Imperial Hubris - Michael Shearer
Failed States - Noam Chomsky
Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky
A People's History - Howard Zinn
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
Guerilla Warfare - Che Guevara
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Tristessa - Jack Kerouac
Big Sur - Jack Kerouac
Junky - William Burroughs
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
Queer - William Burroughs
The Yage Letters - William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Dubliners - James Joyce
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
A Journey to the East - Herman Hesse
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Bad Twin - Gary Troupe
Naked - David Sedaris
Holiday on Ice - David Sedaris
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Bobby Henderson
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Harry Potter Books 1-6 - J.K. Rowlings
The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats Vol. 1
Watt - Samuel Beckett
Metamorphis and Other Short Stories - Franz Kafka
The Sun Also Rises - Earnest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories - Earnest Hemingway
In Our Time - Earnest Hemingway
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
I have too many to list, but here's a good sample of recent reading:
The Rebel - Camus
The Stranger - Camus
Discipline and Punish - Foucault
The "Ten Poems" series from Roger Housden
Utilitarianism and Other Essay's: Mill, Bentham, and Ryan
The Soul Is Here For It's Own Joy - Robert Bly
The Book of Strangers - I.N. Dallas
In Search of the Miraculous - Ouspensky
Tales of Beelzebub to His Grandson - Gurdjieff
The Bhagavad Gita - Shambhala Edition
Currently getting ready to read The Golden Bough by Frazer
i have 2 bookshelfs totally full. it would take me an hour to type them all up. they probly wouldnt make me look smart by MT standards though... i dont dedicate my life to devouring every partisan topical book ever written. i mostly read literary classics/fiction. im depressed enough reading the newspaper and walking down the street. i dont need to read a shit ton of books telling me how fucked we are.
right now the ones im reading though are all law textbooks. it's killing me.
Hmm, haven't read much Asian history....as far as Native Americans, there's a theoery that they crossed a land bridge from Asia eons ago, but I don't kow much about it. I assume ninjitsu is a martial art? My fiance used to be a national champ in Kajukempo. It's a combo of karate/judo/kempo or something......i think they call it "American Karate".
Yea, that's what I read, a land bridge.
Ninjitsu is an ancient martial art and weapon mastery. It's really interesting stuff, supposedly they were capable of jumping straight over a person from a flat-footed stance. It also focuses on the light spectrum, hiding in shadows and stuff. I read a book on mastering Ninjitsu, it's pretty interesting stuff. Also Samurais were strange part of Japanese culture, they would commit sepuku if thier master was slain.
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
Ninjitsu is an ancient martial art and weapon mastery. It's really interesting stuff, supposedly they were capable of jumping straight over a person from a flat-footed stance. It also focuses on the light spectrum, hiding in shadows and stuff. I read a book on mastering Ninjitsu, it's pretty interesting stuff. Also Samurais were strange part of Japanese culture, they would commit sepuku if thier master was slain.
You'd love this show I saw - I think it was called "The Science of Martial Arts" on DSC or National Geographic channel.... maybe you can find the right title on the web...it was very cool. It showed segments on all the different kinds of Martial Arts. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
You'd love this show I saw - I think it was called "The Science of Martial Arts" on DSC or National Geographic channel.... maybe you can find the right title on the web...it was very cool. It showed segments on all the different kinds of Martial Arts. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
That's cool, I've read a lot on martial arts, one of my favourites being Aikido
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
Oh god, there's no way I'm typing them all, especially since me and Kabong combined everything. It's so cute watching him organize so meticulously. Neat thread though...it's pretty cool seeing what everyone is into.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
I think I mentioned layers on one of my bookshelves earlier, but what I meant is one shelf on one of my bookcases. I just have a few bookcases because I realized that the more books I have the less time I could see the sun. I realized this when I was living in a basement-like apartment in Seattle, and the attitude kindof stuck. Anyway this is one shelf of one of my bookcases:
The Ultimate Ice Cream Book - Bruce Weinstein
The Night Abraham Called to the Stars - Robert Bly
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
The Tale of Murasaki - Liza Dalby
Chocolat - Joanne Harris
The Woman Who Walked into Doors - Roddy Doyle
A Star Called Henry - Roddy Doyle
Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Archivist - Martha Cooley
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquirel
Confessions of a Pagan Nun - Kate Horsley
The Top One Hundred Italian Rice Dishes - Diane Seed
The Talisman Italian Cook Book - Ada Boni
Aloud, Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe - Miguel Algarin and Bob Holman (my wristband from the Wednesday, July 22, 1998 Pearl Jam Memorial Stadium concert just fell out from there. I was a volunteer. Isn't that funny )
The Norton Anthology of Poetry 3rd Edition
Second Space New Poems - Czeslaw Milosz
Walking to the Martha's Vineyard - Franz Wright
No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets - edited by Florence Howe
The Essential Gesture - Nadine Gordimer
Write Mind - Eric Maisel, Ph.D
The Men in Your Life - Genevieve Antoine Dariaux
Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
The New Book of Forms, A Handbook of Poetics - Lewis Turco
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
RAmen back to you my sister. I have been touched by his noodly appendage but alas not as much as his chosen midgets.
