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  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #330 - October 07, 2011, 05:19 PM
    I read that when I was younger and saw a play inspired by it last month.  It's a good read.
    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 #331 - October 07, 2011, 05:24 PM
    Sputnik sweetheart
    Little Fly, Thy summer's play
    My thoughtless hand has brushed away.

    I too dance and drink, and sing,
    Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

    Therefore I am a happy fly,
    If I live or if I die.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #332 - October 07, 2011, 05:26 PM
    Quote from: GodIsNotGreat on October 07, 2011, 04:51 PM
    I've started reading Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.

    Great book. I actually prefer it to Steppenwolf, but Steppenwolf is a good read too.

    At the moment I have this massive tome on the go:



    John Richardson’s 2nd volume of A Life of Picasso, detailing the years 1907–1917.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #333 - October 07, 2011, 05:39 PM
    Sidahartha Afro
    Little Fly, Thy summer's play
    My thoughtless hand has brushed away.

    I too dance and drink, and sing,
    Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

    Therefore I am a happy fly,
    If I live or if I die.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #334 - October 07, 2011, 07:57 PM
    Re-reading All quiet on the Western Front by E M Remarque. A WW1 classic.
    Religion is organized superstition
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #335 - October 07, 2011, 09:08 PM
    My forbidden face by Latifa.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #336 - October 07, 2011, 09:48 PM


    Moral Relativism: A Short Introduction by Neil Levy.

    Quote
    This enlightening new introduction examines the history and development of moral relativism, considering the arguments for and against, and also covering such key topics as terrorism, and the rights of women in oppressive cultures.


    Just started out, its good to go back over the basics.  I like his writing style too, he uses a lot of examples and has a relaxed exposition. 

    Recommendation:

    If you do like a good short fiction book read

    Bel Canto by Ann Patchett



    Quote
    Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different countries and continents become compatriots.Friendship, compassion, and the chance for great love lead the characters to forget the real danger that has been set in motion and cannot be stopped.


    Such a good book and I remember being blow away with how intimately the characters were written. 
    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 #337 - October 08, 2011, 05:27 PM
    I'm reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie, the Divine Comedy, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, and Paradise Lost. Oh, and Frankenstein. And Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett.
    >.>
    <.<
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #338 - October 08, 2011, 05:32 PM
    Um, Essential University Physics by Richard Wolfson... and probably the only thing I'll get to read for a while. :(
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #339 - October 08, 2011, 05:39 PM
    I'm going to start reading Steinbeck again.
    I read The Grapes of Wrath, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, The Pearl and of course Of Mice and Men when I was a teenager and remember not being able to put them down they had such an impact on me. Time to read them again methinks.
    I just read One Day by David Nicholls; frankly was disappointed, only just made it to the end and even then only because I get annoyed about the number of books I abandon half way through.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #340 - October 08, 2011, 05:41 PM
    Quote from: SunbulRocket on October 08, 2011, 05:27 PM
    Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie


    What’s that like?

    Quote from: deusvult on October 07, 2011, 09:48 PM
    Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

    (Clicky for piccy!)

    Such a good book and I remember being blow away with how intimately the characters were written.  

    Sounds great! I’ll have to have a look in our local library. thnkyu

    Also, Steinbeck is magnificent. I think East of Eden is my favourite by him.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #341 - October 08, 2011, 05:45 PM
    Quote from: Kodanshi on October 08, 2011, 05:41 PM
    What’s that like?

    I've not read enough of it to form a real opinion on it, but there's a lot of sex and death, which is what I'm reading it for, really. >.>
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #342 - October 08, 2011, 05:52 PM


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  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #343 - October 08, 2011, 05:58 PM
    A journey into the Zohar - Nathan Wolski

    Do androids dream of electric sheep - Philip K. Dick
    At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
    Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
    Downward to darkness, on extended wings. - Stevens
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #344 - October 08, 2011, 06:38 PM
    Zohar?!

    LittLe mystic I see here Wink
    Little Fly, Thy summer's play
    My thoughtless hand has brushed away.

