hello spiral Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 did anyone read under the dome? tv show starting soon based on it Oh really? I fear it will be awful, as all most SK adaptions are. The book was great, very entertaining and suitably epic near the end: As far as I remember he hadn't killed off that many characters in one fell swoop for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 But after that the book turns into shit. It should have ended there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Leafing through the book of Matthew from the New Testament in the original Greek, and I'm impressed at how much I can understand given I've only been learning the language for a few months. With enough glossing it's actually fairly intelligible. Like many religious texts it's quite repetitive and uses a limited vocabulary. It's great though. Fuck all atheists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieBees Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 given up on the crossing and am reading "we were soliders once and young" about killin some damn gook vc bastards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Fuck all atheists. good fuck or bad fuck need 2 know how to prepare myself for this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Fuck all atheists. good fuck or bad fuck need 2 know how to prepare myself for this Us atheists are the best fucks. We do all the dirty shit that's not allowed by religions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Fuck all atheists. good fuck or bad fuck need 2 know how to prepare myself for this Us atheists are the best fucks. We do all the dirty shit that's not allowed by religions. Haha if you only knew. You atheists are just like Protestants in so many ways, including a characteristic porridge-scoffing sexual inadequacy. You are austere, self-flagellating, and to a man rubbish in bed. Iconoclasm is anti-sex. And you will never know the true carnal pleasures known to Catholics, Muslims and other people who are actually able to unite the spiritual and the physical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gary C Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Lord of the Flies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Fuck all atheists. good fuck or bad fuck need 2 know how to prepare myself for this Us atheists are the best fucks. We do all the dirty shit that's not allowed by religions. Haha if you only knew. You atheists are just like Protestants in so many ways, including a characteristic porridge-scoffing sexual inadequacy. You are austere, self-flagellating, and to a man rubbish in bed. Iconoclasm is anti-sex. And you will never know the true carnal pleasures known to Catholics, Muslims and other people who are actually able to unite the spiritual and the physical. Do you believe in Bigfoot too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 of course he doesn't, bigfoot is the athiest monster of them all NR: Asimov "Understanding Physics vol. 1-3." Great explanations, occasional rejected theory still in the text, overall good read so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Fuck all atheists. good fuck or bad fuck need 2 know how to prepare myself for this Us atheists are the best fucks. We do all the dirty shit that's not allowed by religions. Haha if you only knew. You atheists are just like Protestants in so many ways, including a characteristic porridge-scoffing sexual inadequacy. You are austere, self-flagellating, and to a man rubbish in bed. Iconoclasm is anti-sex. And you will never know the true carnal pleasures known to Catholics, Muslims and other people who are actually able to unite the spiritual and the physical. Do you believe in Bigfoot too? I believe in a big foot grinding atheist skulls against holy curbs so yeah, I suppose I do believe in bigfoot you fucking mug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Fuck all atheists. good fuck or bad fuck need 2 know how to prepare myself for this Us atheists are the best fucks. We do all the dirty shit that's not allowed by religions. Haha if you only knew. You atheists are just like Protestants in so many ways, including a characteristic porridge-scoffing sexual inadequacy. You are austere, self-flagellating, and to a man rubbish in bed. Iconoclasm is anti-sex. And you will never know the true carnal pleasures known to Catholics, Muslims and other people who are actually able to unite the spiritual and the physical. Do you believe in Bigfoot too? I believe in a big foot grinding atheist skulls against holy curbs so yeah, I suppose I do believe in bigfoot you fucking mug. number one cause of death among atheists. at least since the church gave up publicly burning them at the stake....we're looking into the idea that bigfoots are controlled by the church actually. do you have any information on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Fuck all atheists. good fuck or bad fuck need 2 know how to prepare myself for this Us atheists are the best fucks. We do all the dirty shit that's not allowed by religions. Haha if you only knew. You atheists are just like Protestants in so many ways, including a characteristic porridge-scoffing sexual inadequacy. You are austere, self-flagellating, and to a man rubbish in bed. Iconoclasm is anti-sex. And you will never know the true carnal pleasures known to Catholics, Muslims and other people who are actually able to unite the spiritual and the physical. Do you believe in Bigfoot too? I believe in a big foot grinding atheist skulls against holy curbs so yeah, I suppose I do believe in bigfoot you fucking mug. How come hardly any Christians seem to act (or even try to