flight paths discussion

Still climbing my sisyphean tbr pile.

Ice wrote: "Still climbing my sisyphean tbr pile."

You'll never reach the top! LOL!!!

Finishing The Recognitions, then moving on to Gravity's Rainbow and Absalom, Absalom!. Will also be re-reading The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides soon.

Also reading Helen in Egypt, but not sure what to make of it yet...

Jim you don't mention On the Road...
Ice it's probably a good thing you don't live closer, since I have accumulated a number of books I think you would enjoy that would take you over the top.

As for me, I am still struggling with
Simulations having to re-read each paragraph as I complete it to get the sense of it.
Not only that, the book is coming apart, pp33-36 are completely loose. I have taken to rereading passages at random and have only just this morning found my place again after the bookmark slipped out on me. Now where was I?

Sacred Time and the Search for Meaning which was extremely interesting. I havent found the time to properly review,but I highly recommend it. It gives a historical overview that is very enightening.

Started The Soul's Religion: Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life Thomas Moore continues to blow me away with his succinct obsevations and his disarming if somewhat ruthless honesty. Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life saved my life I am sure of it at a point when I found my existence intolerable.

Finally finished Songspinners after an anxious separation of almost a week!What a relief to find it exactly where I found it, hidden under some burlap at the fishmongers stall on set. It is a great book that gives an exciting musical dimension to the age old struggle between opposing ideoligies.

And after a huge struggle I am intoSinging from the Well

a nice, straight forward sci fi is what I wanted, and so I am reading my first Arthur C Clarke and finding it most adequate for the task.The Songs of Distant Earth

Thomas Moore does not disappoint and the short chapters are perfect for morning contemplation.

Simulations not quite so.

Jim, if youve finished on the road and done your new review, you might get a shock at the conversation that evolved around Mike Puma's review

Magdelanye wrote: "a nice, straight forward sci fi is what I wanted, and so I am reading my first Arthur C Clarke and finding it most adequate for the task.The Songs of Distant Earth

Thomas Moore does not disappoint..."

I finished OTR and posted my review. MP's review is typical for GR. Says little about the book and instead writes about the phenomenon surrounding it. The more reviews I read on GR, the less important they seem.

Gee Jim, I am glad to disagree with you on this one.
I adore reading the reviews and consider my life enriched by some of the considerate,perceptive,zany and brilliant assessments posted by people I have become real friends with based on their weilding of these traits.

PS I include you among this lot.

Magdelanye wrote: "Gee Jim, I am glad to disagree with you on this one.
I adore reading the reviews and consider my life enriched by some of the considerate,perceptive,zany and brilliant assessments posted by people ..."

You're right, I should re-phrase that. There are a number of excellent reviewers on GR (Paul B., Manny, Brian, Bird Brian, Ian G., Yourself, and others). Many others, however, pay more attention to their faux-wit and their wanna-be-funny put-downs of writers they believe have impinged on their oh-so-important time. It's juvenile behavior born of arrested development and an ingrained belief that, as consumers, they are entitled to be 100% satisfied and entertained. If not, the writer is an asshole whose work sucks. It's boring and smacks of rush-limp-bau aggression for aggression's sake. What's perhaps more disheartening is some members* who should know better actually apologize to these "reviewers" so they will appear "cool" to the angry herd.

OK. Re-phrasing complete...


(*you know who you are)

Circling my tbr pile, planning on my post holiday reading, should have exhausted the 'given to me' pile and knocked another author out of the 'bulk purchase' pile. Leaving the choice between online purchases (Lulu and Amazon) and/or library.
The book predator within.

Would that be circling all over the world like a polar bear or an eagle !!
Just finished listening to one of our members , AV is next on the list.
And waiting to here more on Seventh Son.

so what are you taking with you to read?
for yourself, and also to read aloud to juniors?