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« Reply #420 on: June 25, 2009, 04:15:26 PM » |
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« Reply #421 on: June 25, 2009, 06:36:03 PM » |
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Have any of you read The Stand? It is such a brilliant story for me, I love end-of-the-world type stuff. It's 1000+ pages of dark, yet somehow light devastation. It makes me yearn for the end. haha. Stephen King is the shit. I look to it as my bible. If you like The Stand, check out Swan Song. You will not be disappointed. |
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« Reply #422 on: June 25, 2009, 07:55:53 PM » |
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rereading into the wild, great book about a man searching for that something that we all can't seem to find
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« Reply #423 on: June 25, 2009, 07:58:28 PM » |
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the plague of fantasies - slavoj zizek he's alot smarter than he sounds  |
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« Reply #424 on: June 25, 2009, 10:30:12 PM » |
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rereading into the wild, great book about a man searching for that something that we all can't seem to find
I think Cristopher found exactly what he was looking for. |
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« Reply #425 on: June 27, 2009, 02:32:39 PM » |
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Hmmm... I've had into the wild on my shelf for a few years now. I may just have to put that into my rotation. edit: I just had a great thought. We could pick a book at the beginning of each month and discuss it at the beginning of the next month. A Lycaeum book club!  Maybe every two weeks instead of a month? I'm gonna start a new thread.... |
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« Reply #426 on: June 28, 2009, 08:40:06 PM » |
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the plague of fantasies - slavoj zizek he's alot smarter than he sounds oh, shit, slavoj zizek!! i LOVE that guy. |
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"Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept." –Molloy
faust: how comes it then that thou now out of hell, with me? mephisto: why, this is hell, nor am i out of it.
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« Reply #427 on: June 30, 2009, 07:49:38 AM » |
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« Reply #428 on: June 30, 2009, 08:00:02 AM » |
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." -Voltaire
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." - Thomas Paine
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens."
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« Reply #429 on: June 30, 2009, 08:46:25 AM » |
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All 2nd reads & each of them worth it. The lineup:    |
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« Reply #430 on: June 30, 2009, 03:28:59 PM » |
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Dude, mimos, that Thom Jones is totally on my to-read list. I already said what fiction I'm reading in another thread, so for nonfiction - Intelligence In Nature.
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"The barn burned down./Now I can see the moon." - some Japanese poem
"You can do anything with ease, if you act as though you do it all the time." - Amy Hempel
"What you don't understand, you can make mean anything." - Chuck Palahniuk
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« Reply #431 on: July 01, 2009, 08:44:03 AM » |
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Has anyone read Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.? I would be surprised if no one has... It's some pretty twisted shit.
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« Reply #432 on: July 01, 2009, 08:47:18 AM » |
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Dude, mimos, that Thom Jones is totally on my to-read list. I already said what fiction I'm reading in another thread, so for nonfiction - Intelligence In Nature.
It's a great collection of short stories. This is my third time reading it. Thom Jones is an interesting character, too. He was a janitor after college and would spend his days reading and writing. The Pulgilist at Rest is awesome, as well. |
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« Reply #433 on: July 02, 2009, 10:34:36 AM » |
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The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx - Alex Callinicos
The best thing I've read on Marx yet.
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We, by enemies distrest, They in paradise at rest; We the captives, they the freed, We and they are one indeed.
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« Reply #434 on: July 07, 2009, 12:38:06 PM » |
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Buddha of Infinite Light: The teachings of shin buddhism, the japanese way of wisdom and compassion by D.T. Suzuki.
This is my new bible. D.T. is very good at explaining the complex teachings of shin buddhism in simple terms and without many words. It's very good. I highly recommend it.
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"The barn burned down./Now I can see the moon." - some Japanese poem
"You can do anything with ease, if you act as though you do it all the time." - Amy Hempel
"What you don't understand, you can make mean anything." - Chuck Palahniuk
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« Reply #435 on: July 07, 2009, 01:05:43 PM » |
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Buddha of Infinite Light: The teachings of shin buddhism, the japanese way of wisdom and compassion by D.T. Suzuki.
This is my new bible. D.T. is very good at explaining the complex teachings of shin buddhism in simple terms and without many words. It's very good. I highly recommend it.
