What BOOK are you reading right now?

littlek wrote:

posthumothly (is that spelled right?).

That is close enough. Many of us know that Doug Adams is sadly no longer with us.

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Jack Webbs wrote:

I just read Al Franken's new book, "The Truth" and it is very good. I guess if you are not of the liberal persuasion, you wouldn't think it was funny. Maybe you have to be from Minnesota? (Posted by Vietamnurse)

I still remember how much I was looking forward to listening to Garrison Keillor only to find out how awful he was.

It brought to memory the old women (fortyish) whose great event of the week was the Saturday Morning Walking Club. Then they would bake on Saturday afternoon, go to church on Sunday.

Imagine.

And since I heard that Bill O'Reilly went to Harvard I don't think much of Harvard any more and it just proves to me that Yale is and always was the place to go if your parents could get you in there.

I know of no Yale men that are in the entertainment business. I do know one that is President of the United States though. :wink:

What egregious taste!

Garrison Keillor is the last great storyteller. You'd have to have the patience to listen for longer than a Fox News soundbite, though. Duh.

And yes, how nice it must be to have your father pay your way into school. I know a man who was enrolled at the same time as W. He had seen W PASSED OUT in the bushes outside his dormitory.

Hail to the Thief!

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harry potter and the half-blood prince.

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Garrison Keillor/Al Franken
Kidding aside(even though I am from Minnesota and graduated from St. Olaf College...not far from Anoka where Garrison comes from), you do not have to be from Minnesota to appreciate their humor. IMHO Garrision is our Mark Twain of today...yes, a great story teller. Both Garrison and Al Franken have great intellect and wit. I love them both.

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Other than to say Mark Twain was interesting and Garrison Keillor has yet to say anything of interest there is no comparison. I've been around and Garrison Keillor is not even a part of Americana. No indeed he isn't.

In about the same class with Howard Stern where fans are concerned. I would not listen to either Garrison or Howard. That's just the way I am. :wink:

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So mr webbs, I suppose you are reading Ashley Montigue's Natural Superiority of Women?

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Funny you should ask dyslexia. There are so many good books that people on this thread are reading it frustrates me to know that I will probably never read any of them. Just as with The Complete New Yorker that Santa Claus gave me. Every issue of The New Yorker published since 1925 on 8 disks. I will never read all of them but I now have the capability to read some interesting articles.

I had read a story about Sylvia Plath back around 1992 or 1993 but was not able to find it by other means. I had no problem at all locating it on my new laptop treasure!

Being an old unmarried man I am looking for that unique woman. I still date a lot but mostly for convenience. I have yet to find the one that is really wicked and controllable. Hence I have been looking at female behavior for greater insight. I watch "Sex in the City" each night to discover how girls think about things. Today I discovered by accident that one of the women I date meets regularly with a group of her college women in their late forties early fifties. This means I need to get her to reveal information about what they discuss without drawing suspicion.

I am also going to read the book "Sex in the City." I will locate it somewhere, borrow it. I would never pay for anything Helen Gurley Brown wrote.

That will be my next read whenever I get to it. :wink:

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I'm now working on book number six; "The Crazed" by Ha Jin. It's about a university student in China working towards his PhD and his future father-in-law, a professor at the university. A good read.

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I got a little bundle of old books handed down to me - the private collection of a good woman who passed. Pretty much every book has to do with therapy/personal development.

Right now reading
Awareness: exploring, experimenting, experiencing

It's pretty cool. More Gestalt Therapy stuff.

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I'd watch it if I were you flushed. Books like those are written by people who are unbalanced. I don't mean that in a derogatory sense but they usually only present their side of things and barely mention if not reject alternatives altogether.

The best way to find out about "exploring, experimenting and experiencing" is to just jump in and do it whether it requires that it be done alone, with others, in public or in private.

Just do it and discover it for yourself. You may very well reach a point living an experiment where you will say "Ouch! this is bad!" and you will go no further. If you simply read about it? Well, you may continue pass the point of "Ouch" into the the dark deep waters of no return and believe you are right. When of course you are wrong. :wink:

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Experiment and experience are good, but you must know about your own limits.

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cicerone imposter wrote:

Experiment and experience are good, but you must know about your own limits.

Completely agree. The book is pretty interesting though. It's mainly a book of ideas for therapeutic work based on Gestalt Therapy principles. It was first published in 1971 - so it could be considered a little outdated. Nonetheless, it gives me a feel for what a lot of people were working with back in the day. REading through these books is like a way of connected to the woman for me - if that makes sense.

Jack Webbs, thanks for the comments. Let's not forget IT IS JUST A BOOK.
Nothing for me to get afeared of, nor you to be concerned about.
Laughing

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Well OK flushed, better safe than sorry.

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The picture/painting/portrait(one of those) of Dorian Gray.Oscar Wilde.

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Jack wrote-

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Being an old unmarried man I am looking for that unique woman. I still date a lot but mostly for convenience. I have yet to find the one that is really wicked and controllable

You will never find that combination Jack.It does not exist.Wicked means uncontrollable and if you know what is good for you give it a wide berth or at the very least make sure you have an escape route plotted.

Remember Bill Greenwell's line-

"The last,rasping gasp of the mantis's groom."

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Just finished "Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress" - I highly recommend it.

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I'm reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon... so far so good. He tends to add to many long meandering sentences full of to many details at times but for the most part it is pretty good.

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Just picked up A Million Little Pieces, which everyone on the plane seemed to be reading over the holidays. Reads like e.e. cummings of prose, pretty graphic details. Stream of consciousness writing. I am only about a quarter of the way through, but it's very engaging so far.

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Take it easy kermit.It's only wood pulp with ink inserts.

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Kermit, welcome. I've heard A Million Little Pieces is a good read, though I've not picked it up yet, probably because my employment gives me more exposure to addiction than I'd like right now. It's on my *maybe* list.

If you're inclined, please post a sentence or two when you've finished. I'd be interested in your final impression.

I'm reading Maude Barlow's too close for comfort Canada's Future within Fortress North America. It certainly has the language of bias, which is a bit of a turn off, but the information is important for Canadians, I think, and alarming.

About Maude Barlow:

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Maude Barlow is the national chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest public advocacy organization. She is a director with the International Forum on Globalization, and co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, an international civil society movement to stop the commodification of water. She is the bestselling author of fifteen books and is the recipient of six honorary doctorates. She was awarded the prestigious Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship for 2005 and is one of the Women of Peace currently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

For shear escapism I'm reading Eragon by Christopher Paolini. I'm finding it a rather unsophisticated fantasy, so far, but I can't put it down. I'm in for at least a trilogy Laughing

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