I do have a few books, but none of them are philosophical. I'm not really a big fan of reading a lot of philosophy.
The books I have are:
• A+ Complete Study Guide
• Best Karate Comprehensive
• CCNA Study Guide
• Exam Cram's Core Four Windows 2000
• Getting Along in German
• Illustrated History of the Third Reich, The
• Physics: For Scientists and Engineers
• Microsoft's MCSE Windows 2000 Study Kit
• Top 100 Best Selling Albums, The
• Russ Whitney's Property Tax Valuation
a tech guy? me too. I have my CCNA, CWNA, and Network +. our shelf looks the same, almost.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
Just a very small sampling of books scattered among at least five book cases.......my stuff only, which means that none of well-read wife's stuff is included.
The Future of Life-E.O. Wilson (autographed)
The Song of the Dodo-Quanmmen (Island bio-geography)
The Ghost with Trembling Lips-Scott Weidensaul (extinct or endangered birds)
Watership Down-Richard Adams (source of my signature line)
The Lorax-Dr. Seuss
Pursuit-Ludovic Kennedy (the British version of the Battleship Bismarck saga)
The Destruction of the Bismarck-Bercuson & Herwig
The Tao of Pooh & The Te of Piglet-Hoff
Alexander II-Radzinsky (the Russian Tsar/Czar)
Silent Snow-Marla Cone (the poisoning of the Artic)
King Leopold's Ghost-Hochschild (the rape of the Congo by the king)
The People's History of the U.S.-Zinn
The Burning Tigris-Balakian (the Armenian genocide)
The Romanovs (the Russian royal family)
In War's Dark Shadow (Russia in the decades leading up to WWI)
Passage through Armageddom (Russia during WWI & the Revolution)
Red Victory (The Russian Civil War)
The Conquest of a Continent (the history of Siberia)
Nicholas I (Tsar/Czar of Russia)
The last six books were all written by W. Bruce Lincoln
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
Tons and tons and tons at home, but here in my dorm I have:
(Keep in mind, many of these are actually for classes...)
The Moral Law -- Immanuel Kant
Utilitarianism & On Liberty -- textbook
Beyond Good & Evil -- Nietzsche
Understanding Movies -- textbook
Introduction to Film Studies Readings -- textbook
Popular Culture Theory & Methodology -- textbook
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels & Stories -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Maltese Falcon -- Dashiell Hammett
Blacklist -- Sara Paretsky
Murder At the Nightwood Bar -- Katherine Forrest
Valley of the Dolls -- Jacqueline Susann
The da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown
Psychological Science -- textbook
Sociology In Our Times -- textbook
Tarzan -- Eric Burroughs
Positive Match -- Tony Chiu
Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
The Shining -- Stephen King
The Island of Dr. Moreau -- H.G. Well
Chromosome 6 -- Robin Cook
From Russia With Love -- Ian Fleming
Masquerade -- Gayle Lynds
A&R -- Bill Flanagan
Digital Fortress -- Dan Brown
The Devil Wears Prada -- Lauren Weisberger
Running With Scissors -- Augusten Burroughs
Slaughterhouse-Five -- Kurt Vonnegut
2003: Toronto
2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
2006: Toronto 1 & 2
2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
2010: Buffalo
2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle 2016: Toronto 1 & 2 2022: Hamilton/Toronto 2023: EV Seattle 1&2
a tech guy? me too. I have my CCNA, CWNA, and Network +. our shelf looks the same, almost.
Yea, I've read all of the books, but the only certification I have is A+
I really didn't care about getting the certifications as much as I cared about the knowledge. I pretty much know the CCNA study guide back-to-back.
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
Cool beans.........I have 23 of the original Tarzan novels, which I forgot to tack onto my list.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
Well too much i have over more then a 150 books.
