The book thread!

[Chromatic Aberration]

Currently reading Albert Camus: The Myth Of Sisyphus. It's an existentialist philosophical essay about the world, its absurd nature and mans relation to it. Sounds dry but is written so beautifully and intriguing that you just can't put it away. He, like Nietzsche, is just a neverending mine of great quotes and vivid mental pictures that puts one in a permanent state of awe when confronted with their mastery of language. I'm really not surprised that this guy received the Nobel prize in Literature at some point....

Take for instance this description of the absurd feeling from one of the first pages of the book:

A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign and irreducible to us, with what intensity nature can negate us. At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of the trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise. The primitive hostility of the world rises up to face us across millennia.

Before that I read Doug Saunders: Myth of The Muslim Tide [http://www.amazon.de/The-Myth-Muslim-Tide-Immigrants/dp/0307951170/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369653604&sr=8-1&keywords=myth+of+the+muslim] which is a well sourced, well argumented refutation of the typical islamo-/xenophobic populism that is far too common in Europe these days...

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I'm currently rereading Yahtzee's own Mogworld. I just love his sense of humor...