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Assuming you read I guess :confused:
Me:
Postwar by Tony Judt.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
One fiction, one non, usually what I do unless I'm bogged down with school shit. BTW the answer "this thread" isn't very original.
Im about to start reading Hamlet by The one and only Shakespeare
But the best books I ever read where The Cirque Du Freak books by Darren Shan, its a series of about 11-12 books its about vampires and stuff they are really good I think they came from the UK.
Should check em out some time.:cool:
I'm rereading the Peter Cook collection "Tragically I was an only twin". It's really good. Afunny, funny man was Mr Cook. I'm usually having to do a lot of reading for my study, but I'm doing my essay now, so it's more a case of flicking through the books for appropriate quotes and ideas. No proper reading there though.
never heard of those books, OumaFan
Myself, I tend not to pick up on new literature unless I get a hot tip from a friend.
I like to prowl the dollar bins at used bookstores for good novels.
Nothing at the moment, but I read Redemption by Leon Uris a while back. Call it historical fiction, primarily it's about the Irish "troubles" , and sympathetic to the Catholic perspective. A sequel to the book "Trinity".
One's just a history of Europe since 1945. The other's well kind of hard to explain I guess especially cause I'm not that far into it.
I'm reading the 5th book of the Artemis Fowl series "The Lost Colony"
Don't judge me.
;D
I looked it up on Amazon
"A juvenile James Bond in fairy land" :cool:
Any spare time at all I'm on here, don't really have time for books at the moment.
I have read Going After Cacootto and A Fighter's Heart in the past month.
Caciotto was a good book I didn't like it as much as The Things They Carried which is the best soldier book I've ever read and among my favorite books of all time.
A Fighter's Heart I've read in pieces before I had read the chapter of when he was in Oakland training with Andre Ward and Virgil Hunter. But it was a good book, wasn't expecting it to be especially deep but what the guy did was pretty amazing. Went from Thailand with the greatest mhuy thai fighter of all time to Pat Militech in Iowa, boxing out here and then going to Brazil, Mexico for a movie shoot and then deep meditation with Monks in Thailand. I probably didn't have to type out like the whole damn book but it's written from half fighter's perspectives half writer so a little of the stuff is hit or miss. I don't really relate to training months on end for a fight just fighting so I can't relate to a lot of the stuff he says but he describes it great and definitely gives you a better understanding. The most interesting parts are when he isn't in training but he has a dogfighting chapter that imo was the most fascinating in the book. I liked it.
I am reading Matt Maiocca's book right now, he's a beat writer for the Press Democrat down here who is among if not the best beat writer out there. Great writer and he has a 100 49ers to Miss book about the classic 49ers. It's a late Christmas (lol) present but I am trying to read it first.
After that it's Beyond Glory the book about Joe Louis - Max Schmelling which I bought just a few hours ago. It is very well reviewed the Washington Post compared it to Seabiscuit which was a great book because it recreated the era so well which obviously a book about that fight would have to do in great detail so I'm excited to read that one.
I've heard about that fighter's heart book, thought about giving it a look, sounds good.
Strangely I haven't read much about boxing. There's an old but great fiction book by a pretty famous sports writer called W.C. Heinz called The Professional. Recommend it definitely. Told from the view of a sportswriter who follows a middleweight contender through training camp to his title fight, good stuff. Old but good.
Im just re-reading stuff,Im busy most of the day,so really I only have about 10 minutes of me time a day(if you get my drift here) so Im just re-reading stuff from my library.Just because I can pick it up anywhere
Probably go with some Hunter S Thompson next
Aside from those assigned at school, I'm currently reading Eugene Debs: Citizen and Socialist by Nick Salvatore. Good book so far, Debs is the shit and, as outdated as they may seem, many of his ideals and notions are as relevant today as they were almost 100 years ago. It's a shame he's not as remembered as I think he should be.
I'm not reading anything at the moment.. However my mom got me The Fountainhead book that I was talking about before Christmas, but she had to order it and it only just arrived last Friday and I have been home to get it yet.. So that'll be where my nose is buried for a few months..
CFH,youd probably enjoy "Mother Jones The Most Dangerous Woman In America"by GornQuote:
Originally Posted by CFH
I'm currently reading Glen Becks "The Christmas Sweater". I'm only 75 pages into it but so far its a pretty touching story.
When (if) I ever get a free moment to read what I choose again, I'll check it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trainer MonkeyCFH,youd probably enjoy "Mother Jones The Most Dangerous Woman In America"by GornQuote:
Originally Posted by CFH
Really liked that book when I read it a few years ago, and I'm usually not even remotely interested in comic books or the like. But Chabon is a good writer.Quote:
Originally Posted by OumaFan
Have been reading a lot lately, actually. Somehow it is just connected to the christmas/holiday period for me - the time where staying indoors makes sense, and you actually have the time to do it. Besides a couple of Danish books, I've managed to make it through Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road', Daniel Kehlmann's 'Measuring the World' and Haruki Murakami's 'A Wild Sheep Chase' during the past few weeks. The first one I bought while travelling for christmas, the other two I got as presents. All three very different, but all of them infinitely recommendable.
Also, for the last 12 months or so, I've been reading Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe trilogy on and off, and Lay of the Land is the unfinished book on my desk these days. Really impressed by these books, but somehow it just works for me to not read them too fast.
Hmm, it sounds like I pretty much love everything I read, but that certainly would be far from true. However, I've become pretty good at only picking up things, I'm likely to enjoy. Also, there is a pretty good chance I wont read a single book before summer - sometimes that happens.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
Got to read it for college.
My last book I read for enjoyment was "The boy in the striped pijamas" for the second time. Awesome book.