I'll try to name afew
All the books from J.M. Auel
Tolkien
Dan Brown
Ik ook van jou - Giphart (dutch writer)
Les miserable - Victor Hugo
Tokyo - Mo Hayder
Birdman - Mo Hayder
Magician - Raymond E. Feist
When all your dreams turn to dust, vacuum
When all else fails, read the instruction
Is it time to list the books on the second shelf of a bookcase?
Maybe we can start listing books we have stored in a box in the closet somewhere.
I would, but I am not planning on feeling like pulling out that box anytime soon. Though I recently had no problem pulling out the box of old Nintendo Power magazines.
Anyway, I just picked up a new book today - Neitzsche, Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ. I've only read The Birth of Tragedy by him (and I've been referring to everything as either dionysian or apollonian ever sense (no not really)) and I found it quite entertaining, so I figured I'd move on to something from his darker years (plus it was only $3.50).
Maybe we can start listing books we have stored in a box in the closet somewhere.
Kenny, good point - I have a closet that we built a shelf in just to store all the books we don't have space for in our apt......maybe I should start giving them away????
I thought I'd have a little library (of sorts) one day, but it hasn't happened yet.....hmmm.
I guess there's always yard sales.....although, loving books the way I do, it's always hard to decide which ones go & which ones stay....ya know?
Is it time to list the books on the second shelf of a bookcase?
indeed it is.
eye scream - henry rollins
the first five - henry rollins
the portable - henry rollins
black coffee blues - henry rollins
smile, you're travelling - henry rollins
roomanitarian - henry rollins
solipsist - henry rollins
see a grown man cry - henry rollins
now watch him die - henry rollins
do i come here often - henry rollins
broken summers - henry rollins
enduring love - ian mcewan
saturday - ian mcewan
black dogs - ian mcewan
amsterdam - ian mcewan
the child in time - ian mcewan
atonement - ian mcewan
henry miller on writing
under the roofs of paris - henry miller
the books of my life - henry miller
air conditioned nightmare - henry miller
black spring - henry miller
and the ass saw the angel - nick cave
nonfiction - chuck palahniuk
the giving tree - shel silverstein
lord arthur savile's crime - oscar wilde
less than zero - bret easton ellis
glamorama - bret easton ellis
lunar park - bret easton ellis
junky - william burroughs
the outsider - albert camus
the rebel - albert camus
de profundis and other writings - oscar wilde
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
there doesn't seem to be much diversity in the book choices here...
one really good book that I recommend is "culture war?" by Morris Fiorina, an actual political scientist, not a pretend one.
I also suggest that people read scientific research (Hillygus and Shield 2005) conducted after the 2004 election on the reasons behind the vote that completely dispell the idiotic idea that moral issues mattered.
Other good reading: David Halberstram. Pretty insightful, for a lib. I really like "the fifties."
And you ask me what I want this year
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Anyway, I just picked up a new book today - Neitzsche, Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ. I've only read The Birth of Tragedy by him (and I've been referring to everything as either dionysian or apollonian ever sense (no not really)) and I found it quite entertaining, so I figured I'd move on to something from his darker years (plus it was only $3.50).
I just finished reading Zarathustra and found it completely fascinating. To have so many original ideas bubbling out of you head...unreal.
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 am suprised that with the amount of conservatives on this board, a minority but not a small one, we haven't seen more books by Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, Irving Kristol, David Horowitz, and/or Norman Podhoretz on people's bookshelfs.
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
Here's a handfull of mine it kind of reveals my school background:
Between Borders - Giroux and McLaren
Getting Beyond the Facts - Kincheloe
Reading Sport - Birrell and McDonald
Modernity - Sturrt Hall et al.
Cultural Studies - Lawrence Grossberg et al.
Gender/Body/Knoweledge -Jaggar and Bordo
Stealing Innocence - Giroux
Built to Win - Heywood and Dworkin
The Abandoned Generation - Giroux
Fugitive Cultures - Giroux
Kinderculture (1 and 2) - Steinberg and Kincheloe
White Reign - Kincheloe et al.
