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Date: December 17, 2023 at 14:06:09
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: my updated reading list |
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this was me ... formerly posting as "mcon"
Abbey, Edward -- The Fool's Progress
Ardrey, Robert -- The Territorial Imperative
Arendt, Hannah -- The Life of the Mind
Asimov, Isaac -- Foundation
Bester, Alfred -- The Demolished Man
Blake, William -- The Book of Urizen
Borges, Jorge Luis -- The Garden of Forking Paths
Bulgakov, Mikhail -- The Master and Margarita
Cary, Joyce -- The Horse's Mouth
Castaneda, Carlos -- The Teachings of Don Juan
Chandler, Raymond -- The Big Sleep
Conrad, Joseph -- Heart of Darkness
Dick, Philip -- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Didion, Joan -- The Year of Magical Thinking
Dodge, Jim -- Stone Junction
Donleavy, J.P. -- The Ginger Man
Eco, Umberto -- Foucault's Pendulum
Eddison, Eric -- The Worm Ouroboros
Farina, Richard -- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up
to Me
Farmer, Phillip -- The Gates of Creation
Fell, Barry -- America B.C., Saga America
Fuller, R. Buckminster -- Operating Manual For
Spaceship Earth (*)
Gibson, William -- Neuromancer
Golding, William -- Lord of the Flies
Grass, Gunter -- The Tin Drum
Gurdjieff, George -- Meetings With Remarkable Men
Hammett, Dashiell -- The Maltese Falcon
Heinlein, Robert -- Stranger in a Strange Land
Heller, Joseph -- Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
Herbert, Frank -- The Santaroga Barrier
Hersey, John -- The Wall
Hesse, Herman -- Steppenwolf
Huxley, Aldous -- Island
Innes, Ralph -- The Doppelganger
Ing, Dean -- Devil You Don't Know
Jonson, Ben -- Every Man out of His Humor
Joyce, James -- Finegan's Wake
Jung, C.G. -- Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting
Principle
Kafka, Franz -- Metamorphosis
Kesey, Ken -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
King, Stephen -- The Dark Tower
Koestler, Arthur -- Darkness At Noon
Le Guin, Ursula -- The Lathe of Heaven
Lem, Stanislaw -- The Cyberiad
Lewis, Clive -- That Hideous Strength
Lewis, Sinclair -- Babbit
Melville, Herman -- Moby Dick
Marquez, Gabriel -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
Miller, Arthur -- A Canticle for Leibowitz
Neihardt, John -- Black Elk Speaks
Nietzsche, Friedrich -- Thus spoke Zarathustra
Orwell, George -- 1984 (*)
Ouspensky, Peter -- In Search of the Miraculous
Paine, Thomas -- Common Sense
Panshin, Alexei -- Rite of Passage
Pertwee, Bosco -- Another You
Pohl, Frederik -- Syzygy
Quarles, Francis -- Boanerges and Barnabas
Quinn, Anthony -- The Original Sin
Rabelais, François -- Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rogers, Thomas -- The English Creed
Roth, Philip -- The Plot Against America
Roy, Arundhati -- The God of Small Things
Salinger, J.D. -- Franny and Zooey
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr -- The Gulag Archipelago
Steinbeck, John -- Grapes of Wrath
Thompson, Hunter -- Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
Toole, John Kennedy -- A Confederacy of Dunces
Traven, B. -- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Undset, Kristin -- Kristin Lavransdatter
Updike, John -- Rabbit Is Rich
Uris, Leon -- Mila 18
Vogt, Alfred -- The World of Null-A
Vonnegut, Kurt -- Slaughter-house Five
Waugh, Evelyn -- The Loved One
West, Nathanael -- The Day of the Locust
Wilson, Robert Anton -- Schrödinger's Cat
Yeats, William -- Sailing to Byzantium
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny -- Babiyy Yar
Zangwill, Israel -- The Melting Pot
Zamyatin, Yevgeny -- We
Zinn, Howard -- A People's History of the United States
(*)
(*) this one should be read every year or so
note: some of these are books that I have not yet read
but sound interesting
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Date: December 19, 2023 at 11:09:33
From: mr bopp, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: my updated reading list |
URL: http://earthboppin.net/talkshop/booklists.html |
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that's an impressive list david...i edited your entry on the booklist page...
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Date: December 24, 2023 at 21:58:59
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: my updated reading list |
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“Only he will deserve the name of “man” and can count
upon anything prepared for them from above, who has
already acquired corresponding data for being able to
preserve intact both the wolf and the sheep entrusted to
his care.”
— G.I. Gurdjieff
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Date: December 25, 2023 at 11:28:01
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: my updated reading list |
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georgi was a knowledgeable man...
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Date: December 26, 2023 at 17:02:03
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: my updated reading list |
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what was the sin of this "ray" person that you "did not
like"?
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Date: December 26, 2023 at 18:25:23
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: my updated reading list |
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ray?!?!?!
"You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Raymond J. Johnson, but you doesn't hasta call me Johnson!"
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Date: December 25, 2023 at 16:56:40
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: my updated reading list |
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I read picked that book up somewhere in the summer of
1969 and that passage stuck in my head ... that's it
... that's life ... you must be kind to people ... but
you have to also beware of people ... it is a fine line
and I've developed what I refer to as my "bullshit
filter" over the years and at age seventy-nine I have
it fairly fine tuned to detect the froward and abtuse
... I pity the foolish for their foolishness ... there
is only one that I love and fear and he has added years
to my life because I love and fear him ... that is the
key to fine living ... to attain one's full potential
is to reckon with him and to please him and to serve
him ... that is now my whole life's work ... to make
myself acceptable to him
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Date: December 19, 2023 at 18:28:10
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: my updated reading list |
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but the Holy Bible is the only book I consistently read
and find value in ... all those books on that list were
preparation for my life's work ... fiction when I was a
boy ... science fiction when I was a very young man ...
and the esoteric in middle age ... but since the summer
of 1997 my true love has been the good book ... OT and
NT ... I see all of us in it ... the good, the bad, and
the ugly ... and each of us has a piece of that in us
... I see myself as Job ... all the medical problems ...
but now I've mostly overcome my torture and find the
vegan diet suits me greatly
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Date: December 19, 2023 at 10:58:00
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: my updated reading list |
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philip_Cohane |
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and there is this one new book I would add
trust me ... this guy was on to something
his book is "The Key" and it is aptly titled
all the words he found are Hebrew words
and there is a concentration of those words in the
headwaters of the Mississippi
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