i remember reading dostoyevsky and having to wrote a paper on crime and punishment and i hated reading it, cause i had to. and i didnt have enough time to absorb it. but afterwards i went back and read it(without the pressure you know) and i was more appreciative of it. in fact i may well read it again.
Well the class is Time and Literary Modernism (can you guess what the subject of my prof's latest book is?? )....so it's going to be on time. Which means lots and lots of Bergson.
bloody french... did they do nothing but sit around thinking deep thoughts.
Hmmm...might explain why all the major theorists are conveniently French. I suppose I should be grateful for my 12 years of French classes. I still can't fucking speak it, but I can read it well enough. Although I admit, with someone as dense as Bergson, I go directly to the English translation. My prof's an ex-pat American who just moved to Ottawa last year and doesn't speak a word of French, so it's not like it's necessary for the paper anyway. I'd probably need to translate for him if I included any French quotations.
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
This All Encompassing Trip - Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World by Jason Leung
Up to page 141 at the minute and I am loving it so far. It is very well written, I wasn't sure what to expect but it's great and I am really enjoying it.
You're doing better than me ... must catch up :shock: ... although I'm trying to finish Dean Koontz - Breathless first so I can concentrate on This All Encompassing Trip.
I have been on the bus this week so a couple of hours a day of reading
2009 - Manchester. 2010 - Dublin, Belfast, London, Berlin, Arras, Werchter. 2011 - PJ20 i & ii, Montreal, Toronto i & ii, Ottawa, Hamilton. 2012 - Manchester i & ii, Berlin i & ii, Stockholm. 2014 - Amsterdam i & ii, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin, Leeds, Milton Keynes. 2016 - Boston Fenway i & ii, 2018 - Amsterdam i & ii, Pinkpop, London i & ii, Padova, Krakow, Barcelona, Seattle i & ii.
Just finished the Hunger Games Trilogy and have to say I was quite impressed. Not what I was expecting at all. Even though the books are aimed more at a young adult audience I found myself really drawn into the story and characters. There are some seriously gut wrenching moments throughout those books.
Just started The World According to Garp by John Irving. Haven't read it since 2001 but it's such a great book I had to revisit it.
This All Encompassing Trip - Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World by Jason Leung
Up to page 141 at the minute and I am loving it so far. It is very well written, I wasn't sure what to expect but it's great and I am really enjoying it.
just received this in the mail yesterday and plan to dig in this weekend. Does anyone know if Jason is still active here on the boards?
This All Encompassing Trip - Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World by Jason Leung
Up to page 141 at the minute and I am loving it so far. It is very well written, I wasn't sure what to expect but it's great and I am really enjoying it.
just received this in the mail yesterday and plan to dig in this weekend. Does anyone know if Jason is still active here on the boards?
He posts occasionally ... but he never posted that much.
So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
This All Encompassing Trip - Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World by Jason Leung
Up to page 141 at the minute and I am loving it so far. It is very well written, I wasn't sure what to expect but it's great and I am really enjoying it.
just received this in the mail yesterday and plan to dig in this weekend. Does anyone know if Jason is still active here on the boards?
I ordered this book but haven't received it yet!! Can't wait to read it!
The best use of Life is Love.
The best expression of Love is Time.
The best time to Love is Now.
I am reading "Good Girls Don't" by Patti Hawn, sister of Goldie Hawn, aunt of Kate Hudson. I went to school with Patti's son in the mid seventies. This is Patti Hawn's story of her teen pregnancy in 1958. She put her firstborn child up for adoption and found him recently. My classmate was her second child. It feels odd to read how my bud from 9th grade was conceived.
9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
10/10 - Brad in B'more
Just finished the Hunger Games Trilogy and have to say I was quite impressed. Not what I was expecting at all. Even though the books are aimed more at a young adult audience I found myself really drawn into the story and characters. There are some seriously gut wrenching moments throughout those books.
