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#1 2006-10-03 09:28:39

barokgs11
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From: istanbul
Registered: 2006-08-17
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What do you read?

What are your favourite Books-authors?

Here are mines:

Tao Te Ching
Zhuang Zi
Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus
Epicurus
Su Shu
Huanchu Daoren
Krishnamurti
Feyerabend
Chekhov
http://www.themeaningoflife.org/
Boeree

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#2 2006-10-03 10:40:17

Alex
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Registered: 2005-10-17
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Re: What do you read?

Hi Barokgs,

Some heavy weights in that list!

Talking about books I am reading and enjoying "The Single Tone" by Christopher Yohmei Blasdel. Really nice book with lots of Shakuhachi in it (maybe it's my imagination but his writing style reminds me of a Shauhachi playing).


"An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's "at" somewhere. You always have to realise that you are constantly in the state of becoming. And as long as you can stay in that realm, you'll sort of be all right"
Bob Dylan

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#3 2006-10-03 19:15:50

edosan
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Registered: 2005-10-09
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Re: What do you read?

barokgs11 wrote:

What are your favourite Books-authors?

Here are mines:

Tao Te Ching
Zhuang Zi
Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus
Epicurus
Su Shu
Huanchu Daoren
Krishnamurti
Feyerabend
Chekhov
http://www.themeaningoflife.org/
Boeree

...
    What! No Gurdjieff?    smile
...


Zen is not easy.
It takes effort to attain nothingness.
And then what do you have?
Bupkes.

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#4 2006-10-04 03:11:29

Moran from Planet X
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Re: What do you read?

Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
The Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Penguin European Poets)
Salt, A World History - Mark Kurlansky (George W. Bush's staff says he read this book)
The Way of Perfection - Teresa of Avila (translated by E.A. Peers)
Flood - Andrew Vachhs
The Zen Works of Stonehouse (trans. Red Pine)
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons - John Carter
Buddhism Without Beliefs _ Stephen Bachelor
The Red Shifting Web - Selected Poems of Arthur Sze
The Wildcat Moiety - Dick Barnes

Selected cereal boxes.


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#5 2006-10-04 05:04:58

Daniel Ryudo
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From: Kochi, Japan
Registered: 2006-02-12
Posts: 355

Re: What do you read?

Books I ordered for my university that arrived over the last week or two (and that I've just started to dip into)

What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes - Jonathan Marks
Field Notes From a Catastrophe; Climate Change - Is Time Running Out - Elizaeth Kolbert
The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World - John Raltston Saul
The Fall of the Roman Empire; A New History - Peter Heather
Men of Tomorrow; Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book - Gerald Jones
Ice; The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance - Mariana Gosnell
A Pelican In the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses - Isabel Colegate

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#6 2006-10-06 08:06:10

Travis Winegar
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From: Columbia, MO
Registered: 2005-10-31
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Re: What do you read?

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" -- Douglas Adams

Your never-ending source for ultimate knowledge in the universe...

Oh, and I suppose I should mention that I enjoy Thich Nhat Hanh and Dostoevsky too, though I hardly see how you would ever need more than the Guide to make it through life. smile

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#7 2006-10-06 10:17:16

Harry
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Registered: 2006-04-24
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Re: What do you read?

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." Ford Prefect.


"As God once said, and I think rightly..." (Margaret Thatcher)

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