On Your Bookshelf - What Are You Reading?

[KrohDaddi]

Just got The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding by Arnold Schwarzeneggger (1998 edition). I think this is a book that is meant not so much to be read bot to be referred to. 800 pages- about the size of a good-sized phonebook- for $18.71. I mention the price because I was surprised that a book that heavy and with that many photos would be that inexpensive.

*Yes, I got Pumping Iron at the same time... 25th anniversary edition.

dude i was looking at that book a couple hours ago
i might get that for the nostalgia

[hochspeyer]

dude i was looking at that book a couple hours ago
i might get that for the nostalgia

Its a cool book. I like it because it has a lot of pictures- and I can refer to it while I'm training.

[RdRacer]

I'll finish the last chapter of Crisis Economics by Nouriel Roubini & Stephen Mihm tonight...

[KrohDaddi]

bought this as a curiosity many years ago
wonder if it has any appeal?

[KrohDaddi]

I'll finish the last chapter of Crisis Economics by Nouriel Roubini & Stephen Mihm tonight...

read this many years ago

written as a novel, it imparts theory for production organisation

[KrohDaddi]

Robert Kroetsch's 'What the Crow Said'. Was in porn and sleaze-novel section. Some people held it up and were laughing at it so i went over after they left and checked it out. It is a piece of Literature.

the preacher:
"The World lacks sufficient centrifugal force to maintain its roundness."
Father Basil was connecting the presence of wolves in the district with the failure of the world to turn on its axis.
"It's the lack of centrifugal force that enables the wolves to range this far south."

he cites (as evidence) the discovery of blue snow and the revelation that his sea-sickness has been caused by his car being equipped with square wheels.

[Marius_Ursus]

mmmmmmm...... brain candy

now i'm going to get smart

Have you read Joseph Campbell?

I think his work on Psychological implications from ancient mythology might be something right up your alley.

Robert Kroetsch's 'What the Crow Said'. Was in porn and sleaze-novel section. Some people held it up and were laughing at it so i went over after they left and checked it out. It is a piece of Literature.

the preacher:
"The World lacks sufficient centrifugal force to maintain its roundness."
Father Basil was connecting the presence of wolves in the district with the failure of the world to turn on its axis.
"It's the lack of centrifugal force that enables the wolves to range this far south."

he cites (as evidence) the discovery of blue snow and the revelation that his sea-sickness has been caused by his car being equipped with square wheels.

Awesome. LOL

That reads like a mixture of Sheri Tepper and Piers Anthony.

[KrohDaddi]

Have you read Joseph Campbell?

I think his work on Psychological implications from ancient mythology might be something right up your alley.



Awesome. LOL

That reads like a mixture of Sheri Tepper and Piers Anthony.

i've watched hours of Joseph Campbell talking on PBS docs.
we have a similar reading list

[Marius_Ursus]

i've watched hours of Joseph Campbell talking on PBS docs.
we have a similar reading list

The stuff covered in those Bill Moyers interviews barely scratches the surface. It's very much worth it to seek out his books.

I've noticed out reading lists being of a common thread.

[ImBunky]

i never programmed a robot outside of the classroom

Same here, though I have programmed some automated equipment. Pick and Place, Lasers, AOI, Soldering Stations, etc.

[KrohDaddi]

Same here, though I have programmed some automated equipment. Pick and Place, Lasers, AOI, Soldering Stations, etc.

PLC; CNC?

just wanted to share this passage from what the Crow said
if you speak crow this book could get you up to speed
if you are up to speed this book could teach you Crow

while the men are engaged in a month-long game of Schmier and the fields are neglected until the women hire Hutterites, and an impossibly-beautiful mute young man leans in watching the game while his companion, a talking crow flits about the card-table with insolence, this is going on outside:

"Gladys was throwing her ball against the wall of the house, outside the dining room. Gladys had reddish hair like her mother and delicate breasts with nipples the colour of gold; anyone could tell that, watching her throw the ball."

I love that this book has semi-colons.

[ImBunky]

PLC; CNC?

