Kevin's Watch

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Goodbye, Kant!: What Still Stands of the 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Maurizio Ferraris

Read Trevor Noah's Born A Crime on Saturday...not too bad, somewhat amusing.

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Finally...

Avatar wrote:

Sorus wrote:Reading one of Bill Bryson's books on etymology (The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way) inspired me to reread The Canterbury Tales.

I do tend to like his books.

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I read Mother Tongue years ago and loved it. Which of his others are to be recommended, Av?

Hmmm, Notes From A Small Island, Notes From A Big Country, and A Short History Of Nearly Everything were my favourites. Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid was ok, but not his best I felt.

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Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects by Graham Harman

Avatar wrote:Hmmm, Notes From A Small Island, Notes From A Big Country, and A Short History Of Nearly Everything were my favourites. Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid was ok, but not his best I felt.

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Thank you.

A Walk in the Woods is pretty good too.

Haven't read that one. Will keep an eye out for it.

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Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by Herbert F. Solow and Robert H. Justman.

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Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things by Graham Harman

Guerrilla Metaphysics is a pretty cool title.

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Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.

Sorta weird novel made up of short stories. Not very far yet, but some gruesome.

(First time I've ever opened a book and thought "wow, the type is small." Must be getting old. )

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watching Julie's mom for three days. so I can go to the
Richmond, Texas public library to read whatever graphic
novels I have not read. a fairly large selection.

Porno by Irvine Walsh. Having just watched T2, the sequel to Trainspotting, thought I'd re-read the book to remind me of how different it was.

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Philosophies of Nature after Schelling by Iain Hamilton Grant

Been reading a book on leadership:
"A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix" by Edwin H. Friedman.
It is intriguing, unnerving, and I've been... well, applying stuff out of it.
His analysis of emotional triangles is... I dunno, revolutionizing.

Also been nibbling away at bits of "Bold Love" by Dan B Allender and Tremper Longman III
(When I first encountered that book, I was like, "here is the non-fiction version of TCoTC!")

One thing I'm amused by is that I read one book, and the author hates the word "empathy," and I read the other and they love it.
And yet each has much of value to offer.

Avatar wrote:Guerrilla Metaphysics is a pretty cool title.

I had the same thought... and then "Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things" made me do a double-take...

I'm not reading right now. I think I have a tendency to mimic a writing style that I like. I believe you have to be well read in order to write decently but while I am writing I avoid books. I have a list for wanna reads for my next break.

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Linna Heartlistener wrote:

Avatar wrote:Guerrilla Metaphysics is a pretty cool title.

I had the same thought... and then "Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things" made me do a double-take...

He has very whimsical, though not frivolous, style. His writing can be a welcome change-of-pace from the more rigorous, and occasionally stolid, style currently prevalent in much of academia.

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Circus Philosophicus by Graham Harman