CompiledMonkey...that's a super name! Great imagery. I have a hard time finding things that I like as well. That's why I sort of struggle through some stuff. I know I should read it, because I respect the author and I will need to know about it for classes and my career, eventually, but I'm just not very interested.
Thanks! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I actually never read technology books if that's what you're talking about. I read my first to learn a language. After that I just used them as references. I'd really like to find some theory of Information Systems or general business books. I think I could get into those. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Oh I see. Good luck to you! Personally, I'm checking out "Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!". I've heard good things about this book. Could anyone suggest quality business/finance books?
gendy: Yech, show's disrespect. As Nietzsche says: "How I hate the reading idlers" Listen to this: "Not only do I make myself not be this other being by denying that he is me, I make myself not be a being who is making himself not be me" Yah. Read the chapters on sadism. This is some funny shit here: "Thus the final state of sexual desire can be swooning as the final stage of consent to the body. It is in this sense that desire can be called the desire of one body for another body. It is in fact an appetite directed towards the Other's body, and it is lived as the vertigo of the for-itself before its own body" Can you imagine him trying to get into Simone de Beuvouir's panties? "Oh, my beloved, let me transcend your transcendence by making my flesh wholly as flesh in contemplation of your for-itself"
currently reading.. "lullaby" by chuck palahniuk "the catcher in the rye" by j.d. salinger "slaughterhouse-five" by kurt vonnegut i like to read many books at a time!! variety is the spice of life, right? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Anyway, up to this post 74.36% read books very regularly, (daily/weekly) that's better than I anticipated. Give yourselves a pat on the backs Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Xev: Hellatious. I think I told you once that Sarte was the first person I cut my teeth on in philosophy. Yak. Nobody warned me. Can you picture Tarquin trying to drill Lucrece with Sarte speak? "Wench, I bid thee give me those milk paps. My for-itself in-itself be nauseatead by "bastards". Oh, how your image totalities do suggest that 'knowing' is a form of appropriative violation with sexual overtones! Woe is me! How my nothing consciousness negates itself." bwahahahahah..........ha.
Miseryhead; I'll kill it for you before you even finish Salinger's bilge: Holden's a virgin. Holden's a phony. Holden wants to catch other phonies in the rye. There is no murder or sex involved. Finis. You should drown yourself for even touching that book.
The Catcher in the Rye - Why in the name of decency does anyone read this book? It is boring, wretched, poorly written and reeks of adolescent posturing. He's...bad. No no, it's Venus and Adonis: I shall offer myself as created-creation in order to escape the burden of freedom, my love. For I cannot live without the presence of your for-itself. I make myself not-be you, my goddess, in order to so comprehend the totality of your being-in-itself. Ensnare me in-the-world, my love. Imperfectly realize your own for-itself by utilizing my for-itself. Shit, I can only take so much of this.
In my opinion, these are some of the best pieces of literature ever written by man. I must congratulate you, friend, for making such a spectacular selection!
I was bored, so I decided to have another look at The Fellowship of the Ring. It's just such a good book, extraordinarily easy to read and understand, the writing flows like a....stream. On top of that I also am having a look at "Today's Moral Problems" by Richard Wasserstrom. The text is, in a word, robotic but informative. I don't care what you say. I read that I few years ago and duly enjoyed it. No that would be melangePlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Maybe you haven't read a good book in awhile, Beb. Give Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, a shot, yes.
Xev: The phantom of hype. Nothing less. Nothing more. With the added plus that it was this book that drove a fat fuck to kill another fat fuck of course. Xev: NO no no.....its Katherine and Petruchio: "Shrew, your for-itself is sharp of tounge. I am the one born to tame you with philosophies. Hark not the absurdities of nothingness. It is negation in its homo-duplex, maid. Acteron complexius. My for-itself will tame you come on day, strip you naked of the butt and stick its finger in your in-itself." MUHAHA...ha.
gendanken: Which is its only redeeming value. No, its Hamlet and Ophelia: "My love, never doubt that my transcendence aches to transcend your transcendence, making your flesh wholly in the world and springing with nausea" Pollux V: Am I the only one who finds Tolkein A: Boring as shit B: A useless plaigarist of Wagner's Ring cycle "The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short." -Schopenhauer
Xev: Yes, but the fat fuck only gave us a whiff at redemption. He should've killed his uglier-than-life Yoko the yo yo. Concering Tolkein, no you're not. I don't read fantasy. Plebian art personified. His writing is riddled with nonsense and hell will have to freeze over before I tag my vocab with nonsense for fiction. I only do that for the sciences. The movie I liked only because the lead actor made me incredibly hot. Xev: Hmm. Wagner's "Ring Cycle"? Enlighten me.
It just depends on the person I guess. How much of him have you read, and why did you find it boring? Really the reason I've decided to re-read the series, more or less, is because I read the last two books in more or less of a zoned-out state. I don't remember very much of them because I wasn't really paying attention, they were too boring. So I do agree with you in some ways, but I'm enjoying myself at the moment. And I've never heard of "Wagner's Rings cycle."
gendanken: Yah well, or both of 'em. Fantasy is generally nonsense. Some science fiction is very good, but fantasy is almost all marble muscled studs waving their swords at dragons. Viggo Mortenson is a sweet peice of ass, who (besides the fight scenes) makes the movies worth watching. But the books? I read the first one and practically fell asleep. Ring Cycle: http://users.utu.fi/hansalmi/wagner/ring.html You have: A magic, power-bringing ring. A gnome sort trying to steal it. A travelling, wise, godlike figure. A warrior maiden who has to choose between love and immortality/invulnerability. The need to destroy/return to the earth the ring I could go on and on.
I read as often as I can... This summer I've read a ton, but going back to college in a few days will put a serious damper on the amount of "voluntary reading" I'll be doing. Of course, if textbooks count, then I'll still be reading a lot...
Xev: If Viggo be the dark haired stallion with the pecs, then yes it was the sweetest piece of ass to grace the big screen. Like nectar. (God we're being so....so...."womanish". Hurl.)(ha) True. Like Sturgeon maybe or Verne. Not the new age wannabes, except of course for Asimov or Bradbury then again they're not exactly "modern". You're right. SciFi is pretty good, only whengood. hmm. Its official then, thank you. Tolkein is a swindler. Pollux and them.........you've all been hoodwinked.