Though some of the equipment that I have worked with may have a PLC as part of it's design, the programming that I did was with proprietary software interfaces developed for the particular equipment. Most of them also utilized CAM packages to generate the initial code from board layout CAD files and BOMs.

Since I have been out of work I have taken some PLC, Robotics and CNC classes. I also have an Allen Bradley PLC-5 setup at home to play with.

If interested, here is one of the pieces of equipment I worked on / programmed.

[SeaSiren]

I generally only read super boring industry books. However, my daughters have been begging me to read "13 Reasons Why", which I just started to read. And the "Go Ask Alice".

[KrohDaddi]

is interesting but can't bear to look right now
i've caught a day's limit of nostalgia and pain
reminds me of a time when i had many bright hopes
none of which were made into any
part of my Argosy i suppose what i did obtain
would be musing in Cartesian planes
my details are obselete;
considering AI teased me into structuring an nth dimensional information array which template i imposed upon myself
lacking instumentalities

[KrohDaddi]

[KrohDaddi]

picked up a copy of quarterly journal Parabola

is a theme-based exposition of spirituality/fairy tales/Jungian psychology
multi-cultural
presenting monograms
the winter 2010 edition is on Beauty
has blurbs about Tiferet, the Peacock
i liked the Nightengale

bought this the first time with the only material proceeds i ever realised from my weriting
had entered University writing contest before and this time again with actual nuanced Art but second time around threw in an entry that was a completely machiavellian pandering to Bourgeoius sensibilities and won a prize which was a gift certificate for the bookstore
started getting this journal for a while until i was dialed in to the frequency
Winter 2000 edition was:


next edition is entitled Suffering
i can probably wing it without the Cliff's

[IronCharles]

Its a cool book. I like it because it has a lot of pictures- and I can refer to it while I'm training.

Very good book. It should be in every bodybuilder's library. It was the standard reference guide before the internet was so pervasive.

[BIGSTTNJFF]

Very good book. It should be in every bodybuilder's library. It was the standard reference guide before the internet was so pervasive.

A bunch of Anne Rice novels.

[Boira]

Advanced Digital Black & White Photography, by John Beardsworth.

[alkell]

"Fortune Cookie" by Bryce Courtenay, an Aussie author.

His books are easy read, with good stories.

"Power of one" is probably his most famous books, but he has written some awesome tales.

Highly recommend!

[KrohDaddi]

is it too late for gifts?
apparently not
arrived at christmas with my camera

[Boira]

Glad to see other photography entusiasts!

[KrohDaddi]

Glad as irises

[KrohDaddi]

breaking up the heavy program with some entertainment

read Wolfgang Hildesheimer's 'Why I changed into a Nightengale'

what Manguel could only allude to in his prefatory remarks is the ethical abyss Hildesheimer teetered near working as an interpreter at the Nuremberg trials and doubtless plagued by Nietzsche's axiomatic 'name me one vice which hath not a Greek name' as he colluded in a conflicting retro-active application of a law which did not exist at the time the crimes were committed, thus violating one of the fundamental precepts of the application of Justice and forever opening the door to the blanket excusal: 'everyone has done it'
also: "Everybody funny; now: you funny, too."

then read Ben Hecht's 'the Shadow'
essential reading for anyone nursing a grudge erupting from their projections

started Somerset Maugham's 'the Lion's Skin'
is not a spoiler to say this because the story begins by revealing that it is going to end with the husband dying in a fire 'accidentally' begun in the woods and engulfing the house he runs into in order to rescue a little dog. the wife is then free to live with some other dude in the neighbourhood she just met.

