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El Profesor Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 I´m now reading books related to the history of rubber exploration, especially in Amazon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Profesor Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 I gave "The English Patient" a try, but I just couldn´t keep reading it. I´ve found it to be super boring. Now, I´m reading "The Great Gatsby" and I´m loving it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andronico Remarco Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 On 05/07/2021 at 10:48, Inverted said: A man of culture! But Narcissus and Goldmund is better! --- I am Reading: Faust by the Master, Johan W. Goethe Croire aux fauvres (something like: "Belive in the Wild Spirit, but is translated as "In the Eye of Wild" in English version) by Nastassja Martin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted July 12, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted July 12, 2021 36 minutes ago, Andronico Remarco said: A man of culture! But Narcissus and Goldmund is better! My personal top list of Hesse's books would be: 1. Steppenwolf 2. Demian 3. Siddhartha 4. Journey to the East 5. Das Glasperlenspiel 6. Narcissus and Goldmund 7. Knulp 8. Peter Camenzind 9. Klingsor's Last Summer 10. Rosshalde Although to be honest, I read them all a long time ago, and if I re read it again, the order would probably change. Some of Hesse's books definitely have a certain critical age bracket when you should read it to enjoy it the most, in my opinion... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverted Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 31 minutes ago, Andronico Remarco said: A man of culture! But Narcissus and Goldmund is better! --- With still about 20 pages to go I’d agree, I enjoyed Narziss und Goldmund more. They’re good companion pieces though. Similar ideas except where Narziss und Goldmund explores two opposing worldviews with two friends, Siddartha has the one character transitioning from one to the other. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted July 12, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted July 12, 2021 18 hours ago, El Profesor said: I gave "The English Patient" a try, but I just couldn´t keep reading it. I´ve found it to be super boring. Now, I´m reading "The Great Gatsby" and I´m loving it. I found the English Patient movie also extremely boring, so didn't even bother with the book You're loving The Great Gatsby? I think F. Scott Fitzgerald is just not for me... I love the setting, but found the novel very meh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andronico Remarco Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 56 minutes ago, nudge said: My personal top list of Hesse's books would be: 1. Steppenwolf 2. Demian 3. Siddhartha 4. Journey to the East 5. Das Glasperlenspiel 6. Narcissus and Goldmund 7. Knulp 8. Peter Camenzind 9. Klingsor's Last Summer 10. Rosshalde Although to be honest, I read them all a long time ago, and if I re read it again, the order would probably change. Some of Hesse's books definitely have a certain critical age bracket when you should read it to enjoy it the most, in my opinion... I love to open this book by Hesse called "Music of the World" (the title is translated from my language) is a compilation of his best quotes and it comfort me a lot sometime...i am affectionate to Hesse because he lived his last years near my city. Same for Remarque (I stolen his name but I "italianized" it). I am really proud two German giants and favorite writers come to live here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Profesor Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 1 hour ago, nudge said: I found the English Patient movie also extremely boring, so didn't even bother with the book You're loving The Great Gatsby? I think F. Scott Fitzgerald is just not for me... I love the setting, but found the novel very meh. I gave "The English Patient" a try because I saw that it was awarded the "Man Booker Prize" and also because I tend to like everything related to World War II but it just wasn't my cup of tea. Actually, I am a huge historical fiction fan in general. Have you read "A Brief History of Seven Killings" ? It also won the "Man Booker Prize" and the synopsis really attracted me. I may give it try. And yes, I'm loving "The Great Gatsby". Probably because I'm interested that post-WW1 atmosphere the book portrays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted July 12, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted July 12, 2021 2 hours ago, Andronico Remarco said: I love to open this book by Hesse called "Music of the World" (the title is translated from my language) is a compilation of his best quotes and it comfort me a lot sometime...i am affectionate to Hesse because he lived his last years near my city. Same for Remarque (I stolen his name but I "italianized" it). I am really proud two German giants and favorite writers come to live here. Remarque I love Remarque. Have read all his books I could get my hands on when I was a teen, and could relate to every single one of them. A very unique feeling. It's good to know there's someone else out there who appreciates him as much as I do! