Bookcees revived

[oats]

my list of books read in 2017. everyone else who like to read should follow suit.

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)

Just finished The Red Shark today, about a kid from Chicago who moves to Hawaii. It's young adult fiction, but surprisingly well-crafted. Very different from the YA style of today, I think, which overemphasizes simplistic vocabulary and structure. Still maintains the breeziness of YA, but in a way that's not off-putting for older readers. I really enjoyed the story, too. If you have kids who like to read, or if you like YA stuff from time to time (as I do), definitely recommend it.

[Mr. J]

Finished Wuthering Heights awhile back I'd give it a strong 4/5

Going to get around to reading Mythology & maybe tackle Anna Karenina.

Reading Stardust right now though

[Tha Pastor Reach Yeah]

Finished Wuthering Heights awhile back I'd give it a strong 4/5

Going to get around to reading Mythology & maybe tackle Anna Karenina.

Reading Stardust right now though

Wuthering Heights is good. I used to massively be into the classic gothic genre.

Have you tried the likes of Melmoth the Wanderer, Castle of Otranto, Uncle Silas, The Woman in White..?

I'll think of some more later.

Stardust is the Neil Gaiman book, right?

[oats]

I have respect for the romantic/Victorian classics, but I can't say I enjoyed many of them. Wuthering Heights was aite, and I mostly enjoyed Vanity Fair. 20th and 21st century lit all day for me though.

[Ghost1]

niiiice

ill get my list up maybe tomorrow

finished freakonomics.....shit was fire. I think I prefer gladwell but these guys were very dope. the abortion bit was beautiful/

midway thru the social animal by Elliot Aranson....couldn't get this on audio anywhere and was barely able to get the shit in PDF...on amazon they want 80 bucks for this shit LMAO ....anyways its super dope

also midway thru gladwells david and goliath. fire fire fire/

been reading that social animal book on my kindle fire...I like the kindle a lot but the screen is a little small.....you guys use e readers? thinking about maybe a paperwhite? suggestions?

[uh-oh]

i use the kindle app on my phone. i got the G6 tho so its kind of a big phone. not like my old note but it works.

[Ghost1]

what all does the kindle app do tho.....do u get free e books....? or is it just a pdf viewer?

[veritas]

I have read the following since the end of March (no audiobookmo)

1. Thirty Seven essays on life, wisdom and masculinity by Quintus Curtius (3/5) a decent breezy read. Some essays are much better than others

2. Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris (5/5) THE MANUAL. so much. So good. A life book that you will go back to time and again. Must buy.

3. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (3/5) A better book than most, but not King's best. Still enjoyed

4. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (3/5) a decent book, a great premise, it sort of fell off at the end

5. Find out anything from anyone anytime (4/5) a very good and practical interrogation manual. Enjoyed.

6. Kafka on the shore by Murakami (3/5) the fool who talks to cats was a great character....kafka was ok, and the whole love angle was weird. The end was meh.

7. Time and again By Jack Finley (5/5) this book was the inspiration for 11/22/63 and is superior and very much ahead of its time. much recommendations.

8. Darwin's Doubt by Meyer (5/5) yet another scientific manual which destroys Darwin's theory of evolution. You fools would shun this book due to your liberal agendas.

9. Valis by PKD (5/5) So dope. Mind bending

10. The Divine invasion by PKD (4/5) book 2 of the trilogy, not as good, but still dope

11. The transmigraton of Timothy Archer by PKD (5/5) book 3 of the trilogy and super dope. OVerall read the trilogy for a sci-fi look into madness and religion.

12. Assisted the autobio of John stockton by John Stockton (5/5) What an amazing human being. Must read.

13. Grit by Duckworth (4/5) a Dope book. and knowledge that would benefit alot of you.

14. The way of the superior man by Deidre (5/5) this is a MUST READ for any man who wants to increase his ability with women. A life book. read often and often

[uh-oh]

what all does the kindle app do tho.....do u get free e books....? or is it just a pdf viewer?

its just a kindle on your phone basically. i like it better than my actual kindle because my phone screen is backlit, unlike my old kindle which is that dull horseshit supposed to be easy on the eyes but you can't read without a light on

but yea it has the kindle store and all that, keeps track of where your at in books, you can sync it with the audio books too so wherever you leave off in one it will pick up with the other, i don't do audio books but its supposed to do that.

you can get kindle unlimited which is 10 bucks a month i think and read from millions of the books included with that.

im not a huge reader though so i'll just buy a book here and there outright.

kindle unlimited might be better for you though, espescially since you read old classics and other shit. all of those are for sure included, its basically all books that wouldn't sell well anymore on their own

[Ghost1]

nice list v gonna peep some of those


and word to uh oh...my kindle fire is backlit....its the main reason I like it so much.an yea I need to look into kindle & the app more I only just yesterday started using it.

[Tha Pastor Reach Yeah]

I'll re-do my list:

1. Alive in Christ - Stuart Olyott 3/5
2. Dare To Stand Alone - Stuart Olyott 4/5
3. God Strengthens - Derek Thomas 4/5
4. Exodus For You - Tim Chester 3/5
5. Born Before Midnight - A.W. Tozer 4/5
6. Memoirs of Thomas Boston 5/5
7. 2000 Years of Christ's Power Vol. 3 - Nick Needham 4/5
8. Glory of Christ - John Owen 4/5
9. Desiring God - John Piper 4/5
10. The Great Ejection - Gary Brady 3/5
11. The Holiness of God - R.C. Sproul 5/5
12. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 1 - W.A. Chriswell 4/5

New Graphic Novels for this year:

1. Batman Eternal Vol. 1 - Scott Snyder 4/5
2. Batman Eternal Vol. 2 - Scott Snyder 3/5
3. Flashpoint - Geoff Johns 4/5
4. Flash: Savage World - Robert Venditti 3/5
5. Flash: Zoom - Robert Venditti 3/5
6. Justice League: Origin - Geoff Johns 1/5
7. Old Man Logan - Mark Millar 4/5

Currently reading Confessions - Saint Augustine and Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 2 - W.A. Chriswell.

[Mr. J]

Stardust is the Neil Gaiman book, right?

That's the one.

I'm working around a few of his books lately.

Check out Good Omens that seems up your alley

[boof]

just read the existentialism is a humanism lecture by jean-paul sartre

thought it was pretty good but it sounds like he was still in the process of trying to figure shit out

will check out a lot of these in here, appreciate it

[Tha Pastor Reach Yeah]

That's the one.

I'm working around a few of his books lately.

Check out Good Omens that seems up your alley

Haven't heard of that one.

I've read American Gods, Neverwhere and Anansi Boys. I think Neverwhere is my favourite, although probably because it was the first one of his I've read and it blew me away. I'd never read anything quite like that before. American Gods is probably the best, but those 3 are all in quite a similar vein really.

[Ghost1]

Finished David and Goliath and the social animal

Loved both

Also having read the physical text of the social animal I determined I can actually read faster than I can get thru an audio book even with the speed multiplied

Still the convenience of audiobooks are unparalleled

[Mr. J]

Haven't heard of that one.

I've read American Gods, Neverwhere and Anansi Boys. I think Neverwhere is my favourite, although probably because it was the first one of his I've read and it blew me away. I'd never read anything quite like that before. American Gods is probably the best, but those 3 are all in quite a similar vein really.

Word. Neverwhere was great. Especially when they cross the bridge to the market.

Sandman is what got me hooked though. That interpretation of Midsummer's Night Dream & the battle in Hell for his helm.

Good Omens was done with Terry Prachett. Funny book imo. The ending is what really pushed my fandom over the edge though

Currently working through Beyond Good & Evil right now alongside this book on Pit Bulls

I finished the Tao Te Ching awhile back

[Tha Pastor Reach Yeah]

Word. Neverwhere was great. Especially when they cross the bridge to the market.

