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OneMoreRobot3021
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Books: The Thread About Them
#6164992 - 10/13/06 08:39 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm in the mood to geek out about books. I went to the bookstore two days ago and bought foor books:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Reading it now and loving it) Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Three Nights in August by Buzz Bissinger Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
I can't wait to read the Foucault book, it's all about the way prisons have changed and the reflection of a society in its prison systems. In it he talks about how we now torture the soul rather than the body in our penal systems. (hehehe, I said penal! )
Books I just recently finished but can't recommend enough!:
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Other Voices, Other Rooms also by Truman Capote The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen (if you like U.S. history)
I really want to find a good biography of Buffalo Bill...
Where do you buy your books? Is there a small bookstore where you live that you patronize, or do you go straight to Barnes & Nobles or Borders? I have to admit I bought my 4 aforementioned books at B&N though I usually like to go to a small shop called Shakespeare & Co. But sometimes, I just love getting lost in B&N.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Liz
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I steal most of my books from my boyfriend's step-father. He has a whole library room, and there's more books than i could ever imagine there. 1st editions of old books, stuff like that. There's even some notes from Presidents and whatnot, it's really an interesting place to browse when I'm bored!
Right now I'm reading "The Bookseller of Kabul" by Asne Seierstad. The author went and lived with a family in Afghanistan for 3 months, and it's a blunt portrayal of everyday life there. I'm really enjoying it.
I finished "Marley and Me" not too long ago, and it was amazing. Every dog lover should read it
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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: Liz]
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Buying books is an unhealthy addiction of mine. I certainly can't afford to, but I get off on adding things to my bookshelves.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Liz
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I hear ya! You shoudl come visit sometime and check out the library...i can see you completely ignoring us and spending hours in that room
The ceilings are about 30 feet high, and the shelves go from the floor to the ceiling...and they're all filled. I don't think I read fast enough to ever get to them all unfortunately.
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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: Liz]
#6165012 - 10/13/06 08:48 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Liz said: You shoudl come visit sometime and check out the library...i can see you completely ignoring us and spending hours in that room
on acid
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Penal... hehehe
A few weeks ago I made a post about this 'discworld' thing that I heard about. A couple people said it was good (including toiletduk) so I decided to read one.
I go to the book store and there are like thirty books there about DISCWORLD... so I just picked one. It was about Omnia, called "Small Gods".
Started out good, but it was a little silly in the middle, thought the end was also good. I wouldn't really reccomend it though.
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Yeh, I'm not crazy about Terry Pratchett. If you like Neil Gaiman though (and I looooooooove Neil Gaiman) he and Pratchett collaborated on a book called Good Omens.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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I often get my books from barnes and nobles
But there is a book trader by where I work, a nice cheap quaint little store with so many books that about half of the collection cant fit the bookshelves
I never have anything to trade though, because I give my books away.
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Trav
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I've been buying books on Ebay recently because I sold some things and ended up with some extra money in my paypal account. I've recently picked up: The Handbook to Higher Consciousness by Ken Keyes, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, and Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. I also bought a Prayer For Owen Meany because I saw a thread where you were talking about it. I'm almost finished with the Handbook to Higher Consciousness and will start up Owen Meany as soon as it arrives.
When I do buy books from a book store it's usually Barnes and Noble because it's the closest to me and has a huge selection.
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I usually go to the library, sometimes I'll spend a day there, they have a great selection of books and they will order any book in for you and best of all it's free There's no bookstore here but when I go to one it's usually Chapters
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: Trav]
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Trav said: I also bought a Prayer For Owen Meany because I saw a thread where you were talking about it.
Maaaan you bought that book at the PERFECT time of year. It's a great autumn/winter book. I hope you like it.
pictureperfect: I really need to get a new library card and take advantage of that place.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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I'm on the 3rd book of the wheel of time. I just bought American Gospel by Jon Meacham. American Gospel is about how religion shaped the founding of America. The wheel of time is just a fantasy novel.
