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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1125 on: April 26, 2015, 11:07:52 AM »
Finished Steve Martin's autobiography, Born Standing Up. Recounts how, and what, made him a standup comic, and why he stopped. Interesting, without being too revealing. His style is friendly, and breezy. Finished the 200-odd pages in a sitting. Haven't done that for a long time. Be a great read on a trip, or vacation.   

This one is older, right? Covers the Knott's gig and all. Think I read it years ago.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1126 on: April 27, 2015, 05:45:16 AM »
Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1127 on: April 28, 2015, 12:34:49 AM »
This one is older, right? Covers the Knott's gig and all. Think I read it years ago.
Yup. That's the one.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1128 on: April 28, 2015, 03:11:35 PM »
Yup. That's the one.

Very good. Loved Steve since I was little.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1129 on: April 28, 2015, 03:17:20 PM »
Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake

Please report back after.

Loved Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, and Harrison Bergeron. Couldn't finish Cat's Cradle, though.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1130 on: April 28, 2015, 03:22:16 PM »
Funny as hell.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1131 on: May 05, 2015, 11:28:34 AM »
Following up on
, I picked this up yesterday. Also got the Glass.


Was thinking of getting the Sacks' one for my Da. Let us know what you think.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1132 on: May 05, 2015, 11:36:10 AM »
Few books on my reading list









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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1133 on: May 05, 2015, 11:56:16 AM »
fathers and sons....turgenev

in English... :-X

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1134 on: May 06, 2015, 12:31:01 AM »
Few books on my reading list











are you a socialist?
I am not saying that in a bad way, I just get that impression from those books.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1135 on: May 06, 2015, 05:28:15 AM »
are you a socialist?
I am not saying that in a bad way, I just get that impression from those books.
Trolling on a book thread!? Let's be cool.  :)

/just gave up on stephen king's The Dark Half (tedious/boring) and picked up Kent Anderson's Night Dogs (brilliant!)

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1136 on: May 06, 2015, 01:24:27 PM »
are you a socialist?
I am not saying that in a bad way, I just get that impression from those books.

No, not a socialist.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1137 on: May 06, 2015, 06:25:08 PM »
In the finale of Justified, a copy of The Friends of Eddie Coyle makes an appearance.   Elmore Leonard says it's the best crime novel every written, so I'm giving it a try.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1138 on: May 06, 2015, 07:32:33 PM »
In the finale of Justified, a copy of The Friends of Eddie Coyle makes an appearance.   Elmore Leonard says it's the best crime novel every written, so I'm giving it a try.

high praise

I've got to travel this weekend and I'm going to get a copy tomorrow to read on the plane

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1139 on: May 06, 2015, 07:40:05 PM »

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1140 on: May 07, 2015, 07:42:16 AM »
In the finale of Justified, a copy of The Friends of Eddie Coyle makes an appearance.   Elmore Leonard says it's the best crime novel every written, so I'm giving it a try.
Yup. Heard him say this in person. It's a solid book, but Leonard has written better.  The movie's pretty good, too. Mitchum as Coyle. 

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1141 on: May 07, 2015, 12:24:55 PM »
Will do, Cher Chimps (in a few weeks -- have a couple of urgent deadlines).

Got this recently: praise and a some underestimation (LOL).

You're a teacher/professor, Kahn?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1142 on: May 07, 2015, 12:30:06 PM »
Few books on my reading list






Feel free to skip Bowling Alone. People used to do things in groups (Churches, clubs, bowling, etc.), now they don't, but they should, and here are some studies that show group activities are good for people. Also, people should get more involved in politics.

Saved you 400-500 pages.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1143 on: May 07, 2015, 09:59:39 PM »
Feel free to skip Bowling Alone. People used to do things in groups (Churches, clubs, bowling, etc.), now they don't, but they should, and here are some studies that show group activities are good for people. Also, people should get more involved in politics.

Saved you 400-500 pages.

Meh, I will still read it because I like Putnams work and I am heavily into community-based work.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1144 on: May 07, 2015, 10:52:24 PM »
Wolf Winter - Cecilia Ekback
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1145 on: May 08, 2015, 07:13:38 AM »
Yeah -- late-stage PhD candidate (used to work in management and consulting before the switch). Just got a summer research grant  :D

What do you teach?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1146 on: May 08, 2015, 01:42:17 PM »
Yeah -- late-stage PhD candidate (used to work in management and consulting before the switch). Just got a summer research grant  :D

Congratulations.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1147 on: May 14, 2015, 09:05:43 AM »
Hey, Magoo,

Philosophy. We've talked before.

