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« Reply #180 on: January 13, 2005, 11:49:14 pm »
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I'm waiting, CJ . . .

I had to wait for somebody to ask. Via work I became aware of a radiologist named Baz de Baz, MD. This is untoppable.
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« Reply #181 on: January 14, 2005, 12:22:32 am »
And then you had to wait another hour and 45 minutes? Thanks. Now my day is shot to hell.
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« Reply #182 on: January 14, 2005, 12:53:31 am »
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And then you had to wait another hour and 45 minutes? Thanks. Now my day is shot to hell.

Hey, you replied at 5:01 and I couldn't very well reply while fleeing work at high speed.
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« Reply #183 on: January 14, 2005, 01:02:01 am »
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I'm sorry, V. I didn't make that post very clear. My wife is HELL OF named Pi. It's only that simple.

This is the 2nd coolest name I've ever encountered.


I'm just saying that is a hell of a cliffhanger to post 7 minutes before leaving work, is all.
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« Reply #184 on: January 14, 2005, 03:30:55 am »
I had a friend in my post-high school years whose last name was Pi, which was pronounced "pee". Somewhere along the way, she decided to use her father's last name instead, which was Yu.

I BEGGED her to consider hyphenating instead, so she could be Casey Pi-Yu. I offered money. Sexual favors. Anything. She wouldn't budge.

It ranks with the greatest of personal disappointments in my life.
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« Reply #185 on: January 14, 2005, 04:40:31 am »
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It ranks with the greatest of personal disappointments in my life.


As well it should.  Truly a Bullwinklesque anecdote.
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« Reply #186 on: February 21, 2005, 11:19:20 pm »
I read Infinite Jest this weekend. Yeah, pretty much all of it. This Weekend. Even though it was a gorgeous day here in the ATL I couldn't even haul my ass off the couch to go out and have a cigarette because I had to finish it. Today. So my brain's a little fried, and I really need to interface with someone in re this book (see, I told you I'm fried over this book), but nobody I know has read it. Good book.

The next book I read had better be some Pratchett or something; I'm desperate for a book that's at least mostly freaking linear.
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« Reply #187 on: February 22, 2005, 12:41:54 am »
that is my favorite book of all time.  it made me want to cry and laugh when i read it which very few books can do.

ALL OF YOU SHOULD READ INFINITE JEST.
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« Reply #188 on: February 22, 2005, 01:16:20 am »
I'm reading Deadhouse Gates right now. It's an actual coherent interesting fantasy series. There's so much drivel in this section of the bookstore that I'm really glad I found out about Erikson. Just pretend the cover of the first book isn't there.
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« Reply #189 on: February 22, 2005, 01:36:24 am »
I've been reading... well, class material right now, but it's fairly interesting. I'm working through the Robert Alter translation of Genesis, supplemented by  Louis Ginzberg's The Legends of the Jews. I'm currently procrastinating on a paper attempting to synthesize these two sources' accounts of Abraham. Whee!
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« Reply #190 on: February 22, 2005, 01:48:17 am »
Man, Infinite Jest pretty much colonized my mind when I read it.  I don't get those people who whined about it being long, cause I'd be pretty happy if I could keep reading it forever.

Unfortunately, all things come to an end, and then one is left with one's school reading.  In my case, Nietzsche, Wagner, lots of things that are in Olde Frenche, and essays on Errol Morris.  However, I read the first half of Nabokov's Bend Sinister this morning, which was charming.  I hadn't read any Nabokov in a long time but I love him madly.
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« Reply #191 on: February 22, 2005, 01:50:15 am »
I'm about to start the new Murakami book 'Kafka on the Shore' .....after I finish reading the back of the book notes about South American historical figures of the 1800's from that Borges fictions book that took forever to read through. really, I'm just slightly OCD and figure it would be "cool" to know random facts otherwise I wouldn't read these notes
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« Reply #192 on: February 22, 2005, 02:47:09 am »
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I'm about to start the new Murakami book 'Kafka on the Shore'


I cannot wait to get round to that. That and the last Mitchell book (Cloud Atlas) are pretty much top of my list at the moment.
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« Reply #193 on: February 22, 2005, 02:54:47 am »
I can't wait for Kafka On the Shore to come out in paperback. I'm currently alternating the damn Dos Pasos "USA" trilogy(DEEP READING) with Boris Akunin's "Murder on the Leviathan" (LIGHT READING). I've found out that I am a sucker for historical fiction, especially that which deals with the Victorian Era or literature.
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« Reply #194 on: February 22, 2005, 03:38:45 am »
i would also like to read kafka on the shore, i've never read murakami before but i'm very interested in magic realism taken to that extent (if that's what it is; i'm just inferring from what i've heard about the book).

andalucia: i felt the same way.  when it ended i felt like someone in my family had died, or something.  i actually went out in search of theses online or other supplemental material i could find so i could stay in that universe (i did end up finding one interesting thesis, but not much else).

CortJstr: are you referring to Steve Erickson and you left out the 'c'?  He is a very good sci-fi writer who has some fantasy elements to him.

School reading-wise I just finished Aristotle's Ethics and have moved right on to Politics; pleasure reading, I am still working on Brian Greene's Fabric of the Cosmos, which is really interesting and fun but which takes a sort of non-scientific person like me a long time to get through.

Sorry for asking a lot of questions but I am sort of a book freak.
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