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Quote:
OneMoreRobot3021 said: pictureperfect: I really need to get a new library card and take advantage of that place.
yes you do! it's heaven, so quiet and peaceful and full of books
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JonnyOnTheSpot
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i usually buy books from barnes and noble or amazon. i'm not even aware of any small time book stores around here actually.
i've been on a "end of the world" kick for a little while and have been reading most of the classics in the genre. i read Lucifer's Hammer which was awesome, and i just finished up On The Beach which was pretty good too. Next i'm going read a new EotW book that's actually currently on the best seller list called The Road. It's apparently very very good. Then i'm going to read Swan Song which is another nuclear holocaust themed book that is supposed to be a good one. What can i say...i love novels. all though i am reading State of Denial on the side it smaller doses.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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I can't read more than one book at once. FUcks my head up.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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i usually don't do it but since the books are so different it's not so bad. i concentrate on the novels but read the other one when i feel like a change of pace.
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Burke Dennings
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I thought of ziddy the whole time as I was reading 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'. Aspies and shit.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Did you finish up Devil in the White City? Not enough murder, IMO.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Burke Dennings
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I got like halfway through it and put it down for now. I like architecture (somewhat), and I'm pretty familiar with Chicago, but I was really hoping for more grisly bits. I'm not sure if I plan on finishing it.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Well if that's the case then yes, let me tell you, you will be teased and teased to no end about Dr. Holmes, only to receive as gratification one long chapter at the close of the book summing up Dr. Holmes' story, with very little grisly detail. I bought the book expecting to want to read more about serial killers (well, I do - any suggestions?) but more than anything it made me want to go to Chicago, big time.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Burke Dennings
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Hmmmm. I haven't really read much about serial killers. Helter Skelter by V. Bugliosi was excellent, but you've probably read that by now.
To be honest, with the exception of In Cold Blood, I don't really care too much for historical fiction. So if I do decide to finish Devil in the White City, it'll just be for the interesting history rather than what looked like a cool murder story.
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Just finished Jitterbug Perfume.
Almost done with Choke by Chuch Palahniuk. Will start some soemthing by Mark Twain next.
Non-fiction. I'm reading Intoxication by Ronald Siegal, which is about how humans are pre-wired to strive for intoxication. Seems interesting so far.
Also started The Philosophers Stone, which is about the history of alchemy.
I buy my books at many places. First one is always Goodwill. Paperbacks are $.99 and hardbacks are $1.49. I've found some amazing deals there. Then next is the used bookstores around my neighborhood. There's about 5 of them in a 3 block radius. Then I'll go to Barnes and Noble and Tattered Cover, which is the biggest bookstore I've ever been in. I think it's 4 floors, could be 5 though.
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Choke was my least favorite Palahniuk book...the most repetitive by far.
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I haven't read Choke yet, but I've heard decent things about it (other than from you OMR). Diary was probably my favorite of his books so far.
I tend to buy books from Barnes & Nobel or Amazon (if I want them used=cheaper).
I'm kind of a snob with my books (or in general, if you ask my boyfriend. ), and I like them to be nice and new so that I can highlight them and write all over their wonderfully pristine pages.
Amazon is nice because they have the whole "you might enjoy..." thing, but it's also fun just to wander around B&N and check out the displays to find some new authors and topics and such.
I'm reading Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs right now, then I want to read Go Ask Alice (just bought it, all my friends read it in high school and I never did).
Just recently finish In the Pond (or Into the Pond?) which was pretty enjoyable.
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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: Geneephurr]
#6165602 - 10/13/06 11:54 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've heard such good things about Running with Scissors.
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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: Geneephurr]
#6165616 - 10/13/06 11:58 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Go Ask Alice is a really good book
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OneMoreRobot3021 said: I've heard such good things about Running with Scissors.
They made a movie out of it, and the preview looks really funny and like it'd be a good movie, so that really enflamed my need to read it myself.
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OneMoreRobot3021 said: Choke was my least favorite Palahniuk book...the most repetitive by far.
It's the first book I've read of his and I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Fucking hilarious in some parts, where I'm actually laughing out loud, which I rarely do when I read.
