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ilex011

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Tuesday, February 5th 2008, 9:45am

Well, when I move house I make it a habit to have an eventful opening of the first book. Many have gone on the shelves today, but I blindly pulled one from a box- it was Plato's Republic- interestingly, it's the same exact one I blindly pulled from a box doing the same "ritual" moving into an apartment six years ago. So I closed my eyes and pointed to a sentence. I got:

"It is for certain."

Ok, there, Plato. Sounds more like shaking a magic 8-ball but I can go with that. Kind of ambiguous but then that it of itself does give one wiggle room for freedom of interpretation now doesn't it... I think I'll take it to my advantage...

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Vorbedacht

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Monday, February 11th 2008, 8:44pm

Complications, Better by Atul Gawande

...and the rest of my Cognitive Science textbook.

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Vorbedacht

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Monday, February 25th 2008, 6:34am

Demian by H.Hesse and Think on These Things by J. Krishnamurti.

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ilex011

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Thursday, March 20th 2008, 12:41am

R.I.P Arthur C. Clarke.

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ilex011

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Saturday, April 26th 2008, 7:28am

Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature- contributions by Jung, Robert Bly, Joseph Campbell, Marie-Louise von Franz, etc...

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gaseki

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Saturday, April 26th 2008, 12:46pm

I'm into Remarque right now. While travelling for the Diorama gig in Warsaw I've read "The Dream Room" and right now I'm reading a collection of his short stories (some are very short). I love his style. Still, for me there's nothing I could compare to "Arc de Triomphe." I belive it's Remarque at his best. And after I finish the short stories I have "Persepolis" waiting and smiling at me.

Never go never let me go...

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Atma

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Monday, April 28th 2008, 12:33am

See the World in My Eyes:

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ilex011

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Tuesday, May 13th 2008, 9:18am

Just finished Being Indian: Why the 21st Century Will Be India's, by Pavan K. Varma

By the way, if anyone here has a LibraryThing account, PM me and we can trade book stuff. I have a lifetime membership but, as with my LiveJournal and MySpace, it's a private profile. Isn't a social networking site- it's a book networking site the same way Lastfm is a music networking site.

For some reason, my lastfm site isn't private though and I have no desire to make it so. Go figure.

Ok, time to get off the internet- my medicine is making me ramble and babble... today I am all chatty and :lol: , tomorrow when I read tonight's posts I will be :sch: :mauer: :sch:

Oh well. Happens to the best of us.

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Atma

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Saturday, May 24th 2008, 9:01pm

See the World in My Eyes:

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ilex011

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Sunday, May 25th 2008, 10:17am

The Attic- Guanlong Cao

Chinese memoir of growing up under Mao. I've read it before- it's fantastic, but there are some really graphic parts in it.

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ilex011

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Friday, June 13th 2008, 6:02pm

Superluminal- Tony Daniel.

Sequel to Metaplanetary. Excellent, excellent science fiction. If you're a hard sci-fi fan, check this series out. He's working on the last segment to the sequel.

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ilex011

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Monday, August 18th 2008, 5:21pm

The Toughest Indian in the World- Sherman Alexie

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Caitanya

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Monday, August 18th 2008, 5:35pm

"Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda
http://www.ananda.org/ananda/yogananda.html

god is the highest savorer, the possessor of everything and the best friend of everyone.

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Vorbedacht

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Monday, September 22nd 2008, 3:35pm

Concrete Island, Kingdom Come, and Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard.

Getting in as much of those possible between overbearing amounts of neuroscience textbook reading.

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Vorbedacht

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Friday, February 13th 2009, 10:23pm

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594743347/

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Vorbedacht

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Monday, April 20th 2009, 4:33pm

"I fear the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul"

JG Ballard is dead.

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ilex011

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Tuesday, April 21st 2009, 7:33pm

Quoted

Originally posted by Vorbedacht
"I fear the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul"

JG Ballard is dead.

I was *just* on my way to posting that.

RIP, JG.

Thank you for sharing your talent with us.

And Professor Hawking, get well soon. The world still needs you!

Now reading, in order:

**Tokyo Canceled by Rana Dasgupta

**Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

**Trail by Fire by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

**The Book of the Beast: The Secret Books of Paradys II by Tanith Lee

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Vorbedacht

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Monday, June 22nd 2009, 6:50pm

Baudrillard - Simulacra & Simulation
Camus - Beyond Nihilism (-not enjoying this one)
Deleuze - Two Regimes of Madness (so far so good)
Guattari - Anti-Oedipus Papers (-not seeing the relevancy of his work)
Kafka - the Trial, Penal Colony

Last batch of literature & philosophy before picking up some programming books to chew through over the next month.

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ilex011

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Wednesday, July 1st 2009, 1:55am

The Book of Ti'ana- Rand Miller

The books are prequels to the Myst computer games. Super easy reading; you can get through a book in a day. I'd almost classify it as Young Adult SF/Fantasy.