Hey, people who read books

[Animal]

Right now, I'm reading Ovid's Metamorphosis in a translation by some guy with the last name Humphries that I bought last summer and neglected to read. It's actually not that bad. Ovid's a funny guy.

[Jarno]

my current book: the art of war, sun tzu.

[Expat]

Right now, I'm reading Ovid's Metamorphosis in a translation by some guy with the last name Humphries that I bought last summer and neglected to read. It's actually not that bad. Ovid's a funny guy.

Then you should try his Ars Amatoria, with tips about picking up girls in ancient Rome.

[Garmonbozia]

Are there any books involving self-hating surrealist nihilists that you could recommend? Or possibly books where nothing bad ever happens, and the characters are so perfect they send you into a self-hating nihilistic gloom?

I know you have read basically every book ever written on the human condition, which must mean you are an extremely nice and perceptive person.

The fact that you don't read anything even remotely intelligent shows.

[discojoe]

The fact that you don't read anything even remotely intelligent shows.

The fact that you read remotely intelligent books and don't learn anything from them also shows.

[Garmonbozia]

The fact that you read remotely intelligent books and don't learn anything from them also shows.

Wow, the grammar in that Manga you read must be awful.

That begs the question.

[discojoe]

Wow, the grammar in that Manga you read must be awful.

That begs the question.

The m in manga isn't capitalized.

I love how you always seem to sabotage your own efforts to insult other people's grammar by accidentally making a mistake of your own.

Also, I've never read manga.

Also, I hope you get aids.

[Enters Laughing]

I read only trashy populist novels, though I would ideally like to read deeply esoteric books that no-one has ever heard of in order to appear hip and knowledgeable about a range of otherwise alien topics such as lesbianism and art murder.

[Garmonbozia]

The m in manga isn't capitalized.

I love how you always seem to sabotage your own efforts to insult other people's grammar by accidentally making a mistake of your own.

Also, I've never read manga.

Also, I hope you get aids.

I am stupid it is true. I know so little about the subject that I thought manga was the writer rather than the genre.

Forgive me Father for I have sinned; I know very little about Japanese silliness.

I wont get HIV for I have the black plague gene.

[discojoe]

Nope, you said "know know".

[Garmonbozia]

Nope, you said "know know".

Yes I did; and I thought it was correct until I looked up the proper usage for "know know".

[Enters Laughing]

How do you tell someone you love them for who they are without them thinking you are being sarcastic?

[Dioklecian2]

Some books I read over the holidays:

"Universe on a t-shirt: the quest for the theory of everything", it's a Canadian book about the major theoretical issues in theoretical physics. Nice acccessible read with lots' of interesting info.


"Tank versus Tank" is another Canadian book about the history of tank battles in the last century.

"Tank" is a cultural history of the tank from the UK, still reading it, has some very interesting bits.

[Animal]

Then you should try his Ars Amatoria, with tips about picking up girls in ancient Rome.

I saw that at the bookstore when I bought it as well as an edition of erotic poetry by him as well. I'll have to go back and find them again.

[Expat]

I saw that at the bookstore when I bought it as well as an edition of erotic poetry by him as well. I'll have to go back and find them again.

At the Circus:

Why do you keep trying to edge away from me? You can't do it; we've got to sit close because of the seats. That's an advantage I owe to the Circus arrangements. But you, there, who are sitting on the other side of this lady, mind what you're about; don't lean on her like that. And you behind there; don't thrust out your legs like that; don't let your hard knee dig into her back. Mind, darling, you're letting your dress drag on the ground. Pull it up a little, or I shall have to do it for you. Ah, jealous dress, how you liked to cover her beautiful legs. Aye, and the longer you looked--oh, you jealous dress, you! Atalanta's legs must have looked like yours, when she was running--no wonder Milanion wanted to catch hold of them--and Diana's too, when, with uplifted dress, she pursueth the wild beasts in the forests, beasts less fearless than herself. Though I never saw them, those legs set me on fire. What would happen if I saw yours? You will be adding fuel to fire, water to the ocean. I can just imagine, from what I've seen, what those other charms are like that you conceal so well under your dainty dress.

[Christy B]

The m in manga isn't capitalized.

I love how you always seem to sabotage your own efforts to insult other people's grammar by accidentally making a mistake of your own.

Also, I've never read manga.

Also, I hope you get aids.

Not on anyone's side here but I think AIDS is in fact capitalized. (I think Aids is also acceptable.)

[Christy B]

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. Anthropologist Dr. Paul Farmer is a major hero of mine!

Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis, three book series which starts with Dawn, if you like science fiction. She talks about human and alien realtionships and alien society as metaphore for our own complex social issues. She was a really interesting lady, and very smart.

[misutii]

I just recently discovered Dostoevsky and was ashamed it took me so long. "Notes from the Underground" and "Crime and Punishment" were both tantalizing, about to start "The Brothers Karamazov". It's fun reading his books because his psychological description of characters makes them pretty easy to socionic type