Enjoy!Originally Posted by Marbles
Read him before?
Enjoy!
No, my first Kawabata book. I have heard a lot of praise and am expecting a great reading experience!Enjoy!
But you, cloudless girl, question of smoke, corn tassel
You were what the wind was making with illuminated leaves.
ah, I can say nothing! You were made of everything.
_Pablo Neruda
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
Because it's about time I read it.
The Maltese Falcon and Heart of Darkness by Conrad for their reputation, well and because Heart of Darkness was only $2.25 haha. I am waiting for them to get delivered.
When I was at the Quest Book Store I picked up a copy of Amit Goswami's "The Self-Aware Universe". Nothing by Goswami was in my local library and so I figured this might be worth buying. This was another book on quantum physics and consciousness, but as I read further he seemed to have a view point similar to the one I was coming up with and even called it "monistic idealism". Most of my ideas have been thought by others before as I have come to realize again and again.
He wasn't as fond of George Berkeley as I currently am, thinking that Berkeley was implicitly a dualist, but my challenge was to find where I disagreed with Goswami. That book was published in 1993 and so I looked for something more recent from him and bought his 2012 ebook, "God Is Not Dead".
What makes monistic idealism work is the non-locality of quantum physics which pushes influence outside space-time (assuming one defines space-time as the place where local field influences can operate). Berkeley would not have had that to shield him from dualism.
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1. Daniel Defoe. Moll Flanders
2. Daniel Defoe. Roxana
3. John Locke. An Essay concerning Human Understanding
4. Ben Jonson. The Alchemist and Other Plays
Reasons: I always give myself books as presents for special occasions; Now for New Year! Moreover, I am studying Literature, and I want to read my own books and write notes on although some of these books I am re-reading. Unfortunately, I couldn't find Richardson's Pamela at the bookstore else it would be on the list!
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille, it was a Christmas present from my dogs, they used my credit card so it counts
The Once and Future King by T.H. White, it was a Christmas gift from the last santa to visit my house before Christmas, he bought it with my credit card so it counts
I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo
If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock
Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire
It's a Battlefield (Graham Greene)
Good-bye, Mr. Chips (James Hilton)
Less Than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis)
The Information (Martin Amis)
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Currently reading: Choke (Chuck Palaniuk)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Snow to read for the Christmas read.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Bought these.
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
Harold Pinter - The Caretaker
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Marquez - The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
But you, cloudless girl, question of smoke, corn tassel
You were what the wind was making with illuminated leaves.
ah, I can say nothing! You were made of everything.
_Pablo Neruda
Just purchased Gordon Bowker's biography of James Joyce. Have read chapter one . Good start , well-written .Haven't read anything on Joyce for awhile and am curious. Any of you folks have this book yet ?
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson, because I love her poetry but have never read her nonfiction before. I've never read essays at all actually, and this seemed like a fine place to start. Maybe Montaigne next?
My dad is reading My Name is Red by Pamuk right now and loves it. Have you started Snow yet? If so, what do you think? From my dad's description it sounds very interesting.
This is adorable.
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The gift card books so far:
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
HHhH by Laurent Binet
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukher
The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas
I make a few resolutions before every semester starts and one of them is always not to buy books when I have too much to read for school and own about 100 books I haven't read. well before this semester I made it as usual and now it's January 28 and I have bought 4 books and ordered 2 more...
I bought
The Exeter book
Yosoy- an icelandic novel by Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir
autobiography and poetry - by Boris Pasternak
Vögguvísa- by Elías Mar, en Icelandic author
and I ordered
Eddukvæði I and II a new version my teacher made last year, two very big books.
I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo
If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock
Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire
I bought two books at the same time, which was naughty of me as I already have a year's backlog of books to read. One was The Gods Themselves by Issac Asimov. Issac Asimov is one of the most famous names in science fiction. I have never read any of his books. I hear that his best books were the Foundation series, but I did not want to commit myself to reading more than one book. The Gods Themselves was described on the cover as his best standalone book. The other was The Sea Wolf by Jack London, about a certain Wolf Larson. This concerns me a bit.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
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