Bookcees revived

[boof]

checked out the power of now thanks to @Bags and i've been reading the first chapter over and over for 3 weeks

[Ghost1]

Originally Posted by boof

checked out the power of now thanks to @Bags and i've been reading the first chapter over and over for 3 weeks

That book very literally changed the way I look at life

8/10 in retrospect seems unfair


His chapter on menstruation thru me for a loop and may have had a part in influencing that rating lol.

But nice man glad you picked it up

[Ghost1]

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a **** by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy
51. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder (8/10)
52. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (7/10)
53. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (10/10)
54. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (8/10)
55. Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond (7/10)
56. The Cartel by Don Winslow (7/10)
57. Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (7/10)
58. As a man Thinketh by James Allen (7/10)
59. Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik (9/10)
60. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (10/10)
61. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (10/10)

big short was dope....I watched the movie a while back but the book def goes into greater detail and makes the topic more understandable also the characters were portrayed so well.....loved them. love Lewis writing style.


murakami is straight fire. that was my first book from him.....literally blew my mind into the stratosphere.....im not a fantasy guy at all but I dug this a lot.....like a non cornball version of fantasy.....idk really how to even describe it but easily one of my fav fiction books ive read this year....going to peep more of his work for sure.


any1 ever read house of leaves? I just started it the other night.......man its so wild lol I really like it so far.

[Amen]

The Big Short movie was terrible.

[Ghost1]

really? why? I thought it was dope

[oats]

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)
25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (3.5/4)
26. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (3/5)
27. The Bittersweet Science by various writers (4.5/5)
28. Please Look After Mom by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)

A novel about a Korean mother who goes missing in Seoul, told from the perspectives of the family members. Secrets from their mother's life come out, causing them to search for her more desperately and hopelessly. Really hits you in the feels over and over. It'll make you want to call your mom and tell her you love her at various points throughout.

[oats]

ayo @Bags @uh-oh @Witty @Diode @anyone else who might be down - what do you guys think about starting a book club next year. we take turns choosing one book a month to read and TALK ABOUT IT. On some next level Bookcee shit. lmk if you're down.

[Diode]

Originally Posted by oats

ayo @Bags @uh-oh @Witty @Diode @anyone else who might be down - what do you guys think about starting a book club next year. we take turns choosing one book a month to read and TALK ABOUT IT. On some next level Bookcee shit. lmk if you're down.

i mean i can try but it's hard to accomplish anything with an 8 month old

[Ghost1]

in on book club obv


been meaning to join one that meets in person but haven't made much effort


oh an I peeped that McGregor boxing article in ur read of the week and thought it was dope. didn't read the other article

[oats]

@Diode no joke, if you just take a book with you when you take a shit I guarantee you can read a book a month. Even fathers take shits. You can choose the first book, too.

Glad you gave it a look, bagatron. The other one takes a while, but it's worth it. I usually read longer pieces like that in chunks across a number of days.

[Witty]

In 4 book club.

[uh-oh]

In for book club

[trapezoidal]

I'm down for a book club. I'm in the middle of these books right now,

Think On These Things by Krishnamurti
Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World by Haruki Murakami
A Night In The Cemetary (And Other Stories Of Crime And Suspense) by Anton Chekhov

All three are excellent so far. I'm a huge Murakami fan and have most of his books and this one is a little weird and not like his usual though.

[Ghost1]

Originally Posted by trapezoidal

I'm down for a book club. I'm in the middle of these books right now,

Think On These Things by Krishnamurti
Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World by Haruki Murakami
A Night In The Cemetary (And Other Stories Of Crime And Suspense) by Anton Chekhov

All three are excellent so far. I'm a huge Murakami fan and have most of his books and this one is a little weird and not like his usual though.

man I loved that wonderland shit

was my first and only murakami book so far

not sure what to expect next now you saying that wasn't his usual style lol. was def weird asf.

some1 told me to grab the wind up bird chronicle

[PancakeBrah]

Out on book club.

[trapezoidal]

Originally Posted by Bags

man I loved that wonderland shit

was my first and only murakami book so far

not sure what to expect next now you saying that wasn't his usual style lol. was def weird asf.

some1 told me to grab the wind up bird chronicle

A lot of his books are steeped in fantasy, some more than others. But for the most part his books are very melancholy and the characters are always marred with some issue of loneliness or not being accepted.

If you want to continue the fantasy route I would go with Wind Up Bird Chronicle or A Wild Sheep Chase. After that, 1Q84 - which is over 1,100 pages long, so...have fun with that lol. It's great though. Once you read those three, the rest of his books are rather surreal.

[PancakeBrah]

@oats do you like books by white people, too?

GAME OF THRONES BY GEORGE "GEORGEY BOY" MARTIN

Reread it since the show ended. He's not that dope of a writer and the POV style gets old sometimes and he uses a lot of repetitive phrases and lacks subtlety and has way too much exposition but I enjoy reading the shit so whatever.

Picking up THE NORTH WATER by Ian Mcguire so I can seem smart and fancy amongst my coastal elite friends.

[oats]

I read 10 books by the whites this year, not including the Bittersweet Science which had whites and nonwhites in it. @PancakeBrah

[oats]

btw @PancakeBrah you gonna get down with the BOOKCEE BOOK CLUB?





you should.

[uh-oh]

Should i read that murakami book THO

Anyone with a name like haruki murakami not writing about military tactics/swordsmenship/weird poems about cherry blossoms im not sure i can get behind