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted July 12, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted July 12, 2021 1 hour ago, El Profesor said: I gave "The English Patient" a try because I saw that it was awarded the "Man Booker Prize" and also because I tend to like everything related to World War II but it just wasn't my cup of tea. Actually, I am a huge historical fiction fan in general. Have you read "A Brief History of Seven Killings" ? It also won the "Man Booker Prize" and the synopsis really attracted me. I may give it try. And yes, I'm loving "The Great Gatsby". Probably because I'm interested that post-WW1 atmosphere the book portrays. I haven't read A Brief History of Seven Killings, in fact, I haven't even heard of its existence Bob Marley had a huge influence on me growing up, so I'd love to check it out! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Profesor Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 Finished "The Great Gatsby". Loved it. Now after reading "The Quiet American", I´m once again back to Vietnam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco Posted July 15, 2021 Author Share Posted July 15, 2021 Finish Atemis, which was a decent novel. Nothing earth shattering, btu good. Now my next fiction is this - which so far is good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverted Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Interesting time frame, enjoying it so far. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted July 18, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted July 18, 2021 I put this in here as there is a book out and I might just buy it, I reckon it would be a good read. That inkblot below when I look at it I see a Transformer toy, the 3 grandsons had them all when they were wee nippers. THE INKBLOTS Quote Hermann Rorschach spills the ink What do you see when you look at this image? Rorschach Inkblot. Credit: Flicker. Splash red wine on a white tablecloth and, along with receiving a scolding, you might also be invited to partake in an impromptu Rorschach test, a method of psychological examination created 100 years ago by Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach and detailed in his book Psychodiagnostik. The Rorschach test involves a subject being presented with a set of 10 ambiguous inkblots printed on card paper, each with a near-perfect symmetry to them. They are then invited to offer their perceptions of them, which are recorded and analysed by an administrator. It was a technique widely used, particularly back in the 1960s, as a way to help a person reveal hidden emotion and internal conflicts which they presumably project through their interpretation of the shapes. In his 2017 book The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing, author Damion Searls says the psychologist’s now-famous inkblots are “probably the 10 most interpreted and analysed paintings of the 20th century”. “Of the large number of diagnostic tools available to clinicians today, perhaps none has been so widely used yet remained so controversial as the Rorschach test,” says Rorschach scholar John E. Exner Jnr, with Beth Clark, writing in a 1978 edition of the journal Clinical Diagnosis of Mental Disorders. Exner and Clark report that, since the publication of Psychodiagnostik in 1921, dozens of books and more than 5000 articles have been written on the test. They note that during its existence, “five major systems of Rorschach administration, scoring, and interpretation have arisen. Each approach offers its own unique postulates, yet each unavoidably adds to the confusion about the uses and the philosophy of the test.” Hermann Rorschach was born in Zurich, Switzerland, on 8 November 1884. His father was a painter and art teacher, whose young son “showed great interest in drawing from a young age”, according to Ricardo Vieira Teles Filho, a researcher from the Federal University of Goias, in Brazil. Filho says Rorschach was especially fond of klecksography, “a popular game among schoolchildren at the time, which consisted of filling a piece of paper with ink and then folding it, thus obtaining singular and fun figures”. Searls adds: “In a twist of fate that seems too good to be true, Rorschach’s nickname in school was ‘Klex’ [or klecks], the German word for ‘inkblot’.” Searls says that when it came time to move into secondary education, Rorschach had the choice of art or science. Having made the acquaintance of Prussian academic Ernst Haeckel, Rorschach was inspired by the renowned proponent of Darwinism to take up the study of medicine. Rorschach enrolled in medical school at the University of Zurich, graduating in 1909, which, Filho notes, coincided “with the widespread dissemination of research on the new ideas of a then-unknown psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud”. He then went to work at a local mental hospital while he finished his doctoral dissertation in 1912, under psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who coined the term “schizophrenia” and is regarded as “one of the most influential psychiatrists of his time”. His dissertation didn’t focus on inkblots, but rather examined hallucinations in schizophrenia. Also in 1912, Rorschach published a paper, “Reflex Hallucinations and Symbolism”, and was a