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Post by bladefd on Sept 9, 2016 7:53:12 GMT
it's about a dreamy, socially inept man getting friend zoned - you could relate! That sounds like a tragedy not a love story....but Ill read it. Ive read so much shit lately. I read a biography of buddha, the bhagavad gita, part of the upanishads, reread of human bondage, fear and loathing in las vegas.....some other stuff too, but I cant recall at the moment. Some indian spiritual books have some great insight. Totally worth reading the Gita IMO. Hits on a very non western form of spirtiality and youll find that buddhism borrows heavily from hindu and other indian spiritual traditions. Interesting. Have you read Mahabharata and Ramayan? Both are ancient epics. Many take them literally but I believe those stories were never truly meant to be taken as true stories. There were 4 main ancient civilizations with the greatest impacts on knowledge - Chinese, Greek, Egyptians and the ancient Hindus. Buddhism is based off Hinduism. Buddha was raised a Hindu but he felt Hinduism was not complete. He felt it didn't answer the question of suffering and how to overcome it. That is where buddhism comes into play.
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Post by bladefd on Jul 19, 2017 21:19:04 GMT
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Post by bladefd on Jul 19, 2017 21:24:20 GMT
Currently reading: www.goodreads.com/book/show/2429135.The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_TattooI don't like the writing style very much tbh.. It's a decent story but the way it is written is a snoozefest. Most books, I finish within 2 to 5 weeks but this one I have been reading for almost 3 months now. Almost finished but writing style I do not like as he seems to go off on tangents of other stories that are simply unnecessary in the grand scheme of things.
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Post by bladefd on Mar 21, 2018 1:42:17 GMT
R.I.P. uncle Teddy You were right about Dune.. 300pgs and I just want to bash my head lol. Been reading for over a month.. Usually I read fast and finish 600pg books in 2-3 weeks max.. With Dune, I'm a month in, only halfway through the book. Looks like it's time to dump it - not doing this like Girl with the Dragon Tattoo where I forced myself to finish the book...
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Post by R.I.P. uncle Teddy on Mar 23, 2018 19:34:15 GMT
R.I.P. uncle Teddy You were right about Dune.. 300pgs and I just want to bash my head lol. Been reading for over a month.. Usually I read fast and finish 600pg books in 2-3 weeks max.. With Dune, I'm a month in, only halfway through the book. Looks like it's time to dump it - not doing this like Girl with the Dragon Tattoo where I forced myself to finish the book... I give up on books all the time.
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Post by R.I.P. uncle Teddy on Mar 23, 2018 19:36:28 GMT
Its not worth finishing something you hate. I did that for the sun also rises last year, and maybe another few books. I hate the way hemmingway writes.
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Post by bladefd on Mar 23, 2018 22:03:41 GMT
Its not worth finishing something you hate. I did that for the sun also rises last year, and maybe another few books. I hate the way hemmingway writes. I don't tend to enjoy writing styles from before mid-1900s tbh. Looking through my goodreads list.. Only few exceptions: Arthur Conan Doyle, JRR Tolkien, George Orwell, H.G Wells and maybe Jules Verne (only read 20,000 leagues under the sea so hard to gauge off 1 book). Franklin Dixon was another author I liked from before 1950s with Hardy Boys but it's a simple series targeted for young teens. I just couldn't get into Shakespeare, Sophocles (Oedipus Rex series), Mark Twain, Francis Scott Fitzgerald (I liked Great Gatsby storyline but not writing style so much), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), or John Steinbeck (I liked Of Mice & Men but writing style not so much).
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Post by R.I.P. uncle Teddy on Mar 24, 2018 5:39:07 GMT
Its not worth finishing something you hate. I did that for the sun also rises last year, and maybe another few books. I hate the way hemmingway writes. I don't tend to enjoy writing styles from before mid-1900s tbh. Looking through my goodreads list.. Only few exceptions: Arthur Conan Doyle, JRR Tolkien, George Orwell, H.G Wells and maybe Jules Verne (only read 20,000 leagues under the sea so hard to gauge off 1 book). Franklin Dixon was another author I liked from before 1950s with Hardy Boys but it's a simple series targeted for young teens. I just couldn't get into Shakespeare, Sophocles (Oedipus Rex series), Mark Twain, Francis Scott Fitzgerald (I liked Great Gatsby storyline but not writing style so much), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), or John Steinbeck (I liked Of Mice & Men but writing style not so much). I love the way f scott fitzgerald writes tbh. Excluding that the great gatsby might be unmemorable tbh.
