What are you reading?

To be serious (for a moment)....I'm taking another stroll down memory lane reading Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda again.

I really love this book, not just for the obvious Tales From Topographic Oceans link but because it's a beautiful and inspiring read. I always feel better when I've read this.

Thanks Spaz.....you've got me back into the idea of picking up a book again. In fact I've taken a number of books off the shelves and piled them up to tackle in a few days. So far I've chosen:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

I think I might have a headache soon. Too much to think about.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by KeithieW

To be serious (for a moment)....I'm taking another stroll down memory lane reading Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda again.

The sign of a true YES and TFTO fan. I have that book somewhere on the shelf too. I purchased and read it after reading Jon's comments in the TFTO vinyl gatefold. It was a paperback edition. I wonder if, after 30+ years, its pages haven't disintegrated.

[roger]

Originally Posted by KeithieW

To be serious (for a moment)....I'm taking another stroll down memory lane reading Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda again.
In fact I've taken a number of books off the shelves and piled them up to tackle in a few days. So far I've chosen:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

hey! I think I saw you rummaging through my bookshelves!

[Bmithra]

My current read is called, 'Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science' by Robert Lomas.

http://www.amazon.com/Freemasonry-Bi.../dp/1592330118

An intriguing bit of history.

Bmithra

[zvinki]

Great thread spaz! I've been thinking about starting something something along the same lines and may actually do it now.

I am currently reading The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett recommended by my wife (and I believe Oprah ). I really enjoyed Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay and my wife thought that it was in a similar vein. Maybe similar but, in my opinion, Sailing to Sarantium was better written.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by zvinki

I am currently reading The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett recommended by my wife (and I believe Oprah )

You believe your wife is Oprah? She wasn't too bad when she was in baltimore

I'm surprised you don't have a Canadian counterpart, but I guess Oprah is everywhere

[zvinki]

Leave it to you Rick to exploit an awkward phrase.

[Giloeada]

Peace of Soul - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The Happiness of Heaven - A Father of the Society of Jesus
Travels - Michael Crichton
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier

[KingRat]

On the serious side.



Last book: The Religion by Tim Willocks
Currently: Barbarians by Terry Jones
Next up: God's War by Christopher Tyerman
or Devil's Peak by Deon Meyer

In between this all: The Holy Bible need I say by Who.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by KingRat

In between this all: The Holy Bible need I say by Who.

I didn't know the Who wrote the bible.

[KingRat]

Originally Posted by VAXman

I didn't know the Who wrote the bible.

Ta Vax. Needed that. I would say there are some who would say so, Tommy what' his name for example

[mailotron]

1974 by David Peace ( french translation of course)
La fille de nulle part /The far cry Frderic Brown
Memphis aux racines du rock et de la soul by Florent Mazzoleni ( in french only , Memphis, roots of rock and soul music)

[progdirjim(Admin)]

moving on to:
Flatland by Edwin Abbott (read it about 22 years ago, fun thought provoker)
Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins (novel)
Dune: House Atreides by Brian Herbert (sci-fi)

all of these on my new Amazon Kindle, which is a damn cool toy...

[Yesspaz]

Originally Posted by progdirjim

all of these on my new Amazon Kindle, which is a damn cool toy...

I'm sure it's a damn cool toy, and the Apple equivalent, whatever it's called, but I just can't get the feel of curling up with a small screen. I'll take the good old "analog" book. Of course, even Jean-Luc Picard waffles back and forth!

[OverHillandDale(Admin)]

CompTIA A+, Network+ and Security+ Certification: A comprehesive approach for all 2006 exam objectives, Volumes 1 & 2.

: zzzzz:

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by OverHillandDale

CompTIA A+, Network+ and Security+ Certification: A comprehesive approach for all 2006 exam objectives, Volumes 1 & 2.

: zzzzz:

What a waste of human endeavor! If there is an after-life, you should be tormented eternal for wasting the precious few hours we are granted here in this life!

I looked up A+ certification and Wiki says:

The A+ certification demonstrates competency as a computer technician. CompTIA A+ certification is a vendor neutral certification.


Vendor neutral my ass! I found the practice exam questions on-line and the questions are anything BUT vendor neutral!!! They're quite vendor specific! ...wanna take a stab at what specific vendor?

I took the OS portion of the exam and there wasn't a single question about an OS; only Weendoze.

I perused several of the network and security exam questions as well. Way too M$ specific to be of any real use. The hardware exam was also brain-damaged IBM PeeCee BIOS specific.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by progdirjim

moving on to:
Flatland by Edwin Abbott (read it about 22 years ago, fun thought provoker)

I read this in college for a course and I didn't really take it in (I was ingesting too much beer to care). It is one of only 50 books I own. I'm going to read this again when i turn 50 and start watching my DVD's.

Isn't it old as shit? And still relevant.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

I read this in college for a course and I didn't really take it in (I was ingesting too much beer to care). It is one of only 50 books I own. I'm going to read this again when i turn 50 and start watching my DVD's.

I remember reading it in HS as part of either a history or english lit. class.

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Isn't it old as shit? And still relevant.

You've been keeping your shit for too long! Flush! :P

[Yesspaz]

I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull about a year ago (one of the most hairbrained New Age ascend-to-a-higher-plane pieces of watsit I ever came across). Yesterday, I was in the used book room at the library, buying some cheap paperbacks (5/$1 or $0.25 each). I bought lots of classics I haven't read, blah blah blah, and something caught my eye. "Jonathan Segal Chicken," a satire of the original, by the same people who wrote the Oddfather. I read it last night (it's about as long as the original). It was quite funny in places. When Jonathan Segal Chicken flew for the first time, the hens were so startled they went ahead and squarely laid four eggs, some laid square eggs, and some were so shocked they went ahead and laid cheese omelets.

That kind of thing. Worth $0.25, but not much more.

[Yesspaz]

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

AUTHOR/EDITOR - TITLE (GENRE)

I finished Candide and Jonathan Segal Chicken, so I just started:

H.G. Wells - The Invisible Man (Novel)