On a Pale Horse, by Piers Anthony. My wife is re-reading it as well at the same time. We're considering reading the entire Incarnations series.
Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion
I read this book on how to design a LARP. Because a girl I'm seeing now had it. So now I know everything about designing a LARP. It didn't have the most crucial information in it, which is, why on Earth would anybody ever participate in a LARP. Something which still eludes me. I fail to see where the fun is found.
I read this book on how to design a LARP. Because a girl I'm seeing now had it. So now I know everything about designing a LARP. It didn't have the most crucial information in it, which is, why on Earth would anybody ever participate in a LARP.
I read this book on how to design a LARP. Because a girl I'm seeing now had it. So now I know everything about designing a LARP. It didn't have the most crucial information in it, which is, why on Earth would anybody ever participate in a LARP. Something which still eludes me. I fail to see where the fun is found.
I played in a LARP for 10 years. Had lots of fun for the most part.![]()
I read this book on how to design a LARP. Because a girl I'm seeing now had it. So now I know everything about designing a LARP. It didn't have the most crucial information in it, which is, why on Earth would anybody ever participate in a LARP. Something which still eludes me. I fail to see where the fun is found.
I played in a LARP for 10 years. Had lots of fun for the most part.![]()
Aren't you confusing LARP with just having a job?
Aren't you confusing LARP with just having a job?
Naaaa, jobs don't usually let you hit other people with boffer weapons.![]()
Master and Commander. I can't believe how good it is, even though I've read and listened to it multiple times before.
The Way of the Superior Man - David Deida
It's a self help book, I think targeted at New Age men to become more manly. I have read it before. I remember liking it. Since then I've been to workshops based on the book, which I think have been awesome. So I decided to read it again, to freshen up. Now I think it's absolute fucking garbage. There's a core in there which I like. But most of it is swill.
I think the book can be boiled down to:
1) The masculine is the stable, protecting, predictable force
2) The feminine is the creative, wild and unpredictable force
3) Both men and women can be both, but men tend to lean more towards masculine, a women the feminine.
4) If one partner is one thing, the other partner will be the other thing. Because we need polarity in relationships. If we don't get it, it's boring and we break up. Both are needed.
5) Men and women won't understand each other and that's not only fine, but good.
So many pages to write this fairly simple thing. It's full of flowery New Age language. It's frustratingly vague and waffly at times.
Haha, neither of my major relationships would have flown if that were true. But then, we don't read many self-help books either.The Way of the Superior Man - David Deida
It's a self help book, I think targeted at New Age men to become more manly. I have read it before. I remember liking it. Since then I've been to workshops based on the book, which I think have been awesome. So I decided to read it again, to freshen up. Now I think it's absolute fucking garbage. There's a core in there which I like. But most of it is swill.
I think the book can be boiled down to:
1) The masculine is the stable, protecting, predictable force
2) The feminine is the creative, wild and unpredictable force
3) Both men and women can be both, but men tend to lean more towards masculine, a women the feminine.
4) If one partner is one thing, the other partner will be the other thing. Because we need polarity in relationships. If we don't get it, it's boring and we break up. Both are needed.
5) Men and women won't understand each other and that's not only fine, but good.
So many pages to write this fairly simple thing. It's full of flowery New Age language. It's frustratingly vague and waffly at times.
Master and Commander. I can't believe how good it is, even though I've read and listened to it multiple times before.
I'm in the middle of book 8 ATM. I reread them all every couple of years.
The edition I have from the library labels book 7 as The Surgeon's Mate although the storyline doesn't support that.
There are all sorts of printing and editing errors. Does anyone know if the latest edition has been cleaned up?
The Way of the Superior Man - David Deida
It's a self help book, I think targeted at New Age men to become more manly. I have read it before. I remember liking it. Since then I've been to workshops based on the book, which I think have been awesome. So I decided to read it again, to freshen up. Now I think it's absolute fucking garbage. There's a core in there which I like. But most of it is swill.
I think the book can be boiled down to:
1) The masculine is the stable, protecting, predictable force
2) The feminine is the creative, wild and unpredictable force
3) Both men and women can be both, but men tend to lean more towards masculine, a women the feminine.
4) If one partner is one thing, the other partner will be the other thing. Because we need polarity in relationships. If we don't get it, it's boring and we break up. Both are needed.
5) Men and women won't understand each other and that's not only fine, but good.
So many pages to write this fairly simple thing. It's full of flowery New Age language. It's frustratingly vague and waffly at times.
