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  • bart_smastard
    Gold Gabber
    • May 2005
    • 980

    #46
    Re: fao people that read books

    brian greene's - the elegant universe
    once you understand how small and irrelevant you are and that everything you are made of is dead and possibly a million times older than the universe itself. you gain a greater appreciation of life and what you want from life . it isn't a a phylosophy book it's a physics book but it opens ure mind to unimaginable enormity and unimaginably minute . just to think we are made of cells and cells are made of atoms so we can see and touch each other and metal is solid ect.ect is not grasping the idea of how we came to be . . we have all heard of how everything in the universe came from the big bang and that the big bang was just a ball of pure matter possibly as small as a pea ( some think even smaller ) well all the matter in the universe stuck together is no larger than a pea . so imagine the earth goes into the sun approxinmately 1,000,000 times there are around 100 billion stars per galaxy and appoximatley 1000 billion galaxies . and also we are just discovering 2/3rds of the mass of the universe is dark matter we can't see .. and all that squeazes down to the size of a pea or less .. so now try to imagine just how much of urself is solid matter .. ... this isn't an extract from the book just a portion of what has sunk into my tiny brain . i like things that make me think ,this book i read 3 years ago and i'm still thinking about it

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    • peloquin
      Till I Come!
      • Jun 2004
      • 8643

      #47
      Re: fao people that read books

      Originally posted by thezzapper
      I didn't like "haunted". It is what I call a gimmick book. It had a gimmick ( a premise, i guess), but the actual plot i thought sucked.

      "Kite runner" was a truly fantastic book. An amazing & unforgettable story.

      Currently reading, "empire rising". A terrific, hard to put down story about an iron worker helping to build the empire state building that falls in love with a mobster's girlfriend. Good book, & highly recommended...
      im enjoying haunted so far, empire rising sounds good, who is it by? (dont make me google it :P )

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      • threehills
        I heart Lollergirl
        • Jun 2005
        • 3641

        #48
        Re: fao people that read books

        Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield

        By far the best book I have ever read. They tell you the ending in the first chapter, but you hope the book never ends. Its about the Spartans of long ago and how 300 of them held off over hundreds of thousdand of advancing Persians at the battle of Thermopylae. The book is fiction, but follows truth as much as possible.

        Loaded: A Misadventure from the Marijuana Trail - Robert Sabbag

        Awesome non fiction. A drug runner recounts all the harrowing adventures he had smuggling ganja into the states from South America.


        It's never too late to become the person you always thought you would be.

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        • bart_smastard
          Gold Gabber
          • May 2005
          • 980

          #49
          Re: fao people that read books

          chung quo-david wingrove
          about china waking up and realising it's potential ,it's a set of nine books following on from each other all in different styles spy/sci fi/ political /gangster ect.ec.t the romantic book lets the series down a lil but i don't think iv'e read 5000 pages quicker in my life . best fiction iv'e read

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          • etincelles
            Addiction started
            • Jun 2005
            • 336

            #50
            Re: fao people that read books

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            • deepdish
              Fresh Peossy
              • Jul 2005
              • 38

              #51
              Re: fao people that read books

              Kite Runner is a great book! Read it.

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              • thezzapper
                Gold Gabber
                • Jun 2004
                • 813

                #52
                Re: fao people that read books

                Originally posted by peloquin
                Originally posted by thezzapper
                I didn't like "haunted". It is what I call a gimmick book. It had a gimmick ( a premise, i guess), but the actual plot i thought sucked.

                "Kite runner" was a truly fantastic book. An amazing & unforgettable story.

                Currently reading, "empire rising". A terrific, hard to put down story about an iron worker helping to build the empire state building that falls in love with a mobster's girlfriend. Good book, & highly recommended...
                im enjoying haunted so far, empire rising sounds good, who is it by? (dont make me google it :P )
                the author is thomas kelly. just finished reading it. excellent read.
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                • peloquin
                  Till I Come!
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 8643

                  #53
                  Re: fao people that read books

                  i just finished "The Contortionist's Handbook" by Craig Clevenger... pretty good book, i'd say its definately worth reading. currently reading "Crash" by J.G. Ballard - its about people who have a sexual fascination with car crashes - very weird

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                  • skahound
                    Someone MARRY ME!! LOL
                    • Jun 2004
                    • 11411

                    #54
                    Re: fao people that read books

                    Originally posted by peloquin
                    currently reading "Crash" by J.G. Ballard - its about people who have a sexual fascination with car crashes - very weird
                    That was made into a movie about 10 years ago starring James Spader. I remember there being a great controversy over its release.
                    A good shower head and my right hand - the two best lovers that I ever had.

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                    • peloquin
                      Till I Come!
                      • Jun 2004
                      • 8643

                      #55
                      Re: fao people that read books

                      Originally posted by skahound
                      That was made into a movie about 10 years ago starring James Spader. I remember there being a great controversy over its release.
                      yeah, david cronenberg makes a lot of f'ed up movies. the book was written in '73, Ballard also wrote Empire of the Sun and a lot of others...

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                      • palmer
                        Retired or Simply Important
                        • Jun 2004
                        • 5383

                        #56
                        Re: fao people that read books

                        I just finished Catcher in the Rye and started Power vs Force by Dr.David R. Hawkins.
                        Both of which I recommend. Catcher is something I've been meaning to read for awhile I think its one of those books you just have to read. Power vs Force is all about consciousness and spirituality. It's interesting, but at times he kind of strays off into the deep end. Worth checking out though.
                        todayistomorrow
                        art direction | design | animation

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                        • palmer
                          Retired or Simply Important
                          • Jun 2004
                          • 5383

                          #57
                          Re: fao people that read books

                          I'll have to check that ballard fellow out... sounds interesting.
                          todayistomorrow
                          art direction | design | animation

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                          • skahound
                            Someone MARRY ME!! LOL
                            • Jun 2004
                            • 11411

                            #58
                            Re: fao people that read books

                            Originally posted by palmer
                            I just finished Catcher in the Rye
                            Hopefully you paid cash or used someone else's library card!
                            A good shower head and my right hand - the two best lovers that I ever had.

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                            • palmer
                              Retired or Simply Important
                              • Jun 2004
                              • 5383

                              #59
                              Re: fao people that read books

                              I stole it.
                              todayistomorrow
                              art direction | design | animation

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                              • peloquin
                                Till I Come!
                                • Jun 2004
                                • 8643

                                #60
                                Re: fao people that read books

                                Catcher in the Rye is my all-time favorite book. read it at least 5 times.

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