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Right now I'm reading "How to be Good" by Nick Hornby
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Right now I'm reading "How to be Good" by Nick Hornby
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Currently As I Please by George Orwell (a compilation of editorials he wrote in the Tribune late in WWII), America (The Book) by Jon Stewart, and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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I'm "reading" I, Robot by Asimov (unabridged) as an audio book on my iPod mini.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
2004 Presidential Candidate
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hockey books?Originally posted by Pekka
I'm reading two books:
Kick Him In The Teeth by Ulrich Weissenmueller
Next Run by Tito EspositoGolfing since 67Comment
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AUTO-biography or written by someone else? I've read his Panzer Leader, was good, but he does imho quite intentionally downplay geran atrocities vs alllied ones. Otherwise, a good book for a military history enthusiast.Originally posted by Patroklos
Reading Guderian's biography right now, facinating for those who like that era and alot of detail. Pre war stuff in especially interesting.Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.Comment
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Tingkai, nah, the Kick him in the teeth is poor translation, what I found out the title is closer to 'hit to the mouth'. It's about this young couple and their trials and tribulations.
Next Run is about sadistic border officials who promise that if this family comes forward they'll get into the country but they were kidnapped by those, they sold them like slaves and threatened them... so that's the Next Run, what's the Next Run going to be..In da butt.
"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.Comment
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Good boy! I've read his entire collection of essays, journalism and letters.As I Please by George Orwell (a compilation of editorials he wrote in the Tribune late in WWII)
Has anybody ever read Boris Vian?"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
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didnt like that much. I was really looking for a history, not Ackroyds idiosyncratic approach. Never finished it.Originally posted by Saras
London: the Biography, by Peter Ackroyd
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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a classic, expecially suitable for Civ players.Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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That was VERY good, though I dont know as Id be in the mood for it now.Originally posted by Ramo
and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Now starting Ringworld by Larry Niven."And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
2004 Presidential Candidate
2008 Presidential Candidate (for what its worth)Comment
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I just finished a novel, by whom I forget, Called "The Boys are back in Town"- fantasy. It was interesting.
I just finshed Reading "What is wrong with Kansas" by Thomas Frank- excellent- all liberals need to read it- does a good job at exploring the Conservative backlash.
I will begin the new Stewart textbook.If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard ShawComment
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I just started The Bourne Identity. It's been a really long time since I read a work of fiction, but I must say it's a nice change of pace."The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
"you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
"I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - DissidentComment
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