Comments on: on reading http://www.lightspeedchick.com/books/on-reading/ i was uncool before uncool was cool Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:56:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Gamera http://www.lightspeedchick.com/books/on-reading/#comment-2771 Gamera Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:39:31 +0000 http://www.lightspeedchick.com/books/on-reading/#comment-2771 Say, my little Anne of Green Gables, did you also try Connections from James Burke? Say, my little Anne of Green Gables, did you also try Connections from James Burke?

]]> By: martin http://www.lightspeedchick.com/books/on-reading/#comment-2719 martin Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:07:03 +0000 http://www.lightspeedchick.com/books/on-reading/#comment-2719 Hey you Martin imposter! Get out of that Jello tree! Hey you Martin imposter! Get out of that Jello tree!

]]> By: martin http://www.lightspeedchick.com/books/on-reading/#comment-2718 martin Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:03:28 +0000 http://www.lightspeedchick.com/books/on-reading/#comment-2718 Maybe you'd like "The Wives of Henry the Eighth" by Antonia Fraser, or "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century" by Barbara Tuchman. Both are real page turners in the non-fiction realme Maybe you’d like “The Wives of Henry the Eighth” by Antonia Fraser, or “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century” by Barbara Tuchman. Both are real page turners in the non-fiction realme

]]> By: Martin http://www.lightspeedchick.com/books/on-reading/#comment-2684 Martin Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:16:11 +0000 http://www.lightspeedchick.com/books/on-reading/#comment-2684 Some very good books here! Some very good books here!

]]> By: Me: The Sequel http://www.lightspeedchick.com/books/on-reading/#comment-2683 Me: The Sequel Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:46:26 +0000 http://www.lightspeedchick.com/books/on-reading/#comment-2683 I feel this is apples and oranges. Fiction/non-fiction are not mutally exclusive. They serve completely different purposes in the same way that a drama or a documentary do (although they often overlap). What would the world be without Shakespeare and his "tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."? He tells us nothing factual and meanders grandiloquently with his sentences (and words like "grandiloquently") and yet somehow reveals to us the human condition in a way that has practically revised the human condition altogether. One type of reading I find that blends the aspects of both fiction and non, are biographies. But it depends on the author. I feel this is apples and oranges. Fiction/non-fiction are not mutally exclusive. They serve completely different purposes in the same way that a drama or a documentary do (although they often overlap).

What would the world be without Shakespeare and his “tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”? He tells us nothing factual and meanders grandiloquently with his sentences (and words like “grandiloquently”) and yet somehow reveals to us the human condition in a way that has practically revised the human condition altogether.

One type of reading I find that blends the aspects of both fiction and non, are biographies. But it depends on the author.

]]> By: aj http://www.lightspeedchick.com/books/on-reading/#comment-2682 aj Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:58:57 +0000 http://www.lightspeedchick.com/books/on-reading/#comment-2682 I went in opposite, but parallel, directions -- read tons of fiction as a kid, stopped after university as well, and then after 9/11 I kinda overdosed on political books and stuff relating to urbanism and energy. Now I'm getting back into fiction in a big way -- in fact my project is to swap nearly every book I have for little orange Penguin paperbacks. So if you want some more nonfiction I got tons.... I went in opposite, but parallel, directions — read tons of fiction as a kid, stopped after university as well, and then after 9/11 I kinda overdosed on political books and stuff relating to urbanism and energy. Now I’m getting back into fiction in a big way — in fact my project is to swap nearly every book I have for little orange Penguin paperbacks. So if you want some more nonfiction I got tons….

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