Once exams are done, I'll be reading "The Rule Of Four" by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, because a friend of the family thought I'd like it, and rather than just suggesting it, she sent it to me. So now I feel obligated to read it.
After that, I'll be reading Matt Good's "At Last There Is Nothing Left To Say", as I will (hopefully) be getting it for Christmas.
And then it'll be back to the regular grind of english, history, classics, philosophy and psychology. :\
What are you reading?
Other then school related texts.
How To Practice: The Way To A Meaningful Life. - The Dalai Lama
Good read but if you've read more then 2 of his other books it's rather repetive. Not bad, but not enough all that new.
How To Practice: The Way To A Meaningful Life. - The Dalai Lama
Good read but if you've read more then 2 of his other books it's rather repetive. Not bad, but not enough all that new.
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
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Axtech wrote:After that, I'll be reading Matt Good's "At Last There Is Nothing Left To Say", as I will (hopefully) be getting it for Christmas.
i've been looking for that book since 2 years ago. whenever i go to a bookstore i check for the book and i have failed to find it since. and i live in the same city as him!!!
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Hope wrote:Axtech wrote:After that, I'll be reading Matt Good's "At Last There Is Nothing Left To Say", as I will (hopefully) be getting it for Christmas.
i've been looking for that book since 2 years ago. whenever i go to a bookstore i check for the book and i have failed to find it since. and i live in the same city as him!!!
I found it quite easily at the Chapters in Kelowna.
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You can also get it online at amazon.ca or chapters.
Which means you should be able to get chapters to order it in for you, if you'd rather buy it through a store.
Which means you should be able to get chapters to order it in for you, if you'd rather buy it through a store.
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Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
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Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
Hope wrote:Axtech wrote:After that, I'll be reading Matt Good's "At Last There Is Nothing Left To Say", as I will (hopefully) be getting it for Christmas.
i've been looking for that book since 2 years ago. whenever i go to a bookstore i check for the book and i have failed to find it since. and i live in the same city as him!!!
if you just want to read it, try the VPL downtown. they have 2 or 3 copies.
if you actually want to BUY it locally, (meaning not-online), pfft. good luck. i recommend rob's way in that case.
"if the nuremberg trials were applied to us foreign policy, every us president since 1945 would have been hanged." noam chomsky.
...and this is me hanging on / i'd burn our initials in the sun if it would shine / anxiety chokes me like razor wire / if hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given / wake up / i'm not the only one / it's never goodbye / go ahead and play dead / if everyone's a casualty, then take your time, there ain't no trouble / these wounds they will not heal / ambition can be a tricky thing / what the hell do i know about rape anyway? / this is not what i hoped for / ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon / who will be there to tell me how stupid i am? / those living for death will die by their own hand / and it's me that I am spying on / pick up the pieces and live with the stars / hurry up and wait / things have never been so swell / they're always the ones who slowly drift / be great / ...and this is my world.
...and this is me hanging on / i'd burn our initials in the sun if it would shine / anxiety chokes me like razor wire / if hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given / wake up / i'm not the only one / it's never goodbye / go ahead and play dead / if everyone's a casualty, then take your time, there ain't no trouble / these wounds they will not heal / ambition can be a tricky thing / what the hell do i know about rape anyway? / this is not what i hoped for / ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon / who will be there to tell me how stupid i am? / those living for death will die by their own hand / and it's me that I am spying on / pick up the pieces and live with the stars / hurry up and wait / things have never been so swell / they're always the ones who slowly drift / be great / ...and this is my world.
yes i know about amazon.. but still 
and i hardly go to the VPL in downtown
maybe i should
and i hardly go to the VPL in downtown
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I like this thread cuz I'm looking for a few good reads to take to Florida with me next week. It will be 8 days with my husband, in-laws and 6 year old nephew. I think I will need music and books as my daily escape from family overload.
<I><B>"I know this sounds corny, and I might be a little bit drunk, but honest to god, thank you everybody"</B></I>
teen fiction galore.
brian james ~ 'perfect world'
tim burton ~ 'the melancholy death of oyster boy, and other stories'
lauren myracle ~ 'rhymes with witches'
carolyn mccullough ~ 'stealing henry'
benjamin alire saenz ~ 'sammy and juliana in hollywood'
terry goodkind ~ 'wizard's first rule'
antoine de saint-exupery ~ 'the little prince' (inspired by my secret santa)
i can read all of that in 21 days, riiiight?
brian james ~ 'perfect world'
tim burton ~ 'the melancholy death of oyster boy, and other stories'
lauren myracle ~ 'rhymes with witches'
carolyn mccullough ~ 'stealing henry'
benjamin alire saenz ~ 'sammy and juliana in hollywood'
terry goodkind ~ 'wizard's first rule'
antoine de saint-exupery ~ 'the little prince' (inspired by my secret santa)
i can read all of that in 21 days, riiiight?
"if the nuremberg trials were applied to us foreign policy, every us president since 1945 would have been hanged." noam chomsky.
...and this is me hanging on / i'd burn our initials in the sun if it would shine / anxiety chokes me like razor wire / if hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given / wake up / i'm not the only one / it's never goodbye / go ahead and play dead / if everyone's a casualty, then take your time, there ain't no trouble / these wounds they will not heal / ambition can be a tricky thing / what the hell do i know about rape anyway? / this is not what i hoped for / ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon / who will be there to tell me how stupid i am? / those living for death will die by their own hand / and it's me that I am spying on / pick up the pieces and live with the stars / hurry up and wait / things have never been so swell / they're always the ones who slowly drift / be great / ...and this is my world.
...and this is me hanging on / i'd burn our initials in the sun if it would shine / anxiety chokes me like razor wire / if hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given / wake up / i'm not the only one / it's never goodbye / go ahead and play dead / if everyone's a casualty, then take your time, there ain't no trouble / these wounds they will not heal / ambition can be a tricky thing / what the hell do i know about rape anyway? / this is not what i hoped for / ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon / who will be there to tell me how stupid i am? / those living for death will die by their own hand / and it's me that I am spying on / pick up the pieces and live with the stars / hurry up and wait / things have never been so swell / they're always the ones who slowly drift / be great / ...and this is my world.
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antoine de saint-exupery ~ 'the little prince' (inspired by my secret santa)
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Kinda got into The Age of Spiritual Machines : When Humans exceed human intelligence by Ray Kurzweil like a long time ago.
lol some chapters I could not understand or grasp, it's just so fucked up!
The best part of the book is when Ray talks about virtual reality SEX!! and how you can plug yourself into the virtual world and have complete safe sex with anyone of your dreams. For example, the hot milf nextdoor or your local mailman!
Overall, a very interesting perspective on how machines will oursmart us human. I have no doubt in my mind that the computer will outsmart us naive humans too by'!
lol some chapters I could not understand or grasp, it's just so fucked up!
The best part of the book is when Ray talks about virtual reality SEX!! and how you can plug yourself into the virtual world and have complete safe sex with anyone of your dreams. For example, the hot milf nextdoor or your local mailman!
Overall, a very interesting perspective on how machines will oursmart us human. I have no doubt in my mind that the computer will outsmart us naive humans too by'!
today i finished albert camus - the outsider
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Ohhhh that book's good Jen. I read The Plague too and really loved that. I should really go and find some more of his stuff.
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
