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Offline DirtDawg

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #600 on: September 18, 2008, 12:22:44 PM »
Probably going to finish the rest of the current John Irving library, today.

go ahead - raise hell, critics. I like his work!
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Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #601 on: September 18, 2008, 01:19:28 PM »
have been too busy playing Futurama on the Xbox to read. So other than news sites and dodgy forums, not a lot. :P
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #602 on: September 18, 2008, 02:05:49 PM »
Quote from: duncvis on September 18, 2008, 01:19:28 PM
have been too busy playing Futurama on the Xbox to read. So other than news sites and dodgy forums, not a lot. :P

So, if I was going to buy some gaming hardware to bring my kids into the twenty first century, do I want an Xbox?
(Leaning towards the Wii)

We sell Xbox, Playstation, NDS and Wii, but only Sony allows employees a low price (just below half of retail pricing) and year of free internet gaming as an accommodation. The others only allow a twenty percent discount.
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Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #603 on: September 18, 2008, 06:14:08 PM »
Its on the 'old' Xbox, we don't have a next-gen console yet (waiting until they come down in price enough), but I think we'll probably go for a PS3. I'm probably biased, I'm not a Nintendo person, and I don't want an Xbox 360 since they have a reputation for fucking up.  :-\
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #604 on: September 19, 2008, 02:35:56 PM »
About to start reading "The Hanging Garden".
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #605 on: September 21, 2008, 10:38:56 PM »
Anais Nin - Cities of the Interior
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #606 on: September 22, 2008, 12:08:29 AM »
"The Hanging Garden" by Ian Rankin
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #607 on: September 22, 2008, 01:34:58 PM »
Homer - The Odyssey

Goddam Classics.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #608 on: September 22, 2008, 01:56:25 PM »
Classics, indeed. I have three different translations of Odyssey and Iliad,  two of Homeric Hymns  and  Phocais, one each of Thebaid, Nostoi,  and  Epigone.

Another one of my personal heroes, Homer! I keep him near my toilet, just in case.

(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)
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Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #609 on: September 22, 2008, 02:15:26 PM »
I feel your pain :P  My mum always moans that I buy too many books.  I have to keep them in several stacks around my room because there is no space for them  :laugh:

I have the Rieu translation, do you know it?
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #610 on: September 22, 2008, 02:30:58 PM »
Quote from: DirtDawg on September 22, 2008, 01:56:25 PM
Classics, indeed. I have three different translations of Odyssey and Iliad,  two of Homeric Hymns  and  Phocais, one each of Thebaid, Nostoi,  and  Epigone.

Another one of my personal heroes, Homer! I keep him near my toilet, just in case.

(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)

that is a capital offence, at least!   :grrr:
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #611 on: September 22, 2008, 02:32:05 PM »
Quote from: DirtDawg on September 22, 2008, 01:56:25 PM
(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)

I could never agree to that sort of thing. Never.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #612 on: September 22, 2008, 02:35:12 PM »
i'm reading "a question of blood" by ian rankin.  ;)
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #613 on: September 22, 2008, 04:56:25 PM »
I'm reading "The Tenant" by Javier Cercas.
The prose is very sparse with hardly any metaphors or similes.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #614 on: September 22, 2008, 05:02:05 PM »
The Boston Globe newspaper! 
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