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  • Question: Which book are you voting for?  (Voting closed: July 30, 2011, 08:19 PM)
  •  nature vs naurter-Dustin Penn - 0 (0%)
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar nafisi - 0 (0%)
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - 0 (0%)
  • Total Voters: 0

 Topic: CEMB Book Club

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  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #30 - July 29, 2011, 06:33 PM
    Cheesy I like what you did there.
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #31 - July 29, 2011, 06:36 PM
    Quote from: Poopycock on July 29, 2011, 06:02 PM
    Speed Reading for Dummies

    Maybe that should be our first reading material Grin



    Edit: fixed the linky link  lipsrsealed

    Aww, I was just about to check if there was a Posting URLs for Dummies book. :(
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #32 - July 29, 2011, 06:41 PM
    Phew! That was a close shave Cheesy
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #33 - July 29, 2011, 06:45 PM
    Cheesy LOL Princey.
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #34 - July 29, 2011, 07:00 PM
    The key to speed reading for me is, don't read with your mouth, read with your mind. Don't say the words, scan through texts, you don't have to read all the page to get an idea of it. Just make sure you're well rested.
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  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #35 - July 29, 2011, 07:02 PM
    I think I may be the slowest reader in the world, so I'm gonna give that book a go. Hopefully be done before new year.
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #36 - July 29, 2011, 07:04 PM
    My speed reading skills are mad Cheesy .. I can read a 500+ pages novel in two hours and give you a review of it all as well. SO yeah I don't skim read, I really read.  whistling2
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #37 - July 29, 2011, 07:05 PM
    You can ignore words like "the", "and" "at" etc, you get through stuff much faster. I don't even proofread my posts anymore.
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  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #38 - July 29, 2011, 07:08 PM
    I read in burst like 20 min bursts, otherwise I get a killer headache. Only with speed reading though. I can read normally for pleasure for like a full day, and finish a book off. I struggle with books which get boring though. For example I was recently reading:

    What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper and I finished it pretty fast since I enjoyed it. It's a really nerdy book.
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  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #39 - July 29, 2011, 07:11 PM
    Here is a bit of the book:

    Quote
    WHY DO PEOPLE SOMETIMES
    SEE “STARS”?
    Sometimes when people physically exert themselves or
    stand up quickly after sitting or bending over, they see
    little spots of light moving in front of them This phenomenon
    can also occur after a blow to the head and is generally
    referred to as seeing “stars ” It is caused by a condition
    known as posterior vitreous detachment (which often also
    results in blurred vision), whereby the vitreous humor—the
    jellylike fluid that fills the eyeball—detaches from the optic
    nerve, an action that the brain perceives as flashes of light
    In most cases, this is only temporary and normal vision is
    restored in a few seconds, but it is more common in elderly
    people, whose vitreous humor has degenerated and partially
    liquefied In some cases, the retina can fully detach and the
    flashes become permanent
    Low blood pressure can also cause flashes, especially
    when someone changes position quickly In this case, the
    flashes are caused by a lack of blood flow to the visual areas

    HOW DOES VIAGRA WORK?
    Viagra is the trade name of the drug sildenafil citrate, which
    is manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, and
    is used by men who have difficulty getting or maintaining an
    erect penis The drug was initially developed to treat heart
    conditions, but the effects it had on the penis were noticed
    during the testing stages and the company introduced a shift
    in marketing
    In healthy men, sexual arousal brings about an increase
    in the rate of blood flow to the penis, resulting in an erection
    This increase in blood flow is brought about by the
    release into the penis of nitric oxide, which stimulates an
    enzyme that works to increase the levels of a chemical called
    cGMP, a chemical that in turn relaxes the muscles and arteries
    in the penis and allows the blood to flow freely If the
    nerves or blood vessels in the penis aren’t working properly,
    this process is inhibited Viagra acts to reduce the effects of
    another chemical in the body that degrades cGMP, an action
    that results in a greater amount of cGMP in the body,
    leading to an erection For Viagra to work, the man must be
    sexually aroused so that the nitric oxide and cGMP levels
    are released in the first place
    Viagra has a number of minor side effects, such as headaches,
    sneezing, priapism (prolonged erections) and heart
    of the brain


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  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #40 - July 30, 2011, 03:48 PM
    Viagra has a number of minor side effects, such as headaches,
    sneezing, priapism (prolonged erections) and heart
    of the brain


    What?  Huh?
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #41 - July 31, 2011, 10:12 PM
    Nomination time.