act) Christ-like? Always been curious why the walk almost never matches the talk, especially in light of all the lofty moral claims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logakght Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Best book by Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking? Since child I've always wanted to read something about them but my interest went fully to the brain, but I want to regain my passion for space and the universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Best book by Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking? Since child I've always wanted to read something about them but my interest went fully to the brain, but I want to regain my passion for space and the universe. Sagan - Cosmos is most certainly a classic. Hawking - The Universe in a Nutshell is basically a classic at this point as well. Both nonfiction, but well written enough to keep most interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 Lord of the Flies. that's one of my favorite books. love everything about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 A Stranger in Tibet: The Adventures of a Wandering Zen Monk It's about a Japanese zen monk called Ekai Kawaguchi who in 1897 decides to got Tibet to search for Buddhists texts because he thinks the Chinese translations in Japan are not good enough. The guy is absolutely hell bent on getting to the scriptures. Tibet and Nepal were both closed from foreigners at the time and he learns the local languages by talking to children and women in the street, is robbed, is deserted by his guides, etc. He was also the first Japanese person to visit Tibet and Nepal. From the Wikipedia: He left Japan for India in June, 1897, without a guide or map, simply buying his way onto a cargo boat. He had a smattering of English but did not know a word of Hindi or Tibetan. Also, he had no money, having refused the donations of his friends; instead, he made several fishmonger and butcher friends pledge to give up their professions forever and become vegetarian, claiming that the good karma would ensure his success From the book: He had spent the entire previous year in disguise in culturally TIbetan village called Tsarang in the little-known semi-independent kingdom of Lo, between Nepal and Tibet, and there at an altitude of nearly twelve thousand feet had kept himself in shape by running up and down mountainsides with a load of rocks on his back (the villagers, who at this point took him for a Chinese monk from Lhasa, thought this was some sort of mortification of the flesh). After two and a half years of hard study he spoke Tibetan well enough to pass as a native if he had to, had learned to live without bathing for months on end, and was confident of his health and physical strength. It's a really fascinating book and gives a lot of background on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 The Corner: A Year In The Life Of An Inner City Neighborhood by David Simon and Edward Burns Picked it up from the library because I'm watching The Wire right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 The Corner: A Year In The Life Of An Inner City Neighborhood by David Simon and Edward Burns Picked it up from the library because I'm watching The Wire right now. Get Homicide too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Sumbitches Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 The Corner: A Year In The Life Of An Inner City Neighborhood by David Simon and Edward Burns Picked it up from the library because I'm watching The Wire right now. Get Homicide too. If you're enjoying this definitely check out In Search of Respect by Philippe Bourgois. It's a sociological study of a really deprived Harlem neighbourhood and the drug culture there, it's pretty eye-opening. http://www.amazon.co.uk/In-Search-Respect-Structural-Analysis/dp/0521017114 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jimmy McMessageboard Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 I started reading under the dome by stephen king. it's a page turner, mostly because I want to know what the dome is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 The Corner: A Year In The Life Of An Inner City Neighborhood by David Simon and Edward Burns Picked it up from the library because I'm watching The Wire right now. Get Homicide too. If you're enjoying this definitely check out In Search of Respect by Philippe Bourgois. It's a sociological study of a really deprived Harlem neighbourhood and the drug culture there, it's pretty eye-opening. http://www.amazon.co.uk/In-Search-Respect-Structural-Analysis/dp/0521017114 Thanks, I'll check out both of those. The documentary The House I Live In is what got me started on all of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Sumbitches Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 I've just begun rereading Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, it's an absolute beaut of a steampunk/fantasy/gonzo adventure. I've also been reading a lot about ancient Egypt, something I used to be absolutely nuts about as a kid. History is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny O Flannagin Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Reading Slaughter House Five again, last time i read it i was in junior high so im definitely picking up a lot more than my first first read. Completely forgot what the unifying point of the book is, it sometimes seems like there is no point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 ^^funnily enough, Finally finished The Tin Drum and now reading: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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