Sandman is what got me hooked though. That interpretation of Midsummer's Night Dream & the battle in Hell for his helm.

Good Omens was done with Terry Prachett. Funny book imo. The ending is what really pushed my fandom over the edge though

Currently working through Beyond Good & Evil right now alongside this book on Pit Bulls

I finished the Tao Te Ching awhile back

Sandman's dope. Was left really sad when he died. Still feel sad about it tbh!

[Mr. J]

Sandman's dope. Was left really sad when he died. Still feel sad about it tbh!

Agree 100%

Stardust is 4/5 for me I'm just about done.

Good Omens is 5/5 for me personally.

[oats]

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)

Just finished Domino Diaries, been reading it for a while since I tend to read e-books a little more slowly. But it was dope. BJB is one of my favorite boxing writers. This detailed his 10 years (on and off) living in Cuba talking to great Cuban boxers, investigating why some boxers turn down millions of dollars to defect from Cuba, while some take the money. Dope book, if you're interested in boxing and/or Cuba, def recommend it.

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)


having a current panic attack cuz I feel like maybe I missed a book since I haven't updated this in weeks.....but I think that's all of them....

been loving my kindle.

so I think the only book in my last 5 I didn't mention was the subtle art of not giving a fuck.......this shit did not live up to its name. what a let down. it was like listening to uh oh narrate and explain social psychology if he actually wanted to live past 40. was some gems littered thru out but ultimately this guys a fagot.


half way thru American gods and man I really want to dig this shit.........but right now I feel like I just don't get the hype over this? we shall see.....I will finish it in the next day or 2


also reading don winslow the force.......now this shit man.....this shit is like the wire and goodfellas set in present day NYC....idk why people are sleeping on don winslow but it makes me furious.

[Ghost1]

finished American gods.........I guess it was pretty good

he tied everything up really well....making parts that felt awful become really rewarding.......but they were still awful initially ....this book I feel like will have high replay value.....although the twists wont be as rewarding there will be parts I can appreciate more on a 2nd read thru

not sure I want to dive deep into Gaimans works tho at this point im on the fence

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)




blink was dope....not my favorite gladwell of the 3 ive read but it was still awesome

about to start the tipping point next

oh and ill be reading Job in the bible this evening Witty

chronicles was rough but I made it thru

[uh-oh]

Neil gaiman is wack

[Tha Pastor Reach Yeah]

Neil gaiman is wack

You're wack.

[Ghost1]

yea idk American gods wasn't great.....

should I bother with norse mythology or neverwhere.....?



just finished book of Job though. fire.

[Tha Pastor Reach Yeah]

Tbh if you didn't like American Gods you prob won't like his others. Neverwhere is a bit different in characters and story but pretty similar style. I haven't read Norse Mythology.

I guess you just read Job as it is, rather than alongside a commentary/study. There's a lot going on in Job for sure. John Calvin preached through it which is a book on my wishlist!

[Ghost1]

correct. my intentions are to read thru the entire bible at face value. then I will delve into studying it. I mean I go to church so I get to hear sermons every week but word I plan to do my own research of the passages as well.

[Mr. J]

Yeah if you didn't like American Gods you wouldn't like the other stuff. It's in the same vein basically.

Otherwise I got my "To Read" shelf cluttered with books.
Doesn't help that I can pick whatever I want up after I'm done working.

[uh-oh]

Confession time

Ive never read any neil gaiman lmao

Hes always recommended and my favorite writers praise him. But i cant get invested in single novels, espescially when i dont know what they are about in the first place. I need at least a trilogy.

That said ill probably read his norse gods books. But again im a history guy and when i want to learn about mythology or even a culture i try and find writings from as close to the source as possible. So while i hear gaimans book is great i feel like i should learn about norse mythology prior to reading a modern persons rendition of it. The problem ARISES with it all being hearsay anyways tho because vikings were illiterate rune drawing dummies who dont have a history of their own, they exist because people recorded their encounters with them knahmsaying

Ill read something i guess

[wasim]

I haven't read a book in a good 3 months, time for me to get cranking this week. Gonna start read the books mentioned on this thread. Starting with On Writing by Stephen King

a question my netcees fellas who read a book in a week, how do you guys do it? honest question.

[Ghost1]

I read like 3 books a week

I have a lot of spare time at work tho

2 of the 3 are audiobooks

But I've been getting a full ebook read on my Kindle pretty easily within a few days completely outside of work



So check it out


At first I was just doing audiobooks.......had the speed cranked up to 1.75x .....or faster if I can still understand it.....but that's usually the fastest I can handle

Anyways.....after that and after hours put in with the bible I finally developed this speed reading technique where I Kindle am able to just see each word and ingest it as I glance over it keeping an inner monologue going



So maybe those will help u? Audiobooks at anytime you are doing a chore that doesn't require your ears

And read physical texts for a couple hrs before bed or when you can

The audiobooks at high speed will enhance your physical reading speed

[oats]

wasim it's all about making time and reading things you actually enjoy. I try to wake up and read a little (can't always), and I read for about 20-30 minutes before work since I have 2 hours before students come, and I'll read for about 15 before bed. I read while shitting a lot, too. When I was taking the subway to work I would read an ebook on the way.

A line from "On Writing" that stuck with me, is that reading should be short sips as well as long draws. People can get intimidated because it seems like a daunting task that requires setting aside an hour, but most of the times I read are short. Only once a week or so do I dedicate a lot of time in a single sitting.

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)


hadn't updated this recently because I been pouring all my reading time into the GOOD BOOK. finally finished it. I think I started in January so about 7months it took me. not going to review the bible lol......what could I really even say. was amazing. changed my life.

[Destroyer]

Yeah the part about how to treat slaves was really eye-opening

[Ghost1]

HEY HEY settle down. I am not here to debate with you sir. I enjoyed it and took a lot from it. if you want to focus on the negative aspects of it that's cool homie. but I have no desire to go down that road with you. surely veritas would entertain you lol

[veritas]

Jude.....did you know that Blacks were the first slave owners?

And did you know that the Bible's condones indentured servitude and not outright slavery?

[uh-oh]

There is no way to prove blacks were the first slave owners. Human beings have owned slaves since the beginning of time

[Mr. J]

Forgot about this. Starting Mythology by Edith Hamilton and Picture Of Dorian Grey this week.

[big baby]

bb read 3 bikes a day it ez jus stop msging bags vidriosa of bb making fun of ppl an dread then u got dun prittifaZt LoLmao

[oats]

So i started watching the show version of American gods, really enjoying it. Anyone read any of gaiman's short stories?

[Fig]

I always go to the bookstore and buy all these books i halfway read. Im shit.

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)


few times I set this book down and just said......wtf is happening. as in....my mind was completely blown wide open. the complexities of this book are probably close the limit of my level of intelligence lol........as of now anyhow....ie...it was difficult for me to put this shit together a few times. but I did. and it was fire as fuck to me.


he talks a lot about Aleister Crowley.......not particulary interested in delving into the occult but...........should I read his book of law or whatever ?


oh he quotes Finnegan's wake a lot too......never read Ulysses.....not familiar with Joyce at all...............its a difficult read from what im gathering???

[Amen]

Anything like the Prometheus movie, assuming you've seen it?

Shit was just weird, IMO.

[Mr. J]

So i started watching the show version of American gods, really enjoying it. Anyone read any of gaiman's short stories?

So far all I've read is Fragile Things. I think one of the stories is a prequel to American Gods. Or it takes place after...I read it last year so it's not fresh in my memory. I enjoyed it though. I also have Trigger Warning waiting for a listen on overdrive but haven't been in an audiobook mood for awhile now.