    I too dance and drink, and sing,
    Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

    Therefore I am a happy fly,
    If I live or if I die.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #345 - October 09, 2011, 01:14 AM
    Quote from: Lara91 on October 08, 2011, 06:40 PM
    essential cell biology and some other book about chemistry   mysmilie_977


    Ftw. I've cracked it open a few times of late just for the hell of it, even though I took the course more than 3 years ago, lol.  Cheesy
    Quote from: yeezevee on February 11, 2016, 02:05 PM
    how fuck works without shit??


    Let's Play Chess!

    harakaat, friend, RIP
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #346 - October 13, 2011, 08:20 AM
    I'm currently reading someone-or-the-other's translation of the Ramayana. As well as everything else I'm reading. I should probably try reading all the books I'm in the middle of first before opening a new one...
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #347 - October 13, 2011, 11:45 AM


    hehehe
    "I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure,
    Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests."
    [Kepler's epitaph]
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #348 - October 13, 2011, 12:25 PM


    Thomas Aikenhead
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #349 - October 13, 2011, 01:35 PM
    That's Diderot, isn't it?
    قل للمليحة في الخمار الأسود
    مـاذا فـعــلت بــناسـك مـتـعـبد

    قـد كـان شـمّر لــلـصلاة ثـيابه
    حتى خـطرت له بباب المسجد

    ردي عليـه صـلاتـه وصيـامــه
    لا تـقــتـلــيه بـحـق ديــن محمد
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #350 - October 13, 2011, 01:42 PM
    Quote from: harakaat on October 13, 2011, 01:35 PM
    That's Diderot, isn't it?


    yes it is Denis Diderot .. was a great guy ...free will. ...free will. ...free will.

    I am looking for picture of Thomas Aikenhead .. No success in getting that picture of  20 year old Blasphemer.. So I used Diderot to remember Aikenhead

    click the picture you can read that 40 pages booklet  on that 20 year old   Thomas who was executed by rogues of that time.   Huh! this is an interesting book..

    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #351 - October 13, 2011, 02:16 PM
    I can't believe some of you guys actually 'read' textbooks...I tend to just scan through them, and look at sections I need - Don't really count that as proper reading material.

    I'm currently reading Light Years by ...can't remember the guys name Brain something....Reading it slowly but it's good.
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #352 - October 13, 2011, 02:19 PM
    The Last Empire, by Gore Vidal.
    Before it gets too late, you will find escape.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #353 - October 15, 2011, 09:49 AM
    Quote from: mchawking on October 13, 2011, 11:45 AM
    (Clicky for piccy!)

    hehehe

    That looks pretty stupendous. I might just order that. But I have an obsession with clocks and watches. At school I used to wear multiple watches. No longer, but asking the time is still my favourite chat–up line. Albert Einstein once said: “The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” Afro
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #354 - October 15, 2011, 10:04 AM
    Nobody here read regular fiction?  you bunch of intellectual freaks.

    Seriously.

    I come to this thread like "yea I'm gonna say I'm reading some Robin Hobb", see the books you guys read, and feel woefully stupid or something.

    Y'all are lying though.

    I see your mills and boons buried in that hawking book. 
    Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #355 - October 15, 2011, 10:07 AM
    We read regular fiction too, but the thread is about what we’re reading at the moment, isn’t it? Huh?
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #356 - October 15, 2011, 10:10 AM
    and you all seem to be reading something smart at the moment........ Tongue

    I'm reading Robin Hobb The Inheritance...........but I'm also "reading" The brothers karamazov by Dostoevsky..................sort of, but then i pick up my Hobb, because that's more entertaining.
    Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #357 - October 15, 2011, 10:14 AM
    Really? I was laughing throughout the Bros Karamazov. Well, bits of it. Crime and Punishment was hilarious though. That Raskolnikov character is so funny! Cheesy
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #358 - October 15, 2011, 10:15 AM
    I really enjoyed the brothers k.
    Dostoevsky tells a great story while being the original psycho-analyst.
    At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
    Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
    Downward to darkness, on extended wings. - Stevens
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #359 - October 15, 2011, 10:19 AM
    yes, but Hobb does MAGIC...............MAGIC.  The allure of that is too strong for me.   Cheesy
    Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
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