Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins. This guy will change your life
This book for sure changed a number of things in my life. I know he doesn't embrace being inspirational (although his stance on this has changed somewhat in the years since releasing the book) Goggins was certainly an inspiration to me. He is a fucking beast in the best sense of the term. The most impactful book I've read in the last ten years, at least.
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins. This guy will change your life
This book for sure changed a number of things in my life. I know he doesn't embrace being inspirational (although his stance on this has changed somewhat in the years since releasing the book) Goggins was certainly an inspiration to me. He is a fucking beast in the best sense of the term. The most impactful book I've read in the last ten years, at least.
100% agree with you. I'm training for a marathon right now and all I hear when I'm tired is him yelling shit at me lol. Don't stop when you're tired stop when you're done...awesome
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Been "the next book" in line since the new year, but I kept leapfrogging it for other books. Now, I finally started.
Read originally back when it came out (early 90s I believe) but not since. Loved it, then.
Starting to get really good a few hundred pages into the re-read. Years away from visiting a Clive Barker-created world is never a good thing, to me. His imagination and world-building is totally his own - and the best, imo.
Jane Jacobs that’s a blast from the past. I reread it a few years ago. Some parts still remain true today and others have not aged as well. Hope you enjoy it.
Jane Jacobs that’s a blast from the past. I reread it a few years ago. Some parts still remain true today and others have not aged as well. Hope you enjoy it.
I stumbled upon it pretty randomly. It’s not normally something I would be into but I heard such great things about it. I moved to Philly about 2 years ago after living in the middle of nowhere for my first 26 years of life. It’s fascinating to read some of the things she says as if they are controversial (because apparently they were at the time) when they seem so obvious.
Been "the next book" in line since the new year, but I kept leapfrogging it for other books. Now, I finally started.
Read originally back when it came out (early 90s I believe) but not since. Loved it, then.
Starting to get really good a few hundred pages into the re-read. Years away from visiting a Clive Barker-created world is never a good thing, to me. His imagination and world-building is totally his own - and the best, imo.
May check that out. He killed me with one of his books. I actually had to throw it out so no one else read it! I never did that before. 'Mister B. Gone'. It is written directly to the reader. I may get it again and try to finish it if i get enough 'guts'.
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Hahaha. I've never read that. His greatest work, by far, is The Great and Secret Show Probably the book I've reread the most times.
It is one of the strangest stories but it is totally amazing. So complex and fun, to me, that every time I read it I find I've forgotten how much I enjoy some of the plot points.
I remember sitting on a bench outside the dormitory reading Imajica when my college crush finally acknowledged my existence. We talked a bit about the book, I think. I don’t know. I can’t remember. This woman was really interacting with me?
What I’ll always remember, though, are what were her parting words were: “Well, have fun in your fantasy world!”
That one still stings. What a novice!
She’s in a pretty successful rock band now. And by all subsequent college interactions, she’s likely still an awesome human being making this world a better place.
And I still have fun my fantasy worlds, thank you very much. It’s nearly impossible to do so otherwise.
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I remember sitting on a bench outside the dormitory reading Imajica when my college crush finally acknowledged my existence. We talked a bit about the book, I think. I don’t know. I can’t remember. This woman was really interacting with me?
What I’ll always remember, though, are what were her parting words were: “Well, have fun in your fantasy world!”
That one still stings. What a novice!
She’s in a pretty successful rock band now. And by all subsequent college interactions, she’s likely still an awesome human being making this world a better place.
And I still have fun my fantasy worlds, thank you very much. It’s nearly impossible to do so otherwise.
Anybody gonna venture a guess?
The worst of times..they don't phase me, even if I look and act really crazy.
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I remember sitting on a bench outside the dormitory reading Imajica when my college crush finally acknowledged my existence. We talked a bit about the book, I think. I don’t know. I can’t remember. This woman was really interacting with me?
What I’ll always remember, though, are what were her parting words were: “Well, have fun in your fantasy world!”
That one still stings. What a novice!
She’s in a pretty successful rock band now. And by all subsequent college interactions, she’s likely still an awesome human being making this world a better place.
And I still have fun my fantasy worlds, thank you very much. It’s nearly impossible to do so otherwise.
I remember sitting on a bench outside the dormitory reading Imajica when my college crush finally acknowledged my existence. We talked a bit about the book, I think. I don’t know. I can’t remember. This woman was really interacting with me?
What I’ll always remember, though, are what were her parting words were: “Well, have fun in your fantasy world!”
That one still stings. What a novice!
She’s in a pretty successful rock band now. And by all subsequent college interactions, she’s likely still an awesome human being making this world a better place.
And I still have fun my fantasy worlds, thank you very much. It’s nearly impossible to do so otherwise.
Anybody gonna venture a guess?
She is pretty 🔥
"antics included covering the audience in spit, real blood and candy"- Wikipedia
And she's pretty.
The worst of times..they don't phase me, even if I look and act really crazy.
Tough loss. I'm so sorry. If you were only reading Kafka things could have metamorphed into something completely different. Seems like someone covered in blood would appreciate barker.
American War by Omar El Akkad - Very cool so far, dystopian future book. Goes into another American civil war and what the country could look like 100 years from now, climate change, etc. Very realistic that you could actually see this happening.
Next up is Cats Cradle - Vonnegut
Love this thread for the ideas, might have to check out Barker.
Wouldn't it be funny if the world ended in 2010, with lots of fire?
really, really liking this book. grabbed it at the library, on a whim.
If I had known then what I know now...
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"0035 EVENFLOW PSYCHOS
"I'm George Bush and my son's an asshole" 08/03/2000
Don't stop wen you're tired, stop when you're done
The most impactful book I've read in the last ten years, at least.
"0035 EVENFLOW PSYCHOS
"I'm George Bush and my son's an asshole" 08/03/2000
Don't stop wen you're tired, stop when you're done
His greatest work, by far, is The Great and Secret Show
Probably the book I've reread the most times.
It is one of the strangest stories but it is totally amazing. So complex and fun, to me, that every time I read it I find I've forgotten how much I enjoy some of the plot points.
I remember sitting on a bench outside the dormitory reading Imajica when my college crush finally acknowledged my existence. We talked a bit about the book, I think. I don’t know. I can’t remember. This woman was really interacting with me?
That one still stings. What a novice!
She’s in a pretty successful rock band now. And by all subsequent college interactions, she’s likely still an awesome human being making this world a better place.
Did you enjoy the book?
even if I look and act really crazy.
even if I look and act really crazy.
Next up is Cats Cradle - Vonnegut
Love this thread for the ideas, might have to check out Barker.
The President's Daughter: A Thriller
Let us know how that one is....
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VIC 07
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Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
"0035 EVENFLOW PSYCHOS
"I'm George Bush and my son's an asshole" 08/03/2000
Don't stop wen you're tired, stop when you're done