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Please try and stick to the Thread Topic? There are enough people that get away from the Topic being discussed, yes I myself have been guilty in the past. This also has nothing to do with the Thread Topic. Please listen, you are not in good standing right now!
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I wish I could say. Despite having two or three thousand books in my house, I'm actually not much of a reader, and in recent years all my reading has been on the internet -- not books or even magazines (I miss big magazine racks).
Recently I did go to a local library branch and checked out some slim books and a collection of short pieces, hoping to retrain the skill of reading from paper:
Two books by Thich Nhat Hanh (The Energy of Prayer and Enjoying the Ultimate)
Two translations by Stephen Mitchell (Tao Te Ching and Bhagavad Gita)
A collection by Vladimir Nabokov (Think, Write, Speak)
So those are some things I would read if I could (or at least I thought so a few days ago when I was at the library). I'd also like to catch up on some pulp-era and New-Wave-era science fiction, as well as some books on qigong and Taoism.
Too many interests and too scattered, though.
@kevin-eleven saidEnjoy one at a time, you may not like all of them.
I wish I could say. Despite having two or three thousand books in my house, I'm actually not much of a reader, and in recent years all my reading has been on the internet -- not books or even magazines (I miss big magazine racks).
Recently I did go to a local library branch and checked out some slim books and a collection of short pieces, hoping to retrain the skill o ...[text shortened]... iction, as well as some books on qigong and Taoism.
Too many interests and too scattered, though.
I have just finished
Ernst Peter Fischer: Vom Staunen in der Welt: Was Wissenschaft möglich macht und was nicht
being amazed in the world, what is enabled by science and what not (my translation of the title)
A really nice observation on how science is conceived and some good suggestions for change (which will be ignored).