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#12
07-14-2007, 08:39 PM
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Re: 1 Book to read for 2 months
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GEB is more than a two-month read in my opinion. A very good one, mind you, but I'm still working on it after 6 months. It's best in small doses, or you just end up skimming and realizing you don't know what the heck the point of the last 20 pages were. Though, really, even if you read slowly, slowly considering and mentally digesting every sentence in every paragraph, you still probably won't know what the heck the point of the last 20 pages were. It's a toughie. [/ QUOTE ] Did you spend like 5.9 months on the MU thing? 
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#13
07-14-2007, 08:42 PM
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Re: 1 Book to read for 2 months
I have the perfect suggestion for this:
"Shogun" by James Clavell. It's not great literature, but it's really really well done. It's an entertaining, sweeping, long, dramatic, violent, funny, fascinating novel about an English sailor stranded in Japan. You learn all about samurai culture while getting wrapped up in the drama. It takes a while to get through, but you can't put it down. Even though it may not be the smartest or most profound novel of our age, it's probably the best 2-month-long read I've ever had. 
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#14
07-14-2007, 09:02 PM
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Re: 1 Book to read for 2 months
War and Peace will last you forever - I'm pretty sure it's about a foot thick.
If you leave after the 20th I'd get a copy of 2+2's Professional No Limit and something like a long Stephen King novel if you like him.
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#15
07-14-2007, 10:08 PM
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Re: 1 Book to read for 2 months
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the bible and im being serious [/ QUOTE ] He said that he doesn't want fiction.
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#18
07-14-2007, 10:57 PM
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Re: 1 Book to read for 2 months
Thanks for the suggestions so far. I'm taking them into consideration. Here's my thoughts on them.
the Bible - The thought of reading the Bible has appealed to me at various times in my life, but frankly this isn't one of them. I don't think I would be able to get through it. War and Peace - Potential, but my high school English teacher confessed to us that he's tried to get through it about a dozen times and was never able to. Makes me think I won't be able to either. Completed Fictions of Borges - Never heard of it, but just looked it up. Will have to read more about it. Lover's Discourse - Looks interesting, but I'm not sure if I can see myself getting into it. Brother's Karamazov - Started and stopped this novel about 4 times already. Shogun - Seems pretty cool. I think I may have to read this, but maybe not on this trip. I would probably definitely have read it on this trip if we had decided to go to Japan. Infinite Jest - Will have to look at this one more closely, looks like a possibility East of Eden - I've read some Steinbeck and never really got that into it. Although I was much younger so maybe I should give some a reread. GEB - To whoever commented on the denseness of GEB, I appreciate that, and its my main concern too. It seems most of the suggestions are fiction. Any non-fiction ideas? I guess this type of reading just lends itself more to fiction.
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#19
07-14-2007, 11:08 PM
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Re: 1 Book to read for 2 months
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It seems most of the suggestions are fiction. Any non-fiction ideas? I guess this type of reading just lends itself more to fiction. [/ QUOTE ] Well, you want to fill 2 months. Thats a lot of reading to start with, and most of the nonfiction that I've read has been either too boring or too quick of a read. How do you feel about eBooks? Grab a bunch of classics and put them on a palm pilot or something. That'll be smaller, and you can have more than a few books to read.
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