You used to work through a lot of interesting texts!

Best,
Kahn


Always thought it cool that Henry and William were brothers. One, the master of fiction/observant of minute human nature; the other an investigant of society.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1148 on: May 14, 2015, 06:20:20 PM »
Yeah, very cool. Sometimes happenstance gets it right. I can't tell you how many times I've come across the similar "one was a novelist who wrote like a psychologist; the other was a psychologist who wrote like a novelist" quip (OK, I can tell you. Probably about 3-4 times -- but I can't remember the first text in which I saw it). I haven't taught pragmatism in a few years, though I started (and put on hold) a paper which attempts to use Dewey's pragmatism (drawing on its influences of Hegel and Darwin) to reflect on recent developments in synthetic biology (viz. Venter). Like I said, it's on hold.

Be well, Chimps.

* Oh, and (when I go all literary) one of my favorite lines is from Henry James' essay, "The Writer Makes the Reader" in Theory of Fiction, ed., James E. Miller, Jr. (Nebraska: Nebraska Press, 1972): "In every novel the work is divided between the writer and the reader; but the writer makes the reader very much as he makes his characters. When he makes him ill, that is, indifferent, he does no work; the writer does all. When he makes him interested, then the reader does quite the labour" (p. 321).

What do you think he means by this? It's not some pomo musing about authority and its demise. I interpret it as an author attempting to entice a certain amount of positive assorting in this reciprocal relation, whose bases for selection are as undeniably intersubjective as they are indisputably intertextual. With this in mind, I've always liked Jaroslav Pelikan's elicitation of the Goethean commission: "Was Du ererbt von Deinem Vätern hast, Erwirb es, um es zu besitzen,"  i.e., That which you have inherited from your forebears, acquire for yourself, to make it your own (my translation). A poietic partnership, then? Also, recall that scene in The Paper Chase (1973), where James Hart breaks into Langdell Hall to read Kingsfield's student journals? Love that scene because he reads: "After all, I am almost the living extension of the old judges. Where would they be without me? I carry in my mind the cases that they wrote. Where the hell would they be if it wasn't for me? Who would hang their pictures if there were no law students? It's hard being the living extension of a tradition" (The Paper Chase [1973] at 1:01:35-50: my bold emphasis).

Be well, again, Chimps.
  

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1149 on: May 16, 2015, 08:31:02 AM »
Yeah, very cool. Sometimes happenstance gets it right. I can't tell you how many times I've come across the similar "one was a novelist who wrote like a psychologist; the other was a psychologist who wrote like a novelist" quip (OK, I can tell you. Probably about 3-4 times -- but I can't remember the first text in which I saw it). I haven't taught pragmatism in a few years, though I started (and put on hold) a paper which attempts to use Dewey's pragmatism (drawing on its influences of Hegel and Darwin) to reflect on recent developments in synthetic biology (viz. Venter). Like I said, it's on hold.

Be well, Chimps.

* Oh, and (when I go all literary) one of my favorite lines is from Henry James' essay, "The Writer Makes the Reader" in Theory of Fiction, ed., James E. Miller, Jr. (Nebraska: Nebraska Press, 1972): "In every novel the work is divided between the writer and the reader; but the writer makes the reader very much as he makes his characters. When he makes him ill, that is, indifferent, he does no work; the writer does all. When he makes him interested, then the reader does quite the labour" (p. 321).

What do you think he means by this? It's not some pomo musing about authority and its demise. I interpret it as an author attempting to entice a certain amount of positive assorting in this reciprocal relation, whose bases for selection are as undeniably intersubjective as they are indisputably intertextual. With this in mind, I've always liked Jaroslav Pelikan's elicitation of the Goethean commission: "Was Du ererbt von Deinem Vätern hast, Erwirb es, um es zu besitzen,"  i.e., That which you have inherited from your forebears, acquire for yourself, to make it your own (my translation). A poietic partnership, then? Also, recall that scene in The Paper Chase (1973), where James Hart breaks into Langdell Hall to read Kingsfield's student journals? Love that scene because he reads: "After all, I am almost the living extension of the old judges. Where would they be without me? I carry in my mind the cases that they wrote. Where the hell would they be if it wasn't for me? Who would hang their pictures if there were no law students? It's hard being the living extension of a tradition" (The Paper Chase [1973] at 1:01:35-50: my bold emphasis).

Be well, again, Chimps.
  
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