What Book Are You Reading

aspy_2nd_bunch · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:46 am

calvin2hikers wrote:

I"m "reading" (okay, listening to the audio book) of Walt Disney:Triumph of the American Imagination. Interesting so far (13 hours in and it's up to Pinocchio).

Don't you just love audiobooks?! I have to listen to them whilst doing something else though, otherwise I fall asleep. Hehe.

Milton Bradley · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:09 pm

aspy_2nd_bunch wrote:

calvin2hikers wrote:

I"m "reading" (okay, listening to the audio book) of Walt Disney:Triumph of the American Imagination. Interesting so far (13 hours in and it's up to Pinocchio).

Don't you just love audiobooks?! I have to listen to them whilst doing something else though, otherwise I fall asleep. Hehe.

Yes, but they're no fun to rollerskate to.

Tomorrow I'm starting Steppenwolf (1927). I found a copy for .35 at a used clothing/junk store (bonus!)

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swiftkicknow · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:13 pm

aspy_2nd_bunch wrote:

Don't you just love audiobooks?! I have to listen to them whilst doing something else though, otherwise I fall asleep. Hehe.

I love them, too. I actually use them to help me fall asleep. No flashing images or sudden blaring commercials to startle me while i drift off.

just plain doug · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:24 pm

swiftkicknow wrote:

aspy_2nd_bunch wrote:

Don't you just love audiobooks?! I have to listen to them whilst doing something else though, otherwise I fall asleep. Hehe.

I love them, too. I actually use them to help me fall asleep. No flashing images or sudden blaring commercials to startle me while i drift off.

The most common place people listen to audio books is....while driving in their car. But, if they put you to sleep......?

Jakeobs · **Joined:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:23 pm **Posts:** 1803

Fanatic! Vol. 2 by Henry Rollins.

lumpyleg · **Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:56 pm

god delusion - Richard dawkins

mil · **Joined:** Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:45 am **Posts:** 779

Borderliners - Peter Hoeg

aspy_2nd_bunch · **Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:16 pm

lumpyleg wrote:

god delusion - Richard dawkins

Got that one on my list actually. You'll have to let me know what you think of it.

BBP · **Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:39 pm

Ermm... sorry... Just entered what I'm listening to right now...
Right now I'm reading this here forum... and I'm getting through my book collection because I have too little book storage, need to create some.

Mondstar · **Joined:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:19 am **Posts:** 313

...me is subtopically continental-drifting m'ndee-stylee froo this here sphairoom, ... if U have the time .. got a reply at http://www.deliciousagony.com/phpBB2/vi ... php?t=1093 from another cat (crazy 4 numbers)

..bbC 6-mewzik inner minnit, .. to lightning up me colleagues... hye fiends.

Milton Bradley · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:09 pm

king · **Joined:** Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:00 am **Posts:** 1747

Currently reading:

Friedrich Nietzsche- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
James Joyce- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Jared Diamond- Guns, Germs, and Steel

lumpyleg · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:12 pm

aspy_2nd_bunch wrote:

lumpyleg wrote:

god delusion - Richard dawkins

Got that one on my list actually. You'll have to let me know what you think of it.

read it if its the only thing you ever do haha

LaMarrBruister · **Posted:** Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:11 pm

BBP · **Posted:** Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:17 am

William S Burroughs: Junky. (And this time I'm really sitting through it...)

Galoot Co-Log-Nuh · **Posted:** Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:44 pm

PRIVACY In The Universe As We Know It
By Gary Titone
Photo: Thomas Nordegg (Warren's guitar technician) and Gary Titone, July 1998)

RRHall · **Posted:** Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:15 pm

I recently listened to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 8 hr. Loved it, especially the sermon, “Last and crowning torture of all the tortures of that awful place is the eternity of hell. Eternity!”…..

I know it is cheating but has anyone here ever seen this book?

Mondstar · **Joined:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:19 am **Posts:** 313

One hasn't set up this short story from O' Henry, have i?

http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html

notting 4 the faint-hearted, but fits the momentary weather mefinx. Nay, joke aside, Earnest comes.

Galoot Co-Log-Nuh · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:30 pm

calvin2hikers · **Joined:** Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:41 pm **Posts:** 14133

Great Ideas of Classical Physics.

slime.oofytv.set · **Joined:** Sun Feb 16, 2003 7:29 pm **Posts:** 9243

aspy_2nd_bunch · **Posted:** Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:45 am

"Twenty-Six Years 1879-1905" by Sir Arthur Richmond. Private secretary to Sir Robert Morant who laid the foundations for our current educational system. Interesting read of a young Victorian man with little formal qualifications and how he carved out a career for himself.

Mondstar · **Joined:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:19 am **Posts:** 313

Remember 1984? ow-well, had to read it twice.

cuewords: farm or land consolidation, land clearance project, plot realignment, reallocation of land ... inDUSTry.

..tender targets, ...MegaDeath....

doublethink - trying one's best (..long ago) and building bombs.

Personally i'm not afraid of big brother, more of 99.% of these ..... 6.5billion wolves in a cheap-costume....

illiteRATeS, to say the LeAST.

And this on a planet with more than enough. here will it end? with one man possessing everything?

Agreed, paradies would be boring, like a white light on a white background-esque.

..but this here nest is beyond ... rescue.

perchance science comes up with a .... neutron-newmaker.

Mondstar · **Joined:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:19 am **Posts:** 313

before one's going with the roof, try these

(skip "Monstrous Regiment", too somber)

punknaynowned · **Joined:** Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:14 am **Posts:** 3134

The Manuscipt Found In Saragossa
by Jan Potocki
this, my third read coincides with the tenth anniversary of when I first got and read it. Last year a couple of femme friends went to Espana independently of each other, tho both for university classes. The one broke her wrist skiing, the other brought me back a book of Gaudi's works. I had promised M a copy of this marvelous book before she left but was only able to get it to her when she returned. So I started it again when I gave her a copy for herself.
The 'Manuscript' is set up in 'days' instead of chapters, detailing stories told of happenings and rememberings over the course of 66 days moving around in the Sierra Morena mtns of Spain in the mid 1700's. On the surface, the mtns and an abandoned inn nearby are haunted by demons, ghosts, vampires, djinni. The narrative tho consists of meeting a cast of characters who all tell their individual stories, one by one until a local gypsy troupe shows up on the tenth day. Then mostly the gypsy chief tells stories and stories within stories as the advancement of the rest of the cast's 'plot' extends and grows and changes over the course of their wanderings. Priests and hermits, bandits and noble women, innkeepers, cabbalists, a geometer and our narrator a young officer for the Walloon guard begin walking with the gypsy troupe as they move from place to place, avoiding the law and skimming the top off the cream of disbursements which the king's forces fail to protect . . . .
The fire of the Inquisition still rules there and then, and our narrator is a devoted Catholic (he promised his mother), yet he finds himself with rationalists whose System of how things work goes on for pages and pages (rather practical but heartlessly rigid), uber-paganists like the cabbalist and his sister who is also capable in the supernatural arts as well as the gypsy chief who has suffered and dealt out so many depravities that the geometer has to get out his tables to keep all the stories straight . . .
. . . and the hills do indeed, seem to be haunted by at least the spirit of the Gomelez, an ancient family keeping the flame of Islam burning deep underground in the heart of 18th century Spain . . .

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