[Ghost1]

uhm I haven't actually seen it no. I know OF it tho. its a prequel to Aliens basically right?

this was a psychology book based around timothy learys 8 circuit brain mapping and brain imprinting......he gets pretty loose ultimately leading to a theory of immortality thru a cosmic understanding thru the subcon

really me even trying to summarize or describe it isn't fair.........its a lot going on in this shit.

[Amen]

I don't think it had anything to do with Aliens tbc. Very similar to that concept tho... Alien things whom had figures built like greek gods and the strength of Hercules lol.

[oats]

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)

I remember seeing the movie of The Descendants years ago and it didn't leave much of an impression on me. But the novel is really - and surprisingly - funny. Smart, heartfelt look at how we handle loss and death, and how we navigate the things we inherit. Carefully crafted all the way through, and the ending is somehow beautiful and hilarious and perfect all at once. Really enjoyed it.

[oats]

So far all I've read is Fragile Things. I think one of the stories is a prequel to American Gods. Or it takes place after...I read it last year so it's not fresh in my memory. I enjoyed it though. I also have Trigger Warning waiting for a listen on overdrive but haven't been in an audiobook mood for awhile now.

I was looking at Fragile Things. after a cursory interweb search, a lot more negative feedback about Trigger Warning. either way I'll read something of Gaiman's sooner or later. the show has me intrigued.

[Mr. J]

I was looking at Fragile Things. after a cursory interweb search, a lot more negative feedback about Trigger Warning. either way I'll read something of Gaiman's sooner or later. the show has me intrigued.

I enjoyed Fragile Things due to the mixture of work. It really helps familiarize you with his style.

Where would you suggest I start with Haruki Murakami? I've been interested in Kafka on the Shore for quite some time but have not taken the chance in picking it up yet.

[oats]

I loved Kafka, but may not be the best one to start with. depends on what you like. After Dark is a good introduction to the bizarre, dreamlike and magical aspects of his writing, though it's more conceptual than story driven. Norwegian Wood was his breakthrough novel, but it's less weird and more story-oriented. Kafka is both extremely weird and an engrossing narrative. I'd go After Dark then Norwegian Wood then Kafka On The Shore.

[dead man]

Bags

"Exo Psychology" by Tim Leary. this is his 8-circuit theory in his words

[Ghost1]

Bags

"Exo Psychology" by Tim Leary. this is his 8-circuit theory in his words

my dude.

definitely was going to look into him after having read Prometheus


perfect.

any word on Aleister Crowley by any chance?

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)


quick read here, similar to art of war.......its a book on strategy detailed by an ancient swordsman...he slayed like 60 men in sword fights starting as early as 13yrs old. its really an amazing book but youd really have to study this for years I feel like to get the full benefit from it. I will probably run this back a couple times and then leave it. its very cool though and especially intriguing to imagine some1 being able to have learned these strategies and actually being able to employ them in such an intense scenario (a literal sword fight lol).

[uh-oh]

Nigga we all know bout musashi you dont gotta explain it

Oh the cat in the hat was about this cat who wore a hat and STFU

but word he defeated over 60 people in swordfights. He doesnt clarify if they were to the death tho so its disputed among historians. Like i know there was one dude he faced who used a nodachi or whatever,basically an extra long katana and its said that musashi whiddled an oar in the boat being paddled to him and beat him or some shit

I mightve mutilated that story. It couldve just been a stick or training sword to begin with.

The point was he was a bad little dude and not every duel from the period was to the death. His art looks dope too but to be honest all art from that era of japan looks the same to me

[uh-oh]

Also he wasnt ancient wasnt it like the 1600s? Could be wrong but either way samurais were around a long ass time because japan was so isolationist for awhile there. You never seen the last samurai with tommy c? Get it together

[Ghost1]

Lmfao I find it hard to believe that knowledge of Musashi is as common as Dr suess t9 any1 but you ....fuckin weirdo LOL

An year 1640 or some shit


To ME ancient is just a synonym for old lol....not a historical time period

[Ghost1]

An yea I seen last samurai but I wasn't taking fucking foot notes lnao


But you should I read this book about bushido !?!

[uh-oh]

lol word

as for the bushido book

if you are interested in it?

samurai shit didn't do much for me. i mean i've looked into it at a base level but its not something i cared to dig deep in.

[Mr. J]

Hara Kiri is a movie worth peeping.

[Rust Cohle]

Gladwell has a podcast series nowadays. 'Revionist History'. S1 a lot better than S2. Well researched stuff, similar to a short audiobook of his work. Been awhile since I've read his stuff. Hopefully his earlier work isnt as easily seen through as his S2 stuff.

1. 1/8 of Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen (3.2/6)
-Still love The Corrections and Freedom even after the 'cool' opinion in literally circlejerks was to jump into the backlash and laugh him off. You can tell this is proto-Franzen. Cool dialogue and his eye for observation is there but its a bit loose and uneasy. Not far enough to rate yet but could be dope. He's too good at giving depth to characters by way of subtle foreshadowing. Almost not foreshadowing, just, you know what may happen by little brushes of characterization. One line or two.

2.7/9 of The Marriage Plot by Jeff Eugenides (1.6/4)
-Off-putting to me, and not enough of a stylist to make up for it. The central romantic relationship is interesting. The allusory English Major shit is both obvious for being obvious and uninteresting enough not to matter. Left this alone after Leonard got fat during his science gig. Small chance I finish it, 40ish pages left. Aware that I don't like the intellectual stuff because insecurities, know for a fact he's no Great Novelist or stylist.

3 Moby Dick by Herm Melville (7/8)
-Only book I've ever read. As a slow reader this took awhile. Dozens of earmarked passages for their style and beauty. Really engaging work. Big themes, a Heavy Book, Very Important, etc. Works on multiple levels. Biblical in scope, allusions, and takeaway ideas. Great stuff.

4. Stoner by John Williams (6.97/7)
-A great litmus test book. Can be the saddest shit or most affirming shit you've ever read, depending on your perspective. Its a story of this child of a farming family who lives into academia as a professor. No huge plot twists. The prose is beautiful, but not overpoweringly so. The plot is the point, but the plot inches along. It kind of seeps into your skin as your reading it, an interesting, fictional, telling of a life written without surplus. Handles interpersonal drama like an adult. The best/worst version of reality and retelling of reality. Highly recommended.

5. Purity by Jonathan Franzen (4/6)
-Worst novel I've read by him, but still good. Meta in that he tries to tackle his 'sexist' image by making a female character the nominal main character (Patty Berglund from Freedom shouldve debunked this criticism dead but whatever). I get nostalgia for the novelist character's chapters on hole 4 of a golf course I like for no discernible reason and it bothers me. The murder subplot is the most interesting and forward portion. The end is okay. Some really base level "this person is smart here is some base level psych dialogue by him" which I'm not sure is purposeful. Enjoyed it overall.

Most of these I read/half-read/one-eighteenth read last year. Need to read more.

[Ghost1]

Lmfaooo at rating system literally causing me to lose my.mind

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)

Crenshaw is a book I read to my kid...was kindve brutal? was about an imaginary friend....but mostly it was about the kid....whos dad had MS and they were homeless off and on....I was almost done with the book and my kid said...I REALLY LIKE THIS BOOK....right when the kid was explaining to his parents that he wanted to be treated like an adult and be included in knowing more stuff as with regard to the difficult decisions about their finances and homelessness etc etc........which blew me away. but for me personally the shit was wack as fuck lol awesome that she liked it tho and that it had significant relevance to her frame of mind.

better angels was fucking massive....took me like a month ...on audio....mostly cuz id put it down a few times....but overall by the time I finished it I loved it. he lost me on some of the statistical probabilities portions but mostly it was very cool.

thinking fast and slow was great. like Gladwell but with deeper psychological studies and explained in more complex detail.

lastly was the so you've been shamed.....its just him going around talking to people that had their lives wrecked on twitter and fb and just forumulating his own opinions and theorys.....I kept hoping for some type of scientific or psychological studies or evidence but none were produced.....some of the stories were entertaining to read....ie...lady that got shamed into oblivion for telling black joke on twitter about aids lol.....but mostly was just like listening to a completely opinion based 8hr podcast. *fart noise*

[uh-oh]

http://geeklyinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Game-of-Thrones-book.jpg

[Ghost1]

oh do you like that book? what is it?