I just like his writing style, it's different and I think fits the story exactly.
I've got so many books to read that I'm not sure when I'm going to get around to reading another one of his.
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If you like his writing style then you'll find in his other books he's much better...I think Survivor is his best.
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We need pics of people's collections...
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I hardly ever buy books. This is because Kevin's rich grandparents sends us packages of leather-bound personally signed (some of them) sci-fi classic editions in big boxes. I have just about every sci-fi classic there is in leather and the books take up three big bookshelves.
It's pretty nice. Most of them I haven't read. About to start Dune, maybe today.
Other books I've been wanting to start: Ender's Shadow, The Dispossessed (not sure if I spelled that right, but whatever)
I usually read science fiction, but after I read all these books I already have, I think I'm going to move on to horror.
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I've been really diggin the William Gibson novels as of late, and as such I went out and bought 3 of them.
Idoru Count Zero All Tomorrow's Parties
I've read the first two now, and they were great! Only a couple of chapters into the third one, so we'll see on it!
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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: trendal]
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skip "pattern recognition" by Gibson, boring read dmt-the spirit molecule u can find the ebook on line check out henry miller,tolstoy, dosteyvsky, lermontov, pushkin, turgenev,
Last Exit to Brooklyn Reqiuem for a Dream by Hubert Selby 1984 Animal Farm Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
the fountainhead Edgar Allen Poe: The Pit And The Pendulum Notes from Underground Hard Travellin by Kenneth Allsop Dhalgren-sam delany Behold a Pale Horse-william cooper Life At The Bottom: The Worldview That Makes The Underclass - Theodore Dalrymple The Stranger" by Albert Camus The Rum Diary" by Hunter S. Thompson The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway Art of War The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger metamorphasis the turner diaries Naked Lunch Vissions of Cody Biograhphies of Jim Morrison Notes From Underground (Modern Version) - by Eric Bogosian Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer The Jungle, Sinclair The Outsider" by Albert Camus Johnny Got His Gun The Alchemist The Idiot - Dostovesky William Blake's "Marriage of Heaven and Hell Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman William Gibson's Neuromancer media control --- noam chomsky watership down Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita Tom Sawyer Robert Heinlein Walden" -- Henry David Thoreau red badge of courage - stephen crane
if there is just a title and no author name just put into google with book reviews and the name will come up all these r good books and will be a diversion from your mundane existence
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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: 5150]
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Hmmph, I liked Pattern Recognition.
Anyway, I'm sure the majority of clever/obscure/self-important literary masterpieces have already been mentioned here. But I assure you, I am incredibly well read and smarter than all of you because of the books I claim to read.
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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: unbeliever]
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Some good fantasy/sci-fi books
Enders Game - Dunno The Darkness that comes before - R Scott Bakker Dark Tower series - Stephen King
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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: MOTH]
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I used to read compulsively, than somewher along the line i lost interest. I'm trying to pick the habit back up again. I just read marilyn Mansons auto bigraphy: Long hard road out of hell. Good read. Lots of crazy rockstar stories.
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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: unbeliever]
#6178407 - 10/17/06 12:31 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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u liked pattern recognition it is by common agreement of all readers of cyberpunk that it,s his worst most infantile book he writes about firewalls, emails,instant messaging, ooh how creative, terrible uninspired rubbish, i think u need to expand on your inadequate reading base
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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: 5150]
#6178982 - 10/17/06 02:49 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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right now im reading the stranger by camus the areas of my expertise by john hodgman
last few good books ive read man without a country by vonnegut what we believe but cannot prove enders game by card
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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: knumb]
#6179045 - 10/17/06 03:03 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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any thing by David Icke
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nakors_junk_bag
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Daniel Quinn's, the story of "Ishmael".
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Karmatron
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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) |
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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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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) |
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over ten thousand books free, right here at your disposal. I mena serious classics. http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
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for all you readers out there, bumpt
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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...
Peace
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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.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, 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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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: goliath_91710]
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Nice bump!
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Dang! That's the second time in as many days I've replied unknowingly to a years-old post.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, 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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