Now that I’m pretty much moved into my new apartment I find myself with a lot of free time. I’ve been reasonably good at filling it – Arrested Development DVDs, Diablo 2, VH1. You know, the basics. But I am getting a little bored with that, and decided that I’d like to read some. Books, even, not just articles on wikipedia.
The problem is I don’t really know anything good to read. I think I’ve asked this before, but I don’t remember. So if anyone has any good books to read, I’d be interested. Fiction, non-fiction, whatever. Just something I can do when I’m moving between the computer and the TV.
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Ah!!!
A desperate intellectual
I think you should try:
Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?pwb=1&ean=9780465026562
It will keep your mind also off women. LOL.
Have fun.
Nathan, you might enjoy “The Kite Runner.” It is a book about Afghanstan prior to the Taliban.
Dammit. I accidentally deleted a real comment. I’m really sorry.
Suuuuuure… (Just kidding, I hate accidentally deleting real ones.)
To recap my recap of the recovery:
Maya Angelou, Ray Bradbury, Issac Asimov, Langston Hughes, and Mark Twain = Good.
i’m absolutely POSITIVE that you’d love home land by sam lipsyte
“What if somebody finally wrote to his high school alumni bulletin and told…the truth! Here is an update from hell, and the most brilliant work to date, by the novelist whom Jeffrey Eugenides calls “original, devious, and very funny” and of whose first novel Chuck Palahniuk wrote, “I laughed out loud — and I never laugh out loud.”
The Eastern Valley High School Alumni newsletter, Catamount Notes, is bursting with tales of success: former students include a bankable politician and a famous baseball star, not to mention a major-label recording artist. Then there is the appalling, yet utterly lovable, Lewis Miner, class of ’89 — a.k.a Teabag — who did not pan out. This is his confession in all its bitter, lovelorn glory.”