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May 4, 2020 11:39:39 GMT -7
Post by lordkundalini on May 4, 2020 11:39:39 GMT -7
watching shows on various yoga traditions on Gaia today and led to me wanting to read this:
so I started it.
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Post by deadphishbiscuits on May 5, 2020 11:44:07 GMT -7
Sweet science > mma
That is all
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Post by saulgoodman on May 5, 2020 15:50:17 GMT -7
I don't think there has ever been a more interesting or more important sports figure than Ali. I could have done with a little less of the bravado and bad rhymes, but when a person is willing to walk away from all s/he's worked for and earned, that's walking the walk and not just talking the talk.
loved When We Were Kings, the Leon Gast doc from '96 about the Rumble in the Jungle, and it was the cultural connection that Ali was able to create that made that one a winner.
Unfortunately, didn't care for Norman Mailer's The Fight. I thought Mailer found a way to make the Rumble in the Jungle all about Mailer.
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May 14, 2020 9:45:38 GMT -7
Post by lordkundalini on May 14, 2020 9:45:38 GMT -7
simply loving auto biography of a yoga. really hits home. highly recommend to anyone on a spiritual path gonna take a look at this:
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Post by chickenpoop on May 18, 2020 13:17:42 GMT -7
I'm about half way through Andrew Yang's book (The War on Normal People). It's about the idea of universal income- it's been an interesting read so far, though I can't say whether or not I agree with him yet.
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May 18, 2020 14:34:29 GMT -7
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Post by EddieBlake on May 18, 2020 14:34:29 GMT -7
#yanggang
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May 21, 2020 8:40:29 GMT -7
Post by lordkundalini on May 21, 2020 8:40:29 GMT -7
just came across the concept of weticko--- Indians viewed the white mans desire to destroy nature as a sickness
so im gonna read this:
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Post by higs on Jun 15, 2020 17:38:51 GMT -7
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Jun 29, 2020 9:02:12 GMT -7
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Post by saulgoodman on Jun 29, 2020 9:02:12 GMT -7
Haven't updated in a while, but I have been reading. Mostly short novels from 15ish years ago.
1. No Country for Old Men - McCarthy
2. Saturday - McEwen
3. Me and Orson Welles - Kaplow
4. Vernon God Little - Pierre
5. The Descendants - Hemmings
3 of 5 of those turned into movies I saw long before recently reading the books. It can be a certain kind of challenging to read a novel after seeing the movie based on it, but I still enjoyed each of these (but the movie was better IMO in each of the 3 instances). The 2 that didn't turn into movies were the best reads of the 5 though: Saturday and Vernon God Little. All of them except for Saturday used 1st person (and Saturday used 3rd person limited), so I hope my next novel might bring some omniscient narration and point of view.
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Jul 11, 2020 14:24:30 GMT -7
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Post by saulgoodman on Jul 11, 2020 14:24:30 GMT -7
now reading The Suffering Channel by David Foster Wallace.
kinda meh so far.
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Jul 11, 2020 14:32:54 GMT -7
Post by EddieBlake on Jul 11, 2020 14:32:54 GMT -7
I don't think there has ever been a more interesting or more important sports figure than Ali. I could have done with a little less of the bravado and bad rhymes, but when a person is willing to walk away from all s/he's worked for and earned, that's walking the walk and not just talking the talk. loved When We Were Kings, the Leon Gast doc from '96 about the Rumble in the Jungle, and it was the cultural connection that Ali was able to create that made that one a winner. Unfortunately, didn't care for Norman Mailer's The Fight. I thought Mailer found a way to make the Rumble in the Jungle all about Mailer. I got to interview Leon Gast for the Woodstock Film Festival. Super duper nice guy. |
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Jul 20, 2020 18:28:51 GMT -7
Post by saulgoodman on Jul 20, 2020 18:28:51 GMT -7
The Suffering Channel remained MEH to the end.
Now reading The Sea by John Banville. Just started; no opinion yet.
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Post by saulgoodman on Aug 11, 2020 19:05:15 GMT -7
The Sea was meh, meh to the end.
In the homestretch on Terrorist, John Updike's penultimate novel. Really good scene setting and character writing, but some details work together a little too conveniently.
Now back to this silky Tweezer.
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Aug 28, 2020 7:17:52 GMT -7
Post by lordkundalini on Aug 28, 2020 7:17:52 GMT -7
been mostly reading spiritual books or nature of reality
but Yeah!, latest Harry Dresden book, book 16 Peace talks.
one of my fav series about a modern day wizard in Chicago
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Post by bear on Sept 13, 2020 8:23:26 GMT -7
 I just started this and it is absolutely gripping. It's about the string of more than 70 arson fires on the Eastern Shore of VA that started in 2013. It goes deeper into the economic history and decline of the region, the passion of the lovers that committed the crimes, and how their tempestuous relationship eventually saw them on the witness stand testifying against each other. |
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Sept 14, 2020 16:49:24 GMT -7
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Post by bear on Sept 14, 2020 16:49:24 GMT -7
Oh my god this story is nuts. I can't put it down.
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Sept 14, 2020 18:15:48 GMT -7
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Post by bear on Sept 14, 2020 18:15:48 GMT -7
"They were so freaking stupid about their fires that they were smart."
The fire chief knew him! The whole county knew them. Incredible.
"The greatest arsonist in the history of all of Virginia - the one who kept us up night after night after night - and it was fucking Charlie Smith in a fucking gold minivan."
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Post by bear on Sept 30, 2020 15:05:23 GMT -7
I'm reading Rage by Bob Woodward. It's basically like if we made ragedoses president. Truly astounding. Also the table of contents is hilarious.
Chapters 1-46 - page 1
Epilogue - page 386
Wtf is that
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Sept 30, 2020 16:19:16 GMT -7
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Post by deadphishbiscuits on Sept 30, 2020 16:19:16 GMT -7
Lil dude has started the hunger games
I may start reading asssholes finish first
It's one of hermositas books
I dont have many books , and prefer the comic variety of books
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Oct 12, 2020 17:03:22 GMT -7
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Post by bear on Oct 12, 2020 17:03:22 GMT -7
I'm reading Rage by Bob Woodward. It's basically like if we made ragedoses president. Truly astounding. Also the table of contents is hilarious. Chapters 1-46 - page 1 Epilogue - page 386 Wtf is that This book makes the Mueller report look like child's play. There is a mind bottling level of detail provided by this President from his own mouth as to why and how he is corrupted to his core in favor of business interests versus the loyalty to the nation and its security and well-being. Un-fucking-believable. And he straight up acknowledges his own bias and ignores it. In his mind, he's making good deals and that's really the way things are supposed to be when in reality he is totally and completely inexperienced, devoid of knowledge, and incompetent on the world stage, and frankly I'm terrified reading it. |
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