sweetoblivion
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Reading it all in one go.... almost
Its deadly
that's just reminded me I really need to pick that book up
he's getting so many good reviews!-
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that's just reminded me I really need to pick that book up
he's getting so many good reviews!
Who has read more books than Art Garfunkel?
http://www.artgarfunkel.com/library.html
On the that note. What's the word for someone who has read all the books ever written? Obviously there hasn't been one of those since the 15th century or so a the latest but there is an actual word for it.
http://www.artgarfunkel.com/library.html
On the that note. What's the word for someone who has read all the books ever written? Obviously there hasn't been one of those since the 15th century or so a the latest but there is an actual word for it.
that's just reminded me I really need to pick that book up
its good. Worth the read for sure. Definitely gets 2 thumbs up from me.
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Can't think of one, a Babelonian would sound cool (tower of Babel and all).
Cryptid
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A meglalibrababelonian..? I think Google is trying to scan everything in. God bless it.
"John Milton" ?
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Fancy version of this thread here: http://www.bookarmy.com/
this was deadly, highly recommended
тхеодоре кацзынски
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the mountains of california by john muir,if your into the great outdoors you'll love it.
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I'm working my way through the Granta book of american short stories at the moment. With a young baby my reading is restricted to the DART so short stories suit me. Bets ones so far are by Eudora Welty, John Cheever and Flannery O'Brien.
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piratecore
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any good? i am about half way throught this at the minute
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Just started it. There were 42 known attempts to kill the fucker, Tom Cruise almost got him.
There a documentary on UTube
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD4fdWb5nTQ"]YouTube - (1/5) Killing Hitler[/ame]
There a documentary on UTube
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD4fdWb5nTQ"]YouTube - (1/5) Killing Hitler[/ame]
Cryptid
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Just finished the Beach by Alex Garland. Would recommend.
piratecore
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still havent seen valkyrie, bound to love it if tom cruise is in it. i hope it is full of glaring historical innacuracies.
BC
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regarding "atomised"...
...it's one of those things i thought i was relatively alone in disliking. hugely over-rated and contrived. also contains some rather glaring factual errors regarding some of the topics cited in it.
I hated it, it made me furious
...it's one of those things i thought i was relatively alone in disliking. hugely over-rated and contrived. also contains some rather glaring factual errors regarding some of the topics cited in it.
BC
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aye, that's an enjoyable read... i remember reading it when it first came out and thinking it would have made a great film. then when i saw the film, i nearly got sick into my own scorn. don't let that stinking heap of celluloid muck put anyone off reading the book : to say the movie made some serious alterations to the original plot is an understatement, it's more like a really nasty piss take of the original work. having preconceptions about the book based on the movie would be like considering the film adaptations of "the league of extraordiary gentleman" and "from hell" to adequately reflect alan moore's original novels.
BC
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a book which i have read - for the second time - recently:
derren brown : tricks of the mind.
a truely fantastic work which i recommend even to those who aren't a fan of brown's tv entertainment (and to those i say : watch "the heist"). his memory exercises outlined in this book are astonishingly effective, and this is coming from someone who has trouble remembering what day it is on a fairly consistent basis.
as someone who has been studying and practicing NLP and Ericksonian hypnosis for quite a while now, brown's criticisms of the area were a breath of fresh air after having to put up with the egocentric, arrogant and occassionally downright barmy claims of evangelical NLP enthusiasts (while brown doesn't discuss "magick" [ with a "k"] the similarities between it and NLP are notable - not least both as the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the wil or simply as means of communicating through non-obvious means - but because of the tendancy to attract the inadequate, the credulous, the egotistical and the insane). that said, much of it certainly does work very effectly, in particular the work with sub-modalities, as brown explains the phobia cure and "swish" pattern methods of NLP.
an aside : quite a few people seem to be under the impression that brown does NLP constantly in his work. one should bear in mind that often the hypnotic techniques and NLP methods are used to dress up tricks (or "effects" as illusionists call them) which are actually quite conventional in practice. likewise, often his seeming explainations in his shows are there to function as red herrings and dress up the "effect" in even more mystique. it is interesting, though, that the NLP or Ericksonian techniques which he most consistently uses are NOT mentioned in this book : anchoring and pattern interruption. the former is covered in his magicians-only book "pure effect" and was the basis of how "the heist" worked. pattern interrupts - such as the classic handshake induction confusion technique - he hasn't mentioned though it does play a part in many of his pieces.
brown's best work in this is in his explaination of confirmation bias, circular belief systems, and other cognative illusions which allow him to launch into the best criticism of the alternative health and psychic industries, both which make much of their money from the desperately ill or desperately unhappy respectively. his thoughts on these subjects are agreeable, important and explained perfectly.
finally, his indulgence in word-play, amusing allegory, self-parodying arrogance, and self-depreciating wit makes this an absolute irresistible read, and one which i have returned to a number of times.
derren brown : tricks of the mind.
a truely fantastic work which i recommend even to those who aren't a fan of brown's tv entertainment (and to those i say : watch "the heist"). his memory exercises outlined in this book are astonishingly effective, and this is coming from someone who has trouble remembering what day it is on a fairly consistent basis.
as someone who has been studying and practicing NLP and Ericksonian hypnosis for quite a while now, brown's criticisms of the area were a breath of fresh air after having to put up with the egocentric, arrogant and occassionally downright barmy claims of evangelical NLP enthusiasts (while brown doesn't discuss "magick" [ with a "k"] the similarities between it and NLP are notable - not least both as the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the wil or simply as means of communicating through non-obvious means - but because of the tendancy to attract the inadequate, the credulous, the egotistical and the insane). that said, much of it certainly does work very effectly, in particular the work with sub-modalities, as brown explains the phobia cure and "swish" pattern methods of NLP.
an aside : quite a few people seem to be under the impression that brown does NLP constantly in his work. one should bear in mind that often the hypnotic techniques and NLP methods are used to dress up tricks (or "effects" as illusionists call them) which are actually quite conventional in practice. likewise, often his seeming explainations in his shows are there to function as red herrings and dress up the "effect" in even more mystique. it is interesting, though, that the NLP or Ericksonian techniques which he most consistently uses are NOT mentioned in this book : anchoring and pattern interruption. the former is covered in his magicians-only book "pure effect" and was the basis of how "the heist" worked. pattern interrupts - such as the classic handshake induction confusion technique - he hasn't mentioned though it does play a part in many of his pieces.
brown's best work in this is in his explaination of confirmation bias, circular belief systems, and other cognative illusions which allow him to launch into the best criticism of the alternative health and psychic industries, both which make much of their money from the desperately ill or desperately unhappy respectively. his thoughts on these subjects are agreeable, important and explained perfectly.
finally, his indulgence in word-play, amusing allegory, self-parodying arrogance, and self-depreciating wit makes this an absolute irresistible read, and one which i have returned to a number of times.
Wobbler
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Finished The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood a few days ago. Big monster of a book, very good.
David Kronenbourg
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reading at swim two birds. brilliant. lots of puking
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