Ehh, I tried keeping track of my books with librarything but got lazy and stopped halfway through cataloguing my books. Does shelfari do anything new to make it worth the effort?
Ehh, I tried keeping track of my books with librarything but got lazy and stopped halfway through cataloguing my books. Does shelfari do anything new to make it worth the effort?
Man I have so many books on my to-read shelf. After I finish High Crimes I have to get to Carter Beats the Devil, Under the Dome, Tarzan of the Apes, Manhood for Amateurs, Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses Who Led the West to Victory in WWII, Power Failure, Rocket Men, all of the Necronomicon, and I want to read The Raw Shark Texts again
do any of you guys remember the story i posted here before about the little bird that i found on the road who i held while he died?
well... there is an animal behaviourist who i really admire named marc bekoff.
he wrote The Emotional Lives of Animals a book which discusses his theories on animal sentience and whether it exists at all, and if it does exist, if it's adaptive.
His work is pretty controversial, as he refers to animals as "he" and "she" not "it" and believes that animals have complex emotions that we don't understand. he uses empirical methods for some of his research, but throws in anecdotal stories to keep the reader interested. For scientific non-fiction, his books are very engaging.
anyways, after reading his last book, i sent him an email to tell him how much i loved it and to tell him my story about the bird.
he published it in his most recent book!
book is excellent but i feel like too many fanboys hype it and then some people are let down by it not being the second coming of the christ child
I think this happened with me. While awesome, I found it no where near as good as any of their individual works. Of course i read ti right after finishing Small Gods and Sandman. So probably anything i read after that would've felt lacking.
do any of you guys remember the story i posted here before about the little bird that i found on the road who i held while he died?
well... there is an animal behaviourist who i really admire named marc bekoff.
he wrote The Emotional Lives of Animals a book which discusses his theories on animal sentience and whether it exists at all, and if it does exist, if it's adaptive.
His work is pretty controversial, as he refers to animals as "he" and "she" not "it" and believes that animals have complex emotions that we don't understand. he uses empirical methods for some of his research, but throws in anecdotal stories to keep the reader interested. For scientific non-fiction, his books are very engaging.
anyways, after reading his last book, i sent him an email to tell him how much i loved it and to tell him my story about the bird.
he published it in his most recent book!
I just started re-reading The Brothers Karamazov. TBK is the book that ignited my love of literature and reading. It's even better than I remember it being.
"i would prefer not to" entered my verbal repertoire and has yet to depart
I love to say that.
Also, a Thomas Pynchon playlist is a great idea. The book needs music.
(Sad story: I wrote tunes to some of the songs in Gravity's Rainbow. I can't see a "song" in a book without needing to make up a tune to it.)
Just started on "Guns, Germs and Steel". I've been meaning to read this for years. Best part is, it's required reading for the class I'm doing on plant breeding, so it counts as homework. 8-)
i'm going on a week long trip!
need some good reads
i prefer scientific non-fiction
particularly in the biological sciences, not really into reading books on physics or chemistry so much.
recommend some things!
I had a wonderful time with "Time, Love, Memory," a biography of Seymour Benzer, the first genetic behaviorist. Lots of fruit flies, and their mutations. Fruit flies lost in time. Suicidal gay fruitflies. You'll love it.
I've been reading Ilium by Dan Simmons and good lord it's some of the best science fiction I've ever read. Is everything by Simmons this good?
Also Bonk is really good and everyone should read it. Stiff isn't quite as good but is still really fun and interesting. I own Spook but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
Oh hey so by the way Neil Gaiman is coming to the University where I work and doing a thing
An Evening with Neil Gaiman is presented by The Office of Academic Affairs together with Creative Campus, the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Engineering, the English Department's program in Creative Writing, and is funded in part by a grant from the Southern Arts Federation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Neil Gaiman has long been one of the top writers in comics and graphic novels; he also writes books for readers of all ages. He is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living post-modern writers, and is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama. From his captivating DC Comics Sandman series, to his direction of Beowulf, screenplay writing and direction of Stardust, and most recent release of the animated feature Coraline. Gaiman is current, successful, and artistic. He was chosen for this engagement because of his relevance to multi-disciplinary art forms and educational aspirations of our students.
I just started re-reading The Brothers Karamazov. TBK is the book that ignited my love of literature and reading. It's even better than I remember it being.
i am in a class on tolstoy and dostoyevsky but i am so behind in the reading >.<
i read tbk in high school was baller
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i enjoyed it but the main character felt like a tiny vimes sort of
the beginning broke my heart so hard
i'm on there
braids and the tugging thereof
It is the tits
PARKER, YOU'RE FIRED! <-- My comic book podcast! Satan look here!
I never read it myself but I knew it would have to be awesome
setting aside the time is a hassle though
http://numberblog.wordpress.com/
i liked it a lot. most similar in style to lot 49 probably, but i thought it was better
there isn't the same scope or moments of brilliance as in against the day or gravity's rainbow, but it's a much easier read
it also helped that it was set in the 60's, so i got a lot more of the references
do any of you guys remember the story i posted here before about the little bird that i found on the road who i held while he died?
well... there is an animal behaviourist who i really admire named marc bekoff.
he wrote The Emotional Lives of Animals a book which discusses his theories on animal sentience and whether it exists at all, and if it does exist, if it's adaptive.
His work is pretty controversial, as he refers to animals as "he" and "she" not "it" and believes that animals have complex emotions that we don't understand. he uses empirical methods for some of his research, but throws in anecdotal stories to keep the reader interested. For scientific non-fiction, his books are very engaging.
anyways, after reading his last book, i sent him an email to tell him how much i loved it and to tell him my story about the bird.
he published it in his most recent book!
it's called the animal manifesto: http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Manifesto-Expanding-Compassion-Footprint/dp/1577316495/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264975607&sr=8-1
and if you check it out on amazon, you can look inside, go to the index and my name is in the "n" section... i take up three pages!
I am published in a book about SCIENCE!
I think this happened with me. While awesome, I found it no where near as good as any of their individual works. Of course i read ti right after finishing Small Gods and Sandman. So probably anything i read after that would've felt lacking.
bottom of the page is lame, i'm excited about this.
Oh shit - the Amazon.com page for Inherent Vice now has a song playlist, "designed exclusively for Amazon.com, courtesy of Thomas Pynchon"!!!
I'm not sure I even believe that it's from him and oh god I think I'm hyperventilating...
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Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
it has grown on me in my old age
"i would prefer not to" entered my verbal repertoire and has yet to depart
Also, a Thomas Pynchon playlist is a great idea. The book needs music.
(Sad story: I wrote tunes to some of the songs in Gravity's Rainbow. I can't see a "song" in a book without needing to make up a tune to it.)
http://numberblog.wordpress.com/
and then i will seriously look into testing out of english because it is seriously distressingly depressing to me
need some good reads
i prefer scientific non-fiction
particularly in the biological sciences, not really into reading books on physics or chemistry so much.
recommend some things!
also, haven't read it yet but I've heard great things about it is Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
I had a wonderful time with "Time, Love, Memory," a biography of Seymour Benzer, the first genetic behaviorist. Lots of fruit flies, and their mutations. Fruit flies lost in time. Suicidal gay fruitflies. You'll love it.
http://numberblog.wordpress.com/
Also Bonk is really good and everyone should read it. Stiff isn't quite as good but is still really fun and interesting. I own Spook but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
Ohhhh yeah
i read tbk in high school was baller
fffffffffffff
We even have a barnes and noble now! Just got it this year.