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Book Tag Meme
Posted on Aug 11th, 2006
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Umguy
Umguy
I got tagged with the book tag meme by Bill of Integral Options Cafe. Here are my answers.
One book that changed your life?
The Marriage of Sense and Soul by Ken Wilber. Reading Ken’s description of postmodernism in Sense and Soul is what brought me out of a painful dose of aperspectival madness, that inability to figure out where any kind lasting meaning might come from. It was because that description was so amazingly clear and concise, and obviously meant to help you understand above all else, that I was willing to trust him on the Spirit stuff. Something I was really rather suspicious of up until that point.
One book you have read more than once?
I've read One Hundred Years of Solitude numerous times. And I enjoy it more each time.
One book you would want on a desert island?
Some kind of anthology of 20th century short stories (or just short stories in general -- though I do love the more modern stuff).
One book that made you laugh?
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore. Especially the story... What You Want To Do Fine... and especially when one of the characters says, "Before he wrote about them... Hemingway used to shoot his characters." Like Audobon did birds. It's a great story.
One book that made you cry?
For some reason the one I'm remembering right now is Buddy Holly: A biography. Somehow it made the tragedy around the plane crash incredibly vivid and heartbreaking.
One book you wish you had written?
In terms of wishing I had half the talent of the writer I'd go with, Like Life by Lorrie Moore. So funny and so sad and so amazingly well written. I've also always wanted to write a mystery set in Los Angeles.
One book you wish had never been written?
Oh, I've read so many books I wish I'd never started, but I don't know about never been written...
One book you are currently reading?
I'm usually reading two or three books at any give time. But the one I just set down with a bookmark in it is Find a Victim by Ross MacDonald.
One book you've been meaning to read?
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Murakami is one of my favorite writers and this thing has been on my shelf since Christmas. I'm rather ashamed of myself. But honestly, I'd hate to read it in bits and pieces, I want a couple of days when all I'm going to do is read that book. Seems it's rather hard to set aside such time these days.
And the next part is to pass this on. So... Dashh, Martin and Siona... take that suckers!
One book that changed your life?
The Marriage of Sense and Soul by Ken Wilber. Reading Ken’s description of postmodernism in Sense and Soul is what brought me out of a painful dose of aperspectival madness, that inability to figure out where any kind lasting meaning might come from. It was because that description was so amazingly clear and concise, and obviously meant to help you understand above all else, that I was willing to trust him on the Spirit stuff. Something I was really rather suspicious of up until that point.
One book you have read more than once?
I've read One Hundred Years of Solitude numerous times. And I enjoy it more each time.
One book you would want on a desert island?
Some kind of anthology of 20th century short stories (or just short stories in general -- though I do love the more modern stuff).
One book that made you laugh?
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore. Especially the story... What You Want To Do Fine... and especially when one of the characters says, "Before he wrote about them... Hemingway used to shoot his characters." Like Audobon did birds. It's a great story.
One book that made you cry?
For some reason the one I'm remembering right now is Buddy Holly: A biography. Somehow it made the tragedy around the plane crash incredibly vivid and heartbreaking.
One book you wish you had written?
In terms of wishing I had half the talent of the writer I'd go with, Like Life by Lorrie Moore. So funny and so sad and so amazingly well written. I've also always wanted to write a mystery set in Los Angeles.
One book you wish had never been written?
Oh, I've read so many books I wish I'd never started, but I don't know about never been written...
One book you are currently reading?
I'm usually reading two or three books at any give time. But the one I just set down with a bookmark in it is Find a Victim by Ross MacDonald.
One book you've been meaning to read?
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Murakami is one of my favorite writers and this thing has been on my shelf since Christmas. I'm rather ashamed of myself. But honestly, I'd hate to read it in bits and pieces, I want a couple of days when all I'm going to do is read that book. Seems it's rather hard to set aside such time these days.
And the next part is to pass this on. So... Dashh, Martin and Siona... take that suckers!
Access: PublicTagged with: ken wilber, gabriel garcia marquez, lorrie moore, book tag, buddy holly, ross macdonald, haurki murakami
May I throw in my 2 cents? I’m more well read than some, but not at here in zaadzland…but
One book that changed your life?
I suspect it may be the audio book I’m slowly combing through now, “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle.
One book you have read more than once?
Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card. It’s sci-fi philosophy…I highly recommend it.
One book you would want on a desert island?
ONE??? You got me…a compilation of the great philosophers and their theories?
One book that made you laugh?
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson…freegin hillarious. To me anyway - we share similar view points in terms of humor.
One book that made you cry?
Many. She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb…his other novel also. Sidhartha…I cry quite easily when the subject matter is removed from my life…happy moments, sad ones, exciting ones, anything moving and full of life.
One book you wish you had written?
Anything Ken Wilbur as in the eyes of your zaadzsters, that would make me a …. well, cuz apparently he has his head screwed on straight and a wealth of knowledge that is quite impressive.
One book you are currently reading?
“Ishmael” by Daniel Quinn by day - as recommended by a zaadzster and thank you very much…though I’m about half way through and disappointed, thus far…keeping my hopes up, though. “The Power of Now” slowly by night when there’s nothing going on. Awesome.
One book you’ve been meaning to read?
“Truman” as my grandmother would like me to, and so I will…getting to it.
I really loved listening to The Power of Now on CD. I think his voice is a large part of why it works so well. Stillness Speaks is nice follow up if you get the CD. Lots of short chapters where he just talks you into the state of being present. Very cool.
Ishmael is one of those books I've been meaning to get around to reading buy never have.