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What Are You Reading ? - Music Head - 09-10-2009
Philip Roth - Sabbath's Theater - 1995
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About an old man (65) who is obsessed with two things, sex and death. I don't mind the sex, but in this case it's like perverted sex, and a little too graphic. Very well writen as is any Roth I have read. This guy is a retired pupeteer, if that's the right term. He is married and has never been faithfull to his wife. As he is approaching that age where we all start thinking about the inevitable, he is telling the tales of his many sexcapades. He contemplates suicide but can't do it, then tries to get killed and can't do that either. Pitiful old man. Depressing book with too much debauchery for me.
Grade - C
next up - Smoke Screen by Philip J. Hilts
What Are You Reading ? - CMB1888 - 09-10-2009
The phrase that says "Posts: 500" on the left
- okay, I don't usually do this but :happy:
..........it's > 500 now - you had to be there - you missed a party
What Are You Reading ? - Music Head - 27-10-2009
Philip J. Hilts - Smokescreen
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The sub-title pretty much sums up where this is going. My smoker bias aside, actually a very good book with a lot of inside dope (pun intended) on the tobacco industry, covering the congressional hearings into their practices back in the 90's. Yes nicotine is a drug. Smoking is harmful to your health over the long term. A very pleasant drug for me for about 45 years now. Thank you tobacco industry. I will probably die from either cancer or a heart attack as my parents did. Others will die from that or something else. People choose to smoke. They can make the choice not to. I know dozens who have quit smoking after years of doing so. Good for them. Back to the book. If the intent was to make me hate the tobacco industry, it failed. Shame on them for providing a product some people enjoy. Still a good read.
Grade - A
next up - The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
What Are You Reading ? - adrawer4ever - 28-10-2009
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I was recommended this book by a friend who refused to tell me anything about it or even allow me to browse the backside cover (on account that it contains spoilers for half the book). The only thing I knew was that this book had a charmingly vintage air about it and the main character's name was Lucifer Box. I am currently a little over half-way through and I've only come to enjoy the characters more and more with each new introduction (however Mr Box certainly outshines them all seeing as the story is told from his point of view, mind you).
Consensus? Absolutely fabulous book.
What Are You Reading ? - Miss Fortune - 28-10-2009
What To Eat - Marion Nestle
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In the modern world we are confronted with so many food choices daily it can be a little overwhelming to try and decipher which products are healthy, what is acceptable, and how the companies go about their business - especially when the food industry lies and lobbies to get the government to lie about nutritional facts as well! (Well, they do if you live in America at least.)
This is a GREAT book for anyone interested in nutrition and learning about the concerns you may not have now, but should have about what you are eating. Nestle makes things extremely easy to remember and presents the facts in a way that makes it an interesting read - definitely not textbook-y.
I'm lovin it and would recommend it to everyone. Really you need to know this stuff.
What Are You Reading ? - Catherine Sutter - 28-10-2009
I'm reading The Prophet's Way by Thom Hartmann... what a brilliant, spiritual man... I'm not that far into it but it basically tells how Thom Hartmann found enlightenment through connecting with different spiritual masters. Very interesting and helpful for others seeking enlightenment.
What Are You Reading ? - Iota - 03-11-2009
Charles Bukowski - Hollywood
What Are You Reading ? - Iota - 03-11-2009
Catherine Sutter Wrote:I'm reading The Prophet's Way by Thom Hartmann... what a brilliant, spiritual man... I'm not that far into it but it basically tells how Thom Hartmann found enlightenment through connecting with different spiritual masters. Very interesting and helpful for others seeking enlightenment.
Dear Madam, real knowledge and awareness can only truly be obtained through personal experience and not through reliving those of others or teachings of whatever nature.
What Are You Reading ? - Erixouther - 03-11-2009
Iota Wrote:Dear Madam, real knowledge and awareness can only truly be obtained through personal experience and not through reliving those of others or teachings of whatever nature.
But one can be motivated to enlightenment by the experiences of others, no?
And how else but through hearing from others can one ever even think to be aware?
What Are You Reading ? - Miss Fortune - 04-11-2009
^ I agree with both of you
It takes experience to find yourself but there's no harm in being inspired by others. Spiritual enlightenment however (imho) is a personal truth that one must discover alone.I just began another good read; the famous anti-war story about WWII, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse V. I'm only on chapter two but I like his realistic, blunt style. He doesn't dress things up and it's very to-the-point methinks. Maybe I'll update this when I get a little farther I hear it's really very good.
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