jlhoots Posted August 25, 2005 Report Posted August 25, 2005 Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated Quote
Kalo Posted August 25, 2005 Report Posted August 25, 2005 ← How was it? Have you read Charles Sharr Murray's Crosstown Traffic? It's excellent, though more of a critical study of the music than a biography.. Quote
BruceH Posted August 25, 2005 Report Posted August 25, 2005 Hilarious! ← Anything like At Swim Two Birds? Quote
Brandon Burke Posted August 25, 2005 Report Posted August 25, 2005 Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated ← me too. Quote
Brandon Burke Posted August 25, 2005 Report Posted August 25, 2005 Hilarious! ← every time it occurs to me to look for this, whatever shop i'm in at the time doesn't have any. O'Brien is fantastic! Quote
7/4 Posted August 25, 2005 Report Posted August 25, 2005 ← How was it? I dig it, it's been a long time since I read a Jimi bio. There were pre-London facts I didn't know about. He had a pretty fucked up chilhood. Have you read Charles Sharr Murray's Crosstown Traffic? It's excellent, though more of a critical study of the music than a biography.. ← No, I guess I should. Quote
Chrome Posted August 26, 2005 Report Posted August 26, 2005 Orhan Pamuk: Istanbul ← How is this? I've heard it's quite good ... Quote
BruceH Posted August 26, 2005 Report Posted August 26, 2005 Well it's no Constantinople, but... Quote
Matthew Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 The Essentials of Christian Philosophy by Etienne Gilson. I almost want to cry in wonder reading this book because..... 1. Only France could have produced such a mind like Gilson's, especially pre-WWII Paris. Just a wonderful culture of logic, breadth, and love of learning underlying this book. A culture was lost after the war. 2. When Catholic theology/philosophy was up for grabs after WWII, there was a romantic quest by Thomistic scholars to try to become the major influence in theology. History shows that they failed, but what a wonderful failure. 3. The humanness of Thomas Aquinas, who saw in the human intellect something to rejoice in, and that there was a absolute obligation to follow the truth, whereever it led. Or to quote my old metaphysics teacher, Sr. Mary O.P., when I asked her what the heck I was spending a year on metaphysics for: "Matthew, the search for truth is the search for God." 4. It's great to read a book that makes you think about reality in a truly philosophical way. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 As I said, beer bottle labels. Quote
Matthew Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 As I said, beer bottle labels. ← I'll be reading this also tonight..... Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 Higher class literature than mine. Just reading Fosters. Quote
MartyJazz Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 Eric Idle: "The Greedy Bastard Diary" Quote
jlhoots Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 Orhan Pamuk: Istanbul ← How is this? I've heard it's quite good ... ← Pamuk is an excellent writer. Istanbul is well written. I also like his novel, Snow. Quote
jazzbo Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 I'm still reading Armesto's "Civilizations" (with bits and pieces of other books in between). . . . I'm sort of stretching it out, not wanting it to end. Earlier I was studying this label as the second cup was dripping slowly. . . . This is the beverage I most enjoy in this life. Quote
Kalo Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 Hilarious! ← Anything like At Swim Two Birds? ← As far as the antic humor goes, yes, but it's a collection of his newspaper columns rather than a novel. Quote
Kalo Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 David Hajdu -- Lush Life Billy Strayhorn Bio Quote
ejp626 Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 Hilarious! ← every time it occurs to me to look for this, whatever shop i'm in at the time doesn't have any. O'Brien is fantastic! ← I read The Third Policeman a couple of months ago and thought that was particularly good. I am currently reading Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London. Quote
Harold_Z Posted September 13, 2005 Report Posted September 13, 2005 (edited) I'm reading "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini and really digging it. Actually I think it's one of the better books I've read in some time. Edited September 13, 2005 by Harold_Z Quote
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