The Syndicate

Posted: **Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:01 am**

Wolf of the Plains by Conn Iggulden. It's about Genghis Khan, and the first in a 4 part series. It's very good.

Posted: **Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:09 am**

Just completed:

Posted: **Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:14 am**

Don't forget to add it on Goodreads.

Posted: **Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:19 am**

How have I never heard of that Dr. Seuss book?

Posted: **Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:25 am**

Epignosis wrote:Just completed:

I love this book!

This and "Alligator Pie" and "Mr. Tickle" were in constant rotation at our house when I was a kid.

Posted: **Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:25 am**

thellama73 wrote:How have I never heard of that Dr. Seuss book?

He originally wrote it under the name "Theo Lesieg."

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2015 4:00 pm**

Ricochet wrote:
Ricochet wrote:Struggling to even pick up Alex Shteyngart's Absurdistan the past weeks. I only ever failed to finish a few books in my life, but maybe I should reconsider in this case and read some Rimbaud instead.
Still struggling.

God damn this book.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2015 5:57 pm**

Ricochet wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Ricochet wrote:Struggling to even pick up Alex Shteyngart's Absurdistan the past weeks. I only ever failed to finish a few books in my life, but maybe I should reconsider in this case and read some Rimbaud instead.
Still struggling.
God damn this book.

Come on, Ricochet, sign up for my game. I am always nice to you.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:09 pm**

thellama73 wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Ricochet wrote:Struggling to even pick up Alex Shteyngart's Absurdistan the past weeks. I only ever failed to finish a few books in my life, but maybe I should reconsider in this case and read some Rimbaud instead.
Still struggling.
God damn this book.
Come on, Ricochet, sign up for my game. I am always nice to you.

I don't see how it will help me finish reading the book.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:26 pm**

I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha and really enjoyed it, very beautifully written and I learned a lot about geisha culture/20th century Japan.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:26 pm**

nutella wrote:I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha and really enjoyed it, very beautifully written and I learned a lot about geisha culture/20th century Japan.

Loved it.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2015 9:31 pm**

Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.

Bit tough, I have to admit. Nothing quite makes sense.

ETA: I take that back. It makes sense, but it requires more effort than I'm used to. Which says something.

“Is it very long?” Alice asked, for she had heard a good deal of poetry that day.

“It’s long,” said the Knight, “but it’s very, very beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing it–either it brings the tears into their eyes, or else–”

“Or else what?” said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.

“Or else it doesn’t, you know. The name of the song is called ‘Haddock’s Eyes’.”

“Oh, that’s the name of the song, is it?” Alice said, trying to feel interested.

“No, you don’t understand,” the Knight said, looking a little vexed. “That’s what the name is called. The name really is 'The Aged Aged Man’.”

“Then I ought to have said 'That’s what the song is called?’” Alice corrected herself.

“No, you oughtn’t: that’s quite another thing! The song is called 'Ways and Means’: but that’s only what it’s called, you know!”

“Well, what is the song, then?” said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.

“I was coming to that,” the Knight said. “The song really is 'A-sitting on a Gate’: and the tune’s my own invention.”

Posted: **Wed Jul 29, 2015 11:40 am**

Epignosis wrote:
nutella wrote:I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha and really enjoyed it, very beautifully written and I learned a lot about geisha culture/20th century Japan.
Loved it.

Keys and I were just talking about this book!

I love this book as well. It was one of the first books that came with me during my move from America to England.

Posted: **Wed Jul 29, 2015 9:08 pm**

Hoping to finish the letter N by Friday.

Posted: **Fri Jul 31, 2015 12:14 am**

This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti.

Posted: **Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:36 pm**

I'm reading Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore woooo.

Posted: **Tue Jan 12, 2016 2:36 pm**

I'm reading Capote's Complete Short Stories. Halfway through, they're pretty ech.

Posted: **Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:40 pm**

just started The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, Peter Swanson

Posted: **Sun Mar 06, 2016 5:06 pm**

Still reading the dictionary. Getting close to being done with the letter P and closing in on page # 1,000. Here's my update post if you're interested.

Posted: **Sun Mar 06, 2016 5:40 pm**

Stay determined, R for Rico is across the corner.