The art of Fieldwork - Wollcott
Channel Surfing - Giroux
All the Rage - Walters
The study of Culture - Williams
Qualitative Methods in Sport Studies - Andrews, Silk
Disney and the End of Innocence - Giroux
Popular Arts - Hall and Whannel
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy - Laclau and Mouffe
Bringing it All Back Home - Lawrence Grossberg
Hatred of Capitalism - A bunch of people
Distinction - Bourdieu
History of Sexuality - Foucault
Discipline and Punish - Foucault
The Uses of Cultural Studies - McRobbie
The Ethics of Cultural Studies - Zylinska
Feminism and Sporting Bodies - M.A. Hall
The terror of neolibearlism - Giroux
Caught in the crossfire - Grossberg
Sport and Postmodern Times - Rail
Shut out: The History of Race and Baseball in Boston - Bryant
Phillip Pullman: The Amber Spyglass
Rembrandt's, Da Vinci's & Picasso's monographs
Cobain's Diaries
Clarke: PJ & EV None Too Fragile
Cave: And The Ass Saw The Angel
Cave: King Inc I & II
D.H. Lawrence: The Man Who Died
E. Hemingway: For Whom The Bell Tools
Ivo Andrić: Gospođica ( in my free translation ''Miss'' )
Dostojevski: Crime & Punishment
H. Hesse: Demian
H. Hesse: Steppenwolf
E. A. Poe: Murders In Morgue Street And Other Stories
--- and for the rest of the shelf I'm not in translating mood ;-))
En mi vida,
el oscuro me mantiene
cuando yo te vi
en la lluvia me prometiste tu sangre
Estrella de la mañana
Samael te persigo a ti
y si me quedo sin alas
ademas me muero por ti
I am suprised that with the amount of conservatives on this board, a minority but not a small one, we haven't seen more books by Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, Irving Kristol, David Horowitz, and/or Norman Podhoretz on people's bookshelfs.
I don't think conservatives read books, they just listen to the radio...kidding I just want to roil someone up so that they'll present their definitive conservative list.
I dont have a shelf... but the piles of books around my house include:
Down and out in paris and london - George Orwell
Fathers and sons - Ivan Turgenev (everyone PLEASE read this. my favourite book)
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Porno - Irvine Welsh
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Les Mains sales - Jean-Paul Sarte
Les Fleurs du mal - Charles Baudelaire
Selected Poems - Paul Verlaine
On the road - Jack Kerouac
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
I don't think conservatives read books, they just listen to the radio...kidding I just want to roil someone up so that they'll present their definitive conservative list.
To tell you the truth, I don't read many books written by conservatives like Coulter, O'Riley, etc, and especially from whackos like Horowitz. (seriously, the guy is a characature of himself) I'm not really interested in their books because they don't test any of their theories and all they are doing is espousing their opinion, and I really don't care about their opinions. Same thing goes for Zinn, Chomskey...When I read about politics, I want to see some empirical evidence. anectodal evidence is pretty much a waste of time, no matter who is putting it forth.
In terms of my favorite authors, I've only glanced through so far, and haven't read all the posts, but wonder if anyone likes Kafka? The trial and the castle are among my favorites.
And actually, I think On the Road is overrated, although I did like it...if that makes sense.
And you ask me what I want this year
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
To tell you the truth, I don't read many books written by conservatives like Coulter, O'Riley, etc, and especially from whackos like Horowitz. (seriously, the guy is a characature of himself) I'm not really interested in their books because they don't test any of their theories and all they are doing is espousing their opinion, and I really don't care about their opinions. Same thing goes for Zinn, Chomskey...When I read about politics, I want to see some empirical evidence. anectodal evidence is pretty much a waste of time, no matter who is putting it forth.
In terms of my favorite authors, I've only glanced through so far, and haven't read all the posts, but wonder if anyone likes Kafka? The trial and the castle are among my favorites.
And actually, I think On the Road is overrated, although I did like it...if that makes sense.
