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Dr. Dread

#2300
March 23, 2009, 07:37:03 PM


Nazis!! The occult!! Really mediocre writing!! Factual errors!!

YET...I can't put it down!!

:o

DavidRoss

#2301
March 23, 2009, 08:31:53 PM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 23, 2009, 07:37:03 PM


Nazis!! The occult!! Really mediocre writing!! Factual errors!!

YET...I can't put it down!!

:o
Sounds like The Congressional Record--except for the "can't put it down" part.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

val

#2302
March 24, 2009, 02:00:45 AM
KURT HÜBNER:  "Kritik der Wissenschaftlichen Vernunft"

A pompous title, reminding Kant, for a very boring book. The author criticizes several theories about scientific knowledge, in special Popper, but we cannot really understand what is his own position. Assuming that he has one.

Dr. Dread

#2303
March 25, 2009, 02:01:07 PM
Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews - Edited by Jonathan Cott

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

Haffner

#2304
March 27, 2009, 01:26:49 PM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 23, 2009, 07:37:03 PM


Nazis!! The occult!! Really mediocre writing!! Factual errors!!

YET...I can't put it down!!

:o



I miss the days of "really bad books".

Sometimes.

Dr. Dread

#2305
March 27, 2009, 01:30:45 PM
Quote from: AndyD. on March 27, 2009, 01:26:49 PM


I miss the days of "really bad books".

Sometimes.

Bad books? Like what?

Haffner

#2306
March 27, 2009, 01:33:13 PM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 27, 2009, 01:30:45 PM
Bad books? Like what?


A classic, in "that" way.

Dr. Dread

#2307
March 27, 2009, 01:35:34 PM
I just received a copy of Pride and Prejudice from Amazon marketplace. I was surprised to see that it is nearly as small as one of those Bibles you get in seedy motels (only my P&P is a hardcover). (Don't ask me how I know about seedy motels; I shan't reply.) But, it does say that it's "complete and unabridged", so all is not lost.

Dr. Dread

#2308
March 27, 2009, 01:36:23 PM
Quote from: AndyD. on March 27, 2009, 01:33:13 PM

A classic, in "that" way.

Looks fine to me. Carry on, my wayward son.  0:)

Haffner

#2309
March 27, 2009, 01:43:54 PM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 27, 2009, 01:36:23 PM
Looks fine to me. Carry on, my wayward son.  0:)


"Doncha cry no mo'."

Florestan

#2310
March 30, 2009, 12:56:51 AM


"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Kullervo

#2311
March 30, 2009, 07:26:05 AM
Pamuk's Black Book was excellent — deliciously complex and heady. The theme of identity and the burden of self-consciousness I felt were very relevant to my own struggles with the subject.

Starting:

Sergeant Rock

#2312
March 31, 2009, 05:48:11 PM
Quote from: AndyD. on March 27, 2009, 01:33:13 PM

A classic, in "that" way.

Andy, I own a first edition of that book. Unfortunately, the raised leg is on the spine. Sitting on the bookshelf for over thirty years, exposed to light, has turned her gorgeous tan black and white  :-[



Spillane chose the model and he eventually married her. The book is dedicated to her in typical Spillane style:

For Sherri...whose part in this book can hardly be denied. Elaborated on, certainly, but a pleasure to research, peruse and enjoy. Doll, you are magnificent!

;D :D ;D  ...ah, the 70s, when even a staid old publishing house like E. P. Dutton & Co, could put a nude cover on display in our malls and bookshops.

By the way, his next book, The Last Cop Out, had Sherri once again on display; this time her backside.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Dr. Dread

#2313
March 31, 2009, 05:49:36 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 05:48:11 PM
Andy, I own a first edition of that book. Unfortunately, the raised leg is on the spine. Sitting on the bookshelf for over thirty years, exposed to light, has turned her gorgeous tan black and white  :-[



Spillane chose the model and he eventually married her. The book is dedicated to her in typical Spillane style:

For Sherri...whose part in this book can hardly be denied. Elaborated on, certainly, but a pleasure to research, peruse and enjoy. Doll, you are magnificent!

;D :D ;D  ...ah, the 70s, when even a staid old publishing house like E. P. Dutton & Co, could put a nude cover on display in our malls and bookshops.

By the way, his next book, The Last Cop Out, had Sherri once again on display; this time her backside.

Sarge

Excellent, Sarge! She looks like she has a glass leg.

orbital

#2314
April 01, 2009, 12:37:28 AM
Hesse - The Glass Bead Game

Florestan

#2315
April 01, 2009, 12:57:05 AM
Quote from: orbital on April 01, 2009, 12:37:28 AM
Hesse - The Glass Bead Game

Your thoughts on it if you please?
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

orbital

#2316
April 01, 2009, 01:34:00 AM
Quote from: Florestan on April 01, 2009, 12:57:05 AM
Your thoughts on it if you please?
I just started it last night. I have read about 50 pages so far. I'll post my thoughts soon :)

My version has a long Zialkowski introduction which I skipped. I don't like to read those introductions before I start a book. I prefer to read them after I am through.

Florestan

#2317
April 01, 2009, 02:25:25 AM
Quote from: orbital on April 01, 2009, 01:34:00 AM
My version has a long Zialkowski introduction which I skipped. I don't like to read those introductions before I start a book. I prefer to read them after I am through.

Me too.
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Kullervo

#2318
April 01, 2009, 04:00:16 AM
Quote from: orbital on April 01, 2009, 12:37:28 AM
Hesse - The Glass Bead Game

I still need to read that. Hesse was probably the one author that led me to serious literature (from Hesse to Thomas Mann and so forth) but I've admittedly neglected him for the past few years.

ChamberNut

#2319
April 01, 2009, 05:49:47 AM
The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
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