Books

[alanrotoi]

Today I bought with my girlfriend 11 books! At the awesome price of € 30.34!!! My 7 books (the other 4 were for her) are a couple of historic novels, myths and history of Rapanui (Isla de Pascua), a book about UFOs (just €1 xD), Myths of the Incas, a book about Caciques (native american clan leaders) from early Argentina and "The Elfstones of Shannara" of Terry Brooks.

Yee! Let's  list and recommend the books we are buying

[CTG]

The first book I started to read by will since 1998:

M. Scott Peck - People of the Lie: The Hope For Healing Human Evil

[BonzaiJoe]

I read a whole book yesterday. It was Jose Luis Borges: The Aleph (collection of small stories)
Next up: Octavio Paz.

[CTG]

Btw printed or e-books?

I prefer the first one. If you spend 10-12 (or even more) hours per day staring at a monitor, the last thing you want is to watch another flickering screen...

[alanrotoi]

That's right, I mean printed books.

[alanrotoi]

BTW BJ good to know you read Borges! He is considered the best argentinian in literature. And in 1hs I'll be in the street J.L. Borges xD Byeee!

[zaqrack]

Btw printed or e-books?

I prefer the first one. If you spend 10-12 (or even more) hours per day staring at a monitor, the last thing you want is to watch another flickering screen...

my Kindle is not flickering at all

[BonzaiJoe]

The Borges book was really good. It was a bit like Kafka, but with more fully developed stories, and less depressive...

[BonzaiJoe]

I couldn't deal with the Paz thing because it was in Norwegian, and a work of scientific non-fiction. So I read Georges Perec instead, and now on to some Erlend Loe, for a comic intermezzo.

[JTK]

Very nice piece of art by Susanna Hesselberg close to Aarhus:
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/06/hesselberg-library/

[BonzaiJoe]

Wow, nice. I hope I get a chance to see that.