that said, out of those five dialogues, i liked Euthyphro the least
Yeah, Euthyphro sucked pretty badly. I didn't particularly like any of the first 3 but Crito was alright. The book finished off strong with Meno and Phaedo tho.
The Walking Dead volume 14 graphic novel. It's in the mail and I'll have it in a couple of days. Didn't post a pic cause sometimes the covers contain spoilers.
My favorite Roth is American Pastoral. One of my favorite books of all-time.
Definitely one of my favorites as well. Now that im an unemployed college graduate im gonna have more time to get to some books I have that I haven't gotten to yet. I think im going to start with Crusader Nation by David Traxel.
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. I'm at the part where he has returned the trail and is starting to miss Katz. It's a great book so far and I've had a some laugh out loud moments.
The book had a great rhythmn and pace to it but my favorite part of his writing was the unrestrained purity of it. Passages of this book show the reader what it is really like to be a dreamer and to see the beauty of America. There were great little stories involved too like the pure romance he had in California with the Mexican woman and her son, the trip to Mexico, and the various other adventures. I see how some people will criticize it for being overly romantic and sentimental and that it glorifies an irresponsible lifestyle but the dirt and madness of their lives is just below the surface (if at all) and enhances it. Dean Moriarty is one of the greatest literary figures I've ever read too.
Reading this book makes me feel trapped and makes me feel as if I have been asleep for the past 10 years. It makes me eager to be awake and alive.
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And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. I could hear an indescribable seething roar which wasn't in my ear but everywhere and had nothing to do with sounds. I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.
Been wanting to read this for a while, found it at the Library, what a story.
I'd appreciate it if you could follow up on this once you're finished. I'm interested to see how the author handled his story without preaching to the audience. I like baseball, but I don't think I could do a book that parallels a story I'd expect to be coming from an AA podium.
If you haven't read it already, The Bullpen Gospels was the best baseball book I remember reading. Hayhurst was painfully honest, but successfully presents an often overlooked perspective of the game.
What I'm reading: William Faulkner, Sartoris. I've read this book in short intervals, and it still hasn't grabbed me. Working my way through this for the past 6 months, but I usually end up going to something else and jumping back into it after a month or so has passed. The South is foreign to me in real life, so it takes on the feeling of reading from an encyclopedia. I plan to finish sometime around Christmas
I'd appreciate it if you could follow up on this once you're finished. I'm interested to see how the author handled his story without preaching to the audience. I like baseball, but I don't think I could do a book that parallels a story I'd expect to be coming from an AA podium.
If you haven't read it already, The Bullpen Gospels was the best baseball book I remember reading. Hayhurst was painfully honest, but successfully presents an often overlooked perspective of the game.
What I'm reading: William Faulkner, Sartoris. I've read this book in short intervals, and it still hasn't grabbed me. Working my way through this for the past 6 months, but I usually end up going to something else and jumping back into it after a month or so has passed. The South is foreign to me in real life, so it takes on the feeling of reading from an encyclopedia. I plan to finish sometime around Christmas
Just finished it. Well, Josh Hamilton wrote the book, and while he did talk about his Faith, he didn't preach and the book was pretty much just his story, from his High School days, to when he first did powder cocaine and then his addiction to Crack. He told all kinds of terribly sad stories about his addiction, then he talked about getting to the big leagues with the Reds and then later the Rangers. It's an incredible story, and a very inspirational one. He talks about God, but he doesn't preach, it's just an extremely honest book about his addiction and recovery. I'd definitely recommend it.
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