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Post by Audio the obscure on Nov 26, 2014 17:17:52 GMT -5
Lately I've been reading The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (in my Kindle PC). Woke up about 2 am this morning, could not get back to sleep, so decided to go in my computer. Clicked on the Kindle and decided to read some more of this.
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Post by Scotty on Jan 25, 2015 13:52:01 GMT -5
Lately I've been on a graphic novel kick:
Infinity Gauntlet - I wanted to read the comic that the 3rd and 4th avenger movies will be based on. I'm sure it'll be vastly different but it was still interesting to read. I've also been reading some Guardians of the Galaxy since I know very little about the cosmic side of Marvel
Suicide Squad - I've read a couple of volumes so far, seems pretty cool, though also very dark.
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Post by Slinky on Jan 26, 2015 6:07:02 GMT -5
I got The Walking Dead Compendium 1 for Christmas and have started that. Needed a fix to my withdrawal symptoms while the tv show is off air.
For the past I don't know how many months I've been making my way through A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. I'm now mid-way through the second half of A Dance with Dragons. I've loved all the novels, even though at times I drifted. I suppose that was always going to happen with a series as epic in length. Should've broken the novels up with other books really! I have to say I'm engrossed in Dragons though.
Now how long to wait till The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring :S.....
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Post by StarFall on Jan 26, 2015 20:03:50 GMT -5
I got The Walking Dead Compendium 1 for Christmas and have started that. Needed a fix to my withdrawal symptoms while the tv show is off air. For the past I don't know how many months I've been making my way through A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. I'm now mid-way through the second half of A Dance with Dragons. I've loved all the novels, even though at times I drifted. I suppose that was always going to happen with a series as epic in length. Should've broken the novels up with other books really! I have to say I'm engrossed in Dragons though. Now how long to wait till The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring :S..... Yes, the long slow wait for The Winds of Winter.......welcome to my world (I don't even want to think how long A Dream of Spring will take to get here). My current book: Two Graves by Preston & Child.
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Post by Outcast on Feb 3, 2015 9:35:11 GMT -5
It's been a very long time since i've read a book. Just started trying to read again this year.
I remember enjoying some of Piers Anthony's work when i was younger. So when my sister gave me a Kindle. The first book that i ended up buying was his very first Xanth novel. A Spell for Chameleon.
It's not really that exciting though. But its interesting enough to make me want to see how it will end. But pretty distracted with all sorts of other things. So it's been slow.
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Post by marle on Apr 19, 2015 17:41:15 GMT -5
I recently finished The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. It was heavy reading, basically a theory of the universe having purpose through evolution, with humanity at the pinnacle. Teilhard was a French Jesuit priest and paleontologist who tried to reconcile his Christian faith with science. I remember saying that I will post an audio clip talking about the book when I've finished reading it. I think I will still do that at some point. However, I'm still thinking through it. It will be a challenge to talk about it in a coherent fashion. The book is so wide-sweeping in its perspective that it makes me want to continue reading into other topics to understand things better, rather than try and sit back and analyze the main ideas in the book. Are you gonna go for it? I don't believe I saw this particular audio clip promise, but I DO remember you saying you would post a clip of you reading an Isaac Asimov story. So I vote you do both. ;D I got a big delicious tome (for 'tis a tome, no mere book!) of H.P. Lovecraft stories recently 'cause the cover looked trippy and I hadn't read anything of his previously. It reminded me of your idea to read something of Asimov's and made me want to join in and read something too. A thread for SUer-read excerpts could be fun... I know this post is 2 and a half years old but geez... I regret having missed this one (don't think I saw this or replied). I was just going back through this thread to see if I had all ready mentioned a certain book. Don't think I would read Asimov again, but Teilhard has had a lasting impact on how I look at the world. If only I didn't sound like a moron trying to explain some of his ideas. What an amazing book and an amazing mind. Maybe in a future audio clip I'll find a quote of his and make a short comment. I would love to hear Farouche review a book or read favorite excerpts. Or anyone here for that matter!
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Post by Farouche on Apr 25, 2015 2:22:42 GMT -5
Are you gonna go for it? I don't believe I saw this particular audio clip promise, but I DO remember you saying you would post a clip of you reading an Isaac Asimov story. So I vote you do both. ;D I got a big delicious tome (for 'tis a tome, no mere book!) of H.P. Lovecraft stories recently 'cause the cover looked trippy and I hadn't read anything of his previously. It reminded me of your idea to read something of Asimov's and made me want to join in and read something too. A thread for SUer-read excerpts could be fun... I know this post is 2 and a half years old but geez... I regret having missed this one (don't think I saw this or replied). I was just going back through this thread to see if I had all ready mentioned a certain book. Don't think I would read Asimov again, but Teilhard has had a lasting impact on how I look at the world. If only I didn't sound like a moron trying to explain some of his ideas. What an amazing book and an amazing mind. Maybe in a future audio clip I'll find a quote of his and make a short comment. I would love to hear Farouche review a book or read favorite excerpts. Or anyone here for that matter! Speak my name and I appear! This thread actually had a major impact on me. After I wrote that ^ I decided to try reading aloud and recording it. And that's how I finally realized that I really DID mumble badly and I did speak way too quickly. People had been telling me that my whole life, but I guess it hadn't hit home. So I kept reading aloud and recording myself, trying to speak slower, more forcefully, and more clearly. It was harded than I'd expected, but I've made a good amount of progress since I started, and it's actually helped me a lot in the real world. Highly recommended. So yeah, I'm game for this! Marle, definitely do a clip talking about (and/or reading) Teilhard, woncha? Anyone else interested in participating?
