Reading any good books? - Page 19

Spock · 07-21-2005, 05:21 PM

I deeply resent your insinuation, accusation and crude attempt at slander. Fortunately Rosie knows me far better.

Andúril · 07-22-2005, 02:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Spock

I deeply resent your insinuation, accusation and crude attempt at slander. Fortunately Rosie knows me far better.

I'm sure she does.

Mercutio · 07-22-2005, 09:49 AM

*ahem* what are you reading now, Andúril?

Andúril · 07-23-2005, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Mercutio

*ahem* what are you reading now, Andúril?

Frankl, Victor E. Man's Search for Meaning.

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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Frankl's logotherapy, therefore, is much more compatible with Western religions than Freudian psychotherapy. This is a fascinating, sophisticated, and very human book. At times, Frankl's personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is," Frankl writes. "After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips."

Spock · 07-23-2005, 05:07 AM

I took a look at Barnes & Nobles site and they have several different covers with that title. It goes on my wish list as of now.

inked · 07-23-2005, 12:31 PM

Absolutely GREAT book, a MUST READ!

***Rían*** · 07-26-2005, 07:49 PM

wow, what a quote from Frankl!

Darn, so many good books to read, and too much laundry

Mercutio · 07-26-2005, 08:31 PM

Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

Spock · 07-26-2005, 11:12 PM

OK, just got in my Goblet of Fire and will now read at my leisure as the last time it was the library's copy and I whizzed through it. I expect to learn more this way.

Rosie Gamgee · 07-27-2005, 09:14 AM

Since last week:

Finished
~ Dracula (Brahm Stoker). I read it mostly alone, mostly in silence, mostly with no lights on, and mostly during the day. It was, incidentally (and probably consequently), mostly boring. Plus, Stoker killed off my favourite character at the end.

And no, I'm not talking about the Count.

~ The Princess Bride (William Goldman). Delightful and funny. Loved it, except, perhaps, for the end. A mite weak, I thought.

Started
~ The Riddle-Master Trilogy (Patricia McKillip). Well, it's kind of unengaging so far, but I'll keep optimistic.

brownjenkins · 07-27-2005, 09:32 AM

wild cards

old grr martin series of books wrote in colaboration with many other writers... very ineteresting so far

Spock · 07-27-2005, 10:48 AM

Rosie, you're jaded

, Dracula, boring ???? Oh, well, I guess you live too much on the edge

Watched the Princess bride for the 30+ time the other day. I've never read the book. Just started "The Goblet of Fire", my own (precious) copy bought to refresh my hasty reading of the library loan.

Rosie Gamgee · 07-27-2005, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Spock

Rosie, you're jaded

, Dracula, boring ???? Oh, well, I guess you live too much on the edge

Watched the Princess bride for the 30+ time the other day. I've never read the book. Just started "The Goblet of Fire", my own (precious) copy bought to refresh my hasty reading of the library loan.

It was Van Helsing!! Mostly it was him. Golly, I can't satd the way he talks and goes on and on and...

And anyway, it really was a might boring. I liked the conversations with Seward's patient, Reinfeld (or something like that). And it got interesting with Lucy there for a while. But it really didn't catch me all that much. And how could he have killed off

Quincey

?!

Do you know, I've only seen Princess Bride once, and that was forever ago. I plan to get it out from my library one of these days--actually, I think I have it on hold. But the book was brilliant. If the fellow who wrote The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy were to write a fairy tale, that would be it.
p.s. Who's your favourite character in the movie? In the book mine is Ingio.

Spock · 07-27-2005, 11:25 AM

It's Renfield, Rosie, jeeeeshhhhhh

Spock · 07-27-2005, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Rosie Gamgee

Do you know, I've only seen Princess Bride once, and that was forever ago. p.s. Who's your favourite character in the movie? In the book mine is Ingio.

"prepare to die", FEZZIK, "It's not my fault being the biggest and the strongest. I don't even exercise."

Rosie Gamgee · 07-27-2005, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Spock

It's Renfield, Rosie, jeeeeshhhhhh

Renfield, Shmenfield. One lousy letter in the wrong place!!! And who can blame me; I only just read the book.

