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[limits_are_lies]

i will post a more substantial update in the next few days, trust me.

for now, give me recommendations on books to read (including short synopses, if at all possible).

currently, i'm reading/have checked out the following:

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[visions_of_love]

I have thought of you a lot lately...

I am enjoying the challenge of Thich Nhat Hanh - "No Death, No Fear"

[limits_are_lies]

i wonder what you are up to on a sporadic basis. i always assume you're rising above, though. whatever it is you're rising above, i'm not sure, but i know you rise. phoenix baby.

[catherine421]

Read:
Blindness by Jose Saramago and Pathologies of Power by Paul Farmer.

I think you will enjoy both very much.

I'm kind of in a hurry if not I'd post the links to them on Amazon but seriously both are books worth looking up.
Blindness is fiction and Pathologies of Power is non-fiction.

[limits_are_lies]

i have read pathologies of power for a nursing class. it was good.
and i have "the double" by that author but i haven't read it. nice recs.

[catherine421]

Well then.

Make sure you read Blindness.

[meldraak]

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande
A Certain Chemistry - Mil Millington
A Matter of Time - Shashi Deshpande
To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer

[meldraak]

OH SYNOPSES.
Complications is medical non-fiction but reasonably entertaining to read. It deals with risk communication, ethics, and touches on the social/cultural trends in medicine. A Certain Chemistry is funny as hell and deals with relationships in a non-therapy sort of way. The sarcastic "god" perspective in the book, like the whaling manual chapters in Moby Dick, could be cut to make a stronger novel but the humor makes Mil Millington worthwhile. A Matter of Time is about the transformation of a modern Indian family by marital separation. If you remember anything from Hindu literature (I think you took that class when I did, didn't you?), you'll appreciate the contrast between mythology/religion and contemporary culture. To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the first book in The Riverworld Saga. It's science fiction but it uses the historical figures, anthropology, psychology, and sociology to be more than just another future-of-mankind thing.

[limits_are_lies]

damn, all of those look interesting.

would you like brownie points? regardless, you're getting some.

PS go to IUPUI. indianapolis is where it's at, even though i'll probably leave sooner rather than later.

[limits_are_lies]

why thank you!

complications was one i was intending on checking out, but i kept forgetting to get it.

[skippityskip]

Well.
You MUST read Jose Saramago's "Blindness".
Or Patrick Suskind's "Perfume"
I would also recommend Elfriede Jelinek's "The Pianist"

[limits_are_lies]

synopses of the last two prz ;)