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    • Out 7 2006, 16h11

    Books

    Norman Davies - Warszaw '44

    Higly recommended

    Music to go with the book would be Fluttering Dragon's 63 days serie.

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    • Out 10 2006, 10h44
    Haven't read the book, (*sigh* horrific times) but yes 63 Days would be very appropriate.
    I only have parts ii and iv of that compilation. Do you have the whole series of 7?

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    • Out 28 2006, 1h41

    Julius Evola / René Guénon

    Has anyone read Evola's 'Ride the Tiger' or Guénon's 'The Crisis of the Modern World' ? Or anything by these authors?
    Pls pm me

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    • Out 28 2006, 17h46
    I've read both, and am very familiar with both authors. I'm composing a PM in regards to them at the moment. Check your mail in a little while, because I have the feeling that it's going to be a little lengthy since I can practically go on forever about them.

  • I'm reading I Am Legend right now, along with The Eddas and the Kalevala. >:3

    I switch to the scary book when I'm a little bored with the epics.

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    • Fev 6 2007, 0h27
    Pewpewlazers said:
    I'm reading I Am Legend right now...


    I'll bet you're highly anticipating the film adaptation starring Will Smith? [sarcasm]I'm sure it will be wonderful.[/sarcasm] :)

  • AEnator said:
    Pewpewlazers said:
    I'm reading I Am Legend right now...


    I'll bet you're highly anticipating the film adaptation starring Will Smith? [sarcasm]I'm sure it will be wonderful.[/sarcasm] :)


    I've heard about it. I can't believe it. Richard Matheson must be spinning in his sepulcher.

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    • Mar 3 2007, 17h40
    Currently reading:
    Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland.

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    • Mar 4 2007, 7h10

    slightly related, but not even really on topic

    So I got the course guides for my university, and one of the top tier latin courses offered will be on Caesar's De Bello Civile.

    Should be great fun, and I will look forward to taking it.

    I'm the meantime I'm being a total sissy-girl and reading Winnie Ille Pu

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    • Mar 29 2007, 21h20
    I'm reading several books at the time. The best one is most definetly : KL Auschwitz seen by the SS , with memoires of Höss, commander of Auschwitz.

  • Finished David Conway's Metal Sushi during the weekend. I'll probably start something I haven't read yet by Blavatsky or William Judge towards the end of the week.

    ``I want to hear the Glenn Miller Orchestra and I want to see cops beating up hippies.''
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    • Jun 14 2007, 9h40
    Just received Niall Ferguson's "The War of the World" yesterday and started reading immediately. Bought it through ebay for a sweet 18 euros (postage incl.) ! Saw it in Fnac for 60 euros !!!
    :-)))

    Also bought his "Pity of War" book but haven't received it yet.

    Ah, and i recommend Richard Evans' superb series on the Third Reich, currently reading the second part "The Third Reich in Power"

  • You really should get hold of Jacques Tardi's "Trench War". It has been voted Best Graphic Novel on a Dutch Comics site :

    http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9489.html

    And believe me, that's not overstating it, I have a copy at home, and it is really gripping.

    The only drawback is : it is widely available in Dutch and French, but not in other languages as far as I know.

    the_mazzatello

    As a (fecal) matter of fact, there's a crock of shit at the end of every rainbow.
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    • Jun 10 2008, 22h31
    the_mazzatello sagte:
    You really should get hold of Jacques Tardi's "Trench War". It has been voted Best Graphic Novel on a Dutch Comics site :

    http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9489.html

    And believe me, that's not overstating it, I have a copy at home, and it is really gripping.

    The only drawback is : it is widely available in Dutch and French, but not in other languages as far as I know.

    the_mazzatello


    I have it. Truly gripping stuff !!! He has another comic on the same topic called Soldat Varlot. It´s only a short story but it is certainly as good as Trench War.

  • You are so rigth about Tardi's book. It is one of my favorite Graphic artist.

    It's a beautiful world for you, It's not for me : Devo - Beautiful world
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    • Jul 10 2008, 12h56

    ESTIGMAS

    During World War II,German Scientists developed Futhark Five,a Substance that allowed human beings to reach superior status...Very good music themes by Puissance,Death in June,TMLHBAC,Der Blutharsch and Other Great Musicians!

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    • Jul 13 2008, 9h03
    yeah, just like they also developed the Hainebu and the Vrille, right ?

    Spent the last two weeks in Normandy, France.
    Saw some great museums and war-sites there.
    Tip for all those who plan to visit that region some time in the future :
    http://www.armourer.co.uk/maisybattery.htm

    The owner is a neat guy called Gary Sterne. He's a passionate amateur-historean/archeologist and invested a great deal of his time/resources in the development of this site. Truly worth a visit !!!

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    • Jul 13 2008, 9h03
    yeah, just like they also developed the Hainebu and the Vrille, right ?

    Spent the last two weeks in Normandy, France.
    Saw some great museums and war-sites there.
    Tip for all those who plan to visit that region some time in the future :
    http://www.armourer.co.uk/maisybattery.htm

    The owner is a neat guy called Gary Sterne. He's a passionate amateur-historean/archeologist and invested a great deal of his time/resources in the development of this site. Truly worth a visit !!!

  • Sajer Guy. The Forgotten Soldier
    Interesting book about WWll
    Have anybody read?

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    • Jul 25 2008, 4h12

    Books Reading

    I am finishing Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition, am in the middle of Dorothy L Sayers' Translation of Dante's Purgatory, and just started Natsuo Kirino's new novel Real World, which is about some murders and the vulnerability that young girls feel living in modern Japan.

    After that, I will read perhaps a new edition of a book on Swedish Metal.

    Jesse

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    • Jul 26 2008, 2h59
    Die Wohlgesinnten, written by Jonathan Lithell

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    • Ago 13 2008, 17h07

    DISTRACTED

    I am now in the middle of Maggie Jackson's new book, DISTRACTED: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. This fine sociologically centered scholarly work is non-explicitly-political and runs down the author's observations about fears of coming generations inability to think through complex ideas or make intelligent decisions because of the training of ourselves to jump from one image to the next word to the gadget. I do concede that there is a fear-of-the-future possibility in it but if even half of her fears are realized, then culture in the west will be dead and thought, or everything that we call thought, will be hindered.

    I think this book is worth checking out.

    Jesse.

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    • Ago 21 2008, 21h16
    vladimirowich said:
    Die Wohlgesinnten, written by Jonathan Lithell


    How do you like it?

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    DISTRACTED and Anti-Intelllectualism.

    I liked this book quite a bit. It is finished now and I am getting through a few other books, including Richard Hofstadter's
    Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. DISTRACTED was a fine read. she tackled the need to focus on one thing, the impossibility of multi-tasking, and the choices a person must make in order to really learn something valuable over time. She also brings up the physical exhaustion that takes place if something is fully engaged upon and how the body itself is part of learning anything well and with nuances.

    Hofstadter's book won the Pulitzer Prize, I think in 1965 or something, and is a great piece of intellectual history that explores traditions of the intellect in American political life and the ways in which other political groups created strong rhetoric against intellect going all the way back to America's starts.

    Jesse

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