[uh-oh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeYwkeX6xNI

[PancakeBrah]

Just watch the show.

[Witty]

Just finished Art of War again, I got more from it the second time.

Currently reading 'God - A guide for the perplexed' by Keith Ward. It's an interesting commentary on the historical and current ideas of God. A little too biased perhaps, but historically accurate and well written.

I'm also reading a book called Freudian Slips...which details a lot of interesting psychological phenomena.

[Ghost1]

Just finished Art of War again, I got more from it the second time.

Currently reading 'God - A guide for the perplexed' by Keith Ward. It's an interesting commentary on the historical and current ideas of God. A little too biased perhaps, but historically accurate and well written.

I'm also reading a book called Freudian Slips...which details a lot of interesting psychological phenomena.

Currently reading Carl Jungs psychological types.......his theory on the god complex in man's unconcious mind thru out history is fucking fascinating

[uh-oh]

SURE SOUNDS IT

[Ghost1]

Lmaoo

[Witty]

Currently reading Carl Jungs psychological types.......his theory on the god complex in man's unconcious mind thru out history is fucking fascinating

I haven't read that...I definitely will. I'm much more of a Jung fan than a Freud fan.

[oats]

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)

Really interesting historical fiction. It's based on the true, little-known story of 1000 Koreans who moved to Mexico to work on haciendas in the early 1900s, who end up getting scattered across N. America, fighting in revolutionary wars, and coping with the loss of their nation (which came under Japanese occupation shortly after they left). Young Ha Kim excels at humanizing our most perverse human instincts, and even though the actual narrative can be thin at times, enough happens to keep the pages turning quickly. Not as good as "Your Republic Is Calling You" but definitely better than "I Have The Right To Destroy Myself." If you like Murakami, you'll definitely enjoy Kim.

[Tha Pastor Reach Yeah]

1. Alive in Christ - Stuart Olyott 3/5
2. Dare To Stand Alone - Stuart Olyott 4/5
3. God Strengthens - Derek Thomas 4/5
4. Exodus For You - Tim Chester 3/5
5. Born Before Midnight - A.W. Tozer 4/5
6. Memoirs of Thomas Boston 5/5
7. 2000 Years of Christ's Power Vol. 3 - Nick Needham 4/5
8. Glory of Christ - John Owen 4/5
9. Desiring God - John Piper 4/5
10. The Great Ejection - Gary Brady 3/5
11. The Holiness of God - R.C. Sproul 5/5
12. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 1 - W.A. Chriswell 4/5
13. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 2 - W.A. Chriswell 3/5
14. Confessions - Saint Augustine 5/5 - Considering this is a religious, historical and literary classic, there were a few parts to this that I felt were kinda weak really, where Augustine used pretty poor circular logic and tied himself up in knots somewhat, especially regarding past, present, future and memory, but overall this was an incredibly fascinating piece of work, part biographical, part theological, and at times times it broke out into a very exciting read. I'd probably gain more from this with each additional time I read it, so I think its well worthy of its classic status.
15. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 3 - W.A. Chriswell 4/5 - this is an excellent series of teaching on the book of Revelation, not giving itself over too much to speculation but grounding itself in Scripture teaching, and there were some very powerful chapters in volume 3 of a 5 volume series that makes this worthy of a 4 out of 5. I'm really gaining a lot from this series.

New Graphic Novels for this year:

1. Batman Eternal Vol. 1 - Scott Snyder 4/5
2. Batman Eternal Vol. 2 - Scott Snyder 3/5
3. Flashpoint - Geoff Johns 4/5
4. Flash: Savage World - Robert Venditti 3/5
5. Flash: Zoom - Robert Venditti 3/5
6. Justice League: Origin - Geoff Johns 1/5
7. Old Man Logan - Mark Millar 4/5

Currently reading The Two Covenants by Andrew Murray, Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 4 - W.A. Chriswell, and a free 2nd hand copy of JM Barrie's Peter Pan, which after a couple of chapters in is absolutely mesmerizing.

[Ghost1]

1. Alive in Christ - Stuart Olyott 3/5
2. Dare To Stand Alone - Stuart Olyott 4/5
3. God Strengthens - Derek Thomas 4/5
4. Exodus For You - Tim Chester 3/5
5. Born Before Midnight - A.W. Tozer 4/5
6. Memoirs of Thomas Boston 5/5
7. 2000 Years of Christ's Power Vol. 3 - Nick Needham 4/5
8. Glory of Christ - John Owen 4/5
9. Desiring God - John Piper 4/5
10. The Great Ejection - Gary Brady 3/5
11. The Holiness of God - R.C. Sproul 5/5
12. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 1 - W.A. Chriswell 4/5
13. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 2 - W.A. Chriswell 3/5
14. Confessions - Saint Augustine 5/5 - Considering this is a religious, historical and literary classic, there were a few parts to this that I felt were kinda weak really, where Augustine used pretty poor circular logic and tied himself up in knots somewhat, especially regarding past, present, future and memory, but overall this was an incredibly fascinating piece of work, part biographical, part theological, and at times times it broke out into a very exciting read. I'd probably gain more from this with each additional time I read it, so I think its well worthy of its classic status.
15. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 3 - W.A. Chriswell 4/5 - this is an excellent series of teaching on the book of Revelation, not giving itself over too much to speculation but grounding itself in Scripture teaching, and there were some very powerful chapters in volume 3 of a 5 volume series that makes this worthy of a 4 out of 5. I'm really gaining a lot from this series.

New Graphic Novels for this year:

1. Batman Eternal Vol. 1 - Scott Snyder 4/5
2. Batman Eternal Vol. 2 - Scott Snyder 3/5
3. Flashpoint - Geoff Johns 4/5
4. Flash: Savage World - Robert Venditti 3/5
5. Flash: Zoom - Robert Venditti 3/5
6. Justice League: Origin - Geoff Johns 1/5
7. Old Man Logan - Mark Millar 4/5

Currently reading The Two Covenants by Andrew Murray, Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 4 - W.A. Chriswell, and a free 2nd hand copy of JM Barrie's Peter Pan, which after a couple of chapters in is absolutely mesmerizing.

I had picked up john calvins one book........I forget what its called....I think its his most famous one?> was pretty dense...........I want to get back to it but have so many other books in and out of rotation right now

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)


everybody lies was a fun little read about google search with quirky facts like men search how to suck their own dicks more than they search how to best eat pussy.....and eventually other more serious topics. ultimately it made me think of how much more I enjoy gladwell......so I picked up what the dog saw lol. which was pretty great. typical gladwell.

then I tortured myself with that hawkings book this weekend. the chapter on blackholes was nearly incomprehensible. for the most part tho I loved this book....I can honestly say I understand spacetime finally lol. also really really loved the chapter of time arrows and why time moves forward based on the laws of thermodynamics. I feel like he described quantum mechanics and quantum gravity along with m theory a lot better in the grand design though so im glad I had read that prior to this. just picked up string theory for dummies which explains it without mathematical equations so im pretty excited to check that out next. quantum mechanics is kindve wack to me tho. idgaf about elements.