Some kind of code for a male prostitute?
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
Oh... a lot of stuff. Mostly political theory. On the top shelf reference volumes and textbooks. Then in alphabetical order within time periods (ancient, modern, contemporary) from my desk I recognize: Mandeville (Fable of the Bees), Paine (Common Sense), Rousseau's complete works, Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Marx, Arendt, Camus, Ricoeur, Simone Weil... good stuff
... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
Joseph Andrews and Shamela - Henry Fielding
Jonathan Wild - Henry Fielding
Fables of the Irish Intelligentsia - Nina Fitzpatrick
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (Penguin)
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (Oxford)
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
The Liar - Stephen Fry
Strait is the Gate and The Vatican Cellars - Andre Gide
New Grub street - George Gissing
Dead Souls - Gogol
Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
My Childhood - Gorky
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
Joseph Andrews and Shamela - Henry Fielding
Jonathan Wild - Henry Fielding
Fables of the Irish Intelligentsia - Nina Fitzpatrick
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (Penguin)
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (Oxford)
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
The Liar - Stephen Fry
Strait is the Gate and The Vatican Cellars - Andre Gide
New Grub street - George Gissing
Dead Souls - Gogol
Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
My Childhood - Gorky
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
You're deliberately taunting me, aren't you?
See, this is what would happen if I were to gather all of my Shakespeare into one bookcase: I'd pick one of them up off the shelf in my bedroom and wander off with it, and when I was done I'd put it in the nearest bookcase, which may be in the sunroom. Then I'd take a book from the sunroom and wander off and when I was done it would wind up in the computer room, where I'd take another book .... and before you know it the Shakespeare bookcase is full of Steinbeck and Chomsky and Bill Maher and Nabakov and an anthology of Calvin & Hobbes cartoons. That is, in fact, exactly what DID happen
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Tommyknockers - Stephen King
Misery - S.K
The Gunslinger - S.K.
From a Buick 8 - S.K
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Album
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Album
Heavier Than Heaven - Charles Cross
My Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
The Story of B -Daniel Quinn
Failed States - Noam Chomsky
Middle East Illusions - Noam Chomsky
9/11 - Noam Chomsky
A Brief History of Time -Stephen Hawking
America - Jon Stewart
The One Percent Doctrine - Ron Suskind
State of War - James Risen
The Collapse of Globalism - John Raulston Saul
The Case for Peace - Alan Dershowitz
Hidden Agendas - Lydia Miljan and Barry Cooper
The Crisis of Islam - Bernard Lewis
The End of Days - Gershom Gorenberg
Why Blame Israel? - Neill Lochery
A History of the Middle East - Peter Mansfield
How Israel Lost - Richard Ben Cramer
Colossus (The Rise and Fall of the American Empire) - Niall Ferguson
Politics, Society and the Media - Paul Nesbitt-Larking
Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers he decides to dream. Dream up a new self. For himself.
Montreal 2000
Toronto 2003
Montreal 2003
Halifax 2005
Hartford 2006
Wow. I didn't expect to find this thread having gone up to six pages in one day. But then how could I have ever doubted that we Moving Trainers would be such a well-read group??
Most of mine are in storage but got a few here with me....
In no particular order;
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Pincher Martin - William Golding
Darkness Visible - Golding
The Beautful and The Damned - Fitzgerald
La Vita Nuova - Dante Alighieri
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
Being and Nothingness - Sartre (is it neccessary? Lol)
The Great Shark Hunt - The Elusive Mr Hunt
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner
Porno - Irvine Welsh
Songs of The Doomed - The Elusive Mr Hunt
The Old Man and The Sea - Hemingway
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Discourse X - Joseph B.
