Ellester Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 I belive it's a baseball book, there was a pretty good movie made from it. Life is like a clam. Years of filtering crap then some bastard cracks you open and scrapes you into its damned mouth, end of story. - Steven Erikson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Drabek Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 Yeah, pretty epic scene with Robert Redford knocking out the lights and all. You see, he was "naturally" good at baseball. baby, take off your beret everyone's a critic and most people are DJs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 Is the book good enough to be part of school curricula? "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taks Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 geek stuff: Independent Component Analysis by Hyvarinen, Karhunen and Oja Optimum Array Processing (Detection, Estimation and Modulation Theory part IV) by Van Trees Adaptive Blind Signal and Image Processing by Cichocki and Amari my head hurts. taks comrade taks... just because. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellester Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 you need to loosen up Taks, how about reading Christopher Moore's 'A Dirty Job', that should cheer you up. btw, I just started The Great Gatsby last night. I've never read it *shrug* but it Life is like a clam. Years of filtering crap then some bastard cracks you open and scrapes you into its damned mouth, end of story. - Steven Erikson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taks Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 i have a very hard time reading regular books. even the tech stuff is difficult. i bore too easily i think. i'd rather play, too. i did read, and enjoy, the hitchhiker's guide books. laughed my arse off, actually. taks comrade taks... just because. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Drabek Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Is the book good enough to be part of school curricula? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's fairly good, if I remember right. Then again I was a lot younger and a baseball fan when I read it. Also, the movie gave the book a big boost in popularity, as film versions tend to do. baby, take off your beret everyone's a critic and most people are DJs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draken Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 you need to loosen up Taks, how about reading Christopher Moore's 'A Dirty Job', that should cheer you up. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes. That is an awesome novel. Minty Fresh. Classic. Seriously, only like, three people can touch my body Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taks Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 is it humor? taks comrade taks... just because. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baley Posted August 3, 2006 Author Share Posted August 3, 2006 (edited) bill bisett - pavlovs dog 1 wud yu rathr onlee b ths happee thn fullee trusting agen n gettin whackd whappd wun mor time as yu cirkul th reel prize yr own focus on yrself innr serenitee yr love happee being without goal attainment alredee is not self having bells ar ringing great smells b careful sumthing mite not work having can b valu n thers no food nun not dont care abt things yu have no powr ovr agen n get reelee miserabul sew thers a ringing sum wundrful perfumeree from th larkspur hydrangea roses n plums pears n a kleer lake neer by valu can protekt its virtual realitee sumwun may honor theyr agreement with yu if they dont sum thing els may still **** up gud happeeness is sew tempting yu dont want 2 fall apart if yu dont get it meditating tails or heds oftn its not binaree its in th 7th or third opsyun th magik resides wait 4 it hungree awkward re wired agilitee taking yr time fr sure but redee 2 leep http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/bissett/poems.htm Edited August 3, 2006 by Baley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirottu Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 (edited) Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Finished it... It could be that the worst thing to happen to horror writer is to fall in love and find happiness. Also, the problem with Abarat is that when everything is wierd, orginal and strange, it kinda shoot itself in a leg and everything that is wierd, orginal and strange becomes normal: stuff without wonder. But still mostly good read. Edited August 3, 2006 by kirottu This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepixiesrock Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 I just picked up "How to Build a Time Machine" by Paul Davies, and it's super interesting. Lou Gutman, P.I.- It's like I'm not even trying anymore!http://theatomicdanger.iforumer.com/index....theatomicdangerOne billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy. One trillion b-balls being slam dunked through a hoop throughout the galaxy. I can feel every single b-ball that has ever existed at my fingertips. I can feel their collective knowledge channeling through my viens. Every jumpshot, every rebound and three-pointer, every layup, dunk, and free throw. I am there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krookie Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 The Natural. God this book sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baley Posted August 18, 2006 Author Share Posted August 18, 2006 The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler, "The Simple Art of Murder" refers to both a critical essay and a collection of short stories written by hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler. The essay was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in December 1944. It was later reissued in a book along with eight of Chandler's early stories pre-dating his first novel, The Big Sleep. The essay is considered a seminal piece of literary criticism. Although Chandler's primary topic is the art (and failings) of detective fiction, he touches on general literature and modern society as well. It is not a fragrant world, but it is the world you live in, and certain writers with tough minds and a cool spirit of detachment can make very interesting and even amusing patterns out of it. It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization. All this still is not quite enough. In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor--by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. I do not care much about his private life; he is neither a eunuch nor a satyr; I think he might seduce a duchess and I am quite sure he would not spoil a virgin; if he is a man of honor in one thing, he is that in all things. He is a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common man or he could not go among common people. He has a sense of character, or he would not know his job. He will take no man's money dishonestly and no man's insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him. He talks as the man