i've been ill for a while now and i'm stuck in the house for 3/4 of the week.
lots of time to catch up on reading books that have been knocking about the
shelves for some time now.

my attention span is rather short cuz i fall asleep half the time or get a
bit irritated with reading the same book for too long, so i'm currently in
the middle of 5 books, lol.



herman hesse's siddharta. very very good, can't believe i didn't
read this before. lovely. usually not into this kind of stuff,
but this is very non-inyourface.



jarrod diamond's guns germs and steel. i love these kind of boring
longwinded nonfiction books. i thought diamond's "collapse" was an
incredible book and this one is very good too.



dr oz's you staying young. i know, i know. i like reading
health/nutrition books anyway. this one is rather basic, but it's nice
and it's got a lot of facts and interesting info but the drawings,
my god the drawings are really too stupid. i like the devilishly
pictured "free radicals" though, lol.



tristram stuart's bloodless revolution. a book about vegetarianism
and it's first dabblings in europe. this book is all over the place,
giving you more anecdotes and curious facts than an hour spree of
blindfolded wikipedia madness. it's nice though, for what it is.


anywho. what the *** are you reading? and/or what books are you planning
on getting for xmas? anything on your wishlist?

This morning I am reading this =

http://www.av1611.org/oth...santa.html

Awwwww.
Get better soon sweety. (with ur sexy self)


Anyway Im reading this "Outrageous Ads"



Thanks to Dan, I've pissed on myself twice yesterday


Maybe I need to read more sophisticated stuff

Mach said:

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please don't email that link to paisley park because you
know prince will write another Xmess poem about it all.

I just finished reading this, because I wanted to read it before the movie comes out:



Also reading...

IstenSzek said:

Efan said:

that's been on my wishlist for ages now. what did you think of it?
was it as good as it's said to be? i'm really looking forward to
reading that one day.

DanceWme said:

no way. anything that makes you feel good is a good read.

i think the outrageous ad book looks like a lot of fun

IstenSzek said:

I thought it was excellent. I've never read Yates before, so I was interested for that reason too. The book is incredibly readable; I breezed through it really quickly. There's definitely a lot of sadness hanging over the book, which is odd, considering how fast-paced it is.

Efan said:

i'm moving it to the top of my "to buy or beg for xmas" list right now

Currently reading:



It's a kid's book. But I love the author.

CarrieMpls said:

is that neil gaiman, as in tori amos' friend? i've been meaning
to check out some of his work but never get round to it somehow.

does he write for grown ups too or does he mostly write for kids?

IstenSzek said:

Yes, it is. I think he's written things for and about Tori as well as based characters on her. (Incidentally, this drives me mad, as I'm not a fan of hers. lol.)

He writes all KINDS of things. Graphic novels and regular novels and short stories and screenplays, for adults, for kids and for everyone in between.

A good start would be one of his short story/essay/whatever collections Smoke and Mirrors. That contains the first story I ever read by him thatis to this day my favorite.

I am currently reading this....

CarrieMpls said:

The character Delirium in his Sandman series was based on Tori.

CarrieMpls said:

that sounds very farmilliar, smoke and mirrors. i will put it on my
list of things to buy. thanks for the info

abierman said:

die rote armee fraktion. very interesting reading i guess.
damnit, now i've already got more on my list than i can
afford. but who gives a fuck. i can always order some of
this stuff online and pay after the seventh reminder

IstenSzek said:

I am a history-buff, especially modern German history (post WWII), this stuff was intense. I have decided to read the book before I go see the movie that is out now.....it has gotten very good reviews!

abierman said:

clever. modern history is way overlooked. most people don't even
know what happened in their own backyard 30 years ago. it's just
a shame nobody teaches this stuff in school. there should be way
more time spent on teaching us recent history.

anyway, you've given me some food for thought again. thanks

IstenSzek said:

Germany has been doing a lot of good stuff in educating current generations about the modern history of their country. There are a lot of books, some of them made into very good movies, think of: 'Das Leben der Anderen', 'Der Untergang' and now 'Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex'. If you don't wanna read, just see the film:



These were events that were so German at the time, I am glad that they have decided to make good German quality movies about them. Meanwhile I fear for the amount of suckiness Hollywood is going to provide us with, with Brian Singer's 'Valkyrie', Tom Cruise as Graf Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg.....

anywayz, back to books.....

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IstenSzek said:

OMG, I loved that book.
One of my wishes is to be fluent enough in German to be able to read the book in its native tongue and understand the power of his words.

The English translation itself was really well done, and I found myself really drawn to it.

The book works both on a literal level as well as allegory.


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IstenSzek said:

that trailer makes me want to go see it right now. damn. i really like the
modern german cinema, they make some damn good movies.

Imago said:

i know. reading a book in it's original language is always more powerfull.
luckily most dutch, especially those near the border are good at german so
no problem there.

but what i really want is to be able to read Bulgakov's Master & Margarita
in original russian, lol. it's going to be a lifetime project though. i've
enlisted in russian classes at a friend's university language programm but
had to drop out because my ex fucked me over and i couldn't pay the $600,-
fee anymore. damnit. but i should get back into it, i want to anyway.

plus i've been home schooling on french since i'm off sick from work since
a few months now. mainly to read moliere and proust in french.

god, my life is boring.

Its a great book about horror films, written by fans all across the world

riveting...

I'm reading trash.

HERO by Perry Moore. fiction. It's cute.

reneGade20 said:

GOOD ONE! Haven't dipped my brain in that since HS, might be worth a 2nd go...

the Qur'an...
a co-worker who is of course Muslim,invited me to come to the Masjid with them during Ramadan one year(2006) i returned this year and attended near the end and also at Eid ( a holiday that marks the end of Ramadan)and this year i was given (as a gift) a copy of the Qur'an,which i promised her i would read.
(it was another sister who gave me the book.)i would not have taken it from her as a gift and NOT read it!! i'm in chapter 3 now,it's been slow reading...even for an english translation...i read for an hour or two every sunday...
my co-worker is a convert,and sometimes finds it hard..even though they will call each other brother and sister, i noticed that there was a difference when it came to her..but at least this time she seemed less alone..they are warming up to her
i was told by her and her husband,that 3 of the brothers had asked them if i was looking for a husband!!


i read things people don't understand sometimes..like encyclopedias...just be cause i haven't read it before...