Just started The World According to Garp by John Irving. Haven't read it since 2001 but it's such a great book I had to revisit it.
I'm reading the Hunger Games too, at the behest of my 13 year old daughter. Finished the first one, and was overall impressed with the book. Well written, and doesn't shy away from the heavy stuff.
Actually read it in one sitting over a few hours, that doesn't happen too often. Starting up on the second one here soon.
"You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.
1998 ~ Barrie
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
i think i've read this at least 20 times. i feel closer to my Dad when i read it b/c he also passed from his battle with ALS. good book, great message...
i think i've read this at least 20 times. i feel closer to my Dad when i read it b/c he also passed from his battle with ALS. good book, great message...
Re-reading this at monent, an amazing end to the underworld usa trilogy highly recomend all three books (American tabloid, the cold six thousand & Blood's a rover.)
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How I choose to feel is how I am...I will not lose my faith, It's an inside job today.
Manchester Aug 17th 2009
Hyde Park June 25th 2010
Manchester June 20th & 21st 2012
Leeds July 14th 2014
'Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. During his lifetime he wass a bourgeois-baiting visionary, and the list of his known crimes is longer than the list of his published poems. But his posthumous career is even more astonishing: saint to symbolists and surrealists, poster child for anarchy and drug use, gay pioneer, and a major influence on artists from Picasso to Bob Dylan'.
Excellent read - dude's hella smart and business saavy...being a Jay-Z fan, twas cool to see the songs broken down...
made me wish Ed would release a similiar read...
Just finished the Hunger Games Trilogy and have to say I was quite impressed. Not what I was expecting at all. Even though the books are aimed more at a young adult audience I found myself really drawn into the story and characters. There are some seriously gut wrenching moments throughout those books.
Just started The World According to Garp by John Irving. Haven't read it since 2001 but it's such a great book I had to revisit it.
I just read the first Hunger Games while I was on vacation. I enjoyed it a lot and was excited to read the next two, but don't know if I will now because it got a little too teen romance/Twilightesqce for me at the end. My wife read it yesterday from start to finish.
I've been out of touch with this thread for awhile so sorry if this has been mentioned, but has anyone read "Full Dark, No Stars" by Stephen King. I finished it yesterday. I actually read the end of the 2nd story and then the last two all yesterday because it was a lazy day after putting up Christmas decorations! I remember there were quite a few King fans on this thread.
I'm normally not affected by books, but I found it to be really creepy. It might be because I read it all at once, but even the first story which I read at the beginning of Nov. was creepy. This is not to say I didn't enjoy it.
Just finished the Hunger Games Trilogy and have to say I was quite impressed. Not what I was expecting at all. Even though the books are aimed more at a young adult audience I found myself really drawn into the story and characters. There are some seriously gut wrenching moments throughout those books.
Just started The World According to Garp by John Irving. Haven't read it since 2001 but it's such a great book I had to revisit it.
I just read the first Hunger Games while I was on vacation. I enjoyed it a lot and was excited to read the next two, but don't know if I will now because it got a little too teen romance/Twilightesqce for me at the end. My wife read it yesterday from start to finish.
Love this trilogy! Third book was a bit disappointing compared tothe first two. Agree on the Twilight comment- also found it to be a bit too much like the Matrix, but overall really great. I am curious to see how they do the movies.
Don't fuck sheep. -EV 7/11/11
You can never have enough Neil in the mix. -EV 10/24/10
There's only one commandment: Don't be an asshole. -EV 5/6/10
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Hmmm...might explain why all the major theorists are conveniently French. I suppose I should be grateful for my 12 years of French classes. I still can't fucking speak it, but I can read it well enough. Although I admit, with someone as dense as Bergson, I go directly to the English translation. My prof's an ex-pat American who just moved to Ottawa last year and doesn't speak a word of French, so it's not like it's necessary for the paper anyway. I'd probably need to translate for him if I included any French quotations.
