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  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #120 - November 14, 2010, 11:19 PM



    I took a road trip from Texas to Idaho ( approx 24 drive time) and I finished

    Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

    Absolutely amazing.  His story is inspirational, not because he thought he was destined to do this, but in the accidental way he stumbled upon his mission and the way it consumed him.  Like someone said and I would actually agree this man deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, not for his grandous gestures towards peace but because his gestures are so personable, so individual.

     god is not Great by Christopher Hitchens

    Normally I wouldn't recommend an audiobook, but it is narrated by Hitchens himself and his cadence and style makes the audiobook, in my opinion, better than the simple written text

    Lolita en Tehran

    I am not a literary person, but I was captivated by how the author was able to relate literary works to her small group of students and their lives. 

    No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah

    One of the more comprehensive books about a battle that I have read.  It moves easily from the big picture of politics and strategy to the events on the ground. 

    So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
    My political philosophy below
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGat4i8pJI&feature=g-vrec
    Just kidding, here are some true heros
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTgvK6LQqA
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #121 - November 14, 2010, 11:46 PM
    'Utilitarianism' by J. S. Mill.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #122 - November 14, 2010, 11:55 PM
    Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, one of the first to bring yoga to the States. At first I had a hard time reading it and even put it down for a few months. Then I realized that this was due to my previous indoctrination regarding shirk and blah, blah, blah. I definitely recommend it. Although I'm not in search of a religion pre se, I  do like to read about people's experiences with the unseen, and even the most ardent skeptic would have a hard time discounting Yogananda's experiences as wishful thinking or synchronicity. He could be a liar though, but he doesn't strike me as such.
    "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion."~Steven Weinberg
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #123 - November 14, 2010, 11:56 PM
    God and the State - Mikhail Bakunin
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #124 - November 14, 2010, 11:58 PM
    Quote from: newsoul on November 14, 2010, 11:55 PM
    Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, one of the first to bring yoga to the States. At first I had a hard time reading it and even put it down for a few months. Then I realized that this was due to my previous indoctrination regarding shirk and blah, blah, blah. I definitely recommend it. Although I'm not in search of a religion pre se, I  do like to read about people's experiences with the unseen, and even the most ardent skeptic would have a hard time discounting Yogananda's experiences as wishful thinking or synchronicity. He could be a liar though, but he doesn't strike me as such.


    What were his experiences?
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #125 - November 14, 2010, 11:59 PM
    I'm reading the "Post Office" by Charles Bukowski.

    Before that I read "1933 was a bad year" by John Fante
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #126 - November 15, 2010, 01:38 AM
    Re-reading "The Elegant Universe" - By Brian Greene. 

    Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elegant_Universe
    Left the forum: http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=22997
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #127 - November 15, 2010, 06:37 AM
    Quote from: BlackDog on November 10, 2010, 01:34 PM
    A Million Little Lies
    Exposing James Frey's Fiction Addiction

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/million-little-lies


    A Thousand Little Refunds
    Payback time for lawyers, rooked readers of James Frey's bogus memoir

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/thousand-little-refunds

     Hahaha yeah I've heard about those. I was 3/4 into the book when I was like Gaaah I can't do this anymore!
    I'm open for debate (of why we should re-/embrace Islam), but I will no longer participate in this forum. Message me if you need anything. Good luck and may you all find your way... again...
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #128 - November 15, 2010, 06:38 AM
    Quote from: King Tut on November 15, 2010, 01:38 AM
    Re-reading "The Elegant Universe" - By Brian Greene. 

    Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elegant_Universe

     If you're rereading it it must be a good book. What is it about?
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  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #129 - November 15, 2010, 06:40 AM
    Quote from: mighty_cats on November 05, 2010, 07:15 PM
    The universe in a nut shell - Stephen Hawking yes

     yeah I remember this one I liked it
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  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #130 - November 15, 2010, 11:02 AM
    Quote from: King Tut on November 15, 2010, 01:38 AM
    Re-reading "The Elegant Universe" - By Brian Greene. 

    Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elegant_Universe

    Its on youtube, might watch it there instead as I'm booked out at the moment

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NWoxdJ1sIk
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  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #131 - November 15, 2010, 11:39 AM
    i'm reading a few simultaneously , but i'll name one ...
    The world according to clarkson .
    i'm travelling today  and planning on stocking up with good books on my return   since Saudi Filters it's stock.
    "Tomorrow is the today you were worried about yesterday" Unknown
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #132 - November 15, 2010, 12:23 PM
    Game Theory (A Very Short Introduction) By Ken Binmore Read three chapters, it's way above my head and uninteresting. I want to apply practical use but the book doesn't help me pursue my goal.

    So switched to Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #133 - November 15, 2010, 09:32 PM
    It's essentially about sting theory, parallel universes and M-Theory.
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  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #134 - November 16, 2010, 04:53 AM
    Quote from: BlackDog on November 14, 2010, 11:58 PM
    What were his experiences?



