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  • #61
    Laz, yeah. Let's have it!

    Jaako. More towards the latter. Involved sauna followed by jumping naked in the snow. No women would do it and most of the men refused to...Just me, Finn teacher and a couple of Dutchers...

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    • #62
      I've actually never done that, but then again I'm a real Finn, and I don't need to prove myself that way...
      "On this ship you'll refer to me as idiot, not you captain!"
      - Lone Star

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      • #63
        Well...I have certificate and everything, signed by an INSEAD professor...

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        • #64
          I second Foucault's Pendulum--you might bump it up a couple of slots in your read queue. Name of the Rose demands a 100-page "investment" of time before the story actually kicks off, so I wouldn't necessarily recommend it.

          Re Keagan, yes the war historian. I haven't read his WWI book, but the Agincourt section of The Face of Battle was first-rate.

          If you like inventive language, you might like Nabokov's Lolita.

          If you're into modern sci-fi, William Gibson's Neuromancer is a good read.
          Last edited by DanS; June 24, 2002, 01:22.
          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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          • #65
            Don Quichote by Miguel Cervantes, it's quite funny, satirical and entertaining with a serious literary undertone about a dreamer and believer of tall tales and legends about knights who only ends up chasing windmills.

            One of the world's literary masterpieces
            Skeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.

            Elie A. Shneour Skeptical Inquirer

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            • #66
              Re: Recommend GP some books to read

              Originally posted by GP
              Just looking for some good stuff to read. Can be novels light or serious. (If it is too dense and literary...I don't want that.) Or can be interesting non-fiction. No science fiction/fantasy series. I generaly hate series. (There are a few I like...LOTR, HP...but usually they are too boring. Big tome like stretched out stories.)
              hi ,

              try the "Satanic verses" , Salman Rushdie , .....

              have a nice day
              - RES NON VERBA - DE OPRESSO LIBER - VERITAS ET LIBERTAS - O TOLMON NIKA - SINE PARI - VIGLIA PRETIUM LIBERTAS - SI VIS PACEM , PARA BELLUM -
              - LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA - one shot , one kill - freedom exists only in a book - everything you always wanted to know about special forces - everything you always wanted to know about Israel - what Dabur does in his free time , ... - in french - “Become an anti-Semitic teacher for 5 Euro only.”
              WHY DOES ISRAEL NEED A SECURITY FENCE --- join in an exceptional demo game > join here forum is now open ! - the new civ Conquest screenshots > go see them UPDATED 07.11.2003 ISRAEL > crisis or challenge ?

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              • #67
                Yes, I agree: THE SATANIC VERSES by SALMAN RUSHDIE might be just the greatest book I've ever read...
                Don Quijote was nice, too.

                At the moment I'm reading Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga.

                I might also recommend some Kerouac, Burroughs (William, the beat poet, not that other stupid ****), Kafka, Nietzsche, and perhaps Gabriel García Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges (haven't had time to start reading, but I'm expecting something great)

                edit: WTF??!?! They censor words like TWAT nowadays??!?!
                You make my life and times
                A book of bluesy Saturdays

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                • #68
                  hi ,

                  a bit heavy , but still , "islamic fundametalism" , by one youssef m. choueiri , .....try to get the revised edition of 1997 , it was first writen in 1990 , ....

                  have a nice day
                  - RES NON VERBA - DE OPRESSO LIBER - VERITAS ET LIBERTAS - O TOLMON NIKA - SINE PARI - VIGLIA PRETIUM LIBERTAS - SI VIS PACEM , PARA BELLUM -
                  - LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA - one shot , one kill - freedom exists only in a book - everything you always wanted to know about special forces - everything you always wanted to know about Israel - what Dabur does in his free time , ... - in french - “Become an anti-Semitic teacher for 5 Euro only.”
                  WHY DOES ISRAEL NEED A SECURITY FENCE --- join in an exceptional demo game > join here forum is now open ! - the new civ Conquest screenshots > go see them UPDATED 07.11.2003 ISRAEL > crisis or challenge ?

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                  • #69
                    Originally posted by MosesPresley
                    I'm a little late with a recommendation. It looks like you have plenty to choose from here, but if you have the time you might like Charles Bukowski. I recommend Post Office, Factotum, or Women.
                    What do you like about Bukowski? How would you describe his books (e.g. sci-fi, mystery, prose, etc.)?
                    Golfing since 67

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                    • #70
                      Stephan R. Donaldson The Illearth Wars 6 books great stuff.
                      “The Communist Manifesto was correct…but…we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding…to democratic organizations…In my judgment…success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance…[rather]…than in…a catastrophic crash."Eduard Bernstein
                      Or do we?

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                      • #71
                        Terry Pratchett rulez.

                        Seriously, the Discworld series provide days of comic literature.

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                        • #72
                          You should also try some Jorge Luis Borges or Julio Cortazar.

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                          • #73
                            Originally posted by loinburger
                            I also liked Cryptonomicon by Stephenson(?).
                            Good call on the Cryptonomicron.

                            Also if you like reading Biography's then I would recommend:

                            Gore Vidal's "Lincoln"
                            "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

                            “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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                            • #74
                              Nonfiction, eh? Ever read the autobiography "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"?
                              "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. "
                              -Bokonon

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                              • #75
                                I liked that one a lot.

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