It seems like there's a lot of that with popular non-fiction (which is why I tend to avoid it). They lean toward pseudosciency ideas, and spend 200 pages writing mostly noise to flesh out what is an otherwise simple idea that's mostly just useful for selling books. The last book I read like that was Ed Slingerland's 'Trying Not to Try'. Decent concept, but tons of fluff.
The Way of the Superior Man - David Deida
It's a self help book, I think targeted at New Age men to become more manly. I have read it before. I remember liking it. Since then I've been to workshops based on the book, which I think have been awesome. So I decided to read it again, to freshen up. Now I think it's absolute fucking garbage. There's a core in there which I like. But most of it is swill.
I think the book can be boiled down to:
1) The masculine is the stable, protecting, predictable force
2) The feminine is the creative, wild and unpredictable force
3) Both men and women can be both, but men tend to lean more towards masculine, a women the feminine.
4) If one partner is one thing, the other partner will be the other thing. Because we need polarity in relationships. If we don't get it, it's boring and we break up. Both are needed.
5) Men and women won't understand each other and that's not only fine, but good.
So many pages to write this fairly simple thing. It's full of flowery New Age language. It's frustratingly vague and waffly at times.
It seems like there's a lot of that with popular non-fiction (which is why I tend to avoid it). They lean toward pseudosciency ideas, and spend 200 pages writing mostly noise to flesh out what is an otherwise simple idea that's mostly just useful for selling books. The last book I read like that was Ed Slingerland's 'Trying Not to Try'. Decent concept, but tons of fluff.
Kenneth Tynan's Curtains, pub. back in '60. It's a collection of his theatre criticism of the 50s...brilliant writing. He crafts seemingly effortless similes and metaphors for the acting and production design -- every page has some striking image or citation. Especially interesting, to me: his appreciation for a very young Richard Burton in a supporting role (1951), and his dislike for The Sound of Music in its first incarnation (1959.) How do you solve a problem like Maria? Sic Tynan on her.
Kenneth Tynan's Curtains, pub. back in '60. It's a collection of his theatre criticism of the 50s...brilliant writing. He crafts seemingly effortless similes and metaphors for the acting and production design -- every page has some striking image or citation. Especially interesting, to me: his appreciation for a very young Richard Burton in a supporting role (1951), and his dislike for The Sound of Music in its first incarnation (1959.) How do you solve a problem like Maria? Sic Tynan on her.
Thanks for the tip, I'll have to find a copy of this.
I took out three books on African religion last week, but after browsing through them this weekend learned that they've mostly the missed the mark of what I wanted to read.
“The sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life..”On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius. I visited a bookstore outside of London I hadn't heard of before on Friday, and the owner had recently bought the collection of a man who had accumulated different copies of this book (including some dating back to the early 16th century, but mine was from Indigo). The work itself is by an early atheistic Roman, who wrote a kind of natural philosophy. Started reading it, and actually pretty interesting.
The Complete Georg Trakl. Poetry recommended to me by the owner of a local bookstore who's deep into literature, also on it's way in the mail.
The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns, are ghosts; but of these I would advise an author to be extremely sparing. These are indeed, like arsenic, and other dangerous drugs in physic, to be used with the utmost caution; nor would I advise the introduction of them at all in those works, or by those authors, to which, or to whom, a horse-laugh in the reader would be any great prejudice or mortification.
Henry Fielding. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Kindle Locations 5545-5548).
Am currently reading The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding. Am frankly surprised that it's as good as it is told to be, as novel writing was still relatively new at that time (1749). Beats Defoe.
The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns, are ghosts; but of these I would advise an author to be extremely sparing. These are indeed, like arsenic, and other dangerous drugs in physic, to be used with the utmost caution; nor would I advise the introduction of them at all in those works, or by those authors, to which, or to whom, a horse-laugh in the reader would be any great prejudice or mortification.
Henry Fielding. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Kindle Locations 5545-5548).
In contemporary New England, forty-year old Helene Roy Bradford has worked hard to leave her troubled family history behind – her parents’ early deaths, a brother adrift, and an estranged younger sister in chronic addiction. Into her comfortable, well-ordered life comes a summons to assist her now deceased sister’s young twins by her Native American husband, serving time for charges related to his activism. But what kind of help? Conflict arises when the resources that Helene can offer don’t match the needs and values of the Native community, leading to crisis and change while discovering what is best for the children and for herself. A story in three voices: Helene's narrative; the journal pages of sister Renee; and blog posts on contemporary Indian life from brother-in-law Izzy; each is bound by family ties and the need to understand and to heal.