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I'm looking for a good book to read about Buddhism. Any suggestions? I'm coming from a very basic knowledge and there are so many books available so any help would be appreciated!
Post by Roo'adelphia on May 28, 2013 9:52:33 GMT -5
Just got done Anthony Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential. If you like his sense of humor and ever worked/wondered about the restaurant business its a good read.
Similar to Ned, I found a copy of Infinite Jest the other day (my find was on the train). No name or address/scribbles/anything in it. I'm taking this as a sign that I should finally read this book.
I have had a copy for a while. It basically sits on the table staring at me as if it is seeing through me to all my insecurities and self-doubt. It knows that I fear it yet cannot be parted from it lest I feel intellectually diminished.
I've been reading this for the last few months on my Kindle. It is quite disheartening to be stuck at 51% for a couple days of lunchtime reading and to feel like it is never going to end. It is also promising since the last 20% or so is footnotes. There are times when it is REALLY good, and there are a lot of other moments where it kind of drags due to complicated or technical language, abstract mathematical concepts, etc... The best way to tackle this is probably to go after it when you have a SIGNIFICANT chunk of time to devote to it.
I'm looking for a good book to read about Buddhism. Any suggestions? I'm coming from a very basic knowledge and there are so many books available so any help would be appreciated!
I have a book I can send you! It's called "Hardcore Zen" and it's written by an American who was really in to the punk/drug scene and then he found Buddhism. It gives a basic intro into Buddhism, along with his personal story.
I'll be happy to send it to you; just message me your address!
I'm looking for a good book to read about Buddhism. Any suggestions? I'm coming from a very basic knowledge and there are so many books available so any help would be appreciated!
I have a book I can send you! It's called "Hardcore Zen" and it's written by an American who was really in to the punk/NO NO WORD!!! scene and then he found Buddhism. It gives a basic intro into Buddhism, along with his personal story.
I'll be happy to send it to you; just message me your address!
Thanks Julie! That would be awesome! Sending pm now
By doing nothing but corning and drinking on a beach this past weekend I finished two books, Malcolm Gladwell's What The Dog Saw...and other adventures and Chuck Klosterman's Eating The Dinosaur. Loved them both, they're two of my favorite people to read or listen to speak. Looking at things through their lens is always very interesting.
Just finished, We Need to Talk About Kevin. I thought this was a great read. Things got a little slow during the middle but overall I thought it was a rather well put together book.
Just finished, We Need to Talk About Kevin. I thought this was a great read. Things got a little slow during the middle but overall I thought it was a rather well put together book.
Has anyone seen the film version yet?
I saw the film version early last year. Very dark, but I enjoyed it.
Similar to Ned, I found a copy of Infinite Jest the other day (my find was on the train). No name or address/scribbles/anything in it. I'm taking this as a sign that I should finally read this book.
I have had a copy for a while. It basically sits on the table staring at me as if it is seeing through me to all my insecurities and self-doubt. It knows that I fear it yet cannot be parted from it lest I feel intellectually diminished.
Guys, I was planning on starting up a thread to discuss the book after the post-Roo discussion dies down around here. You guys in for that? Flanz
I have had a copy for a while. It basically sits on the table staring at me as if it is seeing through me to all my insecurities and self-doubt. It knows that I fear it yet cannot be parted from it lest I feel intellectually diminished.
Guys, I was planning on starting up a thread to discuss the book after the post-Roo discussion dies down around here. You guys in for that? Flanz
I have had a copy for a while. It basically sits on the table staring at me as if it is seeing through me to all my insecurities and self-doubt. It knows that I fear it yet cannot be parted from it lest I feel intellectually diminished.
Guys, I was planning on starting up a thread to discuss the book after the post-Roo discussion dies down around here. You guys in for that? Flanz
Oh man. I don't think you guys understand how long it will take me to actually read it.
Do you guys want to set sort of a deadline date to start talking about it, book club style? Would that motivate you guys that haven't started it or haven't read it lately to finish it?
It could be July or even August. I basically just really want to discuss it and would be willing to wait for you all to read it because I know it would be good discussion.
Do you guys want to set sort of a deadline date to start talking about it, book club style? Would that motivate you guys that haven't started it or haven't read it lately to finish it?
It could be July or even August. I basically just really want to discuss it and would be willing to wait for you all to read it because I know it would be good discussion.
I'm planning to start it this week, but I have no idea what my pace will be like before I start it, but July/August seems reasonable.
Post by EthnicallyCrimean98476 on Jun 7, 2013 13:16:22 GMT -5
Flanz, there's a few page-long sections early in the book that are slow to make it through, but that's not indicative of the whole book. After the main characters were a little fleshed out, it was hard for me to set down.