PH what do you mean by empirical evidence? From where I stand all of those authors offer empirical evidence based on "real" things that they observe and feel. As far as Zinn goes I've used his work to demonstrate U.S. dominance over the Dominican Republic, and found it quite useful and explanatory...maybe he's not that way for everything though.
Is it time to list the books on the second shelf of a bookcase?
I have an entire shelf with nothing but Henry Miller on it.
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Black Spring
Collossos of Maroussi (Original hardback)
The books in My Life (Original hardback)
Book of friends
Dear, Dear Brenda
A Literate Passion - Letters to Anais Nin, 1987
The Durrell-Miller Letters 1935-1980, 1988
My Bike and other friends (Original hardback)
Big Sur And the Oranges of Heironymous Bosch
Sunday After the War (Original hardback & New Directions paperback)
The Smile at the foot of the ladder (signed)
Henry Miller Biography - Robert Ferguson
A devil in Paradise
The world of sex
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Nights of love and laughter
Quiet Days in Clichy
The Time of the Assassins (Original hardback)
Sexus (Original Grove press edition paperback)
Plexus (Original Grove press edition paperback)
Nexus (Original Grove press edition paperback)
And actually, I think On the Road is overrated, although I did like it...if that makes sense.
Boy do I agree with you there! I was reading it my senior year of college, and I thought to myself Why am I reading this? I hang out with people like this. Really, the people I hung around with at that time were irresponsble drug addicts, some nice some not, and it didn't make sense for me to read about what was in front of my eyes.
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
Boy do I agree with you there! I was reading it my senior year of college, and I thought to myself Why am I reading this? I hang out with people like this. Really, the people I hung around with at that time were irresponsble drug addicts, some nice some not, and it didn't make sense for me to read about what was in front of my eyes.
I think 'On the road' is a book that's better the 2nd time around. Many people approach it with high expectations, having heard all the hype. I enjoyed it much more the 2nd time.
- many books about nature, weather, geology and hydrology
- java2 and c++
- Lonely Planets of USA, NYC, Dublin, Scandinavia, Florida
- Books in English (like 100 years of solitude, michael moore, dan brown, huxley (many books), Dostojevski, Twain, Kerouac, Hemingway (many), even Harry Potter 1-5.
- Dutch books - Giphart, Geert Mak, WF Hermans and more.
- Books about Bob Dylan, Queen, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Doors
- Casper and Hobbes
- Asterix and Obelix
- dictionaries (Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish)
- photo albums
- jazz guitar book, playing solo's on guitar and other guitar books
- lots of vinyl (like Pink Floyd, Queen, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Rory Gallagher)
- bottle of good Scottish whisky.
I have an entire shelf with nothing but Henry Miller on it.
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Black Spring
Collossos of Maroussi (Original hardback)
The books in My Life (Original hardback)
Book of friends
Dear, Dear Brenda
A Literate Passion - Letters to Anais Nin, 1987
The Durrell-Miller Letters 1935-1980, 1988
My Bike and other friends (Original hardback)
Big Sur And the Oranges of Heironymous Bosch
Sunday After the War (Original hardback & New Directions paperback)
The Smile at the foot of the ladder (signed)
Henry Miller Biography - Robert Ferguson
A devil in Paradise
The world of sex
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Nights of love and laughter
Quiet Days in Clichy
The Time of the Assassins (Original hardback)
Sexus (Original Grove press edition paperback)
Plexus (Original Grove press edition paperback)
Nexus (Original Grove press edition paperback)
don't see 'under the roofs of paris' there. :(
and in regards to kerouac's 'on the road'. i think you have to come to it naturally. not have someone say 'hey man you gotta read this.' it's better when you're ready, as with any other book.
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
I actually donated all of my books to the local library when I moved...the only book I kept was my copy of Stephen King's "It"...it is my favorite book of all time...in my books to read pile:
The Tender Bar
Confederacy of Dunces
Lord Foul's Bane
1776
The collected works of Raymond Chandler
Just finished The Kite Runner - I highly reccomend this book, it moved me and evoked more emotion than any other book I have read
I got scratches all over my arms, one for each day since I fell apart.