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
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
I have been on the bus this week so a couple of hours a day of reading
2012 - Manchester i & ii, Berlin i & ii, Stockholm. 2014 - Amsterdam i & ii, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin, Leeds, Milton Keynes.
2016 - Boston Fenway i & ii, 2018 - Amsterdam i & ii, Pinkpop, London i & ii, Padova, Krakow, Barcelona, Seattle i & ii.
GRR Martin
so far so good only 100 pages in though.
Charlotte 03
Asheville 04
Atlanta 12
Greenville 16, Columbia 16
Seattle 18
Nashville 22
Just started The World According to Garp by John Irving. Haven't read it since 2001 but it's such a great book I had to revisit it.
So many people thought that was so significant. I liked it too, the idea has stayed with me even though I wasn't as thunderstruck when I read it.
He posts occasionally ... but he never posted that much.
I ordered this book but haven't received it yet!! Can't wait to read it!
The best expression of Love is Time.
The best time to Love is Now.
I'm never as good as when you're there.........
Violence - Slavoj Zizek
Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
I can't read multiple books at one go. Read one then move onto the next.
I've read the Fountainhead, I much prefer Atlas Shrugged to this but then that is an absolute mammoth of a book to read.
8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
10/10 - Brad in B'more
notes of a dirty old man - bukowski
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Zizek!!
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
I'm reading the Hunger Games too, at the behest of my 13 year old daughter. Finished the first one, and was overall impressed with the book. Well written, and doesn't shy away from the heavy stuff.
Actually read it in one sitting over a few hours, that doesn't happen too often. Starting up on the second one here soon.
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spotify:user:merkinball
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
i think i've read this at least 20 times. i feel closer to my Dad when i read it b/c he also passed from his battle with ALS. good book, great message...
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Cheers
Re-reading this at monent, an amazing end to the underworld usa trilogy highly recomend all three books (American tabloid, the cold six thousand & Blood's a rover.)
Manchester Aug 17th 2009
Hyde Park June 25th 2010
Manchester June 20th & 21st 2012
Leeds July 14th 2014
im finding it a bit of a bore, its taking me a while to get through it.
the great gatsby next (again)
'Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. During his lifetime he wass a bourgeois-baiting visionary, and the list of his known crimes is longer than the list of his published poems. But his posthumous career is even more astonishing: saint to symbolists and surrealists, poster child for anarchy and drug use, gay pioneer, and a major influence on artists from Picasso to Bob Dylan'.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Excellent read - dude's hella smart and business saavy...being a Jay-Z fan, twas cool to see the songs broken down...
made me wish Ed would release a similiar read...
7.9.03~9.28.04~10.1.05~5.12.06~5.13.06~5.27.06~5.28.06
8.5.08(EV)~10.9.09~5.21.10~6.20.11(EV)~7.5.11(EV)~7.9.11(EV)
11.21.13~8.27.16(EV)~11.14.16(TOTD)~4.13.20~9.27.20~9.26.21~10.2.21
2.15.22 (EV)~2.25.22 (EV)~2.27.22 (EV)~5.3.22~5.7.22~9.17.24~9.29.24
I just read the first Hunger Games while I was on vacation. I enjoyed it a lot and was excited to read the next two, but don't know if I will now because it got a little too teen romance/Twilightesqce for me at the end. My wife read it yesterday from start to finish.
I'm normally not affected by books, but I found it to be really creepy. It might be because I read it all at once, but even the first story which I read at the beginning of Nov. was creepy. This is not to say I didn't enjoy it.
Although I'm sure I'll have lots of fascinating input for this thread next semester. Waaaay more up my alley.
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
Love this trilogy! Third book was a bit disappointing compared tothe first two. Agree on the Twilight comment- also found it to be a bit too much like the Matrix, but overall really great. I am curious to see how they do the movies.
Don't fuck sheep. -EV 7/11/11
You can never have enough Neil in the mix. -EV 10/24/10
There's only one commandment: Don't be an asshole. -EV 5/6/10