this one is a bit longer but i wanted to share this passage:
Her movements were awkward and her gestures clumsy. If she went into a drawing-room where there was a valuable piece of jade she managed to sweep it on the floor; if she lunched with you and you had a set of glasses you treasured she was almost certain to smash one of them to atoms.
Yet this ungainly exterior sheltered a tender, romantic, and idealistic soul. it took you some time to discover this, for when first you knew her you took her for a figure of fun, and then when you knew her better (and had suffered from her clumsiness) she exasperated you; but when you did discover it, you thought yourself very stupid not to have known it all the time, for then it looked out at you through those pale-blue, near-sighted eyes, rather shyly, but with a sincerity that only a fool could miss. Those dainty muslins and spring-like organdies, those virginal silks, clothed not the uncouth body but the fresh girlish spirit. You forgot that she broke your china and looked like a man dressed up like a woman, you saw her as she saw herself, as indeed she really was if reality were visible, as a dear little thing with a heart of gold. When you came to know her you found her as simple as a child; she was touchingly grateful for any attention you paid her; her own kindness was infinite, you could ask her to do anything for you, however tiresome, and she would do it as though by giving her the opportunity to put herself out you rendered her a service. She had a rare capacity for disinterested love. You knew that never an unkind nor a malicious thought had once passed through her head. And having granted all that you said over again that MRs Forestier was a very nice woman.
Unfortunately, she was also a damned fool. This you discovered when you met her husband.

the thing about 'accidents' is that magicians and psychologists don't believe in them.

i should like to embellish this post with perhaps a photo or illustration
but (since IMGur hosts only 225 images before you must pay necessitating constant deletion to clear space for new uploads and it becomes tedious to juggle all the implications of previous posts suddenly having their illustrations removed, possibly altering the sense of the communication subsequently) i will let this stand on Word alone.

[KrohDaddi]

read Poushkin's the Shot with AM coffee.
yep.


Dr. von Franz's 'redemption' book (though a seemingly-scant 119 pages) is a serious course if you read it serious.
every paragraph leads in myriad directions

interesting musing on the 'animal skin' motif
the redeemer throws an 'animal-skin' over the subject
then destroys it to dissolve the complex of the repressed anima contents
the Algonquin have a story about how the 'great god', when he wanted to communicate new wisdoms, did not approach the medicine men, but instead taught the squirrels and small woodlands creatures, who then taught the lessons upwards to the human level

this seems to describe the futility of arguing against people at the highest levels of their intellect, where their defenses are most sophisticated and established. The medicine-ritual is taught by the shaman adopting the animal-skin and communicating with the other tribal members at the level of their anima
dancing under the skin
then throw the skin on a fire

[michvolley]

Breathless by Dean Koontz, I got tired of him for a while. I read him so much that I could predict how the stories played out. But I'm giving him another chance. So far, about a third of the way in, I'm not sure what's going on yet. So that's good.

[BookNerd]

I haven't really been reading much lately, but I finished "The Lost Hero" not too long ago. I am writing a review on The Hunger Games Trilogy so I have to reread them.

Any thoughts on The Hunger Games? Any thoughts on Rick Riordan's Series?

Also, I've been slacking in reading b/c I'm trying to write a book of my own.

[Old-Time-Lifter]

Bought a copy of the Confessions of Augustine yesterday. It maybe a while before I'm able to read it as I'm reading several textbooks for classes right now too. But I'm ashamed to say I've never yet read this classic. Got it for $4 though used so that ain't bad.

[kademrulz]

Breathless by Dean Koontz, I got tired of him for a while. I read him so much that I could predict how the stories played out. But I'm giving him another chance. So far, about a third of the way in, I'm not sure what's going on yet. So that's good.

I haven't read a lot of his recent works for this reason. It was the same old stuff over and over.



Just finished Shadow Fever by Karen Marie Moning, Fractured by Karen Slaughter, Ruthless Game by Christine Feehan, and Lynsay Sand's newest one that I forgot the name of. :/

Just starting Death Echo so we will see how it goes. I also ordered Dark Peril by Feehan, and No Mercy by Sherrilynn Kenyon that I am waiting on... Happy days ahead.

[cmbg]

I haven't really been reading much lately, but I finished "The Lost Hero" not too long ago. I am writing a review on The Hunger Games Trilogy so I have to reread them.

Any thoughts on The Hunger Games? Any thoughts on Rick Riordan's Series?

Also, I've been slacking in reading b/c I'm trying to write a book of my own.

I know that both of my boys absolutely loved these books. They are fans of Rick Riordan! They have suggested more than once that I read them.