[geeks] reading material (non-computer)

Michael Conlen meconlen at obfuscated.net
Mon Apr 22 00:17:50 CDT 2002


I just found Hubert Shelby Jr. at the local coffee house. Book has Requiem
for a Dream, Last Exit, and one other story... ...badass...

If you haven't watched Requiem for a Dream, get it on DVD and watch it, then
listen to the directors audio... ...amazing

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Michael Conlen
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meconlen at obfuscated.net


> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
> Of dave at cca.org
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 8:16 PM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] reading material (non-computer)
>
>
> avriettea at speakeasy.net writes:
>
> >On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 01:09 AM, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
> >> scifi books here as well..  What's everyone else reading?
>
> "Religion in Ancient Egypt" Ed: Byron Shafer
>
> Last few books prior to that:
>
> "Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign" Ed: O'Conner & Cline
> "Early Dynastic Egypt" by Toby Wilkinson
>
> (Hey kids, see if you can spot the pattern!)
>
> >Just finished reading _The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to
> >Master_, was good.
>
> Ok, confession time: who has or has not read "The Mythical Man Month"?
>
> >_Crime and Punishment_ fyodor dostoevsky
>
> Eh. I like his earlier stuff. "Poor People" in particular.
>
> >_The Master and the Margarita_
>
> Ah! Very nice.
>
> >_Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories_ franz kafka
>
> I think Kafka only wrote one significant piece: "The Castle". His
> other novels were just minor variations on the same theme, and his
> short stories are a bad rip-off of Gogol.
>
> >_One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich_ alexander solzhenitsyn
>
> Good fun light reading. :-(
>
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