The time trap (its about effectivly organizing) its a really good book i highly recomend it
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The time trap (its about effectivly organizing) its a really good book i highly recomend it
Thought there might be a thread like this in here somewhere.......
I usually read several at a time, depending on the mood. Usually, they are all vastly different from one another, so I don't get confused.
Fidel Castro by Robert E. Quirk
Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
I don't go through books quickly, and don't usually care for fiction, although every once-in-a-while I'll pick one up. Sometimes I even finish them.
Currently reading Travels with Barley. It's about a guy that travels down the Mississippi River in search of the perfect beer joint. Really good book so far (half way through)
Also, The Complete Joy of Homebrewing 3rd Edition.
right now i'm reading the wealth of nations by Adam Smith. I'm almost done it. Its interesting but Smith tends to repeat himself quite a bit. for those who dont know, Smith is the forefather of economics, classical economics to be exact. this book is basically his philosophy on economics.
After this i'm prolly reading A General Theory of employment, interest, and money John Maynard Keynes. Same type of book, but it is the criticsm of Smith's TWoN, I wanna see how both men feel about economics...call me a weirdo but this interests me :smiley17:
The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennon Manning
Stephen King's "The Stand".
Just finishing up Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay.
Then I'll be on to either The Stand by Stephen King or Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (the follow up to Wicked)
tim robbins skinny legs and all, hafe asleep in frog pajamas
and jon lee andersons che guevara
dustin
I've yet to see the movie (and, actually, given the chance I probably wouldn't see it at all - I wouldn't want to ruin my mental image of everything from the book), but it's my favorite SK book of all time. I've read it twice myself.
IMO, the DT series had a few great books (Gunslinger, Wizard and Glass, The Dark Tower), but a few I really didn't enjoy at all (Drawing of Three, Wastelands, Song of Susannah).
Tom Robbins. Awesome, awesome author. Skinny Legs is my favorite, followed very closely by Jitterbug Perfume and a newer one - Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. I've got all his titles and all are good.
What quotes! Two I like besides the one in my tagline:
"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet."
"...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line."
Oh boy! I am a book junkie. I'm going to live in this thread. I read several books at any one time.
My current novel is Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
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My current non-fiction book is The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
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I just finished reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Jackson was a master writer. Do yourself a favor and check out her stuff. You will be knocked-out.
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Just finishing "Oil" by Upton Sinclair.
This is the book that "There Will Be Blood" was based on. The book is much better than the movie was.
Just past the half-way point of The Whole Truth by James Scott Bell.
as for Robbins it was hard getting in to his style at first (villa incognito) but i loved skinny legs and all
dustin
Haven't had too much of an opportunity to read much Robbins. I did read Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. I really like how he wrote that book, entirely in the second person. Very interesting.
There is no need to watch "The Stand" movie. Way too much is missing.
I also count "The Stand" as one of my favorite books ever.
How To Be A Gentleman. I got it at Jos. A Bank. Apperantly, I'm not a Gentleman. The whole thing about not 'using my horn indiscriminately' sort of DQ's me from it, though it could be argued that i use it to 'avert disaster'
Recently finished up...
The Lonesome Dove series of books
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Understanding Exposure
The Digital Photography Book Vol.1 and 2
Now up, Hard Landing.
currently i am reading the electric koolaid acid test and also The Hunter
Goldfinger
On vacation sitting next to the pool I read:
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
Books of Blood by Clive Barker
did some crossword puzzles too.
Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart pretty good book so far. It was written by Neil Peart, the drummer from Rush. It's about the transcontinental motorcycle ride he took after his wife and daughter died.
Just finished Kite Runner, now reading The Templars
just finished Straight from the gut, by Jack Welch. Recommended by my father. Good book, I learned lots until the end when you find out what his retirement package was when he left GE. What a criminal!
Of Human Bondage ~ W Somerset Maugham
Reading it outloud helps me follow it better, and seems to sooth the savage beast, that is my 1 year old daughter.
Will
I am just about finished with The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman. I realize this book is dated (in terms of Internet and globalization) but he sounds oddly and childishly fascinated with rather mundane tasks such as e-mail and where all the different parts of his laptop comes from. I just think he had his mind made up about several issues before he researched them, and spends the rest of the time of the book trying to convince himself that he's right. I'm on the last chapter, and it's worth finishing just because it's a long book.
I'm also reading This Incomplete One: Words Occasioned by the Death of a Young Person, editied by Michael D. Bush. This is a collection of eulogies and sermons given in light of death's of young people. A very close friend of mine passed away just before Christmas, and a family friend gave me this book.
Up Next: The Second World by Parag Khanna and I've been meaning to reread Shakespeare's Hamlet.
After I finished Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk my wife handed me Duma Key while she works on You Suck by Christopher Moore.
I really enjoy Moore's stuff, but it's more light and funny then Chuck's stuff.
Matter by I.M.Banks, SF as usual. For the above I have enjoyed C Palahniuk in the past and think that his disjointed style fits his subject matter.
New Testament. Just finished Matthew and about to move on to Mark. I have never actually sat down and read a gospel from start to finish. When I can block out all the chaos and house noise- Powerful stuff!
just finished" Midnight Express " by Billy Hayes pretty Heavy stuff but a lot different then the movie
Dustin
I've been trying to find an old copy of The Art of War around here to read, but it seems like any bookstore I go to is either out, doesn't carry it, or in a few cases have never even heard of it. I'll have to check a couple of stores back home this weekend.