co-founder of the Zurich Psychoanalysis Society. In 1914, he specialised in psychiatry at the University of Zurich, and from 1915 to 1922 he worked in a hospital as a chief physician. It was between the years 1917 to 1920 that Rorschach created, refined and studied his inkblots, developing his approach after studying more than 400 subjects’ responses to early versions of them. His final set of 10 stimuli was published in 1921. Before publication, Rorschach experimented with 40 or more versions of inkblots, many of which appear to be less complex, nuanced and detailed than the final set. Researchers agree they were artistically embellished by Rorschach himself to ensure that each figure contained numerous distinctive features that could easily be identified as similar to objects stored in the memory traces of any individual. “Thus,” write Gregory Meyer and Donald Viglione, “despite common belief to the contrary, the images are not arbitrary, haphazard, or accidental inkblots. Instead, they are purposively altered images that were refined through trial-and-error experimentation to elicit informative responses.” They describe the inkblots as each having a white background: five are grey or black, two are “achromatic” red, and three are “in an array of pastel colours without any black”. Just a few months after Psychodiagnostik’s publication, Rorschach died, on 2 April 1922, of peritonitis, by several accounts the result of a ruptured appendix. Despite its popularity, the Rorschach test has attracted considerable controversy, much of it based on the many and various methods of scoring and analysing responses. Writing in 2001 in the journal Psychological Assessment, Donald Viglione says, “A large body of empirical evidence supports the reliability, validity and utility of the Rorschach. This same evidence reveals that the recent criticisms of the Rorschach are largely without merit.” https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/behaviour/hermann-rorschach-spills-the-ink/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 Got this in the mail yesterday, and I'll start it off in prep for the upcoming Bundesliga season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 Anyone read the Wheel of Time series? I just saw they are making it into a show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted July 25, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted July 25, 2021 9 hours ago, Eco said: Anyone read the Wheel of Time series? I just saw they are making it into a show. Nope. I'm not that much into fantasy, especially not the whole dragons & magic stuff. But I heard they are making it into a show, and will give it a go to see what all the fuss is about. The only high fantasy book series I truly love is Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber. Now they should try and make that into a TV show... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted July 28, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted July 28, 2021 Got this as my next non-fiction read. I must admit I know VERY little of Taiping rebellion and the civil war, so I'm really eager to read this book. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted July 28, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted July 28, 2021 Reading 2 books atm, Band of Brothers the third book Wild Blue, (managed to read the other 2, D Day & Citizen Soldiers) & Pop Goes the Weasel, next on the agenda when I finish the other 2 mentioned is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Eco Posted August 6, 2021 Author Share Posted August 6, 2021 Absolutely excited, as I just got a notification that Andy Weir's latest book is ready for me to check out and read. Let's Go! Cancel all my plans for the weekend... And then my non-fiction - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted August 6, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted August 6, 2021 31 minutes ago, Eco said: Absolutely excited, as I just got a notification that Andy Weir's latest book is ready for me to check out and read. Let's Go! Cancel all my plans for the weekend... Let me know what you think when you finish it... I absolutely loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco Posted August 6, 2021 Author Share Posted August 6, 2021 35 minutes ago, nudge said: Let me know what you think when you finish it... I absolutely loved it. Yeah - I heard someone I trust with books say it's one of his 10 top books of all time. So needless to say I have high expectations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ploughendplonker Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 (edited) Usually only read football-themed books, although did recently finish the biography of Albert Pierrepoint which was very interesting. In terms of football books, a few I would recommend: 'It's Only Banter' (Leroy Rosenior's autobiography) 'Provided You Don't Kiss Me' (Duncan Hamilton biography on Clough) 'The Saint' (Ian St John's autobiography) Roy Keane's autobiography (2nd one) I realise the fourth one is stating the obvious somewhat as it's one of the more well known sports books, but that's my top 4. Edited August 6, 2021 by Ploughendplonker Missed something out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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