[Dope girl]

A great story tittle

[Ghost1]

stfu idiot

ill fucking punch ur head in till you look and think like normal people do

[Tha Pastor Reach Yeah]

I had picked up john calvins one book........I forget what its called....I think its his most famous one?> was pretty dense...........I want to get back to it but have so many other books in and out of rotation right now

Institutes, possibly?

I'd love to get his commentaries but I'll have to wait til I'm a bit richer I think!

[Ghost1]

yea I tried to get his sermons on job that you mentioned and it was impossible to find.....thru bootleg means lol.

and id have to do some searching to tell you honestly.....I know it was on libravox or whatever that site is called tho which was nice.

[Destroyer]

Don’t sleep on zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

[Ghost1]

oh yea ! I read a couple neg reviews on it but that don't ever mean shit really

def trying to fit that into my list somewhere


right now my first 2 backlogged books are the selfish gene by dawkins and darwins doubt by Meyers

still trudging thru psychological types by jung.....talk about dense. fucking book is a brick. he just got finished defining my entire existence with a handful of pages he wrote 100yrs ago tho so I am going to oblige him lol.

[Destroyer]

It falls off a bit at the end, but otherwise solid

[oats]

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)

"Fishes" is a historical account (nonfiction) of Hawaii. It incorporated a lot of different primary texts and interviews from legit experts, and put together a smart narrative about how Hawaii came to become an American territory. Vowell is known for her humor and insight, and there were definitely funny moments here, especially how she portrayed the missionaries. It's a short book, and I actually didn't like it for the first 30-40% of it. Partially because I was really familiar with the information, and also because she bounced between (what I think) was snark as a substitute for substance, and cringeworthy sentimentalism - lines like "I wish I could marry Hawaii" coming from someone not from Hawaii is face palm shit to the third power. But once she started getting into the political and economic forces that led to the overthrow of the monarchy, Vowell felt much more authoritative and in her element. Her humor was pointed and purposeful, and she incorporated a lot of perspectives that I wasn't aware of previously. She was exceedingly fair. It wasn't another "white man=evil, poor native victims" account. Instead she put the foreigner/American actions into context, as well as showed how well-intentioned political reforms ultimately led to the undoing of Hawaii's independence. Def a good pickup for anyone curious about the macro history of Hawaii, especially if you don't know much of it.

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)

[Tha Pastor Reach Yeah]

1. Alive in Christ - Stuart Olyott 3/5
2. Dare To Stand Alone - Stuart Olyott 4/5
3. God Strengthens - Derek Thomas 4/5
4. Exodus For You - Tim Chester 3/5
5. Born Before Midnight - A.W. Tozer 4/5
6. Memoirs of Thomas Boston 5/5
7. 2000 Years of Christ's Power Vol. 3 - Nick Needham 4/5
8. Glory of Christ - John Owen 4/5
9. Desiring God - John Piper 4/5
10. The Great Ejection - Gary Brady 3/5
11. The Holiness of God - R.C. Sproul 5/5
12. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 1 - W.A. Chriswell 4/5
13. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 2 - W.A. Chriswell 3/5
14. Confessions - Saint Augustine 5/5
15. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 3 - W.A. Chriswell 4/5
16. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 4 - W.A. Chriswell 3/5
17. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie 5/5
18. The Two Covenants - Andrew Murray 5/5


New Graphic Novels for this year:

1. Batman Eternal Vol. 1 - Scott Snyder 4/5
2. Batman Eternal Vol. 2 - Scott Snyder 3/5
3. Flashpoint - Geoff Johns 4/5
4. Flash: Savage World - Robert Venditti 3/5
5. Flash: Zoom - Robert Venditti 3/5
6. Justice League: Origin - Geoff Johns 1/5
7. Old Man Logan - Mark Millar 4/5


I was given a copy of the original Peter Pan story (not the Disney paraphrase) for free by a local school library that was having a clear out, so I figured I'd give it a read. Peter Pan is one of THE great fictional characters - its his childishness that gives him his strengths as well as his flaws - and although this is definitely a children's book, its still a great example of creative writing, and how I like it, with the absurd passed off as just as natural as the eminently plausible. A classic work of fiction no doubt.

Two Covenants was a great book. The Old Covenant being "Obey My voice and I will be your God" and the New Covenant being "I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put My fear into their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me" - thus being a better Covenant, where God will not only keep His part (as He did in the first), but will also undertake to ensure that we will keep ours (whereas previously we could only break it) by giving us everything we need to keep it. This theology was pretty ground-breaking for me, to see it put together so clearly like it was in this book. Gonna keep going back to it, I think, as a point of reference.

Up next for me - The 5th and final volume of Dr Chriswell's series on Revelation, and The Word of God And The Word of Man - Karl Barth.

[Vulgar]

1. Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell (5/5)

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell (pending)
Neoromancer by William Gibson (pending)
Russia: The People and the Power by Robert G. Kaiser (pending)

Economic Facts and Fallacies was an interesting read, and it's just what I was looking for to get more oriented with the language of economies and commerce. He has a reader-friendly style and ultimately knows how to explain things to the layman.

[Destroyer]

Bags, did you ever peep Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States?”
That shit will blow your mind
It’s long though, as it literally covers everything from the colonies to 9/11

[Ghost1]

nah never heard of it....dope.


weeding thru all the shit I have downloaded to try and choose what I wanna read.....currently reading fooled by randomness I finished veritas book too lol

ill have to grab it....I have guns germs & steel also on deck

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy

seems unfair to rate him with classic and mainstream authors but I will say it was leagues beyond anything I assumed it would be and I WANTED to read it when I wasn't which I found to be a pretty significant indicator of its enjoy ability. some fun twists in it as well.

[oats]

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)
25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (3.5/4)

Interesting memoir about long-distance running. It's also really short, which is probably my biggest knock against it. I enjoyed a lot of the comparisons between running and writing a novel. Overall, a breezy, fun read that could easily be read in a day, and well worth it.

[oats]

btw Bags tell vertias to get his book on iBooks and I'll cop it.

[Ghost1]

word heard. theres a kindle version on amazon. you like the ipad better? I don't have any apple shit....but when I upgrade my phone this year im switching to apple. tired of people treating me like swine for being an android user lol.

[PancakeBrah]

Being an android user has a subconscious negativity to it that you can't counteract. Our brains have been conditioned, subsconsciously, to know/fear certain things. You can say that you know this and that you're aware enough to not be troubled by the negative stigma of an android phone but you're not; the subconscious is too powerful for that. The negativity will manifest itself in other areas of your life without you even knowing. Just switch to an iPhone.

[PancakeBrah]

Read some articles yesterday. Overall, they were shit.

[Ghost1]

Being an android user has a subconscious negativity to it that you can't counteract. Our brains have been conditioned, subsconsciously, to know/fear certain things. You can say that you know this and that you're aware enough to not be troubled by the negative stigma of an android phone but you're not; the subconscious is too powerful for that. The negativity will manifest itself in other areas of your life without you even knowing. Just switch to an iPhone.

lmao way gone

[oats]

word heard. theres a kindle version on amazon. you like the ipad better? I don't have any apple shit....but when I upgrade my phone this year im switching to apple. tired of people treating me like swine for being an android user lol.

not a preference so much as I just have an iphone and not a kindle lol. the kindle app on iphone is super wack, too, but yeah. make it happen. can't be too hard.

[uh-oh]

i thought about going iphone, the only thing that makes me want one is the laughable app. (still waiting on an android release wtf)

but LG gave me a google home and a 49'' TV so android won the day.

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy


bobby fischer
fooled by randomness


ill update that proper later just dpont want to forget



that's 52 BTW

52 books in a year lol whyd I think that shit was hard tho

on pace to read 100

holla

[Witty]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy


bobby fischer
fooled by randomness


ill update that proper later just dpont want to forget



that's 52 BTW

52 books in a year lol whyd I think that shit was hard tho

on pace to read 100

holla

Liar.

