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One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich Ok, just joking...

I'm too embarrassed to say...

I wonder how many people have actually clicked on this thread entitled "how old are you?" Next time use a less intimidating title... ;):D

Finished an interview with Paul Bowles from the late 1980s... nice laid back guy... too bad he's gone...

The same anathema hit me when I was a teenager. Friends would come over and see books piled up on my shelves. Their knee-jerk reaction was "YOU READ?!?" One said "I could NEVER sit down and read something." My attitude always was: their loss. Literacy goes a long way. Intelligence is sorely...

Not a great reading year for me (and not a great year in general), but I managed somehow to get these in: 1. The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb 2. Heidegger's Being and Time by Gorner 3. The Cambridge Companion to Atheism 4. How to Read Heidegger by Wrathall 5. Easy Spanish Reader by Tardy...

Yes, seek help. ;)

Hello, I've never gathered the gumption to sit down and write something yet. I seem to have a fear of the process, or something ineffable I can't quite fathom. As a psychic salve of sorts, I thought I'd outline how I think a novel gets written and pass it by all of you writer types. Perhaps...

How does Nicholson Baker do it? His books' spines are as thick as Slim Jims...

This question is on the mind of everyone who bothers putting phonetic symbols into a coherent context... Do what Eva said ^^

I have planted nothing. Consider this my confession.

I'm irritated with inverted totalitarianism... when you least expect it and don't intend it, it just sneaks up and oppresses you... grrr... :banghead6mx:

At this point I'm happier not knowing...

...the thoughts that "there are already enough books in the world" and already enough people insane enough to sit down and write them... and shouldn't I be out doing something more meaningful than adding to the deluge of words words words that already exist? ...also the gripping feeling that...

How could someone stick with only one genre? Fiction and non-fiction stimulate different parts of our brains and nervous systems... and who wants to miss out on extra stimuli? Romance seems the most homogeneous genre. Many who read that read nothing else. Most people I know read only non-fiction...

Hmmm... you may have to tap into the local Iranian/Farsi community for this one. A quick web search might bring it up. Also, many websites in Farsi already exist... some must have reviews or recommendations. You may get better answers there (because I have no idea if anyone speaks Farsi on this...

My final list (I thought I could edit my original post... whoops... :blush:): 50. Japanese in Mangaland by Bernabe 49. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave 48. Heidegger: An Introduction by Polk 47. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (tr. Bernard O'Donoghue) 46...

I've thought about counting pages also, but then I realize that the philosophy books I read may have fewer pages, but they take 400% more time to read. A 150 page book outlining Nietzsche's philosophy might take me a week or two to digest, whereas a work of fiction the same length will take me a...