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Post by bladefd on Aug 24, 2018 1:25:18 GMT
 One hell of a book.. Halfway through, and I can't put it down. Bit like Lord of the Rings, Song of Ice & Fire, Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia mixed together. It's spectacular. Read it if you haven't, and I promise you won't be disappointed! 
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Post by bladefd on Oct 13, 2018 22:01:17 GMT
OutRosezJust started reading Thrawn, m8. The new one from last year, concerning the rise of Thrawn. Have you read it yet?? 
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Post by OutRosez on Oct 13, 2018 22:14:36 GMT
OutRosez Just started reading Thrawn, m8. The new one from last year, concerning the rise of Thrawn. Have you read it yet??  It's pretty darn good.
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Post by bladefd on Nov 3, 2018 20:40:21 GMT
OutRosez Just started reading Thrawn, m8. The new one from last year, concerning the rise of Thrawn. Have you read it yet??  It's pretty darn good. I'm more than halfway through, but I do feel like it's a bit slower read than original Thrawn series, which I blazed right through. The original was more tactical and action-oriented, but with more compelling characters as well. The focus was on the plot more than anything. I don't get the same feel here. It's Thrawn working his way up the ranks with much of it on Coruscant planetside so the plot feels a bit stagnant. I also am not captivated by the Price storyline, which I feel is a bit lacking. Hopefully, it will change once Thrawn has command of his ship and goes on patrol of the Outer Rims. He also doesn't have a foe like Luke Skywalker so that may still be lacking. It is the backstory so it's understandable.
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Post by R.I.P. uncle Teddy on Sept 6, 2019 0:42:32 GMT
Y'all niqqas be reading shit?
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Post by Don Rumata on Jan 12, 2020 18:41:23 GMT
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Post by tsk on Jan 14, 2020 0:00:00 GMT
Almost done with the king killer chronicles
@notacop have u read
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2020 20:08:56 GMT
Almost done with the king killer chronicles @notacop have u read never heard of it is it good
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Post by tsk on Jan 22, 2020 20:51:49 GMT
Almost done with the king killer chronicles @notacop have u read never heard of it is it good Yeah I am really into it. Super fun story, very immersive. Think u would like it
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Post by tsk on Jan 27, 2020 16:30:19 GMT
 One hell of a book.. Halfway through, and I can't put it down. Bit like Lord of the Rings, Song of Ice & Fire, Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia mixed together. It's spectacular. Read it if you haven't, and I promise you won't be disappointed!  Damn wish blade was still here. Just finished book two of the series and he is right it is fantastic
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Post by bladefd on Mar 30, 2020 0:38:35 GMT
tsk @other book readers Must read book: www.goodreads.com/book/show/68428.The_Final_EmpireFirst couple chapters were not easy to get into but after that, I can't put the book down. It's just spectacular, almost (almost but not quite) on the level of Name of the Wind series. Came out of my way to specially post this for some special people on bte. Once again, I promise you won't be disappointed. ;)
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Post by Don Rumata on Sept 18, 2020 11:07:20 GMT
forgot about this thread, I've been back to reading lately.
I did:
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude - what a masterpiece, welcome to my top 10
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina - idk man, i can see how it's a classic but it's somehow not really for me
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - great classic is a great classic
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick - great classic is a great classic
Klaus März, Jakob Schläft - absolute masterpiece of a unknown Swiss author, incredible
currently reading:
Mo Yan, Frog - Great Chinese book about a midwife in China during the Cultural Revolution and the impacts of the one-child policy and all that. I think my first book by a Chinese author and I enjoy diving into this world of the author who "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary" - Don recommends
next up:
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five - my American brothers probably know this one, right?
