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shaihulud

shaihulud

I recently gave away 80% of the books I own. I'm moving, don't want to hassle with 10 boxes of books. I went through my collection counting 1,2,3,4,5, over and over, keeping all the "1"s. I kept some good ones. I was a cold machine while doing this, otherwise the approach would have failed.
  • Chattanooga, TN, USA
  • member since September 11 2008

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  • Kalandrakas

    Kalandrakas says

    To have been a cold machine while sorting out which books to retain and which books to give away indicated to me that each read formed a connection to you. Yes, to sever the physical part of that connection by giving away a book can be very difficult.

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Scott D

    Scott D says

    No prob! Same goes for you!

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Cheryl S

    Cheryl S says

    Hey Steven,
    How's it going? Have you read any good fiction lately? Have you considered what we talked about at the bookstore any (becomming a therapist)?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Brittni R

    Brittni R says

    I'm going to write a comment right now because I have time now thanks!!!!!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Brittni R

    Brittni R says

    I'll try I'm trying to help my mom out and so I haven't been on too much

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Scott D

    Scott D says

    I haven't read anything by him, but I'll keep it in mind. My "to-do" list is pretty long already. My bookshelf is pretty comprehensive. Everything I have ever read, minus some kid's books, are on it. You'll notice my 'reading now' list is long too. I tend to start things and come back to them much later. Other books I read right through. No rhyme or reason.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Brittni R

    Brittni R says

    I joined ur group

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Scott D

    Scott D says

    Yeah, I meant people who are interested in learning and understanding. I would love to have all kinds of beliefs and ideologies having a civil debate online. Basically, a intellectual book club, if you will?

    I'll join your group. I would love to start some interaction with someone. Me and Musiq666 have been pretty busy lately with work and school, but I still try to keep up with news and reading whenever I can.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • B Fisch

    B Fisch says

    I'm a self-employed illustrator/fine artist.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Solyaris

    Solyaris says

    well hello shaihulud. it is an early morning here in Romania and I woke up at 6 to be at school for a class at 8 but it turned out the teacher had pneumonia...so I dragged myself to the library, the only place warm, open, and with stuff to do this early in the morning...yay, I will fall asleep with the mouse as a pillow...well, I send to chuck norris the link to your profile, we were talking nonsense on the net one evening and I send him the link as soon as I got myself up from the floor where I had been laughing madly at that dog who has learned to write and signs in shelfari thing. and now the unthankful chuck norris would not tell me what poems he is sending to you. he said it was a boys stuff...yeah, he generally thinks I am a prissy, stupid girl.
    I know how annoying it can get when you are eagerly waiting for a reply and the person does not answer quickly, but as soon as that much-waited notebook arrives, I will be able to be a faster replier. anyways, some answers need a longer time to coagulate, it depends on how complex the question is, obviously. as I said in my previous note, I strongly believe that taking your time to think and analyze can solve almost any problem. sometimes I find the good answer for an issue after weeks of conscious and inconscious search.... once a question opens in your thoughts, the mind would search for an answer, even without you realizing it. I like when conversations look like finding and adding pieces to a puzzle; at a certain point, those who are engaged in it discover how what it has been only individual pieces of ideas bond, mix and blend to create a coherent view upon the problem.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Scott D

    Scott D says

    It is as much a joke as it is serious. I would like to create a space where like-minded individuals can discuss various topics and the books we read. It isn't primarily religious. It can be philosophical, scientific, spiritual, political, etc.

    Yeah, I'm amibitious, but aren't we, as human beings, always questioning the things around us? To understand them better?

    What are you looking for?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • B Fisch

    B Fisch says

    No man, that's a pic of me with my company logo a rabid goldfish on my forehead. heh

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Cheryl S

    Cheryl S says

    Love your quote...

    Could it be that you are thinking of picking up some Chris Moore? I love his books because he is clever as hell and he makes me laugh. The characters are well done and I adore The Emperor, Minty Fresh and Goth Girl. I would start with A Dirty Job.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dirty_Job
    to check it out.
    Good stuff.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Xynoxia

    Xynoxia says

    Xynoxia is a word I made up out of word roots: xyl- (wood) and nox- (night). Because it's unique, I can use it as a screen name anywhere. In Scrabble it would be worth at least 74 points as a bingo... but unfortunately the regular tile set only contains one X.

    Back to the subject of trash...
    Christopher Moore's You Suck is the sequel to Bloodsucking Fiends. Follow your friend's advice and read both and you'll get a positive view of the vampire genre. As for Dracula, I really enjoyed it, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you're into 19th century gothic literature and urple prose.

    Hamilton actually did not write Industrial Magic. That was Kelley Armstrong and that series is actually very good--but it's werewolf, not vampire centric (meh, same deal). The first one in the series is Bitten.

    The reason why 95% of vampire books are written by females: SEX! In the same way that 99% of romance novels are written by women... Pretty much any vampire novel written by a man is purely a horror novel where the vampires don't get much characterization besides being monsters. I'm sure there's much more analysis that could be done on the sexualized nature of the vampire in today's literature...

