I am a fan of Oprah's book club

[brucelee]

Good stuff guys, I'm a big reader myself, or at least I WAS until my full blooded Saddo addiction prevented me from doing anything else!

Now I've net nannied my computers however so I can't log in like I used to I find myself reading again.

I've just started Josh Waitzkin's book 'The Art of Learning'. It arrived yesterday and I'm a quarter way through already. It's really fascinating stuff and I'm getting a lot out of it already.

Dizaster, the 'power of now' book sounds interesting as well. I may check that one out. My biggest concern with any books relating to our ego, spiritual self, consciousness etc is that are often full of meaningless psychobablle and pseudoscience speak.

That 'Mastering your hiden self' for example was just a complete cowpat of a book imo, an utter waste of time and the most meaningless religion I've ever looked into. I guess I just didn't 'get it'.

So I usually approach books that look into our 'inner selves' with a great deal of skeptisim.

Not all of them though, Scot Peck's 'The Road Less Travelled' remains one of my favourite books of all time, although even he went rapidly downhill with his subsequent 'Further along the road less travelled, and the awful 'The Road less travelled and beyond'

It's clear I wanted to take a nice stroll down the road less travelled, but didn't want to walk too far, and definitely didn't want to go beyond the road


But this is a great idea for a book club, I LOVE books, I buy at least 6 new books a month, sometimes I'll buy more than a dozen in a single week. Even if I don't read them I love having a nice library.

And Donny, reading books on Ghengis and Hannibal is great mate. I love history myself. I'm a huge fan of British history and the classical world also. A very worthy pursuit imo.

Bilbo, we have the same passion for books. I love buying books and keeping them in my small library. I also haven't read some of the books I have bought.

To be honest, I love Shakespeare's sonnets and his plays ( whether it's comedy or tragedy).

However, my interests when I was in High School were Greek and Norse mythologies and Science Fiction novels.

Now I only get to read computer programming and management books.

[RP33]

Oprah does wonders for the bookstore i work at..

as soon as she releases a book into her book club, then we automatically sell out and have to order thousands upon thousands.. all of her fucking groupies come in like lemmings..

I want that book "Secrets.. the one that everyone is buying"..

"Oh, you mean " The Secret " .. "

"no, it's called secrets.. everyone is buying it"

"Well there is a book called " The Secret " which is part of Oprah's bookclub, and EVERYONE is buying it ( you fucking loser )"

" OHH okay, yeah that must be it then "

I've probably had that conversation at least 300 times when The Secret was out.. People are such morons.. If you're going to read a book cause everyone else is reading it, and you don't know what it's about, who wrote it, or the TITLE, then shoot yourself..