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The Finer Things Book Club - who's up for Phil's new book?

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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#41 » by dub81 » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:06 pm

My vote is Te four agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
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Post#42 » by Doormatt » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:08 pm

ok we have enough nominations imo. how is the voting going to work? can you vote for what you suggested? do you only get 1 vote? etc.
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Post#43 » by dub81 » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:12 pm

Also when you guys get time. set up a account on goodreads.com and we can also set up another book club on there to. Just a thought.
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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#44 » by miggs » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:19 pm

SlavaMedvedenko wrote:I haven't read it either and I'd be fine with Bill Simmons' book of basketball.

Edit: Do a Lakers board book club have to start with Celtics worship though?



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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#45 » by Slava » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:20 pm

Doormatt wrote:ok we have enough nominations imo. how is the voting going to work? can you vote for what you suggested? do you only get 1 vote? etc.


I'll start a poll in the OP.

Edit: Too many options, just quote the nominations post and increment the counter, based on your vote.
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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#46 » by Slava » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:26 pm

Nominations so far:

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - 0 votes
Lolita - Nabokov - 0 votes
Heart of Darkness - Conrad - 0 votes
The Book of Basketball - Bill Simmons - 0 votes
A Hunger Artist - Franz Kafka - 0 votes
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 0 votes
The Big Sleep (Mystery) - Raymond Chandler - 0 votes
Sacred Hoops - Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior by Phil Jackson - 0 votes
Te four agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz - 0 votes
Under The Dome - Stephen King - 0 votes
Lost Boys - James Garbarino (nonfiction) - 0 votes
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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#47 » by miggs » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:27 pm

I have a nomination. This book was recommended to me by a customer actually, he gave me his copy and i've only read about the first 10-15 pages or so, the book isn't more than about 200 pages I was just so busy with school it seemed easy not to read haha so my nomination is


Ayn Rand - Anthem

Inferno/Purgatorio/Paradiso (The Divine Comedy) - Dante Alighieri
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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#48 » by dockingsched » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:30 pm

thanks for running it gentlemen. work is busy right now so probably can't log on too often til i get home. however u guys want to run it.
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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#49 » by dub81 » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:36 pm

can we vote for our own book? if so please check me for te four agreements.

If not "Heart of darkness"

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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#50 » by Kilroy » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:39 pm

My time's too tight right now to participate... But if I could suggest a book, for you all, how about Demian by Hesse... It's a great philosophical text with a plot.
I'd also suggest that the Divine Comedies or other such classics, might be a little difficult because the story/reading experience is heavily influenced by the version/translation. Some of them are just not that fun to read... I just reread them all and suffered through a horrible version.
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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#51 » by Doormatt » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:49 pm

miggs wrote:
Ayn Rand - Anthem


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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#52 » by Doormatt » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:53 pm

i would punch someone in the dick if they recommended ayn rand to me.
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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#53 » by miggs » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:55 pm

Doormatt wrote:i would punch someone in the dick if they recommended ayn rand to me.



its not that bad actually, pretty cool book in fact.
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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#54 » by miggs » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:58 pm

Kilroy wrote:My time's too tight right now to participate... But if I could suggest a book, for you all, how about Demian by Hesse... It's a great philosophical text with a plot.
I'd also suggest that the Divine Comedies or other such classics, might be a little difficult because the story/reading experience is heavily influenced by the version/translation. Some of them are just not that fun to read... I just reread them all and suffered through a horrible version.



tell me about it, in high school our english teacher thought it'd be good to at least read the first 40 cantos of inferno. the problem my dumb ass lost the printed copy of the 40 cantos so i just jumped online searching for something and found previews of the early cantos and to my surprise they read different and in some portions are really different in interpretation.

apparently some things are still hotly debated, pretty cool for a book from 15th century Florence.
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Post#55 » by Doormatt » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:58 pm

personally, there is nobody in the history of literature who i dislike/disagree with more than rand. really dont care for her or objectivism.
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Post#56 » by miggs » Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:00 pm

can't say i read enough to dislike particular authors but you got your opinion set in pretty well. The book is a light read and offers some cool food for thought, but eh you don't give a **** so i just let it collect dust like a poor stratocaster i know :roll:
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Post#57 » by Doormatt » Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:03 pm

this n1gga trying to guilt trip me.
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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#58 » by miggs » Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:11 pm

Doormatt wrote:this n1gga trying to guilt trip me.


does the 1 there make it safe to use?
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Post#59 » by Doormatt » Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:23 pm

no the 1 makes it so i can get past realgm's faggy word censor, what is this 1984

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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#60 » by miggs » Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:36 pm

Doormatt wrote:no the 1 makes it so i can get past realgm's faggy word censor, what is this 1984

see what i did there



yes, you put the 1 in front of the 984... impressive
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