The Field - Brendan Behan
Watt - Samuel Beckett
The River Between - N'gugi Thaing O'wo
The Rum Diary - The Elusive Mr Hunt
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Orientalism - Edward Said
The Inferno - Dante Alighieri
H.L Mencken - Collected Essays
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle
European Literature 1500-1850 - ed. Campbell
Lucky You - Carl Hiassen
Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Cocaine Papers - Freud
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Talisman - Walter Scott
Coral Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon's Mine - Rider Haggard
Lolita - Nabokov
Pale Fire - Nabokov
Dead Babies - Martin Amis
Money - Martin Amis
They Fuck You Up - James Oliver
Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
Awareness - Tony de Mello
Just going through this makes me want to go to my storage locker and take it like a cheap thai hooker..............H
What do you call 3 sheep tied together in the middle of Wales? - A Leisure Centre.
Yea, I'm also very impressed by some of the books in this thread, but maybe kenny, change the question to "What's in your bookshelf, that you've read"
I'm guilty of having hundreds of books that I've started and not finished, literally hundreds. Or maybe it's just me who does this?
lately i've been studying Italian, so thats been my reading these days. But the last book that I read was Sun-Tzu's Art of War.
There are 12 1/2 books on my list that I haven't read yet, but the shelf in here is my newest, so this is where my newest acquisitions are piling up. I have bookcases in every room in the house, and I've read the overwhelming majority of the books in them. Keep in mind that I spent about four months in bed this year, so that allowed me time to get pretty caught up, lol. I am guilty of buying them a lot faster than I can read them.
I've started a lot of books that I didn't enjoy, and those I didn't finish, but I didn't keep most of them either, unless I thought it was something my kids might have to buy again for school.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
Yea, I'm also very impressed by some of the books in this thread, but maybe kenny, change the question to "What's in your bookshelf, that you've read"
I'm guilty of having hundreds of books that I've started and not finished, literally hundreds. Or maybe it's just me who does this?
lately i've been studying Italian, so thats been my reading these days. But the last book that I read was Sun-Tzu's Art of War.
Well, Mr Brian - being an English Lit Grad from the foremost English Lit dept. in the world - I can safely say I have read all the books on my list - and countless others - if I hadn't I wouldn't have got a 1st..........H
What do you call 3 sheep tied together in the middle of Wales? - A Leisure Centre.
No!!! I used to plod through books I couldn't stand because I felt the same way. Then I realized that I was no longer being graded on this stuff, there wasn't going to be a test, and life is too short to spend my leisure time on things I don't enjoy.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
I used to believe this until a friend told me that life was too short for bad books. Maybe I'm getting old and fearful of my own mortality, but I found that liberating and now put down books I'm not enjoying.
"Things will just get better and better even though it
doesn't feel that way right now. That's the hopeful
idea . . . Hope didn't get much applause . . .
Hope! Hope is the underdog!"
Well, Mr Brian - being an English Lit Grad from the foremost English Lit dept. in the world - I can safely say I have read all the books on my list - and countless others - if I hadn't I wouldn't have got a 1st..........H
I wouldn't have capitalised the noun "grad", nor promoted an unnamed literature department, without mentioning the university (or individual college) to which you belong. That way, other people, with more than one first, might discuss the issue of whether students who attain firsts have, necessarily, read everything on their bookshelves.
I used to believe this until a friend told me that life was too short for bad books. Maybe I'm getting old and fearful of my own mortality, but I found that liberating and now put down books I'm not enjoying.
I was thinking in terms of classic novels, rather than the usual shite, which I don't tend to buy, because I write enough of that, myself.
No!!! I used to plod through books I couldn't stand because I felt the same way. Then I realized that I was no longer being graded on this stuff, there wasn't going to be a test, and life is too short to spend my leisure time on things I don't enjoy.
I still torture myself. I feel like I just have to finish it if I start it like somehow it will all come together and be worth it in the end. The only probelm is this causes me to have about 3 or 4 books that I'm reading at once without finishing. I get bored too easily. I need to learn to focus and quit letting my mind wander off. If a book is really good I just can't put it down, though. I'll sneak to read it at work or at the dinner table. I wish the purely factual books Kabong likes to read could keep my attention like that. Names, dates and places go in one ear and out the other with me and he's like a book of knowledge.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
I wouldn't have capitalised the noun "grad", nor promoted an unnamed literature department, without mentioning the university (or individual college) to which you belong. That way, other people, with more than one first, might discuss the issue of whether students who attain firsts have, necessarily, read everything on their bookshelves.
That is your particular choice sir, but having attained a First from the University of Edinburgh it is of pure consequence - through my learning there - that I use the institution's typography in qualifying my position....
It may interest you to know that I have subsequently gained a pass in my Master's program (which of course you will know does not entail a specific qualification) and through a subtle blend of skill and determination am well on my way to completing my PHD....