You can't read.

[oats]

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)
25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (3.5/4)
26. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (3/5)

Read this because my mom really loved it as a child and gave me a handful of MacDonald's books. It was fun, similar tone and style as Tolkien (who was, as I understand it, greatly influenced by MacDonald). It's a story about a princess who is pacified in her home to keep her safe from the goblins who live in the nearby mountain. Magic and bravery and life lessons ensue. It was a fun read, though the goblins were so bumbling and oafish that they never felt like real threats, and their plan to capture the princess was foiled pretty quickly and effortlessly. Probably not worth reading unless you're really into the for-all-ages fantasy genre.

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy
51. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder (8/10)
52. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (7/10)
53. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (10/10)



the righteous mind was insane fire. it should be prerequisite reading for every keyboard political genius that hops on facebook to solve the worlds problems w google search engine and never ending circular arguments with every1 they disagree with.

reading really any single book I think would be better time spent than absorbing the literal mind pollution that is social media though.

reading 5 other books and learning chess tactics.

[Ghost1]

lmao what why me

that's too fast?

[Ghost1]

also...bb said beating u is first challenge on my road to greatness. apparently ur some mid level chess gatekeeper to him. I thought youd appreciate that :)

[uh-oh]

i commend you on getting through V's book. i will read it one day. i got past the prologue and maybe 2 chapters but it did nothing for me.

its not so much a condemnation of v's skills as much as my own ability to be drawn in

[Ghost1]

i commend you on getting through V's book. i will read it one day. i got past the prologue and maybe 2 chapters but it did nothing for me.

its not so much a condemnation of v's skills as much as my own ability to be drawn in

Was a pretty easy read

Took me like 3 days I think ?

Whatd it take u 5min to read 2 chapters? Lol cmon son

[uh-oh]

lol yea i gave it one shit session. i went to read it again on another but didnt

and phones are too convenient.

i should give it more of a shot.

but like i pointed out its hard for me to want to read things. but when something is good and captures me there isn't much i enjoy more

[~RustyGunZ~]

No rating on James book?

[Ghost1]

I reviewed it on the last page. Said I wasn't going to give him a rating based on the scale I'm using for authors like Charles Dickens & Stephen King etc....doesn't seem fair.

[~RustyGunZ~]

Word went back

Also from last page feeling bad about owning an Android is poor people stuff stop giving into social media telling you what to own it isn't even an exclusive thing or hundreds more dollars or even on par slightly with Android devices I don't get the continued aura around Apple products

They're garbage

[Ghost1]

I don't follow social media trends....I follow women....they do not approve of my android ways...I will not sit here and defend nor pretend they have any logic worth value....that is irrelevant to my purposes.

[Ghost1]

Lmaooooo

[~RustyGunZ~]

I don't follow social media trends....I follow women....they do not approve of my android ways...I will not sit here and defend nor pretend they have any logic worth value....that is irrelevant to my purposes.

Seriously?

Theyre useless cretins by the sounds of it find you a real woman man

You need to complete this full cycle of becoming a better man with a better woman

[~RustyGunZ~]

I won't.

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy
51. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder (8/10)
52. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (7/10)
53. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (10/10)



read shoe dog too I knew I was forgetting something
guns germs an steel too

[oats]

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)
25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (3.5/4)
26. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (3/5)
27. The Bittersweet Science by various writers (4.5/5)

This is probably my favorite book of sportswriting. Every essay was good, and several were outstanding. Essays about being an amateur boxer, what it's like to throw in the towel for a fighter, the philosophy and psychology of violence, unearthing little-known stories from boxing history, and of course a lot of profiles of fighters and fights. You don't need to know much about boxing to enjoy it, and you'll know a lot more after reading it. If you're at all interested in boxing, can't recommend it enough.

[uh-oh]

AIGHT so i'll make my list too

1. 1177 BC the year civilization collapsed by Eric Cline(4/10)
2. How Great Generals win by Bevin Alexander (7/10)
3. Game Of Thrones by George RR Martin (9/10)
4. A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin (9/10)
5. A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin (10/10)
6. A Feast For Crows by George RR Martin (8/10)
7. A Dance of Dragons by George RR Martin (8/10)
8. The World of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin (7/10)
9. Rogues by a bunch of people (6/10)
10. Dangerous Women by a bunch of people (6/10)
11. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George RR Martin (7/10)

word. the first book, 1177 was a borefest so i only gave it a 4/10 even though it was pretty interesting to me. i wanted to delve deeper into "the sea peoples" but so little is known about them it was fruitless. that said there was alot of shit about civilizations of the time in general, and it goes into depth about reasons why there was a big "collapse" of overall society towards the end of the bronze age and beginning of the iron age. so while boring i give it the 4 for its interesting bits.

how great generals win is more of the same, but it goes indepth on some strategies and tactics employed by the greatest generals in human history. from hannibal and scipio to more modern dudes and the ghengis khans in between. there was a decent amount of opinion and HYPOTHESIS' regarding future wars which i couldve did without but there were dope chapters. but all the robotics could be the future leading to precision strike teams being the only soldiers although ringing of truth couldve been left out.

everything else was a re-read. obviously the song of ice and fire series. the only reason i gave the first and second books 9/10 instead of the full 10, was because imo a storm of swords was the best book of the series so far. it was just better then the others so i dropped them to 9's. a feast for crows and a dance of dragons were both MASSIVE, and really only 1 book. each was just so massive with so many new characters it was split into two, but as far as story progression goes it was one book. for this reason i dropped each to 8, but the re-read was well worth it. my first read through i kind of skimmed it seems past character chapters i didn't care for to get to the tyrion/jon snow/jamie lannister etc's but i took my time with the read through this time and the newer characters, victarion, arianne martell, even sansa chapters had dope shit giving a wider understanding of the world and goings on.

the world of ice and fire again was a dope read, but its more a history book of a fake world, so while i enjoyed it, its not really a page turner. but more knowledge on things was cool. wish they wouldn't have stolen my book of sha'bat style (pages smeared can't read) tactic for the summerhall bit, but it makes sense because of dunk and egg still being a thing

which leads me to a knight of the seven kingdoms, which i re-read in one sitting yesterday while my internet was bogged down downloading nonsense. its 3 novellas following duncan the tall and a young aegon targaryen, brother to aemon who was the maester at the wall in modern game of thrones books. they read like teen novels, except for the language, (cunt, fucks, rape your face etc.) but they are quick and enjoyable and help flesh out the world as well. with appearances by brynden rivers (the blood raven/three eyed crow that teaches bran) and some others. i enjoyed them but its quick and easy writing for martin.

rogues, and dangerous women, are compilations of short stories by modern fantasy writers. i got rogues for patrick rothfuss' story as well as martins. rothfuss followed bast, the demon dude innkeep assistant to kvothe, it was aight. martins short stories in both books couldve been in the world of ice and fire. written like a history not a story. both following targaryens of the past, and i guess both are going into his next big book about the targeryans pre-dance of dragons im pretty sure

but word figured i'd add this since i sat and read that knight of the seven kingdoms horseshit yesterday

[oats]

tried to rep but couldn't uh-oh

[Ghost1]

Got a few I can add here sometime in the next day or 2

Good shit uh oh

So...ur sayin...u like game of thrones? Lmao


Nah but good to have some1 beside fsgot oats itt...

Speaking of homie fagit oatmeal

YO

Currently reading hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world or whatever by Murakami and YOOOOOOOOOOOOO this shot is so fire lol

Idk what I was really expecting from this guy but legit nothing like this. Absolutely floored. I'm like 7 chapters in and already know it's gonna be a 10/10 for me

[uh-oh]

yea, this is what i read this year THO

i tried other shit last year, joe abercrombie, scott lynch, robin hobb. it was all meh though. so i re-read those this year when im crashing out or shitting.