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« Reply #436 on: July 08, 2009, 07:58:02 AM » |
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About half of the way through Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and although I've never read it before I can tell that this translation isn't as good as Kaufman's probably would be; instead of trying to communicate the contextual meaning of the original german, this version (translated by R.J. Hollingdale) rides rough-shod over many metaphors with ugly word substitutions. This would be okay I guess, if the notes section discussed the substitutions in depth...
Still though, I can't say enough how much I enjoy Nietzsche and, in particular, the method of communicating thought through a fictitious prophet instead of the dry language found in philosophy today. Overall, I'd pit his rhetoric against any thinker (and many writers) as some of the most expressive literature around.
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« Reply #437 on: July 12, 2009, 12:05:35 PM » |
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To Make Peace We Go To War - by some buddhist nun.
I'm not sure if that's the correct title, as it's at my house right now and I'm not. It's been a good read so far. I'm finding the best books on buddhism are the ones with the fewest pages.
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"The barn burned down./Now I can see the moon." - some Japanese poem
"You can do anything with ease, if you act as though you do it all the time." - Amy Hempel
"What you don't understand, you can make mean anything." - Chuck Palahniuk
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« Reply #438 on: July 20, 2009, 06:22:34 PM » |
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Steven Hall - Raw Shark Texts
Apparently, via someone else's remark, a book by a soon to be great author or something along those lines
From what ive read so far...very descriptive writer, easy to read, and really expresses things in a manner that hit the nail on the head...bold enough to admit he cant describe something happening in the novel which is really out of the ordinary in my opinion...conveys real situations between lovers...not that contrived romance lovey dovey shit
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« Reply #439 on: July 20, 2009, 06:23:49 PM » |
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speaking of love in novels...anyone read the country for two part of vonnegut's Mother Night...really beautiful and surprising coming from vonnegut
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« Reply #440 on: July 21, 2009, 01:02:47 PM » |
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Currently reading Clown Girl by Monica Drake, about to start Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.
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"The barn burned down./Now I can see the moon." - some Japanese poem
"You can do anything with ease, if you act as though you do it all the time." - Amy Hempel
"What you don't understand, you can make mean anything." - Chuck Palahniuk
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« Reply #441 on: July 21, 2009, 01:10:44 PM » |
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 Great book so far, but most misleading title ever. |
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« Reply #442 on: July 21, 2009, 01:12:37 PM » |
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^^^That looks killer.
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« Reply #443 on: September 04, 2009, 07:11:47 AM » |
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Got a rare jewel through an inter library loan. Model Steam Engine DesignBy R M de Vignier copyright 1907 Spon&Chamberlain (public domain now in the States) reprinted 1936 by Model Maker Corporation. Found three of these in All of the United States Library system. Two are housed in the libraries special collections and cannot be loaned out. The one showing in the Illinois Library system was loaned to the Houston public library and I'm reading it now. I might have a .pdf file of it shortly...  (of course, the Lyc isn't the most popular place to advertise this type of hobby, but I wanted to share my perceived good fortune with my friends here) Kermit |
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« Reply #444 on: September 04, 2009, 07:15:39 AM » |
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Is that light reading to you, Kermie?   |
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« Reply #445 on: September 04, 2009, 07:28:12 AM » |
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No NO no. That is some very serious book for me. I'll be making copies and blowing them up and using them in the shop.
For light reading I have Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zuvak
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
About Time by Paul Davies
etc. etc. etc.
Currently I'm slowly (chapter by chapter) going through Mark Twains A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court for entertainment and enjoyment.
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« Reply #446 on: September 04, 2009, 08:34:18 AM » |
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Hyperspace is good.
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« Reply #447 on: September 04, 2009, 09:48:45 AM » |
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I'm reading The Trial by Franz Kafka. What a trip.
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« Reply #448 on: September 04, 2009, 02:04:40 PM » |
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Just finished 'Dirt Music' by Tim Winton and 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' by Michael Chabon
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“Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.” Peter Ustinov
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« Reply #449 on: September 09, 2009, 12:59:13 PM » |
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elegant universe and my girl is suggesting/forcing me to read the crying of lot 49  ? |
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