Me you wouldn't recall for I'm not my former.
St. Louis 10/11/00
West Palm Beach 4/11/03
Kissimmee 10/8/04
West Palm Beach 6/12/08
Tampa 6/13/08
PH what do you mean by empirical evidence? From where I stand all of those authors offer empirical evidence based on "real" things that they observe and feel. As far as Zinn goes I've used his work to demonstrate U.S. dominance over the Dominican Republic, and found it quite useful and explanatory...maybe he's not that way for everything though.
by empirical evidence, I mean that you put forth a hypothesis, and some alternative hypotheses, and actually test them as opposed to putting forth analytical narratives.
And you ask me what I want this year
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Comments
a tech guy? me too. I have my CCNA, CWNA, and Network +. our shelf looks the same, almost.
Penthouse
Juggs
The Future of Life-E.O. Wilson (autographed)
The Song of the Dodo-Quanmmen (Island bio-geography)
The Ghost with Trembling Lips-Scott Weidensaul (extinct or endangered birds)
Watership Down-Richard Adams (source of my signature line)
The Lorax-Dr. Seuss
Pursuit-Ludovic Kennedy (the British version of the Battleship Bismarck saga)
The Destruction of the Bismarck-Bercuson & Herwig
The Tao of Pooh & The Te of Piglet-Hoff
Alexander II-Radzinsky (the Russian Tsar/Czar)
Silent Snow-Marla Cone (the poisoning of the Artic)
King Leopold's Ghost-Hochschild (the rape of the Congo by the king)
The People's History of the U.S.-Zinn
The Burning Tigris-Balakian (the Armenian genocide)
The Romanovs (the Russian royal family)
In War's Dark Shadow (Russia in the decades leading up to WWI)
Passage through Armageddom (Russia during WWI & the Revolution)
Red Victory (The Russian Civil War)
The Conquest of a Continent (the history of Siberia)
Nicholas I (Tsar/Czar of Russia)
The last six books were all written by W. Bruce Lincoln
The Master and Margarita is a fantastic read.....I generally dislike supernaturality in literature but Bulgakov changed that for me.....H
(Keep in mind, many of these are actually for classes...)
The Moral Law -- Immanuel Kant
Utilitarianism & On Liberty -- textbook
Beyond Good & Evil -- Nietzsche
Understanding Movies -- textbook
Introduction to Film Studies Readings -- textbook
Popular Culture Theory & Methodology -- textbook
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels & Stories -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Maltese Falcon -- Dashiell Hammett
Blacklist -- Sara Paretsky
Murder At the Nightwood Bar -- Katherine Forrest
Valley of the Dolls -- Jacqueline Susann
The da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown
Psychological Science -- textbook
Sociology In Our Times -- textbook
Tarzan -- Eric Burroughs
Positive Match -- Tony Chiu
Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
The Shining -- Stephen King
The Island of Dr. Moreau -- H.G. Well
Chromosome 6 -- Robin Cook
From Russia With Love -- Ian Fleming
Masquerade -- Gayle Lynds
A&R -- Bill Flanagan
Digital Fortress -- Dan Brown
The Devil Wears Prada -- Lauren Weisberger
Running With Scissors -- Augusten Burroughs
Slaughterhouse-Five -- Kurt Vonnegut
2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
2006: Toronto 1 & 2
2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
2010: Buffalo
2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
2016: Toronto 1 & 2
2022: Hamilton/Toronto
2023: EV Seattle 1&2
Yea, I've read all of the books, but the only certification I have is A+
I really didn't care about getting the certifications as much as I cared about the knowledge. I pretty much know the CCNA study guide back-to-back.