[oats]

Bags Murakami is dope man. super weird in all the right ways.

[boof]

checked out the power of now thanks to Bags and i've been reading the first chapter over and over for 3 weeks

[Ghost1]

checked out the power of now thanks to Bags and i've been reading the first chapter over and over for 3 weeks

That book very literally changed the way I look at life

8/10 in retrospect seems unfair


His chapter on menstruation thru me for a loop and may have had a part in influencing that rating lol.

But nice man glad you picked it up

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a **** by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy
51. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder (8/10)
52. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (7/10)
53. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (10/10)
54. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (8/10)
55. Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond (7/10)
56. The Cartel by Don Winslow (7/10)
57. Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (7/10)
58. As a man Thinketh by James Allen (7/10)
59. Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik (9/10)
60. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (10/10)
61. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (10/10)

big short was dope....I watched the movie a while back but the book def goes into greater detail and makes the topic more understandable also the characters were portrayed so well.....loved them. love Lewis writing style.


murakami is straight fire. that was my first book from him.....literally blew my mind into the stratosphere.....im not a fantasy guy at all but I dug this a lot.....like a non cornball version of fantasy.....idk really how to even describe it but easily one of my fav fiction books ive read this year....going to peep more of his work for sure.


any1 ever read house of leaves? I just started it the other night.......man its so wild lol I really like it so far.

[Amen]

The Big Short movie was terrible.

[Ghost1]

really? why? I thought it was dope

[oats]

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)
25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (3.5/4)
26. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (3/5)
27. The Bittersweet Science by various writers (4.5/5)
28. Please Look After Mom by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)

A novel about a Korean mother who goes missing in Seoul, told from the perspectives of the family members. Secrets from their mother's life come out, causing them to search for her more desperately and hopelessly. Really hits you in the feels over and over. It'll make you want to call your mom and tell her you love her at various points throughout.

[oats]

ayo Bags uh-oh Witty Diode @anyone else who might be down - what do you guys think about starting a book club next year. we take turns choosing one book a month to read and TALK ABOUT IT. On some next level Bookcee shit. lmk if you're down.

[Diode]

ayo Bags uh-oh Witty Diode @anyone else who might be down - what do you guys think about starting a book club next year. we take turns choosing one book a month to read and TALK ABOUT IT. On some next level Bookcee shit. lmk if you're down.

i mean i can try but it's hard to accomplish anything with an 8 month old

[Ghost1]

in on book club obv


been meaning to join one that meets in person but haven't made much effort


oh an I peeped that McGregor boxing article in ur read of the week and thought it was dope. didn't read the other article

[oats]

Diode no joke, if you just take a book with you when you take a shit I guarantee you can read a book a month. Even fathers take shits. You can choose the first book, too.

Glad you gave it a look, bagatron. The other one takes a while, but it's worth it. I usually read longer pieces like that in chunks across a number of days.

[Witty]

In 4 book club.

[uh-oh]

In for book club

[trapezoidal]

I'm down for a book club. I'm in the middle of these books right now,

Think On These Things by Krishnamurti
Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World by Haruki Murakami
A Night In The Cemetary (And Other Stories Of Crime And Suspense) by Anton Chekhov

All three are excellent so far. I'm a huge Murakami fan and have most of his books and this one is a little weird and not like his usual though.

[Ghost1]

I'm down for a book club. I'm in the middle of these books right now,

Think On These Things by Krishnamurti
Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World by Haruki Murakami
A Night In The Cemetary (And Other Stories Of Crime And Suspense) by Anton Chekhov

All three are excellent so far. I'm a huge Murakami fan and have most of his books and this one is a little weird and not like his usual though.

man I loved that wonderland shit

was my first and only murakami book so far

not sure what to expect next now you saying that wasn't his usual style lol. was def weird asf.

some1 told me to grab the wind up bird chronicle

[PancakeBrah]

Out on book club.

[trapezoidal]

man I loved that wonderland shit

was my first and only murakami book so far

not sure what to expect next now you saying that wasn't his usual style lol. was def weird asf.

some1 told me to grab the wind up bird chronicle

A lot of his books are steeped in fantasy, some more than others. But for the most part his books are very melancholy and the characters are always marred with some issue of loneliness or not being accepted.

If you want to continue the fantasy route I would go with Wind Up Bird Chronicle or A Wild Sheep Chase. After that, 1Q84 - which is over 1,100 pages long, so...have fun with that lol. It's great though. Once you read those three, the rest of his books are rather surreal.

[PancakeBrah]

oats do you like books by white people, too?

GAME OF THRONES BY GEORGE "GEORGEY BOY" MARTIN

Reread it since the show ended. He's not that dope of a writer and the POV style gets old sometimes and he uses a lot of repetitive phrases and lacks subtlety and has way too much exposition but I enjoy reading the shit so whatever.

Picking up THE NORTH WATER by Ian Mcguire so I can seem smart and fancy amongst my coastal elite friends.

[oats]

I read 10 books by the whites this year, not including the Bittersweet Science which had whites and nonwhites in it. PancakeBrah

[oats]

btw PancakeBrah you gonna get down with the BOOKCEE BOOK CLUB?





you should.

[uh-oh]

Should i read that murakami book THO

Anyone with a name like haruki murakami not writing about military tactics/swordsmenship/weird poems about cherry blossoms im not sure i can get behind

[Ghost1]

he writing about all that tho lol an sum whole other shit

idk man I wont pretend to understand your preferencing tho....like a game of dirt dice lol

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a **** by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy
51. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder (8/10)
52. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (7/10)
53. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (10/10)
54. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (8/10)
55. Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond (7/10)
56. The Cartel by Don Winslow (7/10)
57. Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (7/10)
58. As a man Thinketh by James Allen (7/10)
59. Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik (9/10)
60. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (10/10)
61. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (10/10)
62. Undeniable: Evolution and the science of creation by Bill Nye (8/10)


shit was cool. basically the evolution version of NDT's astrophysics for people in a hurry. his obnoxious ranting against creationists at times was off-putting and felt unnecessary but wasn't a huge detractor. I mean hawkings takes shots at creationists in his books but almost rarely and subtly when he does.....the work speaks for itself....too much acknowledgement towards the opposition reeks of insecurity to me.

anyhow I dug this a lot, chapters on GMO's, human cloning, evolution in medicine, viruses & bacteria, stem cell research were FIRE. also chapters about dinosaurs with feathers recently discovered and transitional creatures (sea and land.......think like the fish evolving into a lizard....but whatever the creature between them was during the evolutionary transition stage) was COOL.

genesis vs evolution comes back to geology for me tho and I cant say he fully sold me. either way the information was highly accessible and bill nye reads the audio jawn himself and is mad entertaining lol.

[PancakeBrah]

btw PancakeBrah you gonna get down with the BOOKCEE BOOK CLUB?





you should.

AS LONG AS ITS NOT SOME BULLSHIT IM IN

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a **** by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy
51. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder (8/10)
52. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (7/10)
53. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (10/10)
54. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (8/10)
55. Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond (7/10)
56. The Cartel by Don Winslow (7/10)
57. Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (7/10)
58. As a man Thinketh by James Allen (7/10)
59. Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik (9/10)
60. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (10/10)
61. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (10/10)
62. Undeniable: Evolution and the science of creation by Bill Nye (8/10)
63. The purpose driven life by Rick Warren (10/10)

not a huge review for this one as it probably wouldn't interest most but basically its a 40 chapter book about finding your purpose in life as a Christian serving god. you read one chapter a day for 40 days. thought it was amazing. also enjoyed the idea of one chapter a day I feel like I probably retained a lot more from it as opposed to plowing thru it in a couple days. I also highlighted passages as I read too. anyways tho word for anybody interested in Christian faith this shit is insane fire....every1 else will not give a fuck lol.