Ingio's the best! "I want Domingo Montoya, you son of a -----!"

Spock · 07-27-2005, 11:40 AM

...."mostly dead, I can do something" Miracle Max

Rosie Gamgee · 07-27-2005, 11:47 AM

"I'm good at dead..." ~ same

There's a bit in the book where it's talking about Fezzik as a boy, and his father is trying to teach him how to fight. But Fezzik doesn't even know how to make a fist. So he teaches him to make a fist and says, "Hit me." Fezzik refuses because he loves his father, and his father starts yelling, "We're gonna stay here all night until you hit me! And if it takes all night, than we stay out here all night and if it takes all week than we stay out here all week...." It's just too funny. I don't remember if that was in the movie?

Spock · 07-27-2005, 03:24 PM

Nope it wasn't.

***Rían*** · 07-29-2005, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Mercutio

Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

great book!

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Originally Posted by Rosie

The Princess Bride (William Goldman). Delightful and funny. Loved it, except, perhaps, for the end. A mite weak, I thought

yes, great book - really funny! except the end, if you're talking about the "Buttercup's Baby" part - really weird, and pointless, too, imo - very odd.

07-23-2005, 05:07 AM	#365
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	I took a look at Barnes & Nobles site and they have several different covers with that title. It goes on my wish list as of now. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-23-2005, 12:31 PM	#366
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Absolutely GREAT book, a MUST READ! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

07-26-2005, 07:49 PM	#367
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	wow, what a quote from Frankl! Darn, so many good books to read, and too much laundry __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

07-26-2005, 08:31 PM	#368
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Woman in White by Wilkie Collins __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

07-26-2005, 11:12 PM	#369
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	OK, just got in my Goblet of Fire and will now read at my leisure as the last time it was the library's copy and I whizzed through it. I expect to learn more this way. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-21-2005, 05:21 PM	#361
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	I deeply resent your insinuation, accusation and crude attempt at slander. Fortunately Rosie knows me far better.

07-22-2005, 09:49 AM	#363
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	ahem what are you reading now, Andúril?

07-27-2005, 09:14 AM	#370
Rosie Gamgee The Lovely Hobbit-Lass Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bounded in a nut-shell Posts: 1,593	Since last week: Finished ~ Dracula (Brahm Stoker). I read it mostly alone, mostly in silence, mostly with no lights on, and mostly during the day. It was, incidentally (and probably consequently), mostly boring. Plus, Stoker killed off my favourite character at the end. And no, I'm not talking about the Count. ~ The Princess Bride (William Goldman). Delightful and funny. Loved it, except, perhaps, for the end. A mite weak, I thought. Started ~ The Riddle-Master Trilogy (Patricia McKillip). Well, it's kind of unengaging so far, but I'll keep optimistic. __________________ It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year!

07-27-2005, 09:32 AM	#371
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	wild cards old grr martin series of books wrote in colaboration with many other writers... very ineteresting so far __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

07-27-2005, 10:48 AM	#372
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Rosie, you're jaded , Dracula, boring ???? Oh, well, I guess you live too much on the edge Watched the Princess bride for the 30+ time the other day. I've never read the book. Just started "The Goblet of Fire", my own (precious) copy bought to refresh my hasty reading of the library loan. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-27-2005, 11:25 AM	#374
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	It's Renfield, Rosie, jeeeeshhhhhh __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-27-2005, 11:40 AM	#377
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	...."mostly dead, I can do something" Miracle Max __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-27-2005, 11:47 AM	#378
Rosie Gamgee The Lovely Hobbit-Lass Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bounded in a nut-shell Posts: 1,593	"I'm good at dead..." ~ same There's a bit in the book where it's talking about Fezzik as a boy, and his father is trying to teach him how to fight. But Fezzik doesn't even know how to make a fist. So he teaches him to make a fist and says, "Hit me." Fezzik refuses because he loves his father, and his father starts yelling, "We're gonna stay here all night until you hit me! And if it takes all night, than we stay out here all night and if it takes all week than we stay out here all week...." It's just too funny. I don't remember if that was in the movie? __________________ It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year!

07-27-2005, 03:24 PM	#379
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Nope it wasn't. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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