I snapped tonightI shall be enforcing my right to be alone as much as possible, i will be getting uninterrupted reading and learning done now, i will not be risking getting angry by replying to any other posts unless i'm pretty sure it's ok to do so, there's some... See More »
Book of the dayAs i go through the collected dialogues, i must also fit in some of Plato's best after a lesser dialogue like Lesser Hippias, and i remember reading some of William H Gass' top 50 books and for Plato he chose Timaeus, it's a 5 hour read for me, and... See More » (1)
LOTR books, can you still get old editionsi'm a big lord of the rings fan and i lost my lord of the rings books long ago, i moved around residency's quite a bit and the books were lost.....i prefer old vintage books and wondered would it be possible to find old editions of the lord of the... See More »
Kind of like the DVD situation...I also read the same books over and over. The stories get stuck in my head and I have to revisit. A couple of more recent ones though (for me, anyway), I have really enoyed are "Life In A Jar: The Irena Sendler Story" and "Lincoln's Battle With God,"... See More »
The last 6 bucksMachiavelli's Prince, the OWC's edition, with Maurizio Viroli doing supplemental things in it, plus a book of his which is in the Kobo Plus!! What else from the under 4 dollar Oxfords?? I chose Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, Common Sense and other... See More »
Books are more important to me than drugsI have instructed dad to put the last money i have ($25) to put into my Savings, so that i can then put to my Visa, after which i may acquire more books, on my Kobo device, and Charlton Griffin narrating The Iliad (Lattimore trans.) for a mightily... See More »