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Let's kick off this topic: Survivor (Chuck Palahniuk) 5/5 1984 5/5 The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger 2/5 The Dark Tower 2: The Drawing of the Three 4.5/5 The Dark Tower 3: The Waste lands 4.5/5 The Dark Tower 4: Wizard and Glass 4.5/5 The Dark Tower 5: Wolves of the Calla 4/5 The Dark Tower 6: Song of Susannah 3.5/5 The Dark Tower 7: The Dark Tower 2.5/5 |
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CP: survivor 3/5 |
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it's been a long time since the last book 0/0 |
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Authorized King James Version j/k |
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Gulliver's Travels: 4/5 |
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If you feel your ratings will head towards decimal point territory please increase the increments of your scoring system. There's no reason for this other than I prefer it. I thought Survivor was pretty crap from what I remember, or maybe I'm thinking of Choke. They're all pretty similar. Anyway, The World Inside - 7/10 even though it's horribly dated. I Lick My Cheese - 5/10 My 4th attempt at finishing Naked Lunch 125/289 (pages) |
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Jonathan Wilson - Inverting The Pyramid (the history of football tactics) 8/10 |
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Uwe Timm - Heißer sommer (hot summer, a novel from 74 about the german 68 generation) 3 and a 1/2 stars out of 5 |
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50 pages into Anathem by Neal Stephenson. too early to give a review. |
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Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Just started, it's very science-heavy for me but a great help for getting into the "flow" of music and other areas. 4/5 |
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read Kurdt Cobain journals again a few months ago when there was snow 6/5 shotguns, |
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Pygmy (Chuck Palahniuk) - 3/5 loved the style, fun book until the extraordinarily cheesy, happy and lame ending. Catch 22 (Joseph Heller) - 4/5 good humor, though it didn't really date all that well imo. |
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Hhhmm, I must say I expected a bit more enthusiasm for this topic from the XLT crowd. |
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i am too lazy, and no one cares about what i read. |
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Hank Harrison - The Grateful Dead - 2.5/5 Tom Wolfe - The electric cool aid acid test - 3.5/5 Bao Ninh - The Sorrow of War - 4.5/5 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids - 5/5 Tolkien - The Hobbit - 5/5 Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory - 5/5 |
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a few i read or remembered recently: Matt Ruff - Set This House in Order 10/10 (schizo novel) Christopher Moore - The lust lizard of melancholy cove 9/10 Christopher Moore - The bible according to biff 9/10 (funny novels) Sharon Green - Jalav, Amazon Warrior I 1/10 (worst pulp fantasy) John Irving - Until i find you 9/10 Jeffery Thomas - Monstrocity 7/10 (dark SF) |
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Aldous Huxley - Brave New World 5/5 @Portnoy: The Sorrow of War, I bought a copy of the book in Vietnam about 10 years ago, but I was put off by the poor quality of the translation. Cool tho, they had a real business of illegal book copies going there, you could get just about any popular book for next to nothing. |
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sounds cool. |
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I'm reading this book about the kabbala which I really like..4/5 |
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - 6/10 VJ: Something About Visual Arts and Culture Blah Blah - 4/10 Ninja Tune - 7/10 Creepy Comics (issues 1 - 55) - 6/10 The Kraken Wakes - 7/10 A Fraction of the Whole - 8/10 In my pile of books to read: Iain Banks - Transition Colin Wilson - The Outsider Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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oh and I read Michel Chion - Sound Vision - textbook/10 |
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volkswagen lt36 manual 5/5 |
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On the road, the original scroll 5/5 |
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Right now i am reading a lot of self help books. All about personal development and communication. If i could change the way i interact with people, i'd be willing to try to change some of my behavioural patterns. But only if i have a proper theoretical background. Seriously, if been in therapy for two years and my therapist never talked about theory. But this is important for a person like me! |
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I like to read manuals |
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Yeah, we spend so much time reading manuals about software, cars or furniture, but none about human relationships. |
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what behaviour do you want to change? |
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Well i am a 30 year old virgin, what behaviour would that be? Actually i won't change much i want to adapt a new behaviour, i'd like to be able to start a conversation with another person. |
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perhaps you think too much about picking up girls instead of just picking them up ? |
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wait, wrong thread. sorry, X-tomatic |
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I think I have same problem, I think maybe there is no conversation problem, problem is that there is not many people with whom we make verbal contact. Unfavourable environment is reason why people cant build relationship. |
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The best pick up lines. Did you try those out already? |
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"Well i am a 30 year old virgin, what behaviour would that be?" Stop mastrubating? " Actually i won't change much i want to adapt a new behaviour, i'd like to be able to start a conversation with another person." do you know how you can establish that kind of behaviour? |
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I do have some ideas but i am still in the process of gathering information. It is just not enough to adopt a few new 'techniques'. What i want is to develope a certain integrity and competence and that requiers a personality change. |
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would u mind taking your psychological issues to a separate topic and not hijack this one? thx |
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LOl! @ Monoid: Your personality will grow when you practise competentions..so start practising! |
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Yeah, but how will i know what to practise and how to do it. Body language, the tone of your voice, rhetoric and your inner game one must train like diffrent muscles in the body.. |
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move your lips while talking about her personal interests meanwhile believe that you are a sexy boy she definately wants to have sex with. |
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and you can practise this on any girl or in the mirror |
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You have no clue what you are talking about. Communication is an ART! PUA is more than cheesy pick up lines. |
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PUA? |
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ow and I have had enough girls to say that I do know what I'm talking about. So you better start practising or you'll be a wanker for the rest of your life.. |
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thanks for the respect crazone and monoid, really, I appreciate the rudeness. |
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Ok than. Thats fine. |
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Stephen King - The Stand 3,5/5 Jeff Lindsay - Dexter is Delicious 2,5/5 |
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Anathem - Neal Stephenson 4.5/5 Accelerando - Charles Stross 4/5 Glass house - Charles Stross 4/5 |
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Kommunikative Kompetenz by Wolfgang J. Linker. The author suggests that you break the eye contact with the person you are talking to, if she brings up negative things. Instead lay your hand on your chin, look down, and pretend that you are thinking! So, the person does not associate you with these negative things. A very good book! |
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X-tomatic, I read a good copy. It was binded nicely and I didn't detect any overt errors in the text like you do with those others. Really amazing book, the images are still stuck firmly in my mind. Other borrowed copies: Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha - 5/5 Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums -4/5 Tom's midnight garden - 4/5 The Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring - On the outskirts of the Shire - full marks (I find myself reading Ian Mckellen as Gandalf. Luckily Cate Blanchett isn't narrating the whole story) Haven't read much else since last posting in here. |
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George Carlin/Tony Hendra - Last Words - 4/5 Alice Miller - The Drama of the Gifted Child - 4/5 Mladen Dolar/Slavoj Zizek - Opera's Second Death - 4/5 |
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Interesting, my copy might have been an early translation then. I picked it up then because I was interested to hear their side of the story, especially after visiting the War Remnants Museum (a.k.a. the Museum of American War Crimes) in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). good idea btw, to link the titles, I'll start doing that as well. |
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