of his age talks--that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. The story is this man's adventure in search of a hidden truth, and it would be no adventure if it did not happen to a man fit for adventure. He has a range of awareness that startles you, but it belongs to him by right, because it belongs to the world he lives in. If there were enough like him, the world would be a very safe place to live in, without becoming too dull to be worth living in. Such is my faith. Wikipedia Full Text. they cut back sew much on th backs uv th poor by bill bisett, whats missing from my poetree is th stink n slime n th toxik pools surrounding us mooving closr in 2 our sereen psychik oases whats missing from my poetree ar th smells uv our habits 2 endors hierarkeez uv hurt n denial ego victoreez resentments rot n stench uv ekonomik boundareez konstrukts we create allow punish wher onlee munee mattrs th top middul n bottoms uv th work munee stupid klass destroying evree thing whn nowun is bettr n evreewun can have worth if onlee we cud evolv 2 beleev n see that can we its a ring toss echo uv our fleeting wishes we take evreething with us we can how much is that whats missing from my poetree statements totalee in support uv free edukaysyun guaranteed min imum inkums 4 evreewun lessnings uv th fetish uv work n strengthening uv all yuunyuns linda mcquaig sz on evan solomans xcellent teevee show hot type th tobin tax small tax on investment gains evreetime munee moovs out uv th countree agen that small tax cud go a long way tord paying evreething off insted uv cut backs 2 pay debts on th back uv th poor wch is what is now happning as we hed mor tord a two tier system uv evreething onlee munee rewardid with xcellent services povertee not changd deepend whats missing from my writing is total prais uv th life uv th mind what it can reseev envisyun create imagine as we dew need a few feet sankrosankt around us almost alwayze not th infinit rooms say yr a rich prson n a fairlee gud prson as aneewun can b ovr time yuv got ther n yu have 2 much space yu dont undrstand whats happend yu feel self pitee angr at othrs dont love yrself yu have sterling silvr evreething n lonliness is ths th reward 4 all th working time whats missing from my writing is total soshulism dusint work eithr still hierarkeez evn less priva seez simplr thot control wch makes it perhaps evn mor annoying n still 2 much working wch creates damaging habits n still dislike uv pleysyur we ar in veree rudimentaree levls uv being we may not evolv in time b4 th sun blows up aneeway is it anee reassurans that wun workd reelee hard 2 oftn tirudness th best uv capitalism we dew want 2 trade xchange have things uv our veree own best uv soshulism all peopul deserv proteksyuns n guaranteez health edukaysyun services regardless evreewun has alredee worth n th lives uv th mind n soul independentlee uv munee propaganda ikons th originalitee 2 b imagine such storeez as can uplift yu entertain enlitn n deepen yu whats sumtimez missing from my writing is th hope n braveree n optimism that we can dew it make all thees acheevments b a store b a produser presentr server n royal in yr own life without hurting we can dew it whats missing from my poetree is a recent conversaysyun at th bus stop in north sydney cape breton wun prson he sd th sun is going 2 blow up in th yeer 2001 th othr prson he sd he thot it wud b 2010 well i sd dont we have a lot uv oil wind powr gas etsetera 4a whil well they sd th tempratur will drop sew far down thos mesyurs will not b at all effektiv in keeping warm n weul all freez 2 deth ohh i sd i dont think thats an xcellent way 2 die tho i gess no way 2 die is reelee that xcellent no they sd as we get back on th bus 2 drive on furthr 2 sydney they both had sd all ths had bin prophesizd th dramatik winds n ghostlee see storeez in th turbulent nite bcumming a bit cold in th air all around us wer thrilling n home 2 me whats missing from my writing is yu our ****ing our mind reassurances unknown parts uv my bodee bcumming alive whats missing from my writing ar all th dramateek konflikts prsonal we all struggul with how we escape th crueltee or non rewarding dominans uv othrs thru we being harsh ourselvs squel 4 our freedom from bull **** skreem 4 our demands that we b lovd not always rite on sumtimes we ovr reakt mor drama we ar all such devoteez uv evn bside th endless atlantik we ar such fish stik toddlrs bside we caree on all th strugguls duelistik layr ing uv kontradiktoree tapestereez n eventualee let go evreewuns konfusd n feeling th guidans n wondring what is it all th blessings th pain th journeez th sun bakes us 4give n love n find as a demand that will seldom work honestlee we need 2 rewrite it make let it glow mor will i evr go back aftr sumwuns bin harsh 2 me sumtimes its eazier thn othrs th sun can reapeer it was all a ms mistr undrstanding othr times its just not possibul try not 2 think uv it moov on b loving b ther wundr th road n th bus taking a suddn curv tho th drivr knows it like th back uv his hand thru th see saltee inkee nite ium thinking now 4 a veree littul whil nothing is missing evreething is alredee heer http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/bissett/poem2.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lare Kikkeli Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 New Robin Hobb. Haven't read fantasy in years, and this book reminds me of why. Not worth the Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xard Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Shaman's crossing? Or that 2nd part of that trilogy? I've only read Farseer trilogy... and it rocks. Dunno about other books How can it be a no ob build. It has PROVEN effective. I dare you to show your builds and I will tear you apart in an arugment about how these builds will won them. - OverPowered Godzilla (OPG) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 I loved Shaman's Crossing, and I'm waiting on the second one. The Liveship Trilogy was a bit slow for me, but it picked up in the second book. Robin Hobb is one of my favorite writers though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lare Kikkeli Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Yeah the second one, Forest Mage. It's boring, and na Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baley Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 (edited) Well, I've read (or re-read) Junky, Slaughterhouse-Five and The Sun Also Rises. I'm not gonna admit I'm all gay for the writers, I'm not, not here anyway and surely not now, but there's a possibility, that's something, I guess. I've read about 180 pages of Valis on my way back home, and, man, I don't really care for, like, half of PKD's books, especially the early ones, insanity really really suited him. I mean, Horselover Fat's nervous breakdown began the day he got the phonecall from Gloria asking if he had any Nembutals. He asked her why she wanted them and she said that she in Edited August 23, 2006 by Baley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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