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[Sinke]

Eco was in Croatia few days ago, which triggered me to start reading "The Name of the Rose".

The other day I bought a small biography of Boghart, which was quite interesting thing to scan.

[Juni Ori]

Tom Henrik, on Dec 10 2006, 09:37 PM, said:

Last read: Donald Duck
Currently reading: Nothing
Going to read: Nothing in the near foreseeable future.

Fear my literature skills!

I do fear. Especially if it's contagious...

[Stroggy]

I tend to read a few books at a time (one main read and others as a 'side dish')
So
Previous: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde (main read); Blindness; Brave new World

Currently: War and Peace (only 200 pages left); Alice in Wonderland; lawbooks

Next: Bleak House; Hannibal Rising; (?)

I haven't yet decided on my side-dish book. It shouldn't be a very deep book, but not bland. I would prefer a classic, but I'm willing to try something new, it also has to be rather short (not that I mind long books, but I want to be able to carry it around with me)

[A. J. Raffles]

Stroggy, on Dec 11 2006, 09:41 PM, said:

I tend to read a few books at a time (one main read and others as a 'side dish')
So
Previous: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde (main read); Blindness; Brave new World

Currently: War and Peace (only 200 pages left); Alice in Wonderland; lawbooks

Next: Bleak House; Hannibal Rising; (?)

I haven't yet decided on my side-dish book. It shouldn't be a very deep book, but not bland. I would prefer a classic, but I'm willing to try something new, it also has to be rather short (not that I mind long books, but I want to be able to carry it around with me)

Heh, I was expecting you to give a list consisting of law textbooks only.

For the side-dish: how about The Island of Dr Moreau, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes or The Good Soldier? All good solid classics, but still very readable and not too long. Or were you thinking about more 19th-century stuff? If you've read those books already and/or that's not the sort of thing you had in mind, what were the last side-dishes you enjoyed?

[greywolf]

Yess! The Island of Dr. Moreau will make you pee your pants like it did to me.  

Seriously, though, that was guesomely fascinating and well worth it. Back when Wells wrote it, it was cutting edge, much like genetically engineered animals that can talk would be today.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Last Read : Little Caesar
Currently Reading : The Godfather (yes the movie is based on a novel)
Next Reading: Green Ice

[Stroggy]

A. J. Raffles, on Dec 11 2006, 11:19 PM, said:

Heh, I was expecting you to give a list consisting of law textbooks only.

Oh, what the heck:
Criminal Law, Herring
Criminal Law, Simmester and Sullivan
Criminal Law, Clarkson and Keating
Public Law, Gavin Phillipson
Public Law, Bradley and Ewing
The Changing Constitution, numerous authors
The Law of Contract, O'Sullivan and Hilliard
Contract Law Casebook, Jill Poole
EU Law, Steiner and Woods
EU Law Casebook, Weatherill
Understanding Law, Brownsword
Modern Contract Law, Brownsword
(Brownsword is my contract law tutor, so he's constantly having us buy his books.)

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For the side-dish: how about The Island of Dr Moreau, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes or The Good Soldier? All good solid classics, but still very readable and not too long. Or were you thinking about more 19th-century stuff? If you've read those books already and/or that's not the sort of thing you had in mind, what were the last side-dishes you enjoyed?

Oh, anything that doesn't require too much attention will do.
Last things I read as a "side-dish" were: Blindness, Brave New World, a bundle of works by Lovecraft. I'm now reading Alice in Wonderland (there's a first time for everything)

As I found a small bookshop selling classic books at low prices (£2 for 'War and Peace'; £3 for 'War and Peace' bundled with 'Anna Karenina')  it would be interesting to know what books to go for. I will certainly look into your suggestions, thanks!

[Potatoe]

Tom Henrik, on Dec 10 2006, 07:37 PM, said:

Last read: Donald Duck
Currently reading: Nothing
Going to read: Nothing in the near foreseeable future.

Fear my literature skills!

Donald Duck, best comic/book/show ever.

[A. J. Raffles]

The authors' names for those law textbooks sound a lot more appealing than the actual books...

[PrejudiceSucks]

www.uncyclopedia.org - that's what I'm reading. Oscar Wilde quotes everywhere (that are made up, obviously).

It's great.

[Stroggy]

A. J. Raffles, on Dec 13 2006, 06:27 PM, said:

The authors' names for those law textbooks sound a lot more appealing than the actual books...

Indeed, Herring is a brilliant name. I remember the following conversation during a tutorial where a student asked the tutor whether she would suggest we read Herring as the primary textbook, it went something as follows:

student:"Would you suggest we read Herring?"
tutor:"Would I suggest you read what?"
student:"Read Herring."
tutor:"Read a herring?"
student:"yes"
*silence*
tutor:"a herring?!"
student:"the textbook"
tutor:"the herring textbook? Oh! You mean the textbook by Jonathan Herring!"

Actually that same student is a well of funny dialogue. I think she's from Eastern Europe and her English is a bit rusty, e.g.

tutor: "Imagine someone breaks into my house to steal my grandfather clock"
student: "why is it called stealing, if the thief wants to steal my grandfather, wouldn't that be kidnapping?"
tutor: "no, it's a clock"
student: "but he's my grandfather!"

Anyway... lots of very dry books, indeed.

[BeefontheBone]

Good thing nobody asked him to cut down a tree...

@Prej: Uncyclopedia's ok in small doses, it gets a bit grating after w hile though. Check out the entry for Grue, it's ace.

[A. J. Raffles]

Stroggy, on Dec 13 2006, 08:25 PM, said:

A. J. Raffles, on Dec 13 2006, 06:27 PM, said:

The authors' names for those law textbooks sound a lot more appealing than the actual books...

Indeed, Herring is a brilliant name. I remember the following conversation during a tutorial where a student asked the tutor whether she would suggest we read Herring as the primary textbook, it went something as follows:

student:"Would you suggest we read Herring?"
tutor:"Would I suggest you read what?"
student:"Read Herring."
tutor:"Read a herring?"
student:"yes"
*silence*
tutor:"a herring?!"
student:"the textbook"
tutor:"the herring textbook? Oh! You mean the textbook by Jonathan Herring!"

Yes, odd tutors' names can be an endless source of fun. One of the running gags we have is Dr Pamela Anderson, who's a philosophy tutor at Regent's Park - poor woman, I bet she's bloody sick of the giggles her name inevitably produces.

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tutor: "Imagine someone breaks into my house to steal my grandfather clock"
student: "why is it called stealing, if the thief wants to steal my grandfather, wouldn't that be kidnapping?"
tutor: "no, it's a clock"
student: "but he's my grandfather!"

Let's just hope she'll never end up in a situation where she'll have to decide between saving her grandfather and saving her grandfather clock. She might pick the wrong one.

[BeefontheBone]

That's nothing. I know someone who's called Michael Hunt. And he even calls himself Mike, I've no idea why.

[Sean]

BeefontheBone, on Dec 13 2006, 11:23 PM, said:

That's nothing. I know someone who's called Michael Hunt. And he even calls himself Mike, I've no idea why.

This isn't the really bad joke thread, is it?