I'll try to name afew
All the books from J.M. Auel
Tolkien
Dan Brown
Ik ook van jou - Giphart (dutch writer)
Les miserable - Victor Hugo
Tokyo - Mo Hayder
Birdman - Mo Hayder
Magician - Raymond E. Feist
When all else fails, read the instruction
Maybe we can start listing books we have stored in a box in the closet somewhere.
I would, but I am not planning on feeling like pulling out that box anytime soon. Though I recently had no problem pulling out the box of old Nintendo Power magazines.
Anyway, I just picked up a new book today - Neitzsche, Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ. I've only read The Birth of Tragedy by him (and I've been referring to everything as either dionysian or apollonian ever sense (no not really)) and I found it quite entertaining, so I figured I'd move on to something from his darker years (plus it was only $3.50).
indeed it is.
eye scream - henry rollins
the first five - henry rollins
the portable - henry rollins
black coffee blues - henry rollins
smile, you're travelling - henry rollins
roomanitarian - henry rollins
solipsist - henry rollins
see a grown man cry - henry rollins
now watch him die - henry rollins
do i come here often - henry rollins
broken summers - henry rollins
enduring love - ian mcewan
saturday - ian mcewan
black dogs - ian mcewan
amsterdam - ian mcewan
the child in time - ian mcewan
atonement - ian mcewan
henry miller on writing
under the roofs of paris - henry miller
the books of my life - henry miller
air conditioned nightmare - henry miller
black spring - henry miller
and the ass saw the angel - nick cave
nonfiction - chuck palahniuk
the giving tree - shel silverstein
lord arthur savile's crime - oscar wilde
less than zero - bret easton ellis
glamorama - bret easton ellis
lunar park - bret easton ellis
junky - william burroughs
the outsider - albert camus
the rebel - albert camus
de profundis and other writings - oscar wilde
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
one really good book that I recommend is "culture war?" by Morris Fiorina, an actual political scientist, not a pretend one.
I also suggest that people read scientific research (Hillygus and Shield 2005) conducted after the 2004 election on the reasons behind the vote that completely dispell the idiotic idea that moral issues mattered.
Other good reading: David Halberstram. Pretty insightful, for a lib. I really like "the fifties."
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
I just finished reading Zarathustra and found it completely fascinating. To have so many original ideas bubbling out of you head...unreal.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Between Borders - Giroux and McLaren
Getting Beyond the Facts - Kincheloe
Reading Sport - Birrell and McDonald
Modernity - Sturrt Hall et al.
Cultural Studies - Lawrence Grossberg et al.
Gender/Body/Knoweledge -Jaggar and Bordo
Stealing Innocence - Giroux
Built to Win - Heywood and Dworkin
The Abandoned Generation - Giroux
Fugitive Cultures - Giroux
Kinderculture (1 and 2) - Steinberg and Kincheloe
White Reign - Kincheloe et al.
The art of Fieldwork - Wollcott
Channel Surfing - Giroux
All the Rage - Walters
The study of Culture - Williams
Qualitative Methods in Sport Studies - Andrews, Silk
Disney and the End of Innocence - Giroux
Popular Arts - Hall and Whannel
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy - Laclau and Mouffe
Bringing it All Back Home - Lawrence Grossberg
Hatred of Capitalism - A bunch of people
Distinction - Bourdieu
History of Sexuality - Foucault
Discipline and Punish - Foucault
The Uses of Cultural Studies - McRobbie
The Ethics of Cultural Studies - Zylinska
Feminism and Sporting Bodies - M.A. Hall
The terror of neolibearlism - Giroux
Caught in the crossfire - Grossberg
Sport and Postmodern Times - Rail
Shut out: The History of Race and Baseball in Boston - Bryant
Phillip Pullman: The Amber Spyglass
Rembrandt's, Da Vinci's & Picasso's monographs
Cobain's Diaries
Clarke: PJ & EV None Too Fragile
Cave: And The Ass Saw The Angel
Cave: King Inc I & II
D.H. Lawrence: The Man Who Died
E. Hemingway: For Whom The Bell Tools
Ivo Andrić: Gospođica ( in my free translation ''Miss'' )
Dostojevski: Crime & Punishment
H. Hesse: Demian
H. Hesse: Steppenwolf
E. A. Poe: Murders In Morgue Street And Other Stories
--- and for the rest of the shelf I'm not in translating mood ;-))
el oscuro me mantiene
