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The Silmarillion by Mr. Tolkien
...taking it nice and easy, few chapters at a time. :)
Just finished rereading Shadow - Pattern - Memory

(note: normally, series with gimmick titles suck ass -- like, if you give your three children names that voltron into a stupid joke, you're a terrible person, and if you give your novels titles out of a gimmick set, you're a terrible writer -- but these are good)

and now at a loss again. Strongly considering reviving the tablet and reading comics.
HEX by Thomas Olde. It really got under my skin, it just seem so believeable. I'm 80 % done and have no idea what the author wants to do with the last 20 %.
The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman

It seems pretty cool and messed up so far XD
The Ward by S. L. Grey

Hospitals horror story. Pretty greasy, with lots of body horror. Like The Mall (also by S. L. Grey), this one has some 'message' about society and such, but delivers it with such over-the-top craziness that it never feels preachy. There is put a lot of work into capturing the grittiness of the hospital. I scarequitted once! This seldom happens with books, so it's pretty solid writing.
The Controls to the Witcher - I'm remapping keys.
Just read the first chapter of Edward Bernays' [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)]"Propaganda"[/url]. The book can be find as PDF on the internet and might give an insight in the mindset of the so-called Elites.
By the way: The modern synonym for Propaganda is Public Relations...

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Changed 'name' to 'synonym' to make the last sentence better understandable. Not the title of the book was meant.
Post edited January 02, 2017 by viperfdl
Mastery by Robert Greene
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cose_vecchie: I've just begun the classic "One Thousand and One Nights" collection of folk stories. It will take a while to finish it - the book is huge!
Which version of it?
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viperfdl: By the way: The modern name for Propaganda is Public Relations...
wut
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cose_vecchie: I've just begun the classic "One Thousand and One Nights" collection of folk stories. It will take a while to finish it - the book is huge!
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Firebrand9: Which version of it?
The book does not go into much detail, but it says it is based on the classic French version by Galland, so of course it's heavily edited and bowdlerized in regard to the Arab original.
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viperfdl: By the way: The modern name for Propaganda is Public Relations...
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Starmaker: wut
Exactly...
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cose_vecchie: The book does not go into much detail, but it says it is based on the classic French version by Galland, so of course it's heavily edited and bowdlerized in regard to the Arab original.
Hmm. Do you have an ISBN or a link to it if it's a digital version?
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cose_vecchie: The book does not go into much detail, but it says it is based on the classic French version by Galland, so of course it's heavily edited and bowdlerized in regard to the Arab original.
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Firebrand9: Hmm. Do you have an ISBN or a link to it if it's a digital version?
The book is this one:

http://www.newtoncompton.com/libro/le-mille-e-una-notte

You can buy a digital version for 0.99€, but of course it's an Italian translation.
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cose_vecchie: The book is this one:

http://www.newtoncompton.com/libro/le-mille-e-una-notte

You can buy a digital version for 0.99€, but of course it's an Italian translation.
I read this book (the original "Mammut", physical version) years ago, and yes: it's the Italian translation from the French adaptation by Antoine Galland. Which is a bit shitty, because it leaves behind a lot of stuff from the original Arab version.