Book Recommendation

Buddy S. Merchant The Bat Man Look, up in the sky! Posts: 149	Book Recommendation Jan 31, 2006 18:36:54 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Buddy S. on Jan 31, 2006 18:36:54 GMT -4 yay i did lol
	I think, therefore I am. I am, therefore I have been. I have been, therefore I will be, and when i am not, then i am truly at peace.

Caitlin W. Major General Watch out, she bites. "Let's become Socialists, so we can go shopping!" -Sam Chabrow Posts: 333	Book Recommendation Jan 31, 2006 22:35:38 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Caitlin W. on Jan 31, 2006 22:35:38 GMT -4 le sigh
	"We're all running along, drunkenly stumbling towards the end, towards our fate, towards death...We're all falling and tumbling, and having a good time, neh...?" "The parties of the time deserved denunciation" -The National Experience "Oppression makes a wise man mad" -Frederick Douglass

Becca M. Moderator I think I own you. I seem to have left my $250,000 dollars in my other suit. Posts: 302	Book Recommendation Feb 1, 2006 19:27:49 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Becca M. on Feb 1, 2006 19:27:49 GMT -4 I've read it now. I'm afraid to eat food.
	"If you ever happen to be stuck in a room with two linguists and you're bored out of your mind, there is nothing more fun than asking them if Creole is a language and watching them kill each-other." "You really want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?" -Toby

Caitlin W. Major General Watch out, she bites. "Let's become Socialists, so we can go shopping!" -Sam Chabrow Posts: 333	Book Recommendation Feb 1, 2006 23:56:40 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Caitlin W. on Feb 1, 2006 23:56:40 GMT -4 and so you should be gosh darn it
	"We're all running along, drunkenly stumbling towards the end, towards our fate, towards death...We're all falling and tumbling, and having a good time, neh...?" "The parties of the time deserved denunciation" -The National Experience "Oppression makes a wise man mad" -Frederick Douglass

Samuel C. Indentured Servant Posts: 19	Book Recommendation Feb 3, 2006 0:24:40 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Samuel C. on Feb 3, 2006 0:24:40 GMT -4 Read When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America It is amazing its is by Paula Giddings -chabs
	"Today a man owns a jackass worth fifty dollars and he is entitled to vote: but before the next election, the jackass dies. The jackass is dead and the man cannot vote. Now, gentlemen, pray inform me, in whom is the right of suffrage, in the man or the jackass?" -Ben Franklin (of course)

Becca M. Moderator I think I own you. I seem to have left my $250,000 dollars in my other suit. Posts: 302	Book Recommendation Feb 4, 2006 13:18:44 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Becca M. on Feb 4, 2006 13:18:44 GMT -4 Whatever could that book be about?
	"If you ever happen to be stuck in a room with two linguists and you're bored out of your mind, there is nothing more fun than asking them if Creole is a language and watching them kill each-other." "You really want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?" -Toby

Buddy S.
Merchant

The Bat Man

Look, up in the sky!

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Book Recommendation Feb 27, 2006 21:51:16 GMT -4

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Post by Buddy S. on Feb 27, 2006 21:51:16 GMT -4

i read the funniest book ever

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

some quotes:
: “Another 14.6 g’s hit Number 61 on the way down making him feel as if his eyeballs were coming out of his head. He had been through the so-called eyeballs-out g’s, too, many times, on the centrifuge. It could get a lot worse. There were worse things than feeling as if his eyeballs were coming out… The gosh darnned zap plates on his feet for a start.” A reference to the operant training of the chimpanzees that would make the first flights, this passage continued in its assumptions of Number 61’s psyche, such as “[Number 61] became furious [at the press]. He bared his teeth. He began snapping at the no daddys. It was all the vets could do to restrain him…The stresses the ape was reacting to were probably of quite another sort… Here he was, back in the compound where the white smocks had been zapping him through their freaking drills for a solid month, and suddenly there was a new mob of humans on hand! Even worse than the white smocks! Louder! Crazier! Totally out of their gourds! Yammering, roaring, balling exploding lights beside their bug-eyed skulls! Suppose they threw him to these not a very nice persons! freak this-“ I found that aspect of the story unimaginably amusing.

I think, therefore I am.
I am, therefore I have been.
I have been, therefore I will be,
and when i am not, then i am truly at peace.

Kathryn S
Freed Man

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Book Recommendation Mar 12, 2006 13:54:31 GMT -4

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Post by Kathryn S on Mar 12, 2006 13:54:31 GMT -4

ok , so back to book reviews and stuff... I read the Joy Luck Club my review interesting and appropreate in length, then I read The Woman Warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts- THE SAME FREEKIN BOOK AS THE JOY LUCK CLUB!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH so either pick one or the other..... and then never read anything on the subject again....

