What does everyone read?

[skinsfan_nn]

Originally Posted by hesscl34

You can learn a lot. If you are a good partner you take the time to LEARN. You don't just guess.

hess, i was guessing when i was 13....? At this very mature & wise age of 42, round peg in round hole......! no book needed

[JWsleep]

I read lots of nonfiction lately--mostly popular science type stuff. A very cool book is "Stumbling on Happiness"--it sounds like a self-help title, but it's by a Harvard social psychologist. It's all about how bad we are at predicting what we'll like and dislike in the future. Kind of a "Tipping Point" kind of thing (which I also totally recommend!).

Btw, I am a philosophy professor, and I have trouble understanding BOTH Spinoza and existentialism. I am more into Matrix-type stuff--robots, brains in vats, that sort of thing. What's weird is they pay me to read that stuff. (Beats working for a living! )

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz View Post
I have some philosophy books left over college and I've been meaning to either re-read or read some of them for the first time.
The only problem is I have a bunch of existentialism books and they'd probably fly right over my head at this point. I'm pretty sure I've gotten significantly dumber since graduating.

I never took a course in philosophy in college which I regret. I'm starting to really like it and particularly fond of Baruch Spinoza.

[Crazyhorse1]

Originally Posted by gabe1984

What are your favorite books? Who are your favorite authors? Have you read any good books recently?

I just finished reading "Lonesome Dove" by Lary McMurty. It may be the best book I've ever read. It's very long, so some people get turned off by it for that reason, but once you start it's hard to put down. It won the Pulitzer Prize, I highly recommend it.

I didn't read Larry at all for years because, frankly, I know him, or knew him, and bear a grudge. A couple of years ago, however, I put away my dislike and read Cheyenne Moon and the Lonesome Dove with total delight and amazement. That the little creep could come up with those masterpieces blows me away. You guys who never read should grab both of the books quick-- they'll make you readers. They're funny, extremely violent, sad, tragic, heroic. Most of all they seem to give you the old west in all its terrifying complexity rather than it is usually presented.
By the way, I've now read most of his other books and think of all the books only his book on Pretty Boy Floyd comes even close to the above two.

[Daseal]

Currently just started Lust in Translation which is an interesting concept. It covers how societies handle cheating all over the world. Interesting topic.

[SmootSmack]

I remember seeing Lonesome Dove the mini-series on TV back in 1989, with good ol' Rick Schroder.

And then "Return to Lonesome Dove" came out just a few years later. I don't remember it but I do remember developing a huge crush on a relatively new actress who burst onto the scene with a stirring performance as Rick's young wife...that actress was Reese Witherspoon

[70Chip]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

I remember seeing Lonesome Dove the mini-series on TV back in 1989, with good ol' Rick Schroder.

And then "Return to Lonesome Dove" came out just a few years later. I don't remember it but I do remember developing a huge crush on a relatively new actress who burst onto the scene with a stirring performance as Rick's young wife...that actress was Reese Witherspoon

And now we know the rest of the story.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by 70Chip

And now we know the rest of the story.

That was sort of Paul Harvey-esque wasn't it?

[SmootSmack]

I've read all the Far Side Galleries

[CooleyAsCanBe]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

I've read all the Far Side Galleries

Ah, yes. I forgot to mention having read the entire 40 lb. Calvin and Hobbes compilation collection.