Just started Different Seasons by Stephen King
Before that read You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: And Other Stories by Alan Cumming
Before that read Isabella Blow by Martina Rink
Before that read You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: And Other Stories by Alan Cumming
Before that read Isabella Blow by Martina Rink
Jen, Champion
Posted 4 years ago
rubyfruit76, Champion
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.
The Man Who Would Be King by Kipling.
And I just started Homer's Iliad
Good read Iliad, if you have a modern translation. Older ones are tedious.
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Obviously finished Stephen King's It.
Followed up by The Android's Dream by John Scalzi and Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Three by Brian K. Vaughan.
Going to start Paper Girls Vol. 3 then finally getting around to plowing through Schlock -o- Rama: The Films of Al Adamson .
Followed up by The Android's Dream by John Scalzi and Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Three by Brian K. Vaughan.
Going to start Paper Girls Vol. 3 then finally getting around to plowing through Schlock -o- Rama: The Films of Al Adamson .
Steven King once critiqued It: "That book is a piece of crap." I agree, however, I did stick with it to the end.
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rubyfruit76, Champion
Gave up on Schlock -o- Rama: The Films of Al Adamson and donated it to one of those free popup library boxes by the Prospect Park Q station stop alongside four volumes of Questionable Content webcomic collections.
Flown through the excellent Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters. Prior to that, Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Three by Brian K. Vaughan. Got the final two deluxe edition volumes of that series... praise to Amazon.com. Now alternating between Vol. 4 of that series and Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman.
Jen, Champion
What made you give it up?
Poor writing style. Really cheesy chapter illustrations. Just wasn't interested at all in what I finally end up reading.
Jen, Champion
Jen, Champion
Jen, Champion
Of course, set aside the Ring... unread... once again.
Finished last week:
My Boyfriend Is a Bear by Pamela Ribon (a short mostly visual graphic novel)
Finished last night:
Joyride Vol. 1 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly (another short graphic novel)
Finished this morning (read concurrently with the other books):
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. The audiobook being narrated flawlessly by Colin Firth.
Jacques Mesrine: Killer Instinct, more entertaining and insightful than the movie adaptation, which is saying a lot since I loved the films.
Don Miguel Ruiz: The Four Toltec Agreements: I avoided these sorts of books for a long time but this one was short enough to encourage me to give it a try, the four agreements are spot-on, all spirituality put aside, but old habits die hard and I'm not sure I can fully reach these agreements in a short span of time, at least I agreed with them, which is a first step.
Dan Harris: 10% Happier, How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, that 'voice' metaphor was reflecting my own experience and I liked how the author always insisted on how skeptical and how much he resisted meditation before trying... I never meditated in my life, but the book allowed me to contemplate my life and realize that the perceptions of our own achievements affect our lives more than the achievements themselves, can be positive, can be dangerous too, can be devastating!
Don Miguel Ruiz: The Four Toltec Agreements: I avoided these sorts of books for a long time but this one was short enough to encourage me to give it a try, the four agreements are spot-on, all spirituality put aside, but old habits die hard and I'm not sure I can fully reach these agreements in a short span of time, at least I agreed with them, which is a first step.
Dan Harris: 10% Happier, How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, that 'voice' metaphor was reflecting my own experience and I liked how the author always insisted on how skeptical and how much he resisted meditation before trying... I never meditated in my life, but the book allowed me to contemplate my life and realize that the perceptions of our own achievements affect our lives more than the achievements themselves, can be positive, can be dangerous too, can be devastating!
Just looked up Don Miguel Ruiz. Wikipedia quotes, "Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the
risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really
are..." and "Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art".
There is some truth in these statements, but they can be dangerous, too. They are most true for people like Ruiz, who succeeded, who took a risk and made a beautiful piece of art out of their lives. But could there be for once a self-helper who explains how to pursue your dreams and express yourself, without ending up flipping burgers? I'm very much afraid of that.
It could be that he means something different, it's general life advice after all. But then how to implement it in real situations? A mystery... maybe he explains more in the book itself.
There is some truth in these statements, but they can be dangerous, too. They are most true for people like Ruiz, who succeeded, who took a risk and made a beautiful piece of art out of their lives. But could there be for once a self-helper who explains how to pursue your dreams and express yourself, without ending up flipping burgers? I'm very much afraid of that.
It could be that he means something different, it's general life advice after all. But then how to implement it in real situations? A mystery... maybe he explains more in the book itself.
The book starts with a lot of abstractions like that, but the four "agreements" are explained in less metaphorical terms, and with more examples set in the reality of our everyday world and that's what I liked about the film. What you quoted is typically the kind of stuff people love to put on their Facebook page, you're supposed to be "Wow, so beautiful" but it's definitely not the stuff that dreams are made of.