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Post by R.I.P. uncle Teddy on Oct 27, 2020 2:42:53 GMT
forgot about this thread, I've been back to reading lately. I did: Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude - what a masterpiece, welcome to my top 10 Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina - idk man, i can see how it's a classic but it's somehow not really for me Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - great classic is a great classic Herman Melville, Moby-Dick - great classic is a great classic Klaus März, Jakob Schläft - absolute masterpiece of a unknown Swiss author, incredible currently reading: Mo Yan, Frog - Great Chinese book about a midwife in China during the Cultural Revolution and the impacts of the one-child policy and all that. I think my first book by a Chinese author and I enjoy diving into this world of the author who "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary" - Don recommends next up: Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five - my American brothers probably know this one, right? Im nog super into slaughterhouse 5. Its good but not particularly. Moby dick is good, but awfully hard to get through. Ive listened to so many books on tape at work lately. I'll have to go through them and list them. Its probably 40+ over the past 6 months.
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Post by Don Rumata on Oct 27, 2020 18:21:54 GMT
forgot about this thread, I've been back to reading lately. I did: Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude - what a masterpiece, welcome to my top 10 Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina - idk man, i can see how it's a classic but it's somehow not really for me Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - great classic is a great classic Herman Melville, Moby-Dick - great classic is a great classic Klaus März, Jakob Schläft - absolute masterpiece of a unknown Swiss author, incredible currently reading: Mo Yan, Frog - Great Chinese book about a midwife in China during the Cultural Revolution and the impacts of the one-child policy and all that. I think my first book by a Chinese author and I enjoy diving into this world of the author who "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary" - Don recommends next up: Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five - my American brothers probably know this one, right? Im nog super into slaughterhouse 5. Its good but not particularly. Moby dick is good, but awfully hard to get through. Ive listened to so many books on tape at work lately. I'll have to go through them and list them. Its probably 40+ over the past 6 months. I loved Slaughterhouse-Five, might be on of my favorite American books I've ever read R.I.P. uncle Teddy
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Post by R.I.P. uncle Teddy on Oct 27, 2020 23:38:15 GMT
Im nog super into slaughterhouse 5. Its good but not particularly. Moby dick is good, but awfully hard to get through. Ive listened to so many books on tape at work lately. I'll have to go through them and list them. Its probably 40+ over the past 6 months. I loved Slaughterhouse-Five, might be on of my favorite American books I've ever read R.I.P. uncle Teddy Interesting. Really the only book I liked a lot of his was mother night (I think? I might be getting them mixed up) I barely remember most of the rest I read, which is a product of overconsumption of media mixed with them not being particularly great to me. Some of the books Ive read/listened to these past 6 months- The fountainhead-8/10. Very poorly written but there just isn't another person other than Ayn Rand who would write this. She needed an editor badly. Atlas shrugged-5/10-same book as the fountainhead except worse. I finished it due to listening, but might not have if I read it instead. Dune-4/10-didnt finish it. Might restart it if I run out of other books The shining-8/10-I don't like horror at all, but this is a great book. Way more interesting than the movie which I found boring. Starship troopers-3/10-A cool thought experiment about citizenship and its value but a bad book. The moon is a harsh mistress-7.5-Very good story about moon colonists. Awfully cheesey in some respects. Norse Mythology-6-A collection of norse mythology by neil