Funny you say that. Yeah Darren Shan is a UK author. The lad who sits next to me in English class is obsessed with him. He has a shitload of his his vampire books etc and loves reading them. He always tells me to pick one up. I keep meaning too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manuel "Chubby" Medina
And you're about to start Hamlet too ;D I'm over halfway through it bro. I have an exam on it in May/June.
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Just started reading a Geneoligists book about the bloodlines of the holy grail blah blah blah.
It has a number of faimily trees that trace back people (some royal bloodlines from the house of Steward etc from the present right back to the three children of Jesus and Mary Magdaline and back further. It has the history of everyone involved set out in dates all in factual historic notes.
It also covers the kings and church leaders,popes etc of each time and their own intent upon the outcome of their own work linking events, wars between churches and states including how the Christian pilosophy has evolved by these people and events.
Tough read, but I hope theres a few :-\ gems to be dug up.
I'm reading something Andre may find a little interesting it's called "The Secret History of The World: As Laid Down By The Secret Societies" by Mark Booth...it's not conscpiracy based like it may sound but rather it attempts to explain religious views and texts. Mark Booth is apparently big into Rosicrucianism.
I don't like the book a bunch, infact I've debated stopping that book and reading "The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe" By Robert S. Gottfried...I've also got a couple books on the Crusades that I want to read.
The last few books I read that I really liked were "A World Lit Only By Fire" By William Manchester, "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI" By Brian Burrough (set to be a movie in 2009 starring Christian Bale and Johnny Depp), "The Last Duel" by Eric Jager (Set to be a movie directed by Scorsese), and "Under The Black Flag: The Romance and The Reality of Life Among Pirates" by David Cordingly.
"The Book Of Jhereg" by Steven Brust...A mix of Sopranos and Sherlock Holmes in a fantasy world setting...very entertaining...
From Library Journal
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I'm reading 3 books right now; Schindler's List, Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver and one of the Brian Lumley books called Deadspawn, from his Necroscope series.....I love to read and stay up late every night doing it wow good for me:tease-new:
Mails in, Thing just past me a package from an old mate up in Qld,looks like Im reading the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho next :D.
Clay Aiken gossip columns, ldo. And some stuff on organic chemistry for fun.
Haven't actually been reading a lot lately, other then required, but certainly have been writing. It's been interesting.
Do let us know if you manage to put any of the theories into successful practise. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Andre
I've often thought about the benefits of taking up Alchemy for a hobby to see if I can make the big breakthrough in it,, but I figure many more people, much more intelligent than me have probably experimented their whole lives and not managed to succeed...Quote:
Originally Posted by CGMDo let us know if you manage to put any of the theories into successful practise. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Andre
I'm sometimes amazed at myself that History and past human experience and stuff were some of my most hated subjects in High School.. Like, why would I want to know about some old grogen's life and experience, or what Sumerians used to eat off... Now I can't get enough of that stuff...
There is just so much wealth in reading books like that, you get a thrill pouring that type of knowledge into your head that some brilliant person at one stage needed to use all their entire brilliant mind to come up with, and you can just pick up a book now and learn of these huge epiphanies in one sitting...
I can't believe that there are still people out there that laugh and are like "what, I don't read books.. Who reads books?".. I don't know many of them, but occassionally you'll come across people that just don't read them.... It's like, how the hell do you learn anything outside you're own life and what television tells you..? You just miss so much by never picking up a book.
After i've just finished reading "The Treasuries of Ali"book last week,i went back into the book shop while i was in town and came accross a book called"When the glove came off"based on the real life professional boxer "Billy Walker"I've just started reading it and it's brilliant soo far.I'd recommend boxing fans to buy it and read it.Im already on page 40 or something and its great to read.Its really funny.He mentions and starts off in the book as he was a kid growing up during the world war2.;)
Check it out below.Its well worth a read!!!
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Diz you been to the esoteric book shop in Melbourne?Quote:
Originally Posted by DizasterQuote:
Originally Posted by CGMDo let us know if you manage to put any of the theories into successful practise. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Andre
Im halfway through it,seems that I already do practice all of it, except living my own path 100%,but one message i get loud and clear from this 'omen' :cool:, is I need to do what i know i was put here to do and get on with it right now.
I've often thought about the benefits of taking up Alchemy for a hobby to see if I can make the big breakthrough in it,, but I figure many more people, much more intelligent than me have probably experimented their whole lives and not managed to succeed...
I'm sometimes amazed at myself that History and past human experience and stuff were some of my most hated subjects in High School.. Like, why would I want to know about some old grogen's life and experience, or what Sumerians used to eat off... Now I can't get enough of that stuff...
There is just so much wealth in reading books like that, you get a thrill pouring that type of knowledge into your head that some brilliant person at one stage needed to use all their entire brilliant mind to come up with, and you can just pick up a book now and learn of these huge epiphanies in one sitting...
I can't believe that there are still people out there that laugh and are like "what, I don't read books.. Who reads books?".. I don't know many of them, but occassionally you'll come across people that just don't read them.... It's like, how the hell do you learn anything outside you're own life and what television tells you..? You just miss so much by never picking up a book.
Im not sure :-\ but Alchemy from what I can gather is more about the journey into holding your intentions over to faith and then into divine timing, more than the physical outcomes being the first aim.
I belive that some changes materially require you to be 110% focused; then you change too along with the proceedure and are then 110% focused into the next section and so on until the last where by you have 110% pure faith in the material outcome.
I think I'm gonna dive back into the Henry Miller soon. Tropic of Cancer/Capricorn, The Rosy Crucifiction, etc. I love his style, not so much what he writes, but how he writes it, with so much verve and energy. If I wanted to write, and was looking for inspiration, I'd read Henry Miller to get myself into the right frame of mind.