Topic: /\/\ w.a.y.r. /\/\ (Read 1758 times)

plainwhitetom · « **on:** April 10, 2009, 02:07:51 PM »

Not sure if there is any interest in swapping authors and books. I had a conversation with Zero this past weekend and suggested an author. Got me thinking, seems to be a large degree of intellectuals here, wonder what some of you are reading or have read. So feel free to post up books, add some comments about them, and maybe relate it to similar books. I'm swamped with all my reading for my English class this semester but I like cataloging authors for rainy days.

plainwhitetom · « **Reply #1 on:** April 10, 2009, 02:13:16 PM »

First and foremost...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road

One of the greatest books I've read ever. Whenever i experience a life changing event or move onto what I perceive to be a new chapter in my life I read this book. His pro's are ripe with observations of the human spirit that outlast the era they were etched in. I also like the way he describes America during the late 40's early 50's. He douses the common image of America with a quart of whiskey and then lets it burn.

If you got the time, check it out.

cymatics · « **Reply #2 on:** April 10, 2009, 02:18:45 PM »

and the list goes on. the what are threads done blown up. psyklone would be proud. heh :) speaking of... where you at mane??

cymatics · « **Reply #3 on:** April 10, 2009, 02:20:57 PM »

nice idea pdub

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

not reading right now, but worth a mention. I luv this book.

MrKingGeorge · « **Reply #4 on:** July 27, 2009, 01:04:37 PM »

I haven't read anything since I finished John Adams by David McCullough. It was such a beautiful book though, a beauty only surpassed by the life he lived.

plainwhitetom · « **Reply #5 on:** July 27, 2009, 01:20:55 PM »

I heard good things about the Alchemist.

Currently readings "Socrates in Love" It's the third installment by author Christopher Phillips. He uses the Socratic method in his books to bring understanding to some deep in prying questions. This book in specific he's tackling the various forms of love and how people perceive them. I'm digging it so far.

Thanks for the bump D

joon the butcher · « **Reply #6 on:** July 27, 2009, 01:25:44 PM »

pwt-

Have you read Blood Meridian? That was a great Cormac McCarthy book.

I'm currently reading 2 books. One is an anthology of works by Bertrand Russell. Great philosopher. David, I think I remember that you liked David Hume. I recommend this guy to anyone who likes David Hume. To me, he is the rightful successor to Hume in British "common sensical" philosophy.

The other book is Our Posthuman Future, by Francis Fukuyama. It talks about how technology will change our lives and what sort of social/political repurcussions these changes could have. If you like all the transhumanism type stuff, I highly recommend this book, not because it's the same kind of stuff, but it treats the topic with rigor and gives a strong critique of the technologies to come. It's not anti-technology, but rather cautious. If you wiki him, don't let the fact that he was a neocon put you off. Fukuyama is a really great thinker, and he writes very well (easy to digest and very insightful).

plainwhitetom · « **Reply #7 on:** July 27, 2009, 01:29:25 PM »

Quote from: squirtle on July 27, 2009, 01:25:44 PM

pwt-

Have you read Blood Meridian? That was a great Cormac McCarthy book.

I have not for some reason that sounds familiar though. Hume is good from what I've studied of him. I had this amazing lecture on hume that I listen to a grip of times. I tend to stick with existentialism and all things Socrates. I dig the whole "knowledge being inherent" concept.

joon the butcher · « **Reply #8 on:** July 27, 2009, 01:31:01 PM »

Oh, sorry. I had On the Road confused with McCarthy's The Road. Heh.

plainwhitetom · « **Reply #9 on:** July 27, 2009, 01:33:18 PM »

:) Kerouac and Eggers are my fiction authors I push on every bodies pupils. They capture the american soul and spirit to a T, if ya ask me, which you didn't but I just pretended you did.

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