What 'cha readin'?

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 5:23 pm

"Loving What Is" by Byron Katie
http://www.thework.org/home.html

for everyone who wants to get really really really free...ja mun

DangerMouse · Post by **DangerMouse** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:48 pm

"The Warrior Diet" by Ori Hofmekler.

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:59 pm

Nature and Madness, Paul Shepard

chickenfish · Post by **chickenfish** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:33 pm

eplaya posts

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:12 pm

chickenfish wrote:eplaya posts

Hey! So am I! Most currently one by Chickenfish!

(Hm. I think "chickenfish" is what was in the cat food I fed to some cats I am cat sitting tonight.)

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 9:14 pm

Ansel Adams: A Biography

By Mary Street Alinder

Great insite to one of the greatist american artist in a world that still doesn't recognize photographers as artists at a time that even American painters weren't given recognition as well.

Just came back from a art show, was bored to death and can't wait for burning man and see some cutting edge creative art.

Earlier today, I saw some cows.

and tomorrow I will brush my teeth after I wake up!

Live in Montana sometimes gets a little too fast.

A II Z

ebaynelson · Post by **ebaynelson** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:47 am

I was reading East, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss before I lost it at Chicago O'Hare on a layover from Los Angeles. As an aside, I find it hilarious that a book on punctuation is available as an audiobook.

Now I'm reading the new David Sedaris book.

stayfrosty · Post by **stayfrosty** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 1:19 pm

Leonard Mlodinow, "Feynman's Rainbow: a search for beauty in physics and life" and Terry Pratchett, "the Truth."

I haven't read any other disc world books, but this one seems to be stand alone. It's fuckin' funny as hell and I can't help thinking what a funny terry gilliam movie it'd make.

Feynman's just the coolest dude ever. A physicist/bongo drum player who knows the aesthetic beauty of a flower can delve below the surface to the atomic level. I see that guy and I think, I wanna BE him. Then, but not now cause he's dead. This guy taught me how to pick locks, too.

"Who stole the door?"
"I did."
"Shut up Feynmann."

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 1:51 pm

stayfrosty wrote:. . . Terry Pratchett, "the Truth."

I haven't read any other disc world books, but this one seems to be stand alone.

They are interconnected but stand alone. That one is in the sub-series (or whatever you want to call it) about the Night Watch, although the central character is a one-timer. Vimes, Carrot, and that rest of them show up in the other Night Watch ones (Jingo, Guards! Guards!, and the rather amazingly moving the Night Watch) as major characters and have cameos in others ot the novels. Death is in every one (although he has his own sub-series.) He's my favorite character. I think it has something to do with my father the mathimatician/physisist and his inablity to relate to his daughters and Death's odd attempt to understand humans. Also fond of The Death of Rats.

shitmouse · Post by **shitmouse** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:54 pm

went to green apple books sunday and got:
In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot

seriously funny book with great twisted illustrations by Graham Roumieu.
-b

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue May 09, 2006 12:10 pm

Andrew Soloman's Noonday Demon. The new gold standard for depression books.

nogganoodle · Post by **nogganoodle** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:23 am

The Gap Series by Stephen Donaldson. Absolutely awesome sci-fi and dark as f**k! 5 books long though so it takes some time to get through it!

wildilocks · Post by **wildilocks** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:15 am

I recently finished Jared Diamond's Collapse and I can't recommend it highly enough. Very readable and thought provoking.

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:31 pm

Hawaii by James Michener
and
Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down
(with an excellent excuse to have a toilet on the cover)

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Sat May 13, 2006 7:01 am

The new MAKE magazine just came!

SubCultist · Post by **SubCultist** » Sat May 13, 2006 8:14 am

Just read Fareheight 451 the other night. Started Catch-22 yesterday, and plan to read The Hero With a Thousand Faces next.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Mon May 15, 2006 5:10 pm

robotland wrote:The new MAKE magazine just came!

Great, and I am stuck up here at the State Patrol Academy at Fort McCoy for Department of Motor Vehicles training until the 26th....

Anyway, I am reading Wisconsin's vehicle liscensing laws, the Pulp Hero sourcebook for the Hero System (a role playing game), the Worlds of the Dead sourcebook for All Flesh Must Be Eaten (another role playing game) and should probably get back to reading From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank (not a roleplaying game, but a potential method for getting out to the Black Rock Desert-- I just learned last week that there really aren't any laws about how many extra fuel tanks one can strap on the bottom, or top, of an old bus here in Wisconsin

)

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:20 pm

Well, I just got done reading scanlated copies of the manga GANTZ, by Hiroya Oku. Apparently the anime version was too violent to be aired in an uncensored format for Japanese television

-- then again, judging by the manga, it is definitely for adults.

It's a pretty good story; unfortunatley, now I am caught up on it and have to wait for the next installment to come out, get scanned and translated by someone, and posted to the internet. Darn, I guess I am going to need to learn how to be patient!

B.

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:49 pm

Beautiful Evidence by Edwin Tufte

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5673332

Third in a series of books on how to take data and present it in a visual manner. Kinda cool.

Toolmaker · Post by **Toolmaker** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:49 pm

Plato Symposium and Phaedrus

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:50 pm

Jingo by Terry Pratchett
and at the same time, his other book in the Discworld series: The Last Continent.

Just can't get enough of TP.

Rusted Iron · Post by **Rusted Iron** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:10 pm

Love Sucks

by Christopher Moore

Steven bradford · Post by **Steven bradford** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:09 pm

Is that the new one? Must find soon.

I just read a short story collection, SciFi, but scifi in the way that Vonnegut is SciFi, "Stories of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. Incredible.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:33 am

Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton.

Rusted Iron · Post by **Rusted Iron** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:18 pm

Yes, Love Sucks is his new one. It's the sequel to Blood Sucking Fiends, which you don't have to read to enjoy Love Sucks.

Ted Chiang's short fiction is amazing. I wish he'd write something longer, such as a novel. Though, some writers are better suited for the shorter forms.

I finished the Moore book, (way too short), and am now reading SOMEONE COMES TO TOWN, SOMEONE LEAVES, by Cory Doctrorow.

skeetsh00ter · Post by **skeetsh00ter** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:34 pm

i feel very childish after seeing what everyone else is reading...but my book is still good. I just finished 'Eragon' and i just got started with the next book in the series, 'Eldest'.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:41 pm

Don't know as you should feel childish! After all, I confessed that I was reading manga-- which is generally looked down on here in the USA!

Although, at least in the case of GANTZ, it is pretty effective story telling, at least for the most part. Heartwrenchingly so. Bloody, nasty, violent, but still very emotional in places, in the tear inducing way.

Its one of those which, if ever legitimately translated and distributed in the USA, is headed straight for the banned books list. (Unless it is edited into oblivion, in which case it wouldn't be worth reading.)

B. (now wondering how long before someone gets the current release translated and up on the Web [dammit! Why don't I know how to read Japanese!!!])

skeetsh00ter · Post by **skeetsh00ter** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:50 pm

yeah, every time i go into a bookstore i always want to go over and browse through the manga section...but you tend to get weird looks, so i tend to stay pretty mainstream. now off to alagaesia!

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:58 pm

feel very childish after seeing what everyone else is reading...

A good start in dealing with that is not to compare your interior to other's exterior.

At least you're reading.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:59 pm

That's part of what I miss about Madison, WI-- not as many weird looks no matter where you happen to be in the bookstore (well, except if you are obviously in the wrong restroom!)

I need to get out and see Eragon, then maybe I will get the book. Sometimes kids' stuff is more imaginative than the adult fiction. It seems that there are more "rules" writers are supposed to follow for adults.

B.