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  • (Score: 2) by mrpg on Thursday December 22 2016, @10:13PM

    by mrpg (5708) Subscriber Badge <{mrpg} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Thursday December 22 2016, @10:13PM (#444851) Homepage

    Two autobiographies, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Man and his Symbols (Jung).

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday December 27 2016, @09:01AM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @09:01AM (#446277) Homepage Journal

    The Picture of Dorian Gray?

    • (Score: 2) by mrpg on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:47PM

      by mrpg (5708) Subscriber Badge <{mrpg} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:47PM (#446422) Homepage
      Yes, sorry, picture :)

      I just finished it and I began to read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and Linux Quick Fix Notebook [amazon.com] from 2005, must be way outdated.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @03:59PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @03:59PM (#452103)

        You certainly are in the high brow selection of what I'd suggest my peers would read. bravo.

        i tried to get alexa to call me winston when at a friends house, and they (the friend and alexa) didn't understand and I felt foolish for some reason. it is hard to set an example using popular literature to demonstrate a societal ill when society is ignorant to such ills.

      • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Sunday January 15 2017, @09:58AM

        by dyingtolive (952) on Sunday January 15 2017, @09:58AM (#454046)

        Well done. I read Dorian Grey a few years ago. I've been trying to tackle at least a couple of the classics a year.

        This year, I read the Art of Dumpster Diving, The Sixth Column, Candide, Snow Crash (again), The King in Yellow, and a handful of others. I recall there was a quite a few Lovecraft stories in there, but I don't recall which ones exactly. I know Charles Dexter Ward was in there. My dad keeps trying to get me into Turtledove, but I've never committed to it. I'd read more, but I tend to lose all track of time and will sit there reading until 7 am if I'm left to my own devices, so I wind up avoiding it for the most part, but I do enjoy reading quite a bit.

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