And while i may not have delved comprehensively into the more hefty tomes of Shakespeare In General, I do take snotty comments with a good dose of humour....All the while humoring the narcissism of the professed literary master of these pages........H
What do you call 3 sheep tied together in the middle of Wales? - A Leisure Centre.
Comments
Failed States - Noam Chomsky
Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky
A People's History - Howard Zinn
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
Guerilla Warfare - Che Guevara
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Tristessa - Jack Kerouac
Big Sur - Jack Kerouac
Junky - William Burroughs
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
Queer - William Burroughs
The Yage Letters - William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Dubliners - James Joyce
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
A Journey to the East - Herman Hesse
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Bad Twin - Gary Troupe
Naked - David Sedaris
Holiday on Ice - David Sedaris
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Bobby Henderson
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Harry Potter Books 1-6 - J.K. Rowlings
The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats Vol. 1
Watt - Samuel Beckett
Metamorphis and Other Short Stories - Franz Kafka
The Sun Also Rises - Earnest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories - Earnest Hemingway
In Our Time - Earnest Hemingway
The Rebel - Camus
The Stranger - Camus
Discipline and Punish - Foucault
The "Ten Poems" series from Roger Housden
Utilitarianism and Other Essay's: Mill, Bentham, and Ryan
The Soul Is Here For It's Own Joy - Robert Bly
The Book of Strangers - I.N. Dallas
In Search of the Miraculous - Ouspensky
Tales of Beelzebub to His Grandson - Gurdjieff
The Bhagavad Gita - Shambhala Edition
Currently getting ready to read The Golden Bough by Frazer
old music: http://www.myspace.com/slowloader
right now the ones im reading though are all law textbooks. it's killing me.
Yea, that's what I read, a land bridge.
Ninjitsu is an ancient martial art and weapon mastery. It's really interesting stuff, supposedly they were capable of jumping straight over a person from a flat-footed stance. It also focuses on the light spectrum, hiding in shadows and stuff. I read a book on mastering Ninjitsu, it's pretty interesting stuff. Also Samurais were strange part of Japanese culture, they would commit sepuku if thier master was slain.
Whew! I bet....sounds like you'll need a lot of caffeine.....
You'd love this show I saw - I think it was called "The Science of Martial Arts" on DSC or National Geographic channel.... maybe you can find the right title on the web...it was very cool. It showed segments on all the different kinds of Martial Arts. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
That's cool, I've read a lot on martial arts, one of my favourites being Aikido
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
The Ultimate Ice Cream Book - Bruce Weinstein
The Night Abraham Called to the Stars - Robert Bly
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
The Tale of Murasaki - Liza Dalby
Chocolat - Joanne Harris
The Woman Who Walked into Doors - Roddy Doyle
A Star Called Henry - Roddy Doyle
Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Archivist - Martha Cooley
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquirel
Confessions of a Pagan Nun - Kate Horsley
The Top One Hundred Italian Rice Dishes - Diane Seed
The Talisman Italian Cook Book - Ada Boni
Aloud, Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe - Miguel Algarin and Bob Holman (my wristband from the Wednesday, July 22, 1998 Pearl Jam Memorial Stadium concert just fell out from there. I was a volunteer. Isn't that funny
The Norton Anthology of Poetry 3rd Edition
Second Space New Poems - Czeslaw Milosz
Walking to the Martha's Vineyard - Franz Wright
No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets - edited by Florence Howe
The Essential Gesture - Nadine Gordimer
Write Mind - Eric Maisel, Ph.D
The Men in Your Life
Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
The New Book of Forms, A Handbook of Poetics - Lewis Turco
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
RAmen back to you my sister. I have been touched by his noodly appendage but alas not as much as his chosen midgets.
Some kind of code for a male prostitute?
Jonathan Wild - Henry Fielding
Fables of the Irish Intelligentsia - Nina Fitzpatrick
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (Penguin)
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (Oxford)
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
The Liar - Stephen Fry
Strait is the Gate and The Vatican Cellars - Andre Gide
New Grub street - George Gissing
Dead Souls - Gogol
Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
My Childhood - Gorky
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
See, this is what would happen if I were to gather all of my Shakespeare into one bookcase: I'd pick one of them up off the shelf in my bedroom and wander off with it, and when I was done I'd put it in the nearest bookcase, which may be in the sunroom. Then I'd take a book from the sunroom and wander off and when I was done it would wind up in the computer room, where I'd take another book .... and before you know it the Shakespeare bookcase is full of Steinbeck and Chomsky and Bill Maher and Nabakov and an anthology of Calvin & Hobbes cartoons. That is, in fact, exactly what DID happen
The Tommyknockers - Stephen King
Misery - S.K
The Gunslinger - S.K.
