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What Are You Reading? For the book nerds!

#101 StillFingers

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Posted 30 January 2010 - 05:57 AM

The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life by Zen Master/Priest John Daido Loori

Time to get rollin and shootin soon, so I'm putting the technical aside, turning my attention to a bit of creative pondering/mindfulness...

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Posted 30 January 2010 - 10:46 AM

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
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Return to the Hundred Acre Wood by David Benedictus (A Winnie the Pooh sequel!)

Memento Vivere
Memento Mori

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Posted 30 January 2010 - 01:18 PM

mcferguson, on Nov 24 2009, 11:43 AM, said:

The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis

synopsis?
I might benefit from this...

as for me right now:
Statistics by Bluman (arrgghh)
GRE prep books (ditto)
and Spider Dance by Carole Nelson Douglas
-- fascinating for anyone interested in European history, Sherlock Holmes, or feminism across the ages

recently read favorites:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
-- was not what I expected and an incredibly touching book on so many levels, especially with regard to the concept of manhood
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
--better written than The Da Vinci Code (though that movie was immediately a favorite)

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Posted 31 January 2010 - 04:56 PM

Just read:

Shooting an Elephant ~ George Orwell

Just started:

The Conquest of Happiness ~ Bertrand Russell

How does it feel to feel?

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Posted 01 February 2010 - 10:53 PM

Just started The Message That Works by T.L. Osborn

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Posted 02 February 2010 - 08:30 AM

Just finished up The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (great book btw). I'm about to start on Physics Of The Impossible by Michio Kaku. I've heard alot of good stuff about it. Anyone else read it yet?

Fear is the dumbest thing that we've ever created in our minds; its just so stupid... it stands in the way of everything and it achieves nothing.

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 06:11 PM

Biblical Healing by T.L. Osborn

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 06:21 PM

"With the Old Breed" by E. B. Sledge...

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 08:11 PM

"Liberty and Tyranny" by Mark Levin

F.R.O.G. (Fully Reliant On God)

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Posted 22 May 2010 - 12:34 PM

Just finished re-reading "Wuthering Heights"

Tried to read "30 Years of Adventure" about the history of the Dungeons and Dragons game, but it is so badly laid out with its skewed text and background colours that I gave up.

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Posted 24 May 2010 - 12:30 AM

Just read (started last night, finished the last 40 pages this morning) "A Test Of Will" by warren MacDonald. Schmuck goes hiking and gets pinned under a rock for 46 hours and ends up a double amputee. Lots of it was too much like reliving the past. Very good read.

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Posted 24 May 2010 - 07:46 AM

The following is one I could not leave out of my hands, it's for them cold nights in by the fire, find that comfortable spot where you know you will not want to move until every thought is absorbed, the author, informative yet lets so much to the imagination, it's almost as if the characters surround your every being, and yet it is online, free to those who wish to learn....click me

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Posted 24 May 2010 - 08:11 AM

Sorry people, I couldn't resist

Just picked up the Ken Follett duo of Pillars of the earth and the World without end, The Pillars is going down well so far

http://www.ken-folle...aphy/index.html

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Posted 24 May 2010 - 09:52 AM

Good one, John.

"Handling the Undead"... it's all right. "Let the Right One In" was much better.

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Posted 25 May 2010 - 11:07 AM

A thousand splendid suns-Khaled Hosseinia ,curtesy of the "Wattpad", just finished it , great book.

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Posted 25 May 2010 - 12:20 PM

Im reading new moon by stephanie meyer, the twilight saga, its quite good

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Posted 25 May 2010 - 01:17 PM

Just started, "Hellhounds on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King and the Hunt For His Assassin."

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Posted 26 May 2010 - 03:31 PM

The Life Of Rome’s First Emperor AGUSTUS by Anthony Everitt. I find it amazing how much information we have about this time over 2,000 years ago.

I absolutely love this post. It gives me so much more information and choices than the best seller lists.

"It's only the giving that makes you what you are." Tull

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Posted 28 May 2010 - 12:14 PM

Best seller lists only tell you what's popular, not always what's 'good'

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Posted 28 May 2010 - 01:38 PM

Very true....

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Posted 07 June 2010 - 03:43 PM

What a fantastic thread!

I'm reading mostly Terry Pratchett (Discworld Series) at the moment. Funny, entertaining.

A book I always reread: Clarissa Picola Estés: "Women Who Run With the Wolves". On women, intuition, life in society, the power of the unconscious. She makes her point by referring to (South American?) fairy tales. Very compelling.

And I love Faulkner. He has a great way of telling a story. Steinbeck used to be a favourite but I haven't read him for a while now. Oh yes: Conrad: "The Heart of Darkness" is an incredible book on, well, "human darkness".

Fantastic German (actually Swiss) author: Martin Suter!! His latest book is called "The Cook", about the art of cooking (Aryurveda style, love menus ...), mixed up with crime and big business. He has an incredible writing style. I don't know if it has been translated into English yet.

Any more suggestions by others?

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon

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Posted 10 June 2010 - 08:00 AM

(I posted this on the off-topic thread but then thought these quotations are so impressive - they belong here. Sorry for the repetition.)

I have just looked up what wikipedia says about one of my favourite authors. And I found these wonderful quotes. I LOVE them!

Quotes from: Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees…" from The Dangerous Old Woman

"If logic were everything, all men would ride sidesaddle…" from Women Who Run With The Wolves

"Some people mistake being loving for being a sap. Quite the contrary, the most loving people are often the most fierce and the most acutely armed for battle... for they care about preserving and protecting poetry, symphonic song, ideas, the elements, creatures, inventions, hopes and dreams, dances and holiness... those goodly endeavors that cannot be allowed to perish from this earth, else humanity itself would perish..." from The Dangerous Old Woman :seehearspeak:

''If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith… there is yet time." from Women Who Run with the Wolves

Estés is definitely a great writer.

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon

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Posted 18 June 2010 - 03:07 AM

'Blood Meridian' - Cormac McCarthy.
This guy is amazing. The language is from another time. Hellish and gothic with a Shakesperean talent for making up words that fit.
Tough going at times but like no other book I have ever read.

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Posted 29 June 2010 - 03:06 AM

pistol_pete, on Jun 18 2010, 11:07 AM, said:

Finished it.
flipped back to first page and started again.
First book I've ever done that with.

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Posted 29 June 2010 - 09:13 AM

"The Magician's Apprentice" - Trudi Canavan

(Have to read my uncle's girlfriend's books, both my brother and I love her writing style)

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Posted 29 June 2010 - 02:36 PM

Borderline[by Nevada Barr, an Anna Pigeon Novel

"It's only the giving that makes you what you are." Tull

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Posted 05 August 2010 - 03:46 PM

I am attempting to read the Bible through in a year. Takes about 15 minutes a day. So far, so good, one month done.

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Posted 06 August 2010 - 02:06 PM

Deep time by Henry Gee

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Posted 06 August 2010 - 03:25 PM

Attempting to advance/refine my photographic skills. I use to develop/print both black&white and colour in a darkroom, with this new digital age at our fingertips there's no need for chemicals anymore :crazy:

Creative Black and White: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques by Harold Davis
Mastering Canon EOS Flash Photography by NK Guy

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Posted 06 August 2010 - 03:40 PM

The Man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks Its short stories of unusual case histories of his patients O liver Sacks is a neurosurgeon and also wrote Awakenings that was the basis for the movie if anyone remembers it. I havent picked it up to read more of it because my brain is to foggy to read I think because I am adjusting to a higher does of lyrica.