It wasn't a yes or no question.
It wasn't a yes or no question.
I picked up One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Will be diving into it this weekend.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein
Animal Farm, and then some other dystopian novel.
I've been given a couple of options, standards like Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Catch 22 and others such as A Canticle for Leibowitz, a few Philip K Dick ones.
i'm thinking about King Rat as well, but any suggestions would be welcomed
Dick's The Man in the High Castle is excellent.
I'm pretty sure that was on the list, but i like the fact that it's recommended
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." -Anne Frank
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” -Buddha
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unaccustomed earth by jhumpa lahiri.
it's 8 separate stories, and i'll probably only read the first one since i'm not really all that interested in stories about indians or people of indian decent in america.
yeah imagine that.
sycld we are as aware of your self-loathing as we are of your homosexuality
haha, this time i don't think it's an issue of self-loathing. i guess the indian experience in america just doesn't grab me so much. almost all of it is a variation upon the same narrative: you immigrated to this country, became a rich professional, and bore two children that don't care about your culture. the only emotionally compelling parts of the story usually deal with feelings of alienation and disillusionment, which i have more than enough of in my life as it is.
on the other hand, i enjoyed white tiger immensely, and that was set in india. so it has nothing to do with the presence of indians in the book per se.
Have you ever ridden an elephant? And by riding an elephant I mean porking a fat dude...
Oh and I found an app for my phone that will let me view and download ebooks and free ebooks so I'm reading that binjammin button one.
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noAnd by riding an elephant I mean porking a fat dude...
i've heard about this. but i mean how could you tolerate the small size of the screen? either the text would be extremely tiny or only a little of the text would be displayed at a time.
maybe it wouldn't be as much of a pain as i'd imagine, but i doubt it.
Nah it's okay. I mean you're not going to get a huge book size screen but my phone is the G1 so it's big enough that you can read it with no problem.
Yeah it's full featured free with a pay if you like it clone. Aldiko is the name of it.
I just finished reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The hype around it is kind of bloated, but it was very good.
Suetonius Lives of the Caesars and How to read a film by James Monaco
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." -Anne Frank
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” -Buddha
Identity
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." -Anne Frank
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” -Buddha
Identity
This morning I started reading Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard.
Finished Curious case of ben button. Continuing with "Save me from myself
I don't have an iPhone. I have the tMobile G1. Sorry. It's called Aldiko. Looks like it uses feedbooks.com.
I'm reading about the history of the Oxford English Dictionary. It's a griping tale about stuffy British gentlemen sitting around, reading books, and talking to each other.
For example, did you know that Herbert Colridge, grandson of the poet, was the second editor of the dictionary but was sickly because of tuberculosis and died at the age of 32?
I know it's... it's just... exciting. But really, I'm actually enjoying it.
A few days ago I started reading Everything's Eventual by Stephen King. It is an unremarkable but entertaining collection of short stories.
Maybe that's not fair for me to say. Some of the stories, in particular "The Man In The Black Suit" and "The Death of Jack Hamilton", were really good.
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Finished reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Friday night up past midnight. Absolutely enjoyed this book. Haven't read a book like this that really put a lot of me into it. I was rooting for McMurphy the whole entire time.
Picked up Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. Read the first few chapters to get a feel for it.
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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein
I found a handful of stories in Everything's Eventual that I liked. Just After Sunset had some REALLY good stories. "The Gingerbread Girl" and "A Very Tight Place" were probably my favorites.
I just started reading God's Other Son by Don Imus. It's actually kind of funny, but after getting through a few chapters I'm not expecting it to be that good.
just read The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown again so i could use it in one of my assessed essays
i could rip it to shit, but i only have 1500 words to do it in. I'm afraid thats one I'll have to do in my own sweet time
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In the middle of American Psycho. Its okay but Im not a fan of the stream of consciousness style.
Dawkins again, this time "The Greatest Show on Earth" -- it's all about the evidence for evolution. Good, but it's been a little too easy so far. (Maybe only because I've already done a bunch of reading on evolution.)
I'm currently reading "In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic", yay for library cards
Amazon.com: In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic (9780307459688): David Wessel: Books
It's a pretty good read if you're into topics of government and global macroeconomics.
Well, thanks to some misplaced Chapters gift certificates, I went on a spending spree and picked up a few books.
The next book on my list in Catch-22, and then the books I picked up: World War Z, American Gods and Slaughterhouse Five.
On an irrelevant note, I also picked up a Django Reinhardt Anthology which I am enjoying immensely.
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