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BOOK CLUB.

Sorry the threads a bit late, DnD campaign got really intense.

BOOKS.
FUCK YEAH.

Remember when I said last week was the last sci fi book?
I FUCKING LIED. WERE READING SNOWCRASH, WHATCHA GUNNA DO BOUT IT FAGGOT?

Cyberpunkmode: SNOWCRASH

2deep4u mode: Gravity's Rainbow(because I hate you all)

Dawkins mode: The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

Heres your books faggots.(In glorious PDF format)

Snowcrash
http://tinypic.com/r/qpigwp/7

Gravity's Nigger
http://tinypic.com/r/2vab4fc/7

The Mysterious Stranger
http://tinypic.com/r/qpigwp/7

(pic related because FUCK YEAH NEW HOUSE TOMORROW)

>> No.1179409

i used to not mind these threads but all the cursing and capslock is annoying

>> No.1179408

Gravity's Rainbow.
In a week?
And you said no to Brothers Karamazov?
WTF.

>> No.1179413

If anyone reads Gravity's Rainbow in a week they'll probably lose their mind.

>> No.1179427

I'm going to try for Gravity's Rainbow.

I'm fully aware I'll probably kill myself.

I'd upload "A 'Gravity's Rainbow' Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel", but it is on my Windows partition.

>> No.1179431

>>1179408
Its a fucking 400 page difference between them.

I think I might extend the next thread till monday depending on how far people are during the week.

>>1179409
I wasnt aware there was time when they didnt have capslocks and cursing.

>> No.1179433

Do you even do non-fiction for this?

>> No.1179436

>>1179433

Ah, bad typo!

Ever, not even*

>> No.1179437

>>1179433
I actually really would like to but everytime Ive suggest that its been greeted with cries of a hatred and loathing.

ITT: humanities majors hate learning about the real world.

>> No.1179439

Here's the GR companion: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U2RBEHV0

Reading it in a week feels somewhat excessive, though. There might be a 400 page difference between it and BK, but the information density is not even comparable.

>> No.1179444

>>1179437

Here's a suggestion for awesome nonfic (and it will troll the shit out of the humanity majors): Sokal & Bricmont - Fashionable Nonsense.

>> No.1179445

>>1179436
Ah, easy mistake to make.

I should also point out that illiterate mode often has nonfiction essays or articles. I also hope that later on we can try out some good nonfiction, I was thinking some Carl Sagan mabye.

>> No.1179450

>>1179439
I think Ill make it a two week event.
Well have a new illiterate mode/Neckbeard mode next week but hipster mode will just be continuing Gravities Rainbow.

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1179537

Bump because FUCKING HOMEWORK THREADS.

>> No.1179754

bump

>> No.1179876

Fuck yeah, Snow Crash! I've already read it (and I'm ~50-60 pages from finishing Diamond Age), but I'll be interested in seeing the discussion about it. When should I check back? 1 week to the day? Same time?

>> No.1180225
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1180225

Should we maybe have a midway point in Gravity's Rainbow?

I mean, maybe we agree to get to page 400 or so by next Sunday and discuss what we have read so far.

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1180236

>usa
>Hugh Laurie

>> No.1180240
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1180240

>>1180236
>UK
>Hugh Laurie

>> No.1180247

HAHA, FUCKING AWESOME. I JUST HAPPENED TO CHOOSE THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER IN THE NEXT 10 BOOKS TO READ.

LOOKS LIKE I'LL BE READING THAT NOW.

I'VE ALREADY READ SNOW CRASH TOO, FUCK YES. BUT I DIDN'T LIKE IT.

>> No.1180319

>>1180236
>he doesn't realize they're both pictures of Hugh Laurie

>laughing_girls.png

>> No.1180330
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1180330

>>1180236
>>1180319

>> No.1180337

Where is pdf?!

>> No.1180917

>>1180337
Newfriends cant rar a jpg.

>>1180225
This, try and make it to 400-500 by next sunday.

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1181184

Bump

>> No.1181222

>Snowcrash
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Mysterious Stranger
>all shitty PDF format
God bless you CW! Keep up this stuff that doesnt interest me until I finish all my school books.

>> No.1181318

>>1181222
Oh do tell, almighty Tybrax, what does interest you?

>> No.1181427

>>1181222
Isn't half the fun of a book club reading things you wouldn't have read otherwise?

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1181507

Call me a newfag (I am), but I don't see a pdf, just a jpg of the covers. Halp?

>> No.1181551

>>1181507
Newfags...

Right click the jpg and open it as a rar.

>> No.1181573

NEARLY DONE THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER.

YOU KEEP POSTING THOSE SHORT CLASSICS THAT I'M YET TO READ, OKAY?

EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY READ THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.

>> No.1181846

Bump

>> No.1182234

I enjoy PDF format.

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1182257

>mfw I would have read Neckbeard if it was Neuromancer

Not that I wouldn't love to read Snowcrash, but I just have too many books that I actually own that I haven't read yet.

Also: next week's neckbeard better be fantasy

>> No.1182279

awesome CW. i just put grav's rainbow on my ereader, and snow crash is one of my fav books. i guess i will finally be able to participate.

can i suggest some non-fiction? Underground by Murakami is great. And Surely You're Joking Dr. Feinmann was amazing too. And i second some Sagan.

>> No.1182303

What you all seem to mean by non-fiction is 'popular science'. There are essays and philosophical works we might do better to prioritize, as essentially no literature person gives a fuck about scientism, they just want to appear to to be 'in'.

>> No.1182380

>>1182303
>as essentially no literature person gives a fuck about scientism, they just want to appear to to be 'in'.

I'm a computer science major. I'm down with science. There is nothing wrong with having several interests.

Also:
>literature person
wat?

>scientism
Scientism is the idea that natural science is the most important aspect of human education. Nobody claimed they subscribed to that belief. The word you're looking for is science.

inb4 "I'm not a native English speaker"
;D

>> No.1182630

>>1182257
Im trying. Its really hard to find a good fantasy novel thats roughly 500 pages long and NOT part of a series.

>> No.1182640

>>1182630
Here's three off the top of my head
k j parker the folding knife
ken grimwood replay
tim powers anubis gates

Replay is half that length though.

>> No.1182904

>>1182640at...
Adding to that....
The Once and Future King
The King of Elfland's Daughter

>> No.1183608

Bump

>> No.1183688

>>1183608
So be honest.

How far are you guys in Gravities Rainbow?

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1183827

lol wut

>> No.1183980

>>1183688
I'm going to start tomorrow. Busy Mon-Wednesday, but Thurs and Fri should be almost 100% free.

>> No.1184248

>>1183688
100 pages in, been pretty busy, and it's dense.

>> No.1184259

>>1184248
Keep on trucking bro.

>> No.1184263

FUCK I PUT THE WRONG LINK FOR THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER.

Why did no one notice this?

http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/Twain/Mysterious-Stranger.htm

>> No.1184761

ba-bump

>> No.1184865

>>1179403
>British actor under American flag

>> No.1184911

>>1184865
>he doesn't realize both pictures are of Hugh Laurie
>laughing_girls.png

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>>1180236
>>1180240
>>1184865
You make Stephen sad

>> No.1186128

Pumb