Do you guys want to set sort of a deadline date to start talking about it, book club style? Would that motivate you guys that haven't started it or haven't read it lately to finish it?
It could be July or even August. I basically just really want to discuss it and would be willing to wait for you all to read it because I know it would be good discussion.
I should be ready by July. I am almost done with Garp (love it, just sooo much going on to sit down to finish it), so I will start Infinite Jest right after Roo.
Do you guys want to set sort of a deadline date to start talking about it, book club style? Would that motivate you guys that haven't started it or haven't read it lately to finish it?
It could be July or even August. I basically just really want to discuss it and would be willing to wait for you all to read it because I know it would be good discussion.
I think I'm getting close to 700 pages in now, so I should be in for this by July. It seems ambitious to me for someone starting post-Roo to be done in July, but I'm a pretty slow reader. This has gone slower for me than other books, though, because there have been parts where I have only read two or three pages at a time.
Just finished, We Need to Talk About Kevin. I thought this was a great read. Things got a little slow during the middle but overall I thought it was a rather well put together book.
Has anyone seen the film version yet?
I saw the film version early last year. Very dark, but I enjoyed it.
I read it and saw the movie. I thought they did a pretty good job adapting it.
I need some book suggestions for my upcoming flights to/from England. NothingButFlowers, what have you been reading lately?
I have been reading Infinite Jest forever. It has seriously been like 5 months. Took me a long time to get into it. It was actually being on a flight that finally got me moving with it, but I'm not sure that's what I would have wanted to have with me if I hadn't already started it. (Also, I got stopped and my bag was checked when I went through security because of it. The guy was actually like, "Do you have a really big book in there?" And when I said yes, he said that was probably what the guy reading the scanner thing was seeing. If you got it on a Kindle or something, though, that would obviously solve that problem.)
I read John Dies at the End and the sequel This Book is Full of Spiders over Christmas break. They are kind of goofy, but I loved them. They were written by the editor-in-chief of Cracked.com.
I need some book suggestions for my upcoming flights to/from England. NothingButFlowers, what have you been reading lately?
I have been reading Infinite Jest forever. It has seriously been like 5 months. Took me a long time to get into it. It was actually being on a flight that finally got me moving with it, but I'm not sure that's what I would have wanted to have with me if I hadn't already started it. (Also, I got stopped and my bag was checked when I went through security because of it. The guy was actually like, "Do you have a really big book in there?" And when I said yes, he said that was probably what the guy reading the scanner thing was seeing. If you got it on a Kindle or something, though, that would obviously solve that problem.)
I read John Dies at the End and the sequel This Book is Full of Spiders over Christmas break. They are kind of goofy, but I loved them. They were written by the editor-in-chief of Cracked.com.
Yeah, I really have no desire to read Infinite Jest. I feel like I'm in the minority on that though.
I have been reading Infinite Jest forever. It has seriously been like 5 months. Took me a long time to get into it. It was actually being on a flight that finally got me moving with it, but I'm not sure that's what I would have wanted to have with me if I hadn't already started it. (Also, I got stopped and my bag was checked when I went through security because of it. The guy was actually like, "Do you have a really big book in there?" And when I said yes, he said that was probably what the guy reading the scanner thing was seeing. If you got it on a Kindle or something, though, that would obviously solve that problem.)
I read John Dies at the End and the sequel This Book is Full of Spiders over Christmas break. They are kind of goofy, but I loved them. They were written by the editor-in-chief of Cracked.com.
Yeah, I really have no desire to read Infinite Jest. I feel like I'm in the minority on that though.
I'll check out the other two you've been reading!
It's understandable. I started it mostly out of curiosity because it didn't sound good to me, but it seemed like everyone who read it, loved it. (Kind of the same reason Josh decided to try a Reuben sandwich the first time.) At this point, I'm pretty well invested, so I'm going to finish it even if it takes me until I turn 40.
If you are interested in nonfiction at all, Josh recently really enjoyed David Byrne's book The Bicycle Diaries. It is a collection of essays (or journal entries, maybe is more accurate) he wrote while touring. I started it and liked what I read, but kind of drifted away from it. I don't seem to do all that well with nonfiction, though, particularly if there isn't a storyline that carries through.
Post by billypilgrim on Jun 20, 2013 16:26:32 GMT -5
I don't admit this to just anyone. But I'm rereading Infinite Jest. I read it when it came out -- about 15 years ago. I've since consumed everything else DFW has written that I could get my hands on, including The Pale King, which is unfinished.
I had a friend who reread it years ago and I told her that was ridiculous. But there are parts of the book that I love, parts that floor me, and parts that make me laugh out loud. I'm over 700 pages and 300 footnotes in. I put it down for a couple months to read other stuff, but now I'm slogging through again.
