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I don’t watch Netflix series so there’s not much to discuss there for me.

But I finally got round to starting Dune and so far so good.

Funny thing is I’m a big fan of the Culture novels by Iain Banks (may he rest in peace) and now all sci-fi kinda happens as though it was somewhere in that universe.

V by Thomas Pynchon. Mind-blowing and a big inspiration for a lot of contemporary wtfness, but good lord the politics has not aged well.

funny, I’ve just started reading Dune for the first time as well. enjoying it so far. probably won’t see the movie until I at least get through the first book.

Recently read The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen which I really enjoyed. Gave a pretty scary look into alzheimers / dementia. Now I'm starting As I Lay Dying by Faulkner

guitfnky wrote: ↑

02 Dec 2021

funny, I’ve just started reading Dune for the first time as well. enjoying it so far. probably won’t see the movie until I at least get through the first book.

I planned to do that but failed.
Up side is I liked the film so much I don’t mind it setting the stage.
And friends of mine that like the books a lot rated the film quite highly.
So maybe just go for it.
It prob more bearable than the shock of someone else’s vision!
Film was great. The sound was amazing.

The Second Sex, and the yoga sutras of Patanjali.

The Power of Rock. A book by Danny Kegel, who spent ten years in a prison in Peru and the story goes about how music changed his life.

He gave me the book after a studio session.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28369597-cured
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Reminiscence wrote: ↑

03 Dec 2021

The Second Sex, and the yoga sutras of Patanjali.

Patanjali is great. The samadhi bits anyway.
If you’re interested check out lectures and podcasts by swami sarvapiyananda. There are loads but it deals w that subject exhaustively. It’s a very illuminating breakdown if it all.

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04 Dec 2021

Reminiscence wrote: ↑

03 Dec 2021

The Second Sex, and the yoga sutras of Patanjali.

Patanjali is great. The samadhi bits anyway.
If you’re interested check out lectures and podcasts by swami sarvapiyananda. There are loads but it deals w that subject exhaustively. It’s a very illuminating breakdown if it all.

Thanks! I'll check it out...

Middlemarch, George Eliot.
The Tyranny of Merit, Michael Sandel.

Up next: The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow.

I just orderded three Jedi books, trying to see if I have the force too.......

Autumn of the Patriarch, GG Marquez. There are no paragraphs!
Tried to read Pynchon so many times, guess it wasn't meant to be.

Neo wrote: ↑

03 Dec 2021

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28369597-cured
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Man I love a good musical trainwreck book. so inspiring

Frank Herbert has wrote some marvelously odd books, my faves are Hellstrom's Hive and Whipping Star.

Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. I've read it before, but after watching the TV series decided to brush up on it.
I think, the TV series got it all wrong, they invented their own story, introduced superheroes, whereas the book was about careful analysis and the triumph of science. Asimov was also a proponent of empire and mocked liberals, which doesn't fit well with the current agenda. Empire has been portrayed as an absolute evil in movies since the first Star Wars.

The foundation series has been on my list for ages.
One day...

The Genome by Sergei Lukyanenko

"The Genome" is a new science fiction thriller by the author of the bestselling Night Watch series.In the far-future world of Alexander Romanov, humankind is divided into "naturals" and "speshes"--those who have been genetically modified to serve a specific purpose. Alex is a master pilot capable of maneuvering the dangerous realm of space by communicating directly with his ship. He is about to take on the most mysterious and challenging mission of his life when he happens upon Kim, a teenage girl with a desperate secret. Out of a sense of friendship, he agrees to help her, but this decision will end in conflict and tragedy for dozens of worlds.

Just stopping by to say
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

holy motherfucker

There has been a few books what has led me on to my life of lonerbibliophileReasonTalkloserworm
anything by,
Heinrich Boll
Gunter Grass
Ferdy Celine
I can't do them little Eurocentric doohickies over the vowels
and of course there are the American masters
but I won't waste yer time, I know you fellas and gals have hits to write
Young America wants to dance!

Tao Te Ching

hello,

@Reminiscence: the tao of pooh and the te of piglet

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'oh bother, i've lost my tail again'

cheers and eat well,

j

I've seen many translations of Tao Te Ching, most are too down-to-earth, grounded. As it says: "the detached one sees its essence, the seeking one sees its realizations".

When i finished Annie Proulx's, Foresters while keeping a detailed character list (cos I have memory prollems and I knew I was in for it), I turn to the end of the book and there's a family tree diagram!
Much like finishing Clockwork Orange only to discover a glossary at the end!
I likes reading, next to musics, it keeps me alive.

motuscott wrote: ↑

01 Jan 2022

Much like finishing Clockwork Orange only to discover a glossary at the end!

Haha. Yep.