    I nominate
    -What did we use before toilet paper ( understandable if KT doesn't want to, think it's a good light read though)
    -Strictly english by  Simon Heffer
    -Rich dad poor dad  by Robert T. Kiyosaki

    * i just picked two books from my bag which i haven't been able to finish yet.
    "Tomorrow is the today you were worried about yesterday" Unknown
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #42 - July 31, 2011, 10:21 PM
    I nominate The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

    and Love in The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    Advice: I think its enough if everyone who WANTS to join the book club only nominates two books. Does that sound fine?
    "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
            Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

    - John Keats
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #43 - July 31, 2011, 10:22 PM
    I just remembered that both books have been adopted to movie. No cheating.  Tongue
    "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
            Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

    - John Keats
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #44 - July 31, 2011, 10:22 PM
    How you gonna do this? Create a poll to find the book to start with? Or do we trust you as our leader? Too much democracy hurts my head, so I'm behind you.

    Are you also going to ask ppl if they're in or out for a particular book (cause quite a few said their inclusion depends on the book)?
    Hi
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #45 - July 31, 2011, 10:28 PM
    Umm  whistling2

    I nominate :

    Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar nafisi

    Lucky - Alice Sebold
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #46 - July 31, 2011, 10:55 PM
    Quote from: musivore on July 31, 2011, 10:22 PM
    How you gonna do this? Create a poll to find the book to start with? Or do we trust you as our leader? Too much democracy hurts my head, so I'm behind you.

    Are you also going to ask ppl if they're in or out for a particular book (cause quite a few said their inclusion depends on the book)?


    Omg ..pressure to achieve Tongue

    I thought we could Nominate books and falsely predicted that would work out. I guess we should nominate two books as Al Marri suggested and write a couple of lines on why it's a good read. after a few days i'll create a poll  and the one with the highest vote gets chosen.Whoever wants to read the book will, and can find the thread. Otherwise it's just another thread.
    we can always go back to old nominations but it should be re-mentioned as up for vote.




    I'll just re-do my nomination , make it one book and back up Al Marrii with "The Unbearable Lightness of Being " Because it was recently brought to my attention and i like this :

    Quote
    The German expression, Einmal ist keinmal (once is never) encapsulates “lightness,” the concept of which is well expressed in the quote: “what happens but once, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.” Following this logic, life is insignificant, and decisions do not matter, and are thus rendered light, because they do not cause personal suffering. Yet the insignificance of decisions — our being — causes us great suffering, perceived as the unbearable lightness of being consequent to one’s awareness of life occurring once and never again; thus no one person’s actions are universally significant. This insignificance is existentially unbearable when it is considered that people want their lives to have transcendent meaning.



    Edit: coulda just voted for it, but whatever ..
    "Tomorrow is the today you were worried about yesterday" Unknown
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #47 - August 01, 2011, 04:57 PM
    FFS nominate books which can be found on PDF or for e readers, I am not going to actually go out and buy a book.
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  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #48 - August 02, 2011, 04:40 PM
    KT:

    Take a trip to your local library.

    musi:
    Yeah it will be like that.
    "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
            Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

    - John Keats
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #49 - August 02, 2011, 04:42 PM
    Unless you live in a borough where the government has shut down libraries as part of their public cuts. furious

  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #50 - August 02, 2011, 05:14 PM
    Following on from Berbs' thread yesterday, I'd like to nominate 'Nature via Nurture' by Matt Ridley. I'm gonna buy and read it anyways, so I hope it gets chosen eventually.

