The Good Books Thread/ATARnotes Book Club!

[brenden]

Yeah that's true. Actually, it's probably the poetry translations that made me hate translations more. We did Robert Frost and Kafka in the same tutorial. That's a good point.

[ninwa]

Translated works bother me. I wish I read 234 different languages. Particularly German, so I could read Kafka without stupid translators sticking their beak in. Looking at different variations of Metamorphosis made me realise how much they could change the original meaning of the story, even unintentionally.

Ugh you'd have to be quite fluent in the language though. Otherwise you end up looking up words every page and it ruins the flow a lot.
Source: had to read novels in both French and German for uni. Still get PTSD flashbacks about reading Nietzsche untranslated

[Lolly]

Still get PTSD flashbacks about reading Nietzsche untranslated

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[ealam2]

More Than This by Patrick Ness - It's really philosophical and makes you really think. Just plain awesome.

And I might have mentioned this before, Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness is amazing too! And his 3 short stories in between the books. Great author!

The New World (Chaos Walking, #0.5)
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
The Wide Wide Sea (Chaos Walking, #2.5)
Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)
Snowscape (Chaos Walking, #3.5)

[ninwa]

Just finished The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Ughhh my heart aches. Definitely recommend

[charmanderp]

Just finished The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Ughhh my heart aches. Definitely recommend

Yaaaay! Was this based off my recommendation? Finally my spamming of this thread about TGoST was successful haha. One of my favourite works ever.

[brenden]

Yaaaay! Was this based off my recommendation? Finally my spamming of this thread about TGoST was successful haha. One of my favourite works ever.

ok will read. Right after The Republic and Fight Club (again)

[ninwa]

Yaaaay! Was this based off my recommendation? Finally my spamming of this thread about TGoST was successful haha. One of my favourite works ever.

Oooh, for some reason I thought I got the recommendation off r/books hah. Thanks for the rec! Loved it

[charmanderp]

Oooh, for some reason I thought I got the recommendation off r/books hah. Thanks for the rec! Loved it

You use reddit? /r/books is pretty awesome. No problem, glad someone else enjoyed it! It's one of those novels that you feel like if everyone read, the world would be a better place.

[ninwa]

You use reddit? /r/books is pretty awesome.

YAY REDDIT
I blame r/books for my 4gb ebooks folder that I'm never going to get through, ever

[BigAl]

Has anyone read the Simpsons and their mathematical secrets? It's bloody amazing..I need to watch the first episode

[b^3]

Has anyone read the Simpsons and their mathematical secrets? It's bloody amazing..I need to watch the first episode

Apparently that book annoyed a few academics in mathematics because it has taken a lot from http://mathsci2.appstate.edu/~sjg/simpsonsmath/ , which those who run that site have dedicated a lot of time and effort into finding all those references. I guess it's still possible to go through and find them yourself, but a few academics that were fans of Simon Singh apparently dislike him now for do it and making money off of it.

[BigAl]

Apparently that book annoyed a few academics in mathematics because it has taken a lot from http://mathsci2.appstate.edu/~sjg/simpsonsmath/ , which those who run that site have dedicated a lot of time and effort into finding all those references. I guess it's still possible to go through and find them yourself, but a few academics that were fans of Simon Singh apparently dislike him now for do it and making money off of it.

Oh really? I didn't know that...thanks for that

[Robert243]

Has anyone here read True Grit by Bear Grylls , its amazing .

[DisaFear]

Matthew Reilly's new book, The Tournament is out read some reviews, seems decent