i'm reading Dracula right now, it's awesome!

another favorite of mine i've read around 3 times is



it's a bit gory, but absolutely fascinating.

Ginsberg - Howl.

David Mitchell's Number9Dream is easily one of the best books I've ever read.

Mika Waltari's The Egyptian is a great historical fiction.

Aztec, by Gary Jennings. I'm a historical fiction nerd.

The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor is awesome

The most accurate writing about how it feels to play jazz it also comes over like an allegory of the jazz musician as outsider.

http://www.wwnorton.com/c...8/bear.htm

CarrieMpls said:

I liked it!!! Very good.

Running with Scissors, Dry, or Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs. HIGH-larious and heartbreaking. Good stuff.

I haven't finished it yet, but I definitely recommend House of Leaves, which I discovered thru the Org. Check it out!

madartista said:

2the9s said:

It's so thick!!!!

And funky design. Clever, but not pretentious. I let my ADD get the best of me, gotta get back on track.

madartista said:

Where are you now? Have there been any "explorations"?

Have you read the chapter on echoes?

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2the9s said:

I'm telling you, ADD. I read it for about 3nights before bed, then kinda slipped away. ..... (running away to get book and see where I am) ...

Oh no. Worse than I thought. Only 40 pages in. Looks like the echoes start on 41:

It is impossibleto appreciate the importance of space in the Navidson Record without first taking into account the significance of echoes.

If you're thinking about getting the Tao Te Ching get 'Tao Te Ching - An Illustrated Journey' translated by Stephen Mitchell. It has beautiful illustrations and a good translation.

Yes, I'm always going on about the same old thing, but I only have around 10 or 12 books with me here in Thailand. I've forgotten what I've read and what I've not. I think the last book I read that wasn't Eastern philosophy was 'The Outsider' by Camus, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Zenworks 4 : Application packaging, distribution, and Deployment

AsianBomb777 said:

What language is that?

madartista said:

Unfortunately, it's probably only understood by Kingons.

"Understanding Comics", Scott McCloud

AsianBomb777 said:

are they related to Klingons?

madartista said:

AsianBoi777 said:

Aww... you're so sensitive my AsianBombyWommy

AsianBoi777 said:

I'm sorry. Was that a typo? My bad. No hablo , y por eso yo no se. Lo siento.

Here's a pic of yours truly and a copy of Michael Savage's NY Times best seller, "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder"

ReturnOfDOOK said:

Your horns are showing, Dookie!

LisasBrush said:

Seriously though, I agree with about 60% of the book! He's highly critical of Bush so you might actually agree with about 25% of it!

ReturnOfDOOK said:

Interesting...

LisasBrush said:

Keep in mind that he does pop off at the mouth quite a bit, etc, but he makes some decent points...I don't necessarily agree with all he says about Bush, but whatevs...it's a decent read - he's a really smart guy (PhD from Berkeley, etc), but I don't take everything he says seriously....

ReturnOfDOOK said:

Berkeley??? More interesting...
I've never paid much attention to him or what he says. I know "of" him, but not about him.

LisasBrush said:

He definitely makes some foot-in-mouth comments, but I think a lot of them are for shock value. He's a really smart guy with an attitude. Again, I don't agree with a lot of what he says, but I also think a lot of what he says has a lot of value (once you strip away the shock-jock factor)....he actually has several PhD's etc...I think something in herbal stuff...don't know for sure...he's an environmentalist too

ReturnOfDOOK said:

I won't say I'm gonna seek it out, but I might give him a closer look than I would have before.

I've just remembered another favourite:

Tuesdays with Morrie