    Well, there are many from the time he was a child I suspect up until he died. (Haven't read it all yet.)  One of my favorites is his encounter with the saint with two bodies. Basically, he goes on an errand for his father to a swami and the swami not only knows who he is although he has never met him, but also knows clairvoyantly that he is in search of a third person. The swami is able to bilocate and finds the man and in seemingly bodily form asks him to come to his home as soon as he can and takes his leave of him. Meanwhile, he has been sitting with the author the whole time in a state of meditation. The summoned man shows up and the two visitors are both speechless when they discover that the swami was with both of them at two different places at the same time.

    Read it if you want more!:))

    "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion."~Steven Weinberg
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #135 - November 16, 2010, 10:31 AM
    Oh cool I will, I love fiction Smiley
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #136 - November 16, 2010, 02:28 PM
    Quote from: BlackDog on November 14, 2010, 11:59 PM
    I'm reading the "Post Office" by Charles Bukowski.

    Before that I read "1933 was a bad year" by John Fante

    Quote from: BlackDog on November 15, 2010, 12:23 PM
    Game Theory (A Very Short Introduction) By Ken Binmore Read three chapters, it's way above my head and uninteresting. I want to apply practical use but the book doesn't help me pursue my goal.

    So switched to Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything


    Woah, you read a lot.  Smiley

    I've read "Post Office"! But I think I didn't finish it. I dunno why, I seem to remember enjoying it. Blame my jumping from book to book even when I'm not done with one yet.  Tongue
    "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
    ~ Douglas Adams
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #137 - November 16, 2010, 02:33 PM
    Quote from: Prince Spinoza on November 14, 2010, 11:56 PM
    God and the State - Mikhail Bakunin


    Ooh thanks for reminding me about this again, lol. I thought you had read it? Or are you rereading it? I'm gonna read that too. Looks interesting.
    "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
    ~ Douglas Adams
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #138 - November 16, 2010, 02:35 PM
    Quote from: Lukatic on November 16, 2010, 02:28 PM
    Woah, you read a lot.  Smiley

    I've read "Post Office"! But I think I didn't finish it. I dunno why, I seem to remember enjoying it. Blame my jumping from book to book even when I'm not done with one yet.  Tongue


    I do that as well Smiley

    I used to read a lot when I was a teenager. But with old age came weed and peer-pressure (only nerds read books [outside of school/uni]). Now all I have left is the weed
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #139 - November 16, 2010, 02:35 PM
    wtf was I talking about?  Huh?
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #140 - November 16, 2010, 02:36 PM
     Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
    "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
    ~ Douglas Adams
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #141 - November 16, 2010, 05:49 PM
    Quote from: BlackDog on November 16, 2010, 10:31 AM
    Oh cool I will, I love fiction Smiley



    Don't be hatin' on Yogananda! Sure, some of it is that "need to see it to believe it" stuff, but I think it's good to know what the possibilities may be in order to have any hope of exploring them further. Call it broadening your horizons.
    "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion."~Steven Weinberg
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #142 - November 16, 2010, 06:01 PM
    I am currently reading God Is Not Great
    Books I enjoyed before:
    - Frozen Fire
    - Bud, Not Buddy
    - The Giver
    - Three Day Road
    - Fruit
    I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
    In somebody else's sky, but why, why, why
    Can't it be, can't it be mine

    https://twitter.com/AlharbiMoe
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #143 - November 25, 2010, 07:34 PM
    Factotum by Charles Bukowski.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #144 - November 25, 2010, 08:24 PM
    What's that about, BD ?
    Religion is ignorance giftwrapped in lyricism.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #145 - November 25, 2010, 08:34 PM
    It's about his alter-ego Henry Chinaski and it's not really about anything in that sense, there is no really plot or narrative. He travels city to city, job to job, getting fired from every job, drinks a lot, bets on horses, argues and fights with his woman and tries to write sometimes. It's realistic fiction and is well-written but the negativity and bitterness can't be too much sometimes.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #146 - November 25, 2010, 08:35 PM
    Quote from: BlackDog on November 25, 2010, 07:34 PM
    Factotum by Charles Bukowski.

    You read too much Bukowski, bro.

    You'll turn into a commie.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #147 - November 25, 2010, 08:39 PM
     Cheesy
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #148 - November 25, 2010, 09:02 PM
    Quote from: BlackDog on November 25, 2010, 08:34 PM
    It's about his alter-ego Henry Chinaski and it's not really about anything in that sense, there is no really plot or narrative. He travels city to city, job to job, getting fired from every job, drinks a lot, bets on horses, argues and fights with his woman and tries to write sometimes. It's realistic fiction and is well-written but the negativity and bitterness can't be too much sometimes.


    Sounds like a script out of my life.
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  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #149 - November 25, 2010, 09:04 PM
    Currently reading: Cocky: The Rise and Fall of Curtis Warren.
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