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« Reply #45 on: May 09, 2008, 01:47:07 PM » |
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"Deterring Democracy" by Noam Chomsky
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like its from Neptune.
- Noam Chomsky
... you can almost see the high water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
- Hunter S. Thompson
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« Reply #46 on: May 09, 2008, 11:34:10 PM » |
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Paul Auster - "The invention of solitude"
Naipaul - "India"
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« Reply #47 on: May 12, 2008, 08:44:58 AM » |
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Gonna start rereading The Historian.
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« Reply #48 on: May 12, 2008, 10:03:40 AM » |
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The Beautiful And Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Urbi et Orbi
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« Reply #49 on: May 12, 2008, 10:22:24 AM » |
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Gonna start rereading The Historian.
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- Hunter S. Thompson
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« Reply #50 on: May 12, 2008, 10:28:43 AM » |
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Gonna start rereading The Historian.
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« Reply #51 on: May 29, 2008, 09:42:58 AM » |
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I found a copy of Europe Revised by Irvin S. Cobb, published in 1914 at a used shop. It's an interesting and humorous look at people & travel shortly before WWI burst out.
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« Reply #52 on: July 02, 2008, 09:21:12 AM » |
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The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb
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Buy a toaster, get an investment bank for free.
My EV prediction: Obama 273 - McCain 265
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« Reply #53 on: July 29, 2008, 08:06:50 PM » |
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The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King.
Just finished the sixth of seven books.
Very entertaining.
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Ammunition spitting is him, is it, you listening
Littering written, it\\'s in slippers, get the rebel in him
Sticking it with sinners, sizzlin\\' rhythm, verbally hit him
Did he did it, or did he didn\\'t, admit it -
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« Reply #54 on: July 30, 2008, 08:13:55 AM » |
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I tried getting into the Dark Tower series... but I'm an ignoramous and I immediately get turned off by long books - a common occurence of Steven King's. I love his short stories, but his books just take too much effort from me.
I had to stop reading "Pumpkin Head" and "It" cause I was getting tired of all the exposition...
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like its from Neptune.
- Noam Chomsky
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illerino if youre not into the whole brevity thing
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« Reply #55 on: July 30, 2008, 08:36:45 PM » |
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I tried getting into the Dark Tower series... but I'm an ignoramous and I immediately get turned off by long books - a common occurence of Steven King's. I love his short stories, but his books just take too much effort from me.
I had to stop reading "Pumpkin Head" and "It" cause I was getting tired of all the exposition...
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He can definitely be a bit long on the exposition. I noticed that I can read his work faster than a lot of other writing. The style tends to makes up for it for me. The Dark Tower is very long on exposition, often going pretty far into what could be considered short stories within the story. I was never very big on the horror genre in general. Ok, but not my thing so much. The exception would be apocalyptic stories. There is an element of horror there I guess. Some of his short stories are very good. I've read more of them than his novels. Never read It or Pumpkin Head. |
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Ammunition spitting is him, is it, you listening
Littering written, it\\'s in slippers, get the rebel in him
Sticking it with sinners, sizzlin\\' rhythm, verbally hit him
Did he did it, or did he didn\\'t, admit it -
Rugged Man - Give it Up
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