Weapon X Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Hello. I started school last week, and am not looking forward to endless hours of sleeping in class, and watching football and hockey and baseball instead of doing homework. Yesterday, for my birthday, I was given "The Thinking Fan's Guide to Baseball, Third Edition" by Leonard Koppet; forward by Pat Gillick. Supposedly, it's the first analytical book on baseball. I wish I had received this gift earlier, and had had tickets to the Mariners/Jays series, because I would have gotten Mr. Gillick to sign it, as he works as a consultant with the M's now. Also, I am reading Somerset Maugham's "The Magician". So far, so damn good. The magician is such a pompous, arrogant, educated man...I love his dialogue! What book are you reading? PS. Do you think it'd be fucked up if I studied Nostradamus' prophecies on the third anti-Christ, then tried to be that guy? No, that's a stupid question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeaaaah baby Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 the bourne identity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 i just read Animal Farm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentBob Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 The anthology of elizabethan prose fiction. I just got it today ... I've been waiting over a month for the bookshop to get it in and they almost didn't give it to me ( some how they had lost the copy that was on reserve for moi ). Luckily the girl serving me was nice enough to just give me what i think was someone else's copy. Anyway, I have to read it for a course I'm doing. I'm amazed that all the stories from that era are filled with as much debauchery and random violence and the like as any of that avante gard shock horror crap. I guess people have found immorality interesting for almost ever .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaesthebluntedwonder Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 http://www.cobdenclub.co.uk/images/yskov.gif'> This book is the shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perhap Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Asian health secrets. I drink a lot of tea. Fresh herbs and whatnot to use in tea to help with energy and whatnot, better days. A whack on the side of the head ^reading this one for class. Had to do a report, and presentation already. Its a good book to help with mental blocks, its easy to read. yea. I have to read some design related book too. I think the teach said a good book was "All corvettes are red" about chevy's original plans and stuff for corvettes. Something....i dont know, havent read it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Originally posted by ARCEL i just read Animal Farm me too! i just finished it last week and then i read 1984, now i'm reading utopia... i have A LOT of free time on my hands lately so if anyone has any good recommendations i'd be up for checking them out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeroshoes Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 I just read Demian, by Hermann Hesse, I love this guy...but pretty soon I'll be reading The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Last Days of Socrates, Herodotus' histories, etc, for school...shit will be a load on my back but I plan on reading all...or most...of it. I'll see how my motivation holds up. Pixie - read Faulkner. Just do it. Animal Farm is all good, but if you want to be into the intense literature tip my suggestion would be Faulkner, above all; plus, get into poetry. I don't want to claim to be any expert, but I would reccomend some T.S. Eliot. I dont know. A lot of well known literature is well known for a reason. Go for the tried and true, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Priest Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 ^ The Wasp Factory. Currently Reading- GUNS,GERMS & STEEL. (Think thats the title) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeroshoes Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Originally posted by High Priest Currently Reading- GUNS,GERMS & STEEL. Interesting book, but it gets super repetitive...I never even finished it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1859844480.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg'> Except the old edition. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1859843794.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg'> Selected essays on cultural theory. http://mc.clintock.com/second_floor/bookcase_2/ICON-images/a_confederacy_of_d.jpg'> Confederacy of Dunces, funny. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1563894459.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg'> Volumes 1 through 10, one of the best comics ever. I have a habit of reading more than one thing at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ment2 Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 i think im gonna get back into dharma bums and finish it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 the odyssey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave_one Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 http://www.mangamaniacs.org/images2/lonewolfcover.jpg'> i'm on the 3rd book so far... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Originally posted by iloveboxcars the odyssey. just got done with this... like.. 3 minutes ago. now starting:: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers so far it's about 2 deaf guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloner Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Food of the Gods http://www.erowid.org/library/books/images/food_of_the_gods.jpg'> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaesthebluntedwonder Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Originally posted by Xeroshoes I just read Demian, by Hermann Hesse, I love this guy...but pretty soon I'll be reading The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Last Days of Socrates, Herodotus' histories, etc, for school...shit will be a load on my back but I plan on reading all...or most...of it. I'll see how my motivation holds up. Pixie - read Faulkner. Just do it. Animal Farm is all good, but if you want to be into the intense literature tip my suggestion would be Faulkner, above all; plus, get into poetry. I don't want to claim to be any expert, but I would reccomend some T.S. Eliot. I dont know. A lot of well known literature is well known for a reason. Go for the tried and true, I guess. Have you read Narcissus and Goldmund by Hesse? If you haven't already, check it out. For a while all I read was Hesse. I bought a book of poems he wrote, which are so sad. They all have something to do with him mourning a friend who has gone to fight in the war. One of my favorite writers. Now I'm way into Dave Eggers' writting. Anyone else read AHWOSG? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUCK FUSH Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Originally posted by High Priest Currently Reading- GUNS,GERMS & STEEL. (Think thats the title) great history book. i only have one "real" class this semester. its all on shakespeare, so id imagine im gonna reread a bunch of my favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIPHER_one Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Catch-22. Its really funny...but its very drawn out...and long. But worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr430n5_666 Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 http://www.kak.ru/images/archive/16/Yves_Netzhammer/dyadya.jpg'> "eh" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gatita Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Originally posted by kaesthebluntedwonder Now I'm way into Dave Eggers' writting. Anyone else read AHWOSG? Amazing book! One of my favs. Currently Im reading The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman [book on why emotional intell is more important than actually IQ], and dabbling in DaVinci Code.. honestly, I havent been able to get into it, everyone sweats DaVinci Code too much that it seems over hyped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alure Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Originally posted by gatita Amazing book! One of my favs. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman [book on why emotional intell is more important than actually IQ], i started reading that book..never finished tho;/ left it at my dads house..oops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Rage- Posted September 5, 2004 Share Posted September 5, 2004 I want to start Brimstone by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.. too bad it's always been checked out of the library. Damn it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villain Posted September 5, 2004 Share Posted September 5, 2004 "Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure" Don't ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiffer Jet Posted September 5, 2004 Share Posted September 5, 2004 I took this semester off. I'm currently reading Building a PC for Dummies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathoræ Posted September 6, 2004 Share Posted September 6, 2004 Originally posted by iloveboxcars the odyssey. me too... again... *sigh* and next is the Ramayana. I'm also starting on Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams". http://www.psywww.com/books/interp/toc.htm All of these are for school... I thought AHWOSG was good, but not the best book I've read in the past few years. You Shall Know Our Velocity looks good just from the cover, though. I really dug The Wasp Factory (I hope you do too, High Priest), Narcissus and Goldmund (Hesse is one of my favorite authors too!), and House of Leaves... It sucks not having personal reading time during school... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted September 6, 2004 Author Share Posted September 6, 2004 Originally posted by bathoræ ...and next is the Ramayana... Like THE Ramayana? Or some book by some white guy like Herman Hesse, or whatever his name is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Jump Posted September 6, 2004 Share Posted September 6, 2004 Jennifer Government by Max Barry Lord of the Flies by William Golding.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathoræ Posted September 6, 2004 Share Posted September 6, 2004 Originally posted by Weapon X Like THE Ramayana? Or some book by some white guy like Herman Hesse, or whatever his name is? Yes, THE Ramayana... (I haven't checked my syllabus to see if we're reading the whole thing) I'm taking a world literature class covering Ancient Literature through the 16th century. We get to read things like Dante's Inferno, The Tale of Genji and toward the end of the semester we get to read some South American literature... woo! hehe (I'm a dork) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted September 6, 2004 Author Share Posted September 6, 2004 oh, ok, cool! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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