[big baby]

bags war time boss stock plummeted form top 3 to about 23rd.
PancakeBrah win join book club chat?

[Ghost1]

do not.

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a **** by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy
51. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder (8/10)
52. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (7/10)
53. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (10/10)
54. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (8/10)
55. Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond (7/10)
56. The Cartel by Don Winslow (7/10)
57. Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (7/10)
58. As a man Thinketh by James Allen (7/10)
59. Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik (9/10)
60. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (10/10)
61. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (10/10)
62. Undeniable: Evolution and the science of creation by Bill Nye (8/10)
63. The purpose driven life by Rick Warren (10/10)
64. The Contortionists handbook by Craig Clevenger (10/10)




man lol this shit was crazy. the entire book essentially takes place at a hospital with a psyche evaluator trying to determine if the protagonist OD'd attempting to commit suicide. our hero is a master forger and he goes into excruciating details of how he manipulates documents, reads peoples behavorial tendencies, has almost an autistic talent for numbers....and etc etc...loved it.

[oats]

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)
25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (3.5/4)
26. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (3/5)
27. The Bittersweet Science by various writers (4.5/5)
28. Please Look After Mom by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
29. Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (???/5)

Will save review for end of the month book club business.

[oats]

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)
25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (3.5/4)
26. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (3/5)
27. The Bittersweet Science by various writers (4.5/5)
28. Please Look After Mom by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
29. Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (???/5)
30. Ask the Dust by John Fante (5/5)

Ask the Dust follows a young writer named Arturo Bandini trying to make it in post-Depression Los Angeles. He falls in love for a crazy Mexican woman, and shit gets weird and existential from there. Few writers have been able to describe Los Angeles - the atmosphere, the feelings - like Fante. It's also really funny. Definitely a modern masterwork, something that PancakeBrah would really like, I think.

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a **** by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy
51. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder (8/10)
52. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (7/10)
53. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (10/10)
54. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (8/10)
55. Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond (7/10)
56. The Cartel by Don Winslow (7/10)
57. Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (7/10)
58. As a man Thinketh by James Allen (7/10)
59. Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik (9/10)
60. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (10/10)
61. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (10/10)
62. Undeniable: Evolution and the science of creation by Bill Nye (8/10)
63. The purpose driven life by Rick Warren (10/10)
64. The Contortionists handbook by Craig Clevenger (10/10)
65. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (7/10)


this was ok.....idk kindve a snoozer compared to blood meridian. although some scenes were pretty jarring and stuck with me days after....def some fd up shit in this book lol////idk I don't wanna give anything away. it was good....worth the read but probably over hyped. considering getting into his trilogy ...all the pretty horses? I think that's just one of the books in the series...but word yea

[uh-oh]

The road blows

[Vulgar]

Been wanting to read that for years. Bags, you should consider checking out Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. I've read it twice, it's dystopian with a mystical sci fi edge.

[Ghost1]

Been wanting to read that for years. Bags, you should consider checking out Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. I've read it twice, it's dystopian with a mystical sci fi edge.

cant say im honestly huge into dystopian stuff typically tbc I really only grabbed up the road because I was a fan of his other work and it came highly recommended

but any chance to peer into the mind of the vulgman is definitely one I will be taking advantage of

ill try give it a run thru here soon

gonna hop over to our book of the month now actually

racism here I come!

[Ghost1]

The road blows

yea I remember u saying that....I think id prolly agree for the most part lol. check out blood meridian its endlessly better and if u liked deadwood ull like this x10

[Vulgar]

Currently still perusing through a book on life in Russia at breakneck speeds (rather not). I've been reading it on train rides, not the best strategy for finishing books. Next on my list... four books on technology and science for a college class.

[uh-oh]

yea I remember u saying that....I think id prolly agree for the most part lol. check out blood meridian its endlessly better and if u liked deadwood ull like this x10
word i'll check it out next.

and i mean the road wasn't TERRIBLE. i just wasnt a fan of the writing style and the end was weak. cool shit tho spoiler alert for anyone who would give a shit, like the kids in the bunker or whatever lol. but yea felt the ending was wack.


gonna hop over to our book of the month now actually

racism here I come!
good luck sir.

i won't say anything about it till we officially discuss it THO. im just learning alot about oats through his read of the week threads, this book recommendation and twitters garbage feature that shows me what other posts people "liked".

[Ghost1]

The people in the bunker...lol yea......thats the shit that stuck w me like a day later was like WTF THAT WAS AWFUL haha

An yea oats am interesting dude....threw me for a loop when he talked about punching hoes in the ribs while fucking them an shit lol

There's layers to oatmeal lol

[oats]

Lol I like interesting things of all nature? Surprised you couldn't get into the Iggy piece, not surprised about BTWAM. Idk what I've liked on twitter that reveals much of anyhing, other than I like jokes and fight related shit. And punching hoes in the ribs while fucking. I'm just a regular Joe IMO.

[Inno]

Just finished the island of doctor Moreau

Shit was boss yo

[Mr. J]

About to peep this Wu biography in a bit

[oats]

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)
25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (3.5/4)
26. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (3/5)
27. The Bittersweet Science by various writers (4.5/5)
28. Please Look After Mom by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
29. Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (5/5)
30. The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami (4/5)

Nakano Thrift Shop is a weird read. Very little actually happens, so if you're a story-first kind of reader, then it might not be your thing. It centers around an antique shop in Japan and four characters who animate it, primarily two of them (20something boy and girl). People come in the shop, weird items are bought and sold, and romantic tension between boy and girl festers. I mostly loved this because it was stylish and charming. Each chapter is named for an item that appears and it relays a poetic sentiment about what happens in the chapter, and the final line is always very beautiful. It was cool and different.

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a **** by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy
51. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder (8/10)
52. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (7/10)
53. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (10/10)
54. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (8/10)
55. Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond (7/10)
56. The Cartel by Don Winslow (7/10)
57. Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (7/10)
58. As a man Thinketh by James Allen (7/10)
59. Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik (9/10)
60. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (10/10)
61. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (10/10)
62. Undeniable: Evolution and the science of creation by Bill Nye (8/10)
63. The purpose driven life by Rick Warren (10/10)
64. The Contortionists handbook by Craig Clevenger (10/10)
65. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (7/10)
66. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (10/10)
67. Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (9/10)
68. The Wind up bird chronicles by Haruki Murakami (10/10)


picture of dorian gray was that heat rock. the psycho analysis of the typical human being and also interest with regard to hedonism was fascinating especially after having read Jungs psychological types I felt like his chapter on poetry complimented this beautifully.

book club book we addressed at length

an man yo trap or oats if u read it.....WTF lol wind up bird shit was a complete mind fuck. I also feel like wonderland I was able to put all the pieces together in the end....with this one I felt like maybe ill need another read to really tie up all the connections....was legit fuego but a lot going on in this one. loved all the characters tho and also the writing style basically having you just waiting for him to toss you a bone or a clue as to wtf is happening lol.

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Murakami is the shit

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1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)
25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (3.5/4)
26. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (3/5)
27. The Bittersweet Science by various writers (4.5/5)
28. Please Look After Mom by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
29. Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (5/5)
30. Ask the Dust by John Fante (5/5)
31. The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami (4/5)
32. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demeck (5/5)

The best book about North Korea I've read so far. Analyzes the regime and its history through the lives of 6 ordinary people who eventually defected. What I liked best about it was that it didn't just address politics; there were long sections about how people dated, how work and school functions, the kinds of clothes they wear - just regular everyday things that are interesting because they take place in North Korea. Highly recommend this if you're even a little bit interested in North Korea.