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February 18th, 2007, 12:47 AM
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Re: What are you reading?
yea id say blinks better
it might be repetitive..hes a great writer..turns boring research into something one can actually read |
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February 18th, 2007, 03:56 AM
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Re: What are you reading?
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty L'oeil et l'esprit, not a very big book but can be enjoyed for a very long time.  | ||
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February 18th, 2007, 07:45 AM
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Tsze-kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?' The Master said, 'Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.' Confucius, The Analects Book XV Chapter XXIII | |
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February 18th, 2007, 07:59 AM
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Re: What are you reading?
Just finished The Corrections (I know, a little slow on the uptake, considering that it was years ago now that it was getting all the hype). Possibly the most deeply depressing book I've ever read, but it was great.
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February 18th, 2007, 08:10 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Boston
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Re: What are you reading?
Mostly history readings on early christianity, late antique rome, french revolution, and russian revolutions for classes. Whenever i have free time for fun reading, it's anything by a 19th cent russian writer.
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February 18th, 2007, 08:20 AM
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Location: Bay Area
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a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
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February 18th, 2007, 09:42 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: ohio
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Re: What are you reading?
NT Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God
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February 18th, 2007, 09:56 AM
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February 18th, 2007, 10:05 AM
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Location: oklahoma city
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Re: What are you reading?
The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk, by Palden Gyatso
It really has struck a chord with me. The capacity for human cruelty is staggering! (30 years of systematic torture, for refusing to adhere to Communist Chinese brainwashing) It's making me re -think some shit!.... |
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February 18th, 2007, 10:45 AM
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Re: What are you reading?
I was inspired by the coming attractions for the movie "300" (on the battle of Thermopylae) to start re-reading Book VII of Herodotus in the original with my old How & Wells commentary. Think I'll try to read Books VIII & IX of H. as well.
After looking at the Frank Miller "graphic novel" on which the movie is based, I think I'll pass on the movie. For whatever perverse and racist reasons, the Persians are portrayed as grotesque and hideous negroes in Miller's upscale comic, and I think the movie follows this. |
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February 18th, 2007, 10:55 AM
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Re: What are you reading?
Finally picking through Jonathan Spence's Treason By The Book.
Also Suetonius, although my Latin is not anywhere near being able to read that in the original. |
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February 18th, 2007, 11:09 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In Every Dreamhome a Heartache
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Re: What are you reading?
I always have about ten books I am reading:
2 Lewis Lapham books, Theater of War and Gag Rule Machiavelli's The Prince, Mantonsfield edition Mitterand: Une histoire de Francais by Jean Lacouture Tatiana Tolstoi's pretentious De l'elegance masculine Laurent Fauvel's dated Smoking, jean et peignoir de soie Courtilz's spurious Memoires de M. d'Artagnan (one of Dumas' sources) Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen's disappointing attempt at satire A Pinch of Posh |
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February 18th, 2007, 11:50 AM
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Re: What are you reading?
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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February 18th, 2007, 12:02 PM
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Location: Burlington, ON
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Re: What are you reading?
Status Anxiety Alain de Botton
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February 18th, 2007, 12:10 PM
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Senior Member
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Re: What are you reading?
Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. quite a bit different than ULoB.
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