[quote]Racer377 wrote:
Right now:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig[/quote]
What do you think of it so far?
Has anyone every read any good ninja or samurai books? The Art of War by Sun Tzu doesn’t count.
[quote]Soulja874 wrote:
Has anyone every read any good ninja or samurai books? The Art of War by Sun Tzu doesn’t count.[/quote]
If you’re looking for philosophy/strategy, pick up Musashi’s Book of Five Rings or Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s Hagakure (bonus points if you can tell me what movie Hagakure was prominently featured in). I can’t really help you if you’re looking for fiction, though.
[quote]Haavik wrote:
[quote]Soulja874 wrote:
Has anyone every read any good ninja or samurai books? The Art of War by Sun Tzu doesn’t count.[/quote]
If you’re looking for philosophy/strategy, pick up Musashi’s Book of Five Rings or Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s Hagakure (bonus points if you can tell me what movie Hagakure was prominently featured in). I can’t really help you if you’re looking for fiction, though.[/quote]
That was the film with the black guy that also was in The Crying Game where he plays a wannabe samurai assassin.
A quite deadly one.
[quote]Soulja874 wrote:
Has anyone every read any good ninja or samurai books? The Art of War by Sun Tzu doesn’t count.[/quote]
As someone mentioned earlier in the thread, Musashi, also by the same author, check out Taiko.
[quote]Haavik wrote:
[quote]Soulja874 wrote:
Has anyone every read any good ninja or samurai books? The Art of War by Sun Tzu doesn’t count.[/quote]
If you’re looking for philosophy/strategy, pick up Musashi’s Book of Five Rings or Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s Hagakure (bonus points if you can tell me what movie Hagakure was prominently featured in). I can’t really help you if you’re looking for fiction, though.[/quote]
I was looking for fiction but I’ll check that out anyway.
The movie is Ghost Dog with Forest Whitaker.
(Yea, I used to be really into samurai and ninjas back in high school)
[quote]Soulja874 wrote:
Has anyone every read any good ninja or samurai books? The Art of War by Sun Tzu doesn’t count.[/quote]
check out Eric Van Lustbader for his Ninja series. he’s also written a couple of books that you might have heard of about some dude named Bourne.
The Tomoe Gozen Saga by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Tomoe was a true female warrior samurai. one of the few in all of Japanese history.
if you can get your hands on a copy of Samurai Cat(aka Miowara Tomokato) by Mark E. Rogers it will blow your mind.
once again Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. you want samarai, this is samurai!!!
Ulysses by James Joyce (english literature degree here). It’s amazing and I don’t say that to sound pretentious it actually is really good.
Complicity by Iain Banks. Really good scottish fiction highly reccomend it
Christopher Logues’ interpretation of Homer’s Iliad. Very cinematic. Very violent. very amazing.
[quote]AmericanGirl wrote:
[quote]Mackk wrote:
Finished The Metamorphosis in an hour yesterday. I’ve been reading basically all day and I have a few pages left in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For some reason I’m diggin’ the eastern writers. [/quote]
I’m reading The Adolescent by Dostoevsky. It’s awesome. If you like eastern writers, you should definitely read Turgenev’s Fathers & Sons. [/quote]
I’ll definitely check it out, thanks. I’m gonna try some more of the eastern scribblers.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]Mackk wrote:
Finished The Metamorphosis in an hour yesterday. I’ve been reading basically all day and I have a few pages left in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For some reason I’m diggin’ the eastern writers. [/quote]
yea but the real question is can you read Notes from Underground, The Double, and anything by Nietzche in the same day without killing yourself? You decide…
For real though did you read C&P in one day? You’re a speed readin champeen…
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The style that readprint.com sets up their e-books is whats allowed me to plow through books, usually I can’t concentrate for more than 25 mins but their set-up really works for me.
[quote]Mackk wrote:
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]Mackk wrote:
Finished The Metamorphosis in an hour yesterday. I’ve been reading basically all day and I have a few pages left in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For some reason I’m diggin’ the eastern writers. [/quote]
yea but the real question is can you read Notes from Underground, The Double, and anything by Nietzche in the same day without killing yourself? You decide…
For real though did you read C&P in one day? You’re a speed readin champeen…
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The style that readprint.com sets up their e-books is whats allowed me to plow through books, usually I can’t concentrate for more than 25 mins but their set-up really works for me.
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duly noted 
[quote]Suhnton wrote:
[quote]Racer377 wrote:
Right now:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig[/quote]
What do you think of it so far?[/quote]
Amazing book so far. Incredibly thought provoking.
veronica decides to die by paolo coelho
have any of youy guys read this book ? what do you think about it?
Currently reading: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, my current issue of Top Gear Magazine and my PADI certification manual.
Just finished: Margaret Atwood’s Year of the Flood and Laurell K Hamilton’s Blood Noir
On me bedside table for near future reads: Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer, Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things, Alice Walker In Love & Trouble, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera.
[quote]Mackk wrote:
Finished The Metamorphosis in an hour yesterday. I’ve been reading basically all day and I have a few pages left in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For some reason I’m diggin’ the eastern writers. [/quote]
Careful. Read them too much and you’re likely to hang yourself.
I myself am on a Hemingway binge. Reading “Green Hills of Africa” for the first time.
And also reading “The War for all the Oceans,” which is about the navies in the Napoleonic wars. Terrific read.
I have read the following books the during past few months:
- The 48 Laws of Power
- The China Study
- A Whole New Mind
Just read through Stephen Colbert’s, I am America (and So Can You!). Purely for entertainment, not to be taken seriously at all.
Over vacation, I read:
“The Canterbury Tales” (translated into Modern English). It’s extraordinary – much better than when I was forced to read parts of it in High School. The human condition is all there. It’s surprisingly raunchy in parts, actually.
“The Three Musketeers.” Great, great adventure book. Dumas really could spin a great story. (I’m still working through this, it’s quite long and the language is worth reading closely).
And I read all of Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden books. Fun, light reads. They get pretty good around the third book.
And the Kindle is awesome for travel. Best gift I’ve ever received.
The Naked Ape Trilogy by Desmond Morris. Fantastic insight into everyday life and the true extent of “how far” society has taken us as a species.
[quote]Res Judicata wrote:
Over vacation, I read:
“The Canterbury Tales” (translated into Modern English). It’s extraordinary – much better than when I was forced to read parts of it in High School. The human condition is all there. It’s surprisingly raunchy in parts, actually.
“The Three Musketeers.” Great, great adventure book. Dumas really could spin a great story. (I’m still working through this, it’s quite long and the language is worth reading closely).
And I read all of Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden books. Fun, light reads. They get pretty good around the third book.
And the Kindle is awesome for travel. Best gift I’ve ever received.
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just started Changes, the latest Dresden Files book. check out Simon R. Green’s The Nightside series where it’s always 3am and anything you can imagine and some things you can’t are your’s if you’re willing to pay the price. great charceters like Razor Eddie, Punk God of the Straight Razor, Shotgun Suzy, also known as “oh God not her!”, and John Taylor, who scares the living, the dead, and things in between.