Random question...

[x_dazzler]

Anyone have any books they'd like to refer to me, for reading? I've been working through the backlog on my reading shelf lately and finding new stuff to look into is being considered just now. Any topic is good, I can handle English and Spanish and if I push it real hard, maybe French. (I may need help on the French if it makes use of something other than the general popular terms/language though. So if you suggest that, be ready to be nagged and stuff.)

Oh! And Hank? The origami critters are still a hit. Thank you. Miles asked me how to make cranes so I showed him - but I thought you might want to show him how to make some of the others? Some of those I wouldn't have the first clue how to go about making anyway. You went pretty wild there, pun unintended. ;)

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[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Wow, someone around here reads when they're not laid up and injured? I always thought it was just me.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

Ratted myself out, did I? Oops. ;)

I used to a lot more than I have of late - trying to get back into it.

So. Any recommendations?

[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

I've got a spare copy of Walden if you feel like some thought-provoking stuff.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

Oooh. I would indeed. I'll wander over in a bit, that okay?

And I can bring down something new to snack on from the kitchen too while I'm at it...

Before all of my recent events...

[x-empath.livejournal.com]

I was reading this:

Get Them On Your Side: Win Support, Covert Skeptics, Get Results
by Samuel B. Bacharach.

Interesting stuff so far.

Of course, you could always go back to the words of the Master, and reread _The Prince_.

Manuel

Re: Before all of my recent events...

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

I've always favored Lao Tzu and Sun Tzu, myself.

Hrm. Machiavelli it is.

[x-courier.livejournal.com]

The hitchhiker´s Guide to the Galaxy is always good.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

Got copies with you at the moment or do I order in doubles when I get mine, oh One Who Travels? :)

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Anyone have any books they'd like to refer to me, for reading?

What else do you do with books? Well, I reckon they'd be good for beating someone upside the head for being ornery.

You should read Shane by Jack Schaefer (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=kr4zSrGBVc&isbn=0553271105&itm=1). It's the quintessential cowboy story. It's really short, but a lot of fun.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

I remember reading that... a while ago. Make me feel old, young 'un.

Reread it I will. Be interesting to see how it reads now...

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Baudolino by Umberto Eco
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

[x-courier.livejournal.com]

Oh god, the topaz book.

I know there were things in Baudolino besides numerous mentions of topaz, but damned if I can remember it...

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

Pattern Recognition was high on my list already. I'll put that on my shopping list for the next batch coming in then. May hit up Amazon for a delivery today even.

Hrm. And alla them others too while I'm at it.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Someone left a copy of Baudolino in my desk a few weeks ago. I wonder if that was significant?

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Yoda: Dark Rendezvous by Sean Stewart. They should've just hired him and Matt Stover to write the prequels, then they wouldn't suck.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I just can't say no to that now, can I?

*adds to list*

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Stover did write one of the prequels, didn't he? I hear his stuff comes highly recommended.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji. (Haroun, don't look at me like that. You should read this one too.)
Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Dallaire

See, the difference...

[x-jetstream.livejournal.com]

between me and the Howling Fanatics is that I can, and _do_, read books like that.

Ali? Tack this one onto the book order, and I'll pay you back?

Salaam,
Haroun

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

Methinks I will be getting all of those. Not a bad idea at all, that.

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

I have 5 Against 1 - the Pearl Jam Story, Animal Instint - the Def Leppard Story and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy books.

all glam-rock approved.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

Hrm. You need Bowie books, you do.

The Pearl Jam one I read. Def Leppard goes on the list of things to buy!

[x-mirage.livejournal.com]

what to expect when you're expecting and lots of engine/car books from the library.

'cause um....you never know.

[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

Never know when she'll need to fix a car, or never know when she'll be expecting?

I think I'll sit and have a good laugh over both those concepts.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Aristolte: Nicomechean Ethics
Plato: The Republic

Also Summa Theologica by Aquinas and the Screwtape Letters by Lewis.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

I've read one of those, but not the other three.

I leave you to guess which one, as I add this to the order. Mmm. Big book order coming in soon, yesss.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

Hank knows origami? Dude! He's so been holding out on me. I had this whole mad on for it one summer and taught myself how to make a couple of animals. (Can make a pretty mean looking bull, if I do say so myself.)

As to reading. I'm assuming you've read the Lord of the Rings ones. (Up to the battle of Pelinor fields! Is it weird that I'm still nervous for the characters, even if I've seen the movies?)

Um...I don't think you'd want to read any of the books I've been reading lately. But Tamora Pierce is very cool.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

He does indeed. Very well at that - you should see some of the animals he folded up for Miles.

I have read them and have copies of my own, as anyone should. (The books aren't quite the same as the movies. Read on!)

Tamora Pierce? Kid's literature, right? Added to - woah. Amazon gave back a lot of returns on that one!