From a Buick 8 - S.K
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Album
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Album
Heavier Than Heaven - Charles Cross
My Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
The Story of B -Daniel Quinn
Failed States - Noam Chomsky
Middle East Illusions - Noam Chomsky
9/11 - Noam Chomsky
A Brief History of Time -Stephen Hawking
America - Jon Stewart
The One Percent Doctrine - Ron Suskind
State of War - James Risen
The Collapse of Globalism - John Raulston Saul
The Case for Peace - Alan Dershowitz
Hidden Agendas - Lydia Miljan and Barry Cooper
The Crisis of Islam - Bernard Lewis
The End of Days - Gershom Gorenberg
Why Blame Israel? - Neill Lochery
A History of the Middle East - Peter Mansfield
How Israel Lost - Richard Ben Cramer
Colossus (The Rise and Fall of the American Empire) - Niall Ferguson
Politics, Society and the Media - Paul Nesbitt-Larking
Montreal 2000
Toronto 2003
Montreal 2003
Halifax 2005
Hartford 2006
Fins, by the way, wins.
In no particular order;
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Pincher Martin - William Golding
Darkness Visible - Golding
The Beautful and The Damned - Fitzgerald
La Vita Nuova - Dante Alighieri
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
Being and Nothingness - Sartre (is it neccessary? Lol)
The Great Shark Hunt - The Elusive Mr Hunt
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner
Porno - Irvine Welsh
Songs of The Doomed - The Elusive Mr Hunt
The Old Man and The Sea - Hemingway
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Discourse X - Joseph B.
The Field - Brendan Behan
Watt - Samuel Beckett
The River Between - N'gugi Thaing O'wo
The Rum Diary - The Elusive Mr Hunt
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Orientalism - Edward Said
The Inferno - Dante Alighieri
H.L Mencken - Collected Essays
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle
European Literature 1500-1850 - ed. Campbell
Lucky You - Carl Hiassen
Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Cocaine Papers - Freud
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Talisman - Walter Scott
Coral Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon's Mine - Rider Haggard
Lolita - Nabokov
Pale Fire - Nabokov
Dead Babies - Martin Amis
Money - Martin Amis
They Fuck You Up - James Oliver
Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
Awareness - Tony de Mello
Just going through this makes me want to go to my storage locker and take it like a cheap thai hooker..............H
I'm guilty of having hundreds of books that I've started and not finished, literally hundreds. Or maybe it's just me who does this?
lately i've been studying Italian, so thats been my reading these days. But the last book that I read was Sun-Tzu's Art of War.
I've started a lot of books that I didn't enjoy, and those I didn't finish, but I didn't keep most of them either, unless I thought it was something my kids might have to buy again for school.
Well, Mr Brian - being an English Lit Grad from the foremost English Lit dept. in the world - I can safely say I have read all the books on my list - and countless others - if I hadn't I wouldn't have got a 1st..........H
You've got to finish a book, even if you hate it!
I used to believe this until a friend told me that life was too short for bad books. Maybe I'm getting old and fearful of my own mortality, but I found that liberating and now put down books I'm not enjoying.
doesn't feel that way right now. That's the hopeful
idea . . . Hope didn't get much applause . . .
Hope! Hope is the underdog!"
-- EV, Live at the Showbox
I wouldn't have capitalised the noun "grad", nor promoted an unnamed literature department, without mentioning the university (or individual college) to which you belong. That way, other people, with more than one first, might discuss the issue of whether students who attain firsts have, necessarily, read everything on their bookshelves.
I was thinking in terms of classic novels, rather than the usual shite, which I don't tend to buy, because I write enough of that, myself.
I still torture myself. I feel like I just have to finish it if I start it like somehow it will all come together and be worth it in the end. The only probelm is this causes me to have about 3 or 4 books that I'm reading at once without finishing. I get bored too easily. I need to learn to focus and quit letting my mind wander off. If a book is really good I just can't put it down, though. I'll sneak to read it at work or at the dinner table. I wish the purely factual books Kabong likes to read could keep my attention like that. Names, dates and places go in one ear and out the other with me and he's like a book of knowledge.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
That is your particular choice sir, but having attained a First from the University of Edinburgh it is of pure consequence - through my learning there - that I use the institution's typography in qualifying my position....
It may interest you to know that I have subsequently gained a pass in my Master's program (which of course you will know does not entail a specific qualification) and through a subtle blend of skill and determination am well on my way to completing my PHD....
And while i may not have delved comprehensively into the more hefty tomes of Shakespeare In General, I do take snotty comments with a good dose of humour....All the while humoring the narcissism of the professed literary master of these pages........H