100 Years of Solitude.

It's not exactly adventure but it's fantastical and fantastic.

The Dude wrote:how about Hitchhiker's Guide

hm, how come i've never taken this trip? My mind has been rooted in particle physics and stuff lately, will this separate fact from fiction or blur the lines?

JUburton wrote:100 Years of Solitude.

It's not exactly adventure but it's fantastical and fantastic.

not sure what to make of this one, what else can you tell me about it?

in addition to that, amazon also recommended The Alchemist, which looks to be up my alley

Napalm wrote:

The Dude wrote:how about Hitchhiker's Guide

hm, how come i've never taken this trip? My mind has been rooted in particle physics and stuff lately, will this separate fact from fiction or blur the lines?

JUburton wrote:100 Years of Solitude.

It's not exactly adventure but it's fantastical and fantastic.

not sure what to make of this one, what else can you tell me about it?

in addition to that, amazon also recommended The Alchemist, which looks to be up my alley

It is a classic and one of the best books I've ever read. I'll just steal the first wiki paragraph: One Hundred Years of Solitude is the story of seven generations of the Buendía Family in the town of Macondo. The founding patriarch of Macondo, José Arcadio Buendía, and Úrsula Iguarán, his wife, leave Riohacha, Colombia, after Arcadio kills Prudencio Aguilar after a cockfightt. One night of their emigration journey, while camping on a riverbank, José Arcadio Buendía dreams of "Macondo", a city of mirrors that reflected the world in and about it. Upon awakening, he decides to establish Macondo at the riverside; after days of wandering the jungle, José Arcadio Buendía's founding of Macondo is utopic.

Napalm wrote:

The Dude wrote:how about Hitchhiker's Guide

hm, how come i've never taken this trip? My mind has been rooted in particle physics and stuff lately, will this separate fact from fiction or blur the lines?

I am fairly certain that you will be able to derive fact from fiction in this book.

(It is all fact.)

Napalm wrote:

The Dude wrote:how about Hitchhiker's Guide

hm, how come i've never taken this trip? My mind has been rooted in particle physics and stuff lately, will this separate fact from fiction or blur the lines?

JUburton wrote:100 Years of Solitude.

It's not exactly adventure but it's fantastical and fantastic.

not sure what to make of this one, what else can you tell me about it?

in addition to that, amazon also recommended The Alchemist, which looks to be up my alley

people love the alchemist. i read it. not sure i got it. the main theme/lesson wasn't something that was revolutionary. it was basically just a few self help axioms but longer.

Napalm wrote:hey pals, recommend me a really fun book! Most of my personal library is self-interest stuff, so a neato adventure is what I'm looking for.

I really enjoyed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and All the Light We Cannot See

Grotewold wrote:

Napalm wrote:hey pals, recommend me a really fun book! Most of my personal library is self-interest stuff, so a neato adventure is what I'm looking for.

I really enjoyed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and All the Light We Cannot See

Very different books but same.

JUburton wrote:

Grotewold wrote:

Napalm wrote:hey pals, recommend me a really fun book! Most of my personal library is self-interest stuff, so a neato adventure is what I'm looking for.

I really enjoyed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and All the Light We Cannot See

Very different books but same.

Yeah they both strike me as "adventure," K & C moreso in the traditional and certainly funner sense of the word

Cavalier and Klay

CalvinBall wrote:

Napalm wrote:

The Dude wrote:how about Hitchhiker's Guide

hm, how come i've never taken this trip? My mind has been rooted in particle physics and stuff lately, will this separate fact from fiction or blur the lines?

JUburton wrote:100 Years of Solitude.

It's not exactly adventure but it's fantastical and fantastic.

not sure what to make of this one, what else can you tell me about it?

in addition to that, amazon also recommended The Alchemist, which looks to be up my alley

people love the alchemist. i read it. not sure i got it. the main theme/lesson wasn't something that was revolutionary. it was basically just a few self help axioms but longer.

it seems that you get out of it as much as you've walked on your own journey. The messages exist in every moment depending on how open we are to receiving.

Thanks for the recommendations pals, those all look cool.

JUburton wrote:100 Years of Solitude.

It's not exactly adventure but it's fantastical and fantastic.

Being made into a series and coming to Netflix as a Spanish-language original

Summer break has started, and I have begun War and Peace. Reading the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation, so the French parts are included in the text with the translations in the footnotes. My reading knowledge of French gets me about halfway there, but I'm having to check the footnotes for the rest, slowing progress. To get everything in one volume, the print is small. I will likely need new reading glasses before this is over.

There are also historical endnotes, which are useful but also distracting.

I finished The Passage series. I thought it was really, really great. Possibly my favorite epic, multi-book series.

Currently reading FUN HOME, the graphic memoir mentioned here:

One of the most groundbreaking productions ever to hit Broadway, FUN HOME is the winner of five 2015 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Based on Alison Bechdel's best-selling graphic memoir, FUN HOME introduces us to Alison at three different ages, revealing memories of her uniquely dysfunctional family - her mother, brothers and volatile, brilliant, enigmatic father. This intimate and emotional theatrical experience brings audiences closer to Alison's story than ever before. A refreshingly honest musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.

Not my usual cup of tea, but my son is performing in a local production of the show and I like to familiarize myself with his shows when possible.

Next up, I just reserved "Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World" from the library.

re-reading Robert Jordan (and Brandon Sanderson to finish) Wheel of Time series for the 2.8th time.
I read most of it then we were waiting for the end and it had been a while so i re-read start to finish including all the books.

in advance of them releasing this live action at some point in the not-too-distant future, re-reading again.

love this series a ton.

couldn't get through the books. excited for the show though.

jamiethekiller wrote:couldn't get through the books. excited for the show though.

it got rough mid-end with too many pov characters that didn't matterhad a bunch of I HOPE MAT OR PERRIN IS IN THIS CHAPTER experiences.

mtcal wrote:re-reading Robert Jordan (and Brandon Sanderson to finish) Wheel of Time series for the 2.8th time.
I read most of it then we were waiting for the end and it had been a while so i re-read start to finish including all the books.

in advance of them releasing this live action at some point in the not-too-distant future, re-reading again.

love this series a ton.

I’ve read it all 1.8 times. I forgot what interrupted my last re-read but I agree and need to pick it back up again before the series.

yo naplam, you read 'how to change your mind' by michael pollan? got you written all over it.

i listened to Herbivores Dilemma. i almost set my car on fire during the first chapter. ended up being a really good book though

JUburton wrote:yo naplam, you read 'how to change your mind' by michael pollan? got you written all over it.

No I haven't but that is right up my alley, thanks for thinking of me. A lot of the work I do on consciousness is a means for mimicking psychedelic states of being in "normal" "everyday" capacities to help stabilize stuff like depression, addiction, adhd, autism, alzheimers, dementia, etcetc. That awakening energy from substances can serve as a spark for what can be found right in our minds and bodies too. I'll check it out! Did you?

Napalm wrote:

JUburton wrote:yo naplam, you read 'how to change your mind' by michael pollan? got you written all over it.

No I haven't but that is right up my alley, thanks for thinking of me. A lot of the work I do on consciousness is a means for mimicking psychedelic states of being in "normal" "everyday" capacities to help stabilize stuff like depression, addiction, adhd, autism, alzheimers, dementia, etcetc. That awakening energy from substances can serve as a spark for what can be found right in our minds and bodies too. I'll check it out! Did you?

yeah i'm almost half way through it and it's pretty good. just makes me want to get some acid really!