I'm attempting again to read Hesse's Steppenwolf, which counts as one of the few books I never managed to finish. Strange enough, I should normally relate to this character's loneliness, emotional crisis and idealism - or should have, back when I was 16 and my mind was a spleen-colored Pollock-like scatter of thoughts and perceptions, but I haven't evolved much since anyway - but the writing is so dense and self-referential and the protagonist kinda makes you want to throw a shoe at, lol. The fragments in which he interacts with other actual characters fare better, but the inner monologues fail so much to keep me interested.

I'm also reading over and over the Host Posts that I have already prepared for the game I'm still hoping to take place eventually. :micro-shifty-emoji:

Posted: **Sun Mar 06, 2016 7:52 pm**

G-Man wrote:Still reading the dictionary. Getting close to being done with the letter P and closing in on page # 1,000. Here's my update post if you're interested.

I did that when I was a teenager, I was grounded so much. After I ran out of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, I moved on to Websters.

Posted: **Wed Mar 09, 2016 5:29 pm**

I finished Red Rising by Pierce Brown. I'd describe it as The Hunger Games + The Lord of the Flies + Harry Potter + Game of Thrones-lite.

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2016 5:37 pm**

S~V~S wrote:
G-Man wrote:Still reading the dictionary. Getting close to being done with the letter P and closing in on page # 1,000. Here's my update post if you're interested.
I did that when I was a teenager, I was grounded so much. After I ran out of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, I moved on to Websters.

I want to do that with wikipedia, but it would be never ending

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2016 5:38 pm**

I'm reading Agatha Christie's Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

So far it's pretty good. Love this writer.

Posted: **Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:53 pm**

The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten

Posted: **Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:56 pm**

The Psychology of the Esoteric by Osho

Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:20 am**

American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. So far it's funny. Maybe I'm sick.

Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:25 am**

No, when I read that, I thought alot of it was funny too. It is written that way.

Although you could be right, we could BOTH be sick

Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2016 11:42 am**

Is the anthological scene from the movie depicted the same way in the book?

I've finished reading a german book, in German, called Erledigungen vor der Feier (which I hope my B2 language skills have not deceived me in translating this as "Resolutions before the holiday[s?]". I won it as a prize at a presentation contest in my German course. It was enjoyable, a collection of short stories about interactions and relationship quirks, sort of like finding the funny side in otherwise serious issues - although the moral, of course, is that the issues are serious and often have to do with the narrator himself, who is trying to find the funny side in 'em. It was also practical for reading a bit in German, especially a lot of simple past verbs, which, if one is familiar, can shapeshift into strange beasts in this language.

Right now, although I have no idea what has gotten over me, I'm reading Moby Dick. Call me Ishmaay elohel.

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2016 2:50 pm**

So... I just finished The Murder of Roger Acrkoyd, by Agatha Christie.

I gotta say, this book is simply amazing. Recommended to anyone who likes mystery stories.

It starts boring but then it catches up and the ending.... holy crap, the ending.

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2016 3:34 pm**

Me reading Moby Dick is taking as long as the journey in the book, apparently. Thing is, I'm not disliking it...

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2016 4:29 pm**

Ricochet wrote:Me reading Moby Dick is taking as long as the journey in the book, apparently. Thing is, I'm not disliking it...

Then you might enjoy reading the dictionary. I started in January of 2014 and I just finished the letter Q last week.

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2016 5:12 pm**

Wait, are you seriously doing that?

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2016 5:50 pm**

Let me guess, were you on G at 02/25/15?

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2016 12:30 am**

My internet was down for 5 days, and in those days I read Ursula K Le Guin's The Dispossessed, and got about 40% through Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine. The Dispossessed was pretty interesting from a political point of view, Le Guin leans very much toward Kropotkin-esque mutual aid based anarchism, and a fictional book that explores a society that is explicitly based on those ideas was pretty thought provoking. It was one of those books that you will lay in bed thinking about if you read it at night. As with other scifi favorites of mine, like Frank Herbert's Dune, Le Guin's way of creating and exploring culture and politics is the most engrossing aspect, I'd recommend it to anyone with a passing interest.

The Shock Doctrine is honestly depressing as hell to read. Naomi Klein must be a hell of a writer though, to make me read hundreds of pages about neoliberal reforms.

