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The Dopamine Flux
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Sep 13, 2017 at 10:38 PM
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Im not sure if i can finish this book by seneca. This last chapter has been just him rambling about his mother. Its boring. I have maybe 20 more pages to go and ima try but its just dragging and dragging.
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Sep 19, 2017 at 01:12 PM
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Newtus. i give books 60 pages. If they don't grab me by that then i have no problem putting them down for good. You can always skim though. Lord know i skimmed a lot in college.
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Sep 19, 2017 at 01:13 PM
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I just ordered La Morte de Arthur. By Thomas Mallory The Norton Critical Edition.
 Ill never get around to it though. I started Mistborn and its been growing on me and its a 4 book series. But in Mallory's book there is a segment on true love and friendship which I'm interested in learning.
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Sep 20, 2017 at 01:50 PM
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So what's everybody's three favorite books and why?
Goethe's Faust: I read this constantly when I was under psychosis to deal with not giving up, to keep striving, that certain emotions are worthless and that there is mystery in the world. Homer's Odyssey: If the Iliad was about going to war, then the Odyssey is about returning home, the struggle of returning to your center, to where you belong. Where Odysseus is defeating monster after monster, Penelope, Odysseus wife, is facing a war of her home as suitor after suitor try to wed her. Odysseus becomes trapped by a goddess and she offers to make him immortal and he turns his back on that as he accepts to be human because of his loving wife waiting patiently for his arrival. Ender's Game: Ender's greatest flaw is his greatest strength, compassion. Because of his intelligence he is isolated and turned into a war pawn to lead armies into space to defeat an alien race that haunts humanity. I find Ender to be psychologically interesting and his childhood was similar to my own. |
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Sep 20, 2017 at 03:33 PM
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Well the reasons are the same for all, the stories make me happy and engaged. Fraid I'm not that deep.
You know Name of the Wind. Also enjoyed the dragonlance novels and the early books about Drizzt Do'urden from RA Salvatore....excellent fight descriptions. __________________ Hugs! 
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Sep 20, 2017 at 03:47 PM
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I follow Patrick Rothfuss on Twitter, Author of the name o the wind. He has a card deck coming out with all the characters to the name of the wind. Have you thought about reading his offshoot of the king killer stories, the strange silent of things or whatever with the main character as Aurie? I cant remember her spelling.
The Name of the Wind holds a special place in my heart too. Smoething about young love, genius, and struggle makes my heart beat! Rothfuss said on twitter that he is having a really hard time writing the novel. He said he thought he could just write three in a row but that's proving difficult. It's been YEARS... I want to know more about the Chandrian already!!! sigh When I finish Mistborne, ill give your book suggestions a try. What I like about the main character in Mistborne is that he's been stripped of everything but his power and his ability to see laugh as a comedy instead of a tragedy. |
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Sep 20, 2017 at 04:00 PM
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Mistborne sounds incredibly familiar to me though I don't think I've read that one The other series I like is by Paul S Kemp---title is something about shadows....its been a long time since I read any of these though. __________________ Hugs!
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Sep 21, 2017 at 08:00 AM
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I liked reading Shakespeare. I should reread Macbeth. I had a huge collected works at one time, but who knows what became of it.
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Sep 22, 2017 at 06:53 AM
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I'm currently reading Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobbs. It's the third in her first trilogy based in the realm of the Elderlings.
It's fantasy in case you were wondering and I love the series. Enough to make me explore all her other books in the same series. __________________   "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." Robert Louis Stevenson  |
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Sep 22, 2017 at 07:07 AM
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What I enjoyed most of all was the film Romeo+Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes which I first watched in class after reading the play... 
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Sep 22, 2017 at 01:48 PM
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Oh how I love Shake-my-speare!
I love how intellectual the Tempest was for it being the last play written. It was a good farewell if he meant it to be. Helen Mirren plays a good Prospero. I recently read Hamlet again for the 2nd time. I use to fall asleep to the black and white movie. My favorite line in Macbeth is: 40****Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, *41****Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, 42.*Raze out: erase. written troubles of the brain: troubles written on the brain. 43.*oblivious: causing forgetfulness. *42****Raze out the written troubles of the brain *43****And with some sweet oblivious antidote *44****Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff *45****Which weighs upon the heart? *******Doctor ***************************************************Therein the patient *46****Must minister to himself. What do you think "Can'st not thou minister toa mind diseased?" means, ladies and gents? It's so deep.
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Sep 22, 2017 at 01:51 PM
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I received my Le Morte De Arthur in the mail. These Norton Critical Editions are so great. They are meant for scholars and most of the time have stephanos numbers. They always have papers and notes in the back ground, and foot notes. I looooooooove footnotes. I hate end notes. Who's got time to shuffle back to end notes, right? Such an annoyance.
I just wish these editions were hardcover. Damnit they should be. I'd pay an extra $15 for a hardcover. |
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Sep 22, 2017 at 01:52 PM
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my favorite mini quote from hamlet... Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? __________________ Hugs!
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Sep 22, 2017 at 02:15 PM
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Sep 22, 2017 at 02:18 PM
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When MacBeth asks, "Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased" to the doctor I had to pause. The mind is a mental arena, not physical and what we have here is her grief over killing a baby. How could the doctor help her conscience? Of course now we know that SSRI's can, at least for me, can turn one into a sociopath basically with no fear, guilt, or really anything. That's what it was like for me, but still, The root of the problem was moral and the doctor can't work within the moral realm, only the physical one.
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Sep 27, 2017 at 01:27 PM
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Look, SP, the 10th anniversary edition of The Name of the Wind!
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Sep 27, 2017 at 01:40 PM
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Sep 27, 2017 at 02:14 PM
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Sep 27, 2017 at 02:26 PM
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Wise Man's Fears, which picked up during the final 1/3 of the book was a massive 960 pages. It took me two years to write 230 pages... He must have an outline of the entire trilogy in order to be able to publish the first book I would think. |
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