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Post by marle on Apr 25, 2015 12:21:45 GMT -5
Speak my name and I appear! This thread actually had a major impact on me. After I wrote that ^ I decided to try reading aloud and recording it. And that's how I finally realized that I really DID mumble badly and I did speak way too quickly. People had been telling me that my whole life, but I guess it hadn't hit home. So I kept reading aloud and recording myself, trying to speak slower, more forcefully, and more clearly. It was harded than I'd expected, but I've made a good amount of progress since I started, and it's actually helped me a lot in the real world. Highly recommended. So yeah, I'm game for this! Marle, definitely do a clip talking about (and/or reading) Teilhard, woncha? Anyone else interested in participating? Farouche, you're the SU genie! OK, I'm committing to doing one of these in the next few weeks. This will force me to finally do it. Don't know if it will be entirely about the Phenomenon of Man, but I'll mention it and read some kind of quote. How great that you read or were inspired by something on the forum that you were able to apply in real life. And that you didn't get discouraged by hearing the way you spoke, but tweaked it to something you're more confident about.
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Post by marle on Jun 24, 2015 17:05:57 GMT -5
So yeah, I'm game for this! Marle, definitely do a clip talking about (and/or reading) Teilhard, woncha? Anyone else interested in participating? Well, I promised, so... Yeah, um. I won't be submitting this to publishers to become a non-fiction narrator anytime soon. [deleted]
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Post by Slinky on Sept 3, 2015 12:02:39 GMT -5
The final part of His Dark Materials trilogy, The Amber Spyglass. Taken me a long time, but I'm nearing the end. Loved it and I'll miss the world(s) when I'm done.
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Post by Audio the obscure on Nov 19, 2015 16:33:10 GMT -5
Thought I'd update on my latest perusals lol.
Mostly non-fiction (a u) from the library:
A couple of self help books by Dr. Phil, one I checked out: Life Code (the new rules for winning in the real world) - Phillip C. McGraw
The Nice Girl Syndrome (no explanation needed here LOL) - Beverly Engel
Excess Baggage (getting out of your own way) - Judith Sills
Some health books:
Hypothyroidism Type 2 - Mark Starr (a must-read for anyone who has metabolic problems and so forth, low energy/temperature, etc.)
The Source - Woodson C. Merrell (a book about gaining more energy, beating fatigue, etc.)
Foods That Fight Pain - Neal D. Barnard (this among the others is very informative, a must-read for anyone with chronic pain)
Coconut Cures - Bruce Fife (very very informative reading on medium chain triglycerides - saturated fats that do not promote heart disease. For anyone researching nutrition, even nutrition history, this is a must-read)
Plus I read a lot in the library while waiting to get on one of their computers (when I haven't brought my own which I have done today).
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Post by Audio the obscure on Mar 6, 2016 10:12:43 GMT -5
Reading "Flowers for Algernon" - Daniel Keyes (had read it online while waiting for the library to get it transferred from another city's library to the one in Fredericton). This one's longer than the online version which I'd read in one sitting. I was going to just unwrap it, borrow it, and then throw it back in the book return slot the other day; however, when I saw its length I decided to take it home anyway.
Also hoping to take out and read the one by Dr. Oz about carbohydrates' negative effect on the brain (very important for a carbohydrate i.e. bread addict like myself)
And there's a book on OCD called "The Man Who Couldn't Stop" (at first I had thought it was the one about the person who couldn't stop washing - a classic book on OCD - but this is a new and different OCD book which I had perused it for a while at the library; and I plan to go back and take it out to read at home).
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Post by Audio the obscure on Mar 6, 2016 10:26:54 GMT -5
Suicide Squad - I've read a couple of volumes so far, seems pretty cool, though also very dark. The title sounds dark. Hmmm, maybe I'll check them out.
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Post by Audio the obscure on Mar 17, 2016 10:33:00 GMT -5
I was at the library last night reading "Manufacturing Depression" by Gary Greenberg. It contains a lot of interesting information/history, psychiatric history (history of mental hospitals' treatments for mental illnesses, etc.). He mentions in the book about his own struggles with depression which made it seem (to me) a very empathetic book for persons like myself. I had started reading it in the afternoon there, then took a break and went to get a hamburger for supper, bought a couple non food items in the mini-mall, and then returned to the library where I resumed reading said book. I found it a very hard to put down book and was reading it for close to 2 hours nonstop. Would have stayed longer, but had to go and get some more potatoes at the grocery store to bring home, so decided to take it out to read at home here (along with the Corey Hart and 2 Chicago music CDs ).
I still have "Flowers for Algernon" here, and I'm on the home stretch to finishing this.
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Post by Audio the obscure on Mar 21, 2017 17:21:02 GMT -5
Well I actually made it to the public library today - first more enjoyable time there in many months. I sat down to read for a bit. Marle will be happy to know I finally found the Michael Pollan book "In Defense of Food" and have borrowed it for home reading. I read this for quite awhile today at the library, really digging into it. It's certainly a must read for anyone researching food or nutritional history. The other books I took out are:
Fast Metabolism Food Rx by Haylie Pomroy - it's about listening to the needs of your body, the various "calls" - whispering, talking, and screaming it makes and what it's trying to tell a person, and how to remedy this with the right food.
The third book is from a New Brunswick author (so it probably wouldn't be of interest, but I list it anyway). It's called From Here to Absurdity by Fred Grass. He spoke about being brutally honest with himself, putting himself under a microscope as it were, a self examination - and when I read that I absolutely had to take it out and see what this book's contents are. I admire that kind of person - a person that will look at him or her self in private and call a spade a spade, no holds barred, no hypocrisy. It's what I aspire to be because if I end up where I believe I may end up, I want to at least go there with as much honesty as I can (about myself).
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