Posted: **Fri May 20, 2016 6:48 am**

Krishnamurti k

Posted: **Sun May 22, 2016 12:57 pm**

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Posted: **Sun May 22, 2016 3:36 pm**

Seriously, where is that goddamn white whale already?!

Posted: **Sun May 22, 2016 4:54 pm**

Ricochet wrote:Seriously, where is that goddamn white whale already?!

in the water

Posted: **Tue May 24, 2016 9:36 pm**

Epignosis wrote:I'm starting A Song of Ice and Fire today. I've thumbed through the Appendix and looked at all the names. How in the world does he keep up with all these people?

Guess I'll manage it a chapter a day.

Do you watch the show? I read the first book, then GoT started, which made the second book muuuch easier as I had faces to put with names.

Posted: **Tue May 24, 2016 9:40 pm**

Illyria wrote:
Epignosis wrote:I'm starting A Song of Ice and Fire today. I've thumbed through the Appendix and looked at all the names. How in the world does he keep up with all these people?

Guess I'll manage it a chapter a day.
Do you watch the show? I read the first book, then GoT started, which made the second book muuuch easier as I had faces to put with names.

I refuse to watch the show until I've finished the books. So I'll watch in about 2024.

Posted: **Tue May 24, 2016 9:42 pm**

Epignosis wrote:
Illyria wrote:
Epignosis wrote:I'm starting A Song of Ice and Fire today. I've thumbed through the Appendix and looked at all the names. How in the world does he keep up with all these people?

Guess I'll manage it a chapter a day.
Do you watch the show? I read the first book, then GoT started, which made the second book muuuch easier as I had faces to put with names.
I refuse to watch the show until I've finished the books. So I'll watch in about 2024.

You are not right in the head.

Mongoose wrote:I'm reading Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. It's the first part of a trilogy. Think Indiana Jones but an all women group and now it's a horror instead of an adventure.

I'M OBSESSED

Annnnd *puts on the list*

I am SO excited the third book in a trilogy I love came out today! I am going to start it tonight! It is by Jeff Cronin, the first is The Passage, second, The Twelve (or maybe the other way around). It is post apolcalyptic fiction with "virals" (think the MOST BAD ASS VAMPS YOU HAVE EVER SEEN_-- no sparkling, no tortured souls, just horrible bloody deaths. We got a corker of a cliff hanger in the second book so I am STOOOOKED to read this tonight. If it does not pick right up where it left off I will be UN happy.

Posted: **Tue May 24, 2016 11:29 pm**

Epignosis wrote:
Illyria wrote:
Epignosis wrote:I'm starting A Song of Ice and Fire today. I've thumbed through the Appendix and looked at all the names. How in the world does he keep up with all these people?

Guess I'll manage it a chapter a day.
Do you watch the show? I read the first book, then GoT started, which made the second book muuuch easier as I had faces to put with names.
I refuse to watch the show until I've finished the books. So I'll watch in about 2024.

I am doing the same, except I've not started reading them yet or even have the books in my possession. Some day, though. Maybe.

I keep annoying my friends not knowing what the hell they are talking about so I just pretend it's LotR.

Posted: **Thu May 26, 2016 8:34 pm**

The newest Justin Cronin book, which is the last of The Passage trilogy, kazam!

Posted: **Mon May 30, 2016 10:11 pm**

Mongoose wrote:The newest Justin Cronin book, which is the last of The Passage trilogy, kazam!

OMG! ME TOO! I am so excited about it. I am about halfway through.

Spoiler: show

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2016 1:59 pm**

Last week, Epi recommended the short story Cathedral by Raymond Carver on the Syndicate Chatzy. I finally read it today, it's a nice story indeed.

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:15 pm**

"It's really something."

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:34 pm**

Oh wow, I haven't read Raymond Carver since college. Whenever I come to a pivot point, I think to myself, "My life is going to change, I can feel it" which was how one of the stories ended in the collection we read for a Minimalism class. I still have my annotated copy of that book somewhere.

Posted: **Sun Jun 05, 2016 1:00 pm**

In this moment I am Aksel Sandemose.

Posted: **Tue Jun 21, 2016 12:45 pm**

help me im scared

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