    I can't normally be bothered with fiction, so I hope more people suggest non-fiction also?
    Hi
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #51 - August 02, 2011, 05:23 PM
    The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonoard Mlodinow. Although maybe that's cheating because I'm already half-way through it.
    Quote from: yeezevee on February 11, 2016, 02:05 PM
    how fuck works without shit??


    Let's Play Chess!

    harakaat, friend, RIP
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #52 - August 02, 2011, 05:26 PM
     Smiley
    Hi
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #53 - August 02, 2011, 05:30 PM
    Quote from: musivore on August 02, 2011, 05:14 PM
    Following on from Berbs' thread yesterday, I'd like to nominate 'Nature via Nurture' by Matt Ridley. I'm gonna buy and read it anyways, so I hope it gets chosen eventually.

    I can't normally be bothered with fiction, so I hope more people suggest non-fiction also?


    I nominated non fiction books.  whistling2

    Quote from: Zaiba on July 31, 2011, 10:28 PM
    Umm  whistling2

    I nominate :

    Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar nafisi

    Lucky - Alice Sebold

  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #54 - August 02, 2011, 06:05 PM
    Sorry, missed those zaibs. I thought they were fiction, if I'm honest.

     Read up on them now: good choices Smiley

    I've always had a thing for Iranian women (they are second only to French women in my book), so first one sounds good. As for the second, I saw Lovely Bones only last weekend, and was impressed. So, I do trust the author (though the subject matter is a bit too intense for my liking).
    Hi
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #55 - August 02, 2011, 08:27 PM
    grand design or nature vs naurter
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  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #56 - August 02, 2011, 08:29 PM
    NO FICTION BOOKS OK? who reads that shit anyway?
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  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #57 - August 02, 2011, 08:47 PM
    Quote from: musivore on August 02, 2011, 06:05 PM
    Sorry, missed those zaibs. I thought they were fiction, if I'm honest.

     Read up on them now: good choices Smiley

    I've always had a thing for Iranian women (they are second only to French women in my book), so first one sounds good. As for the second, I saw Lovely Bones only last weekend, and was impressed. So, I do trust the author (though the subject matter is a bit too intense for my liking).


    Yeah these novels are non fiction but written in a fictititious way. I quite liked the way Azar Nafisi writes, it's a manageable read and even the unbearable parts are readable. Whereas Alice Sebold is brutally truthful and says it how it is, and can make it difficult to cope. I used be into gory abusive novels for some reason, and I would spend a lot of money on buying child abuse and real life stories of abused women, and well you know how one can either be desensitized to such atrocities or unbearably empathic. 

    I never knew you were into french women. wacko Neither did I know you liked Iranian women ... Hmmmm  Roll Eyes interesting.

    If you get a chance to read "Reading Lolita in Tehran" give Khaled Hosseini a go too. His novels are well known so I don't think I need to convince you to read "The Kite Runner" or "A Thousand Splendid Suns" .. Which reminds, of another really good novel which is fiction (unfortunately for you) but it's a great read nevertheless, "The no.1 ladies detective agency" by Alexander Smith, there are 12 novels in the series. (there's a tv series on it too, I think)

    Geek
  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #58 - August 02, 2011, 09:05 PM

    'In Search of Lost Time' by Marcel Proust, all 3,600 pages, by next Wednesday.

    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: CEMB Book Club
     Reply #59 - August 02, 2011, 09:09 PM
    Zaibs :This forum has taken up my reading time recently, but I am certain I will return to books one day. When I do, I'll try to remember what you said (I've seen and enjoyed Kite Runner btw).

    French: by far the most alluring accent in the world
    Iranian: I just love their spirit, their independent nature, their self-confidence, and the way that living in such an oppressive place, does not stifle their unbelievable sensuality (I got all this from a documentary I saw on Iran years ago).
    Hi
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