand is definitely King's masterpiece-- or at least it was until the Dark Tower books came out, which I still haven't read (but mean to).  It's one of my all-time faves, in any genre.

And, if you get the ebook, you can always tell anyone who asks that you're reading Proust!   

Bill, you're a chum! : )

[Ataraxia]

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[Corey]

Partly for school, partly for my own edification:

Francis Bacon - New Organon
René Descartes - Discourse on Method
Michel de Montaigne - Essays
Albert Guérard - A Short History of the International Language Movement
Lipset and Marks - It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States

[Papy Oli]

An objective and insightful history of the liberation of Paris and the aftermath of WW2 in France... Covers a wide range of aspects (political tensions within the allies, within the various French movements, handling/trials of collaborators, the actions of artists and writers...).

Mind-opening particularly on the subject of collaboration, still a highly sensitive subject in France and with which it is still slowly coming to terms.

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[Ataraxia]

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