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 flowstone
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What! you pay for books? I always get them shipped to my local library from downtown. It's pretty rare that the library system doesn't have what I want.
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I just read Confessions Of A Master Jewel Thief. Very good first person account of an amazing jewel thief from the 60s-70s. The statute of limitation ran out so he can write the book without going to jail.
As Hella said, that is badass! I have never heard of someone doing this. I know of statue of Limitations, but I have never heard of someone jumping through this hoop and bragging about it. That rocks!!
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flowstone said:
What! you pay for books? I always get them shipped to my local library from downtown. It's pretty rare that the library system doesn't have what I want.
I'm compiling my own library.
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The only real way to go!!
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Hell yeah.
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Download the Torah. It will blow your mind. Jewish girls are hella_rich, too. 
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This is your thread, so I don't feel like I am jacking it to say: Good night and Happy Birthday to you, my friend!!
Hella rocks!!!!
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HELLA_TIGHT said:
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flowstone said:
What! you pay for books? I always get them shipped to my local library from downtown. It's pretty rare that the library system doesn't have what I want.
I'm compiling my own library.
 me too. I like to buy books!
If I have enough money in the far future I will create my own private library;
old dark wooden bookcases:
a dark desk:
with a chair like this:
and ink and feather on it:
a filling cabinet:
with a mechanical model of the solar system on it:
a very old globe:
an old periodic table on the wall:
leather reading chairs:
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 Re: New books [Re: Annom]
#4368596 - 07/04/05 02:58 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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do you plan on having "a.r. smith" on your periodic table?
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 no sir. It will have "Annom MSc" on it 
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Fabric of the Cosmos is a lot easier read than the Elegant Universe. I have both and have not finished TEU yet. I'm about 150 pages into Fabric of the Cosmos. Both are excellent books. Quantum physics and the like, blow my mind, constantly. I do find some of Greene's explanations don't work all the time. Well in my mind anyway.
Anybody who trips should read at least one book about quantum phyiscs, string theory, or hidden dimensions. Because it is amazing to think about while tripping. I've had some mind blowing experiences ever since I've started reading about all this stuff. Highly recommended.
McKennaDMT
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A quick addition to the growing list of physics books already up here is "principles of quantum mechanics" by P.A. Dirac. Considered an absolute classic in the field, it laid the entire premise of quantum mechanics out in detail in just the first chapter without using a single equation. Great detail is gone into later, and feynman has referenced the 5th chapter as being what give him the insight into his now infamous "feynman diagrams."
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot is also a fabulous book, the logic isn't 100% concrete, but that doesnt change the fact that it isn't possible/is an amazing read.
One last recommendation is a Duo of books by Scott Adams the philosopher and more widely known as the writer of Dilbert, no joke, same guy. 2 books, there first of which is called God's debris, the 2nd 'The religion war.' Quite possibly the most original and fascinating works of fiction/philosophy/storytelling I've ever read. The man is truly brilliant. The premise is that a package delivery boy meets a man who knows everything in the universe and proceeds to tell the boy everything he knows.
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I'm currently reading:
120 Days in Sodom by Marquis de Sade, which I find extremely humorous,
Essays in Existentialism by Jean Paul-Satre, which I am starting to get bored of,
and,
Neurophilosophy by someguyIforgot, which I've only read the first chapter of but I have high hopes for.
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it stars saddam
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MushmanTheManic said:
I'm currently reading:
120 Days in Sodom by Marquis de Sade, which I find extremely humorous,
lol right on
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Re: New books [Re: spud]
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just finished reading V by Thomas Pynchon, for the second time (made a lot more sense the second time around).
now i'm reading a book of essays by Sartre. not sure what the title is in english - "Situations - Selected Essays" would be the direct translation? (i'm reading a danish translation of the french) - so far the essays handle mostly on the role of literature in society. interesting shit.
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Re: New books [Re: Krishna]
#4386062 - 07/09/05 03:46 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Krishna....Sector 9 rocks the fucking house!!!! For sure!!!! 
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