Keep the Aspidistra Flying (George Orwell)
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Currently reading: The Bell (Iris Murdoch)
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying (George Orwell)
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Currently reading: The Bell (Iris Murdoch)
120 days of sodom by Sade
Le Bleu du Ciel (Georges Bataille)
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Currently reading: Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Stonemouth : Banks Because it's right to support widows.
for the reading list:
The Once and Future King (T. H. White)
Le Jour des Morts (Cees Nooteboom)
Rituels (Cees Nooteboom)
L'Année de la Mort de Ricardo Reis (José Saramago)
Rabbit is Rich (John Updike)
The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
Casino Royale (Ian Fleming)
Rosshalde (Hermann Hesse)
Fools of Fortune (William Trevor)
The Heart of Redness (Zakes Mda)
Empire of the Sun (J G Ballard)
Lost Illusions (Honoré de Balzac)
The Lost Language of Cranes (David Leavitt)
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Currently reading: The Temple of My Familiar (Alice Walker)
I love that bookQuote:
Originally Posted by bouquin
Last book I bought was The Strain by Guillermo del Toro because its been on my wish list for a while and it dropped to £0.99 for the Kindle version
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Black Water (Joyce Carol Oates)
The Cider House Rules (John Irving)
The Time of Indifference (Alberto Moravia)
Antic Hay (Aldous Huxley)
The Crow Road (Iain Banks)
. . . all on my reading list.
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Currently reading: The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Old Wives' Tale (Arnold Bennett)
The Glass Key (Dashiell Hammett)
The First Circle (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)
The Folding Star (Alan Hollinghurst)
Glamorama (Bret Easton Ellis)
I'm Not Stiller (Max Frisch)
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Currently reading: Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country
Uzma Aslam Khan - Thinner Than Skin
Enjoy! :thumbsup: Read him before?Quote:
Originally Posted by Marbles
No, my first Kawabata book. I have heard a lot of praise and am expecting a great reading experience!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
Because it's about time I read it.
The Maltese Falcon and Heart of Darkness by Conrad for their reputation, well and because Heart of Darkness was only $2.25 haha. I am waiting for them to get delivered.
When I was at the Quest Book Store I picked up a copy of Amit Goswami's "The Self-Aware Universe". Nothing by Goswami was in my local library and so I figured this might be worth buying. This was another book on quantum physics and consciousness, but as I read further he seemed to have a view point similar to the one I was coming up with and even called it "monistic idealism". Most of my ideas have been thought by others before as I have come to realize again and again.
He wasn't as fond of George Berkeley as I currently am, thinking that Berkeley was implicitly a dualist, but my challenge was to find where I disagreed with Goswami. That book was published in 1993 and so I looked for something more recent from him and bought his 2012 ebook, "God Is Not Dead".
What makes monistic idealism work is the non-locality of quantum physics which pushes influence outside space-time (assuming one defines space-time as the place where local field influences can operate). Berkeley would not have had that to shield him from dualism.
1. Daniel Defoe. Moll Flanders
2. Daniel Defoe. Roxana
3. John Locke. An Essay concerning Human Understanding
4. Ben Jonson. The Alchemist and Other Plays
Reasons: I always give myself books as presents for special occasions; Now for New Year! Moreover, I am studying Literature, and I want to read my own books and write notes on although some of these books I am re-reading. Unfortunately, I couldn't find Richardson's Pamela at the bookstore else it would be on the list!