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  #526 (permalink)  
Old Jan 18, 05
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you're just using that as an excuse to see ass at seymours.

edit-but the book is pretty good.
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Old Jan 18, 05
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Can you think of a better excuse?! Not only am I enriching my mind, but I'm also enjoying the natural secenery of North Vancouver! :)
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Old Jan 18, 05
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my english proffessor asked me this question last week so i lied to sound smart and said , 9/11 by chompsky. in reality i got half way through this book over christmas and haven't had the time to finish it since
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Old Jan 18, 05
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believe it or not im still reading that I know this much is true book.. fuck it takes me FOREVER and a day to get through a book. i just get distracted end up doing other things, dont pick up the book for weeks but when i do i read hard. im over half way through it now... its getting pretty juicy.
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Old Jan 22, 05
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Originally Posted by mapleleaf4ever
Can you think of a better excuse?! Not only am I enriching my mind, but I'm also enjoying the natural secenery of North Vancouver! :)
in the summer there's some good swimming holes where people can go swim and sunbathe.
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Old Jan 23, 05
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i just finished reading 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen.

it was...pretty good. sometimes the book was tedious, but it had some really great parts which made you forget about the parts that you didn't like.
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Old Jan 23, 05
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Alternating
-The Essential Ellison (35 year retrospective)
-The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex - What you Must Know to be Sexually Literate.

Both facinating in very different ways...
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Old Jan 23, 05
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-the notebook
-the iliad
-fitness on a plate
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Old Jan 23, 05
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1984.
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Old Jan 23, 05
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just finished "all families are psychotic"... funny book.
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Old Jan 23, 05
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And Coupland's apperance (the first public one in ages!) is scheduled at the planetarium on the 19th (I think). He's discussing his latest, Eleanor Rigby. Tickets are at ticketmaster for something like 10 dollars. I want to go, but I haven't read it yet.
did you go see this myra? i know someone who went in ontario, and apparently he does reading from the new book, but also talks about a sequel to microserfs. would be interesting to see a more current take on it.
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Old Jan 23, 05
like a kick in your side
  
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^i tried to get tickets for us, but they were all sold out :(:(:(

what i am reading now:

The Rebel Sell: Why The Culture Can't Be Jammed by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter.
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Old Jan 23, 05
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^

Yeah, I dont know if I buy those guys' argument.
There is a lot more to dissent than simply differentiating yourself matierially. The whole idea that the blackspot represents the coup-de-grace of capitalism in coopting dissent is crap too. Yes, we live in a consumer society - we have to consume (everyone needs shoes) - so if you've got to buy some, why not buy ones that you can guarantee were made ethically? How does the fact that they are a marketed consumer good reduce their resistant value?
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Old Jan 23, 05
like a kick in your side
  
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^i have only read the introduction so far, so i don't really have much to say about it all yet. hehe. but once i finish it, i'll let you know what i think. i got the book for xmas, but i was thinking about reading it before, too.
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Old Jan 24, 05
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^i'm reading that one too, now. i've just started, but i like it. i like the idea that he presents of "when did it become so that you have to be unauthentic to be cool?"

...but we'll see.

oh, Sidekick, about "the unbearable lightness of being"... i didn't find the ending disappointing, i thought it was quite fitting. mmm, what a memorable book, though.
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Old Jan 24, 05
like a kick in your side
  
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^damn, i wish i could remember the ending so i could remember why i didn't really like it. i'll have to take another look at the book and see why i thought that.
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Old Jan 24, 05
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"catch-22", joseph heller, at this thread's recommendation. hillarious so far.
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Old Jan 24, 05
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the outsider aka the stranger by albert camus
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Old Jan 27, 05
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sailing to sarantium by guy gavriel kay.

a Hell of alot better than his fionavar tapestry bullshit.

btw happy belated birthday thread!
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Old Jan 27, 05
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Kushiels Avatar By Jacqueline Carey
It's the third of a trilogy
It's an awesome story ..... It's all about politics, war, sex, and religon...
The main character "Phedre" cannot experience pleasure without pain
and pain without pleasure which is quite interesting, specially the way the author wrote it.
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Old Jan 27, 05
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I just finished a VERY interesting and empowering book called "Temptress:From the original Bad Girls to Women on Top" By Jane Billinghurst and have just started reading "The Politics of Lust" By John Ince.
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Old Jan 31, 05
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Albert Einstein-The theory of relativity.
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Old Feb 01, 05
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^^haha i hope you're not reading that for fun

lord of emperors by guy gavriel kay.
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Old Feb 01, 05
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^^well this book is really freaky cause it makes you analyse a lot

just for understanding of life.
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Old Feb 01, 05
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oh, in that case, freaky shit is cool.
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