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Re: books to read
« Reply #1620 on: March 07, 2013, 10:35:32 AM »


just started this one a few days ago. Quite enjoyable so far, at points reminding me of a lighter pynchon.



i really dig some of what upski writes about, in this book especially, and would love to teach some of it to a class of students between the ages of 14-20 as lessons in empowerment and self advocacy.

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« Reply #1621 on: March 07, 2013, 10:37:17 AM »


just started this one a few days ago. Quite enjoyable so far, at points reminding me of a lighter pynchon.


I thoroughly enjoyed Cloud Atlas, some stories more than others but for a big book it flew by.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1622 on: March 07, 2013, 10:42:43 AM »
Currently reading Palahniuk's Pygmy.  So far it sucks.  Why is it written in broken English?  This is always annoying to me.  The character is a spy in USA, why would he write his reports back to his home country in broken English?  He'd write in his own language and the novel could then be in plain english as it would be a translation.  I'm not articulating this well.

I agree.  It really pissed me off.  It's the worst of all his books I've read.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1623 on: March 09, 2013, 01:42:11 AM »
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1624 on: March 09, 2013, 02:47:44 PM »
Anything from Kurt Vonnegut is always great. - currently reading: Breakfast of Champions/Goodbye Blue Monday

The Doors of Perception and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are both wonderful as well.

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« Reply #1625 on: March 09, 2013, 06:09:56 PM »
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Currently reading Palahniuk's Pygmy.  So far it sucks.  Why is it written in broken English?  This is always annoying to me.  The character is a spy in USA, why would he write his reports back to his home country in broken English?  He'd write in his own language and the novel could then be in plain english as it would be a translation.  I'm not articulating this well.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1626 on: March 09, 2013, 06:14:10 PM »
The Doors of Perception and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are both wonderful as well.


Huxley wrote like a jockstrap full of potpourri.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1627 on: March 13, 2013, 09:24:59 AM »


Don't normally read scifi. I've read the prologue and first chapter. Pretty classic premise so far, ice transport ship receives a distress signal from another ship. Seems promising though.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1628 on: March 13, 2013, 12:35:27 PM »
Just started this



which I think might be heavy going so I also started this


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« Reply #1629 on: March 13, 2013, 12:58:58 PM »
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The Doors of Perception and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are both wonderful as well.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1630 on: March 13, 2013, 02:36:51 PM »


Yeah.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1631 on: March 13, 2013, 02:53:02 PM »
Good choice.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1632 on: March 14, 2013, 05:43:28 AM »
Good choice.

Yeah, it's great. Think I'll give Pale Fire a shot when I'm done with it.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1633 on: March 14, 2013, 09:11:11 AM »
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Yeah, it's great. Think I'll give Pale Fire a shot when I'm done with it.

Pale Fire's great. The narrator is such a nut(maybe).

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1634 on: March 14, 2013, 09:17:20 AM »
Read through the 3/4 this in the past 2-3 hours:



Really enjoy it.  Enjoying Bukowski in general.  Interesting mother fucker.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1635 on: March 14, 2013, 12:35:36 PM »
that's the last one I've read. that was last summer though...
I'm a slow reader.




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Re: books to read
« Reply #1636 on: March 14, 2013, 12:48:08 PM »
Read through the 3/4 this in the past 2-3 hours:



Really enjoy it.� Enjoying Bukowski in general.� Interesting mother fucker.

You should try Ray Carver's short stories. Same kind of grittiness to it, but personally I like Carver more.

100 pages into this and loving it.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #1637 on: March 14, 2013, 01:01:01 PM »
^^ I'll look into it.  Thanks for the recommendation.
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« Reply #1638 on: March 14, 2013, 01:18:06 PM »
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Yeah, it's great. Think I'll give Pale Fire a shot when I'm done with it.
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Pale Fire's great. The narrator is such a nut(maybe).

I remember reading Pale Fire the first time and getting the gist of it, but Nabokov's works definitely exemplify his idea of one doesn't read books, you can only reread them.  I realized how much more messed up it was on my second reading.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1639 on: March 17, 2013, 05:34:44 PM »
The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz. It's an adventure book that is very similar to Endurance by Alfred Lansing, about the will power to survive.

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. One of those books I have been told to read for years but always shrugged off. Once I finally picked it up I was fully blown away. Really recommend.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1640 on: March 20, 2013, 01:39:50 PM »
About to start 'Du cot? de chez Swann' first of 7 books of In search of lost time by Proust

It's been a couple of years I wanted to read it I hope I won't be disappointed!
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1641 on: March 20, 2013, 07:55:43 PM »
been fucking with this lately...

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« Reply #1642 on: March 20, 2013, 10:54:25 PM »
About to start 'Du cot? de chez Swann' first of 7 books of In search of lost time by Proust

It's been a couple of years I wanted to read it I hope I won't be disappointed!

Good luck and let me know what you think.

From your post, I assume you're reading it in French? One of my literature teachers told me that he couldn't really get into Swann's Way (in English), but a friend of his read all of ? la recherche du temps perdu in both English and French and claimed the French version changed his life.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1643 on: March 20, 2013, 11:01:42 PM »
been fucking with this lately...

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« Reply #1645 on: March 20, 2013, 11:42:32 PM »
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Yeah im pumped on it...

HBO bought the rights for it... gonna make a show out of it.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1646 on: March 20, 2013, 11:46:49 PM »





Did Robert Greene do a book with FIDDY CENT?

I read the 48 laws and the seduction one,got no pussy from it...
still was cool.

Id Fuck with that apple book the Jobs book was tight.

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« Reply #1647 on: March 21, 2013, 12:06:42 AM »
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Did Robert Greene do a book with FIDDY CENT?

I read the 48 laws and the seduction one,got no pussy from it...
still was cool.

Id Fuck with that apple book the Jobs book was tight.


Yeah it's called The 50th Law. It covers a broad range of topics but they all centered around being able to thrive by way of fearlessness. Mastery was actually inspired by one of the chapters in it & is about finding your true life's task, undergoing an apprenticeship within it, and creatively building upon your skills until you reach the highest level within your field. They both follow the same formula of the other books by analyzing historical examples (including 50 Cents upbringing in the 50th Law) and elaborating on the themes they all follow  . Really good shit I've learned alot from both books.


Insanely Simple was written by a former creative director for the company that does Apples marketing & is all about the concept of simplicity in the workplace, dealing with others, & things like effective marketing & design. He worked directly with Jobs for about 15 years or so & goes thru alot of behind the scenes shit with Apples design & marketing including the infamous Macintosh commercial & the release of the iMac which Jobs almost named the MacMan had the marketing team not been so adamant about the iMac title. Lots of little unknown gems like that in there. It's a little bit of history along with useful info on how things in the simplest, most effective way possible. If you liked that Jobs bio you'll definitely enjoy reading it
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« Reply #1648 on: March 21, 2013, 12:11:31 AM »


Good not great.  If you're interested in that age of gaming, it's full of fun facts and nerdy stories about these guys.



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Re: books to read
« Reply #1649 on: March 21, 2013, 12:40:23 AM »
The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz. It's an adventure book that is very similar to Endurance by Alfred Lansing, about the will power to survive.

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. One of those books I have been told to read for years but always shrugged off. Once I finally picked it up I was fully blown away. Really recommend.