Comments | jbtheforth: Reading List

jbtheforth

Reading List

Aug 15, 2006 20:01

Hi, this is just an entry for personal reference. You can disreguard it, unless your the federal agent tailing me.

Dostoevsky:
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov

Tolstoy:
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Death of Ivan Ilyich

Rand:
Atlas Shrugged
Fountainhead

Kafka:
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Nabokov:
Ana
Lolita

Faulkner:
The Sound and ( Read more... )

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ph33 August 16 2006, 03:48:32 UTC

dude, there's such thing as a private entry. loves!!

:D

jbtheforth August 16 2006, 03:54:18 UTC

Bah, it's all technical jargon to me. I'm very inept at using livejournal....

myappendixhurts August 16 2006, 04:36:39 UTC

I ♥ Tao Te Ching!

jbtheforth August 16 2006, 04:51:46 UTC

Then it sounds like an apt choice for a personal reading list. A list meant to be enjoyable that is.

myappendixhurts August 16 2006, 05:59:18 UTC

Yeah, I have a copy of the Tao Te Ching if you need to read it. Or if you want to. It's great. All of Lao Tzu's thoughts (Taoist-related-anyway) all put down in one book basically on the spot.

Really, some guy asked Lao Tzu to write them all down, so he sat down and did so and now it's this book. Woot.

I'd also suggest.. if you want to read that kinda of stuff by Lao Tzu, the Hua Hu Ching. Also very good.

Also in my library.

tsuki_rose_boy August 17 2006, 02:46:34 UTC

Shit, let me read it!
I'll probably never get around to it though, so nevermind...

lenaisawsome August 16 2006, 04:43:58 UTC

planning a book list?

jbtheforth August 16 2006, 04:49:01 UTC

Personal book list. If I find anything simply amazing I may put it on the Book Club's list, but I rather doubt I'll put any of these on that list.

lenaisawsome August 16 2006, 19:48:34 UTC

Tolstoy:
War and Peace

you and patrick walsh are both insane...

tsuki_rose_boy August 17 2006, 02:47:26 UTC

HELL YES.
have you ever TRIED to read that book?
freaking nuts...

tsuki_rose_boy August 17 2006, 02:48:46 UTC

AAAH.
I dislike Ayn Rand... her writing is just so damn driven to her own ideals, and her writing is so dagged lifeless.

and whoah. tsuki_rose_boy August 17 2006, 02:50:37 UTC

have you ever tried to read "War and Peace"?
IT'S INSANE.
Seriously, unless you have an unhealthily excessive amount of freetime, do not journey down that path.
If you so have the courage, I have the book. You can borrow it.

Re: and whoah. myappendixhurts August 17 2006, 03:31:29 UTC

Lemme!!!

Re: and whoah. jbtheforth August 17 2006, 05:04:49 UTC

I haven't ever tried, but I figure I might as well look at it. I'll never know if I don't try! Wow, I sometimes hate myself for what I say...lol.

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