gaiman. Interesting, but not amazing. Napoleon (andrew roberts)-7-Good. I find Napoleon fascinating. The History of the Ancient World (Susan Wise Bauer)-9/10- Very thorough, and full of fascinating history which isn't necessarily widely known. Well written. I have no complaints. Snow Crash-8/10-parody of cyberpunk. Funny. The diamond Age-3/10-Cyberpunk novel by the previous author. Boring as all hell. Idk why I even finished it. Thomas Jefferson:The Art of Power-7/10-Well done biography of one of the 2 or 3 most important Americans ever. Who we are and how we got here-6.5-Fascinating breakdown in the revolution in genetics Man on Ice-4/10-Military thriller. Idk how I even found out about it. Just meh. Halo New Blood-5.5/10-I love Halo, and this was enjoyable but doesnt stick out in ajy particular way. When Giants Walked the earth-6/10-Book on the history of Zeppelin. I liked it, and it was moderately well written. Theres definitely a ceiling on how good a book like this could be. Range (dave epstein)-8/10-A book on how specialization is often counterproductive. One of the best books of this sort Ive ever read. Probably better than outliers, which is tbe next closest in this genre. Stranger in a strange land-9/10-Heinlens best book. The premise is kind of dumb tbh, but its sort of a dissection of Utopian concepts. I think people see it as a guide to life, but they also miss that it is deeply embedded in the scifi fantasy concept, and thats the only reason it functions as a utopian world. The rise of theodore roosevelt-6/10- Interesting guy. I actually came away admiring him less after the book. Still a great president Moby Dick-7-Good fucking lord, what a slog. Good, but I don't need to read about why whales are actually fish for 9 million pages. Of Human Bondage-9-One of my favorites. Read it. I Claudius-8.5-One of the best works of historical fiction Ive read. A lot of it seems like a stretch of the realities of what happened, but accurate enough to be believable the whole time. Great book overall. 5th sun-6/10-The story of the spanish conquest of the aztecs and the aftermath. A good book, but the author seems ridiculously biased towards the aztecs at some points. They more or less claim the conquest was an inevitability for some reason. Even from this telling it seemed like anything but, and was caused in large part by a series of poor decisions. Roadside Picnic-7-the book stalker is based on. They don't have much in common. Its a cool book. Has a few very memorable pieces. Empire of the summer moon-7-About the war between apaches and the US. Absolutely insane story that amounts to stone age tribes fending off the American military for half a century. One of the best written of these historical books. We dared to win-7.5-Another history I loved. Its about the Rodhesian bush war, which I knew relatively little about before this. A very sad piece of history in retrospect and leaves a lot of food for thought. A hero of our time-8-Russian golden age novel. Takes a while to take off, and sort of wanders around, but overall was amazing. The Witcher series-8-One of my favorite series. The beginning, especially the two books of short stories are some of my favorite books ever. The middle sort of drags on, but the last book might be as good as the first two.
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Post by R.I.P. uncle Teddy on Oct 27, 2020 23:39:31 GMT
That isn't quite all of it. There are some I left off which I didnt finish and would be sub 5/10, and some I just forgot to add Im sure.
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Post by bladefd on Oct 31, 2020 1:55:17 GMT
Currently reading 'And then there were none' by Agatha Christie. Just started couple days ago. Good book so far!
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Post by bladefd on Oct 31, 2020 2:21:26 GMT
For downloading ebooks, get mirc client.
Enter nickname /server irc.irchighway.net /join #ebooks
Then @search [title of book]
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Post by R.I.P. uncle Teddy on Oct 31, 2020 2:45:48 GMT
For downloading ebooks, get mirc client. Enter nickname /server irc.irchighway.net /join #ebooks Then @search [title of book] Based blade. I bought an e-ink tablet that will be coming december. Mostly for studying for the LSAT but this will be njce too.
