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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #6179421 - 10/17/06 04:37 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Daniel Quinn's, the story of "Ishmael".


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #6179447 - 10/17/06 04:43 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

After you've read Enders Game, Ender's Shadow is a fun read. I picked it up like 10 years after forgetting about Ender's Game and it brought it all back.

Besides textbooks I am currently trying to read:

-"Zodiac" by Neal Stephenson (read all his others, I kind of hate his writing but I am somehow addicted to him, especially after muscling through the "Baroque Cycle")
-"Creating True Peace" by Thich Nhat Hanh (reall cool)
-"The Advancement of Learning" by Sir Francis Bacon (ancient and half latin so it's pretty slow going)

Just finished "Welcome to the Monkey House" by Vonnegut, it's a collection of short stories, most of them are good.

The last books I bought were "The Singularity is Near" by Raymond Kurzweil (awesome!) and "A New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram (Overpriced and frickin' huge). Since i'm poor I don't buy too many books these days, mostly get them as presents from my parents or borrow them using my new library card! The library is totally kickass, since nobody uses it anymore around here they've basically got every book I can think of.

Next on the list are "Lunar Park" by Bret Easton Ellis, and maybe this big fat Richard Dawkins book on evolution. Maybe.

Yay books.

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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: Karmatron]
    #6179496 - 10/17/06 04:52 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Oh, also I didn't like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance at all. Maybe I just couldn't get into it but it seemed so cliché, and I found it boring.

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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #6179537 - 10/17/06 05:00 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

the last few books i've read:

intelligence in nature - jermemy narby

freakonomics - stephen levitt

the third chimpanzee - jared diamond

the party's over - richard heinberg

right now i'm poised to start sometimes a great notion by ken kesey, hopefully it'll be good!


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: Karmatron]
    #6179796 - 10/17/06 06:03 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

over ten thousand books free, right here at your disposal.  I mena serious classics.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page :laugh:


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
    #6182424 - 10/18/06 12:23 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

for all you readers out there, bumpt


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8202865 - 03/27/08 07:08 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I think I'm gonna go check something out by Vonnegut. I've never read anything by him, but a lot of people tend to suggest his books. Though I did read some kind of short essay by him about oil relatively recently, before he died, I liked what he said in that piece. So, well...

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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
    #8203007 - 03/27/08 07:39 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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nakors_junk_bag said:
Daniel Quinn's, the story of "Ishmael".


Oh man, that is such a terrible book. (IMO)

I buy almost all of the my books at Barnes & Noble or online.

I am thinking about buying Old Path, White Clouds by Thich Nhat Hanh after hearing an awe-inspiring reading from it at the Buddhist center I go to. But I have plenty to read now, including Among the Believers by V.S. Naipaul, Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, and of course my nightly favorite, BE HERE NOW.


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I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: goliath_91710]
    #8203010 - 03/27/08 07:39 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Nice bump!


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8203014 - 03/27/08 07:40 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Dang!  That's the second time in as many days I've replied unknowingly to a years-old post. :lol:


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I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”

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