cuando yo te vi
en la lluvia me prometiste tu sangre
Estrella de la mañana
Samael te persigo a ti
y si me quedo sin alas
ademas me muero por ti
Down and out in paris and london - George Orwell
Fathers and sons - Ivan Turgenev (everyone PLEASE read this. my favourite book)
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Porno - Irvine Welsh
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Les Mains sales - Jean-Paul Sarte
Les Fleurs du mal - Charles Baudelaire
Selected Poems - Paul Verlaine
On the road - Jack Kerouac
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Pink Ribbons Inc. - Samantha King
To tell you the truth, I don't read many books written by conservatives like Coulter, O'Riley, etc, and especially from whackos like Horowitz. (seriously, the guy is a characature of himself) I'm not really interested in their books because they don't test any of their theories and all they are doing is espousing their opinion, and I really don't care about their opinions. Same thing goes for Zinn, Chomskey...When I read about politics, I want to see some empirical evidence. anectodal evidence is pretty much a waste of time, no matter who is putting it forth.
In terms of my favorite authors, I've only glanced through so far, and haven't read all the posts, but wonder if anyone likes Kafka? The trial and the castle are among my favorites.
And actually, I think On the Road is overrated, although I did like it...if that makes sense.
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
I have an entire shelf with nothing but Henry Miller on it.
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Black Spring
Collossos of Maroussi (Original hardback)
The books in My Life (Original hardback)
Book of friends
Dear, Dear Brenda
A Literate Passion - Letters to Anais Nin, 1987
The Durrell-Miller Letters 1935-1980, 1988
My Bike and other friends (Original hardback)
Big Sur And the Oranges of Heironymous Bosch
Sunday After the War (Original hardback & New Directions paperback)
The Smile at the foot of the ladder (signed)
Henry Miller Biography - Robert Ferguson
A devil in Paradise
The world of sex
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Nights of love and laughter
Quiet Days in Clichy
The Time of the Assassins (Original hardback)
Sexus (Original Grove press edition paperback)
Plexus (Original Grove press edition paperback)
Nexus (Original Grove press edition paperback)
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
I think 'On the road' is a book that's better the 2nd time around. Many people approach it with high expectations, having heard all the hype. I enjoyed it much more the 2nd time.
- many books about nature, weather, geology and hydrology
- java2 and c++
- Lonely Planets of USA, NYC, Dublin, Scandinavia, Florida
- Books in English (like 100 years of solitude, michael moore, dan brown, huxley (many books), Dostojevski, Twain, Kerouac, Hemingway (many), even Harry Potter 1-5.
- Dutch books - Giphart, Geert Mak, WF Hermans and more.
- Books about Bob Dylan, Queen, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Doors
- Casper and Hobbes
- Asterix and Obelix
- dictionaries (Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish)
- photo albums
- jazz guitar book, playing solo's on guitar and other guitar books
- lots of vinyl (like Pink Floyd, Queen, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Rory Gallagher)
- bottle of good Scottish whisky.
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don't see 'under the roofs of paris' there. :(
and in regards to kerouac's 'on the road'. i think you have to come to it naturally. not have someone say 'hey man you gotta read this.' it's better when you're ready, as with any other book.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
The Tender Bar
Confederacy of Dunces
Lord Foul's Bane
1776
The collected works of Raymond Chandler
Just finished The Kite Runner - I highly reccomend this book, it moved me and evoked more emotion than any other book I have read
Me you wouldn't recall for I'm not my former.
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by empirical evidence, I mean that you put forth a hypothesis, and some alternative hypotheses, and actually test them as opposed to putting forth analytical narratives.
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
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