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Post by bladefd on Oct 31, 2020 3:01:55 GMT
For downloading ebooks, get mirc client. Enter nickname /server irc.irchighway.net /join #ebooks Then @search [title of book] Based blade. I bought an e-ink tablet that will be coming december. Mostly for studying for the LSAT but this will be njce too. Keep in mind mobi is for ipad, epub for android
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Post by Don Rumata on Oct 31, 2020 5:53:42 GMT
I loved Slaughterhouse-Five, might be on of my favorite American books I've ever read R.I.P. uncle Teddy Interesting. Really the only book I liked a lot of his was mother night (I think? I might be getting them mixed up) I barely remember most of the rest I read, which is a product of overconsumption of media mixed with them not being particularly great to me. Some of the books Ive read/listened to these past 6 months- The fountainhead-8/10. Very poorly written but there just isn't another person other than Ayn Rand who would write this. She needed an editor badly. Atlas shrugged-5/10-same book as the fountainhead except worse. I finished it due to listening, but might not have if I read it instead. Dune-4/10-didnt finish it. Might restart it if I run out of other books The shining-8/10-I don't like horror at all, but this is a great book. Way more interesting than the movie which I found boring. Starship troopers-3/10-A cool thought experiment about citizenship and its value but a bad book. The moon is a harsh mistress-7.5-Very good story about moon colonists. Awfully cheesey in some respects. Norse Mythology-6-A collection of norse mythology by neil gaiman. Interesting, but not amazing. Napoleon (andrew roberts)-7-Good. I find Napoleon fascinating. The History of the Ancient World (Susan Wise Bauer)-9/10- Very thorough, and full of fascinating history which isn't necessarily widely known. Well written. I have no complaints. Snow Crash-8/10-parody of cyberpunk. Funny. The diamond Age-3/10-Cyberpunk novel by the previous author. Boring as all hell. Idk why I even finished it. Thomas Jefferson:The Art of Power-7/10-Well done biography of one of the 2 or 3 most important Americans ever. Who we are and how we got here-6.5-Fascinating breakdown in the revolution in genetics Man on Ice-4/10-Military thriller. Idk how I even found out about it. Just meh. Halo New Blood-5.5/10-I love Halo, and this was enjoyable but doesnt stick out in ajy particular way. When Giants Walked the earth-6/10-Book on the history of Zeppelin. I liked it, and it was moderately well written. Theres definitely a ceiling on how good a book like this could be. Range (dave epstein)-8/10-A book on how specialization is often counterproductive. One of the best books of this sort Ive ever read. Probably better than outliers, which is tbe next closest in this genre. Stranger in a strange land-9/10-Heinlens best book. The premise is kind of dumb tbh, but its sort of a dissection of Utopian concepts. I think people see it as a guide to life, but they also miss that it is deeply embedded in the scifi fantasy concept, and thats the only reason it functions as a utopian world. The rise of theodore roosevelt-6/10- Interesting guy. I actually came away admiring him less after the book. Still a great president Moby Dick-7-Good fucking lord, what a slog. Good, but I don't need to read about why whales are actually fish for 9 million pages. Of Human Bondage-9-One of my favorites. Read it. I Claudius-8.5-One of the best works of historical fiction Ive read. A lot of it seems like a stretch of the realities of what happened, but accurate enough to be believable the whole time. Great book overall. 5th sun-6/10-The story of the spanish conquest of the aztecs and the aftermath. A good book, but the author seems ridiculously biased towards the aztecs at some points. They more or less claim the conquest was an inevitability for some reason. Even from this telling it seemed like anything but, and was caused in large part by a series of poor decisions. Roadside Picnic-7-the book stalker is based on. They don't have much in common. Its a cool book. Has a few very memorable pieces. Empire of the summer moon-7-About the war between apaches and the US. Absolutely insane story that amounts to stone age tribes fending off the American military for half a century. One of the best written of these historical books. We dared to win-7.5-Another history I loved. Its about the Rodhesian bush war, which I knew relatively little about before this. A very sad piece of history in retrospect and leaves a lot of food for thought. A hero of our time-8-Russian golden age novel. Takes a while to take off, and sort of wanders around, but overall was amazing. The Witcher series-8-One of my favorite series. The beginning, especially the two books of short stories are some of my favorite books ever. The middle sort of drags on, but the last book might be as good as the first two. dude you busy  I have to admit, I listened to Moby Dick. But I genuinely enjoyed all those chapters about whale preparation and stuff. Even the chapter about the color white I thought was amazing. Maybe it would be different if I had to read it but I didn't felt it was boring. Instead I feel like I now really know about the 19th century and that whaling life. Aye. Ok mate, I'll read Of Human Bondage. If I don't like I'll sue you.
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Post by Don Rumata on Oct 31, 2020 5:54:47 GMT
Isn't Ayn Rand trashy doe?
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