Kathryn S Freed Man Posts: 47	Book Recommendation Mar 12, 2006 13:55:54 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Kathryn S on Mar 12, 2006 13:55:54 GMT -4 ha- and if anyone is interested, That pasage from the new standards about that chinese-american girl was from Woman warrior--- and thats basically the book in a nutshell- meh

Caitlin W. Major General Watch out, she bites. "Let's become Socialists, so we can go shopping!" -Sam Chabrow Posts: 333	Book Recommendation Mar 14, 2006 21:54:51 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Caitlin W. on Mar 14, 2006 21:54:51 GMT -4 yurp....and i haven't even read it....but all of amy tan in a nutshell....and most of the "i was a chinese-american girl with crazy chinese parents in san francisco in the 70's"....or now for that matter
	"We're all running along, drunkenly stumbling towards the end, towards our fate, towards death...We're all falling and tumbling, and having a good time, neh...?" "The parties of the time deserved denunciation" -The National Experience "Oppression makes a wise man mad" -Frederick Douglass

Buddy S. Merchant The Bat Man Look, up in the sky! Posts: 149	Book Recommendation May 12, 2006 20:03:11 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Buddy S. on May 12, 2006 20:03:11 GMT -4 signor or anyone who would be marginally interested in economic history; i wanna read a book talking about economic theory between Horizontal Integration and Vertical Integration, but i don't know any books. Ideas? THX
	I think, therefore I am. I am, therefore I have been. I have been, therefore I will be, and when i am not, then i am truly at peace.

derek n Freed Man Posts: 27	Book Recommendation May 13, 2006 0:24:19 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derek n on May 13, 2006 0:24:19 GMT -4 i just realized this was here here are good books: grapes of wrath - steinbeck cold mountain - frazier the march - doctorow time and again - um i forget already

Becca M. Moderator I think I own you. I seem to have left my $250,000 dollars in my other suit. Posts: 302	Book Recommendation May 15, 2006 13:05:49 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Becca M. on May 15, 2006 13:05:49 GMT -4 cold mountain was amazing.
	"If you ever happen to be stuck in a room with two linguists and you're bored out of your mind, there is nothing more fun than asking them if Creole is a language and watching them kill each-other." "You really want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?" -Toby

derek n Freed Man Posts: 27	Book Recommendation May 15, 2006 18:07:39 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derek n on May 15, 2006 18:07:39 GMT -4 thats right

Samuel C.
Indentured Servant

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Book Recommendation May 15, 2006 22:00:25 GMT -4

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Post by Samuel C. on May 15, 2006 22:00:25 GMT -4

"Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington is amazingly written

then read

"The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. which rips Washington apart.

I have a book with both of them in it, Heffley is borrowing it now but lemme know if u want next

-sam

"Today a man owns a jackass worth fifty dollars and he is entitled to vote: but before the next election, the jackass dies. The jackass is dead and the man cannot vote. Now, gentlemen, pray inform me, in whom is the right of suffrage, in the man or the jackass?"
-Ben Franklin (of course)

Kathryn S Freed Man Posts: 47	Book Recommendation May 30, 2006 22:28:26 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Kathryn S on May 30, 2006 22:28:26 GMT -4 yay for killer angels.. yay for tedius book reports...eh read it tho, it has good stuff to write about in the critique

Becca M. Moderator I think I own you. I seem to have left my $250,000 dollars in my other suit. Posts: 302	Book Recommendation May 31, 2006 15:51:30 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Becca M. on May 31, 2006 15:51:30 GMT -4 p.s. read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
	"If you ever happen to be stuck in a room with two linguists and you're bored out of your mind, there is nothing more fun than asking them if Creole is a language and watching them kill each-other." "You really want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?" -Toby

joezi Guest	Book Recommendation May 31, 2006 21:14:18 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by joezi on May 31, 2006 21:14:18 GMT -4 now what is that about? JOY

Caitlin W. Major General Watch out, she bites. "Let's become Socialists, so we can go shopping!" -Sam Chabrow Posts: 333	Book Recommendation May 31, 2006 23:09:10 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Caitlin W. on May 31, 2006 23:09:10 GMT -4 for real?
	"We're all running along, drunkenly stumbling towards the end, towards our fate, towards death...We're all falling and tumbling, and having a good time, neh...?" "The parties of the time deserved denunciation" -The National Experience "Oppression makes a wise man mad" -Frederick Douglass

Laura D Merchant Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Posts: 100	Book Recommendation Jun 1, 2006 8:08:53 GMT -4 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Laura D on Jun 1, 2006 8:08:53 GMT -4 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid test is about a group of LSD takers in the 1960's, led by Ken Kesey. It was really good. Laura 'odd
	Last Edit: Jun 1, 2006 8:09:27 GMT -4 by Laura D Skating is like crack: It destroys your body. It interferes with your sleep. It introduces you to totally weird people. It's expensive. It takes you away from the real world. As you build up your tolerence, you start doing it way too much. You can't stop because life would just not be the same without it.

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