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  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    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
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    mammasan wrote:
    The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Bobby Henderson

    Wow! Now I think THAT title qualifies as something "quasi-normal"....it's very intriguing!
  • enharmonic
    enharmonic Posts: 1,917
    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
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    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.
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    seagoat2 wrote:
    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
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    soulsinging wrote:

    right now the ones im reading though are all law textbooks. it's killing me.

    Whew! I bet....sounds like you'll need a lot of caffeine.....
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Ahnimus wrote:
    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.

    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.
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    seagoat2 wrote:
    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
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    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
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,368
    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
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    mammasan wrote:
    The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
    Oh, I'm so pleased to see that you too have been touched by His noodly appendage. RAmen, brother :D
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    hippiemom wrote:
    Oh, I'm so pleased to see that you too have been touched by His noodly appendage. RAmen, brother :D

    RAmen back to you my sister. I have been touched by his noodly appendage but alas not as much as his chosen midgets.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    mammasan wrote:
    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
  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    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.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    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
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Some kind of code for a male prostitute?
    the truth shall set you free :D
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    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? :p

    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 :o
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • warehouse
    warehouse Posts: 124
    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.

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  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    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??




    Fins, by the way, wins.
  • HunterandHunted
    HunterandHunted Posts: 140
    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
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