    Let me know how the trash reading goes for you and bravo for trying something new, Mr. Philosopher!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Solyaris

    Solyaris says

    P.S: I am currently studying for obtaining a Cambridge Proficiency Certificate in English so any correction is not only welcomed, but very much needed! also if you believe there could have been alternate expressions more suited please tell me, the test is really hard and I have to reach a level of mastery of English if I want to to pass it! and I do really want to pass it ,it is very important and very expensive too, that's why I try so much to hang on Shelfari, is the only place where I can talk with intelligent native english persons.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Solyaris

    Solyaris says

    So here I am! I will try to make you see things from a somewhat different point of view, not too radically different but slightly modified. I can see from your note you have no trust in America and you consider it lacks philosophy, it lacks intellectuals' participation, it is overly political and overly consumerist. The problem of the little participation of the intellectuals in the public life is a big issue of our days...people have no trust in intellectuals any more, they consider them prisoners of an ivory tower. there are new values and models of living people believe to be right, they have no trust in discussing a problem, they see conversations, the dance of ideas and the preoccupation for the spiritual part of life as futile. world has so many problems, time is money so they say, so public opinion might be quite annoyed at those who dare being 'intellectuals', who take their time and think, and advise others to do so. even if it seems that the world needs sharp, rapid and decisive solutions, we ignore that many of our problems are here because we have forgotten to take our time and think, to take our time and discuss. also, few know that history and society have a variable development, the word 'evolution' has almost no real meaning, as it is natural for history to look like a waved line, with periods of blooming and periods of depression which come cyclically. we also have so much pride and trust in our 'modernity'! we have become so arrogant in thinking modernity is the the only right time, so we consider past cultures and views as outrun...we do not see that we are only 'dwarves sitting on the shoulders of giants'.
    I have recently heard of a book by Julien Benda, 'La trahison des Clercs' ('The betrayal of the intellectuals') in which he talks about the same problem of the little involvement of intellectuals in the 'agora' (the book is from 1927 so imagine that this problem is not at all new!) and I will read it as soon as I will be able to find it. Maybe you will be interested in it too.
    You see, you have no idea what the idea of America, of the Occident meant for the people of Romania during the communism. you have no trust in democracy and America now, but 20 years ago the idea of freedom America and the western world represented kept an entire country alive in dark times (you have no idea how dark they were). I live in a country who desperately needs intellectuals, even if the majority has no idea what an intellectual is (in these conditions is not about having no confidence in them is about ignoring their existence), and hence basic things like culture, learning and respect for knowledge are practically laughed-at. it is hard to be a man desiring knowledge and being preoccupied with culture in a place build of so deep and unsurmountable contrasts. There might be no philosophy in America if you say so, but here too there is no philosophy, there is only poverty, vulgarity, institutional chaos, no confidence in what knowledge can bring and no respect for it. here 'normality' is a rare thing and when we meet it we feel like we have reached Paradise. Some of us love this place though because we know what it means, we know that is a state created by intellectuals, created by a couple of people who managed, 142 years ago to build a country with 80% of the population living in villages and not knowing to read and write.
    So let's still have trust in democracy, I live in a place which experienced other regimes and so I know that liberalism ( oh so imperfect!) is the only way...when I think about the 'cohesion' of muslim world I get the chills. any world which closes itself and builds around a single common idea, without accepting any other view is a world prone to bring violence and suffering. a state should support people so that they can be alone and have a different view if they desire to, there should be no 'tyranny of the majority'. the fact you criticize the American realities an values is a really good sign! Is the sign that freedom of opinion really works. The more people are free to criticize a society the better and liberal that society is, because criticism is what helps a society grow. what's worse is that many make the huge mistake of believing that democracy means the rule of the majority. well, you should really read 'On freedom' by John Stuart Mill if you haven't yet! it is practically a book anyone should read if they want to understand the relation between society and freedom better. well, I hope I had a point in what I have said, even I am not at all familiar with discussing such delicate issues. I try though to gain a better view upon those things. I used to be such a head in the clouds person, caring only about my feelings and about literature until the History professor I had in highschool made me open my eyes and be concerned in the ways of the world. I choose to study Belle-lettres because it is what I like, but I am really very interested in history and politology, even if right now I am just a patethic beginner. I eagerly wait for your reply so that we can get our conversation further! and sorry again for the late reply, I wanted to judge things right before I told you and Peaches my opinions! you two deserve it!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Solyaris

    Solyaris says

    oh, shaihulud I'm sorry I made you think like this! I am really really sorry! what kept me from answering to your note was not at all annoyance, it was simply a terrible lack of time! you see, last week I started school as a student and my life was a roller coaster! I still do not own a laptop(I will have one in a week or so) so I got to spend little time on the internet at the Central University Library of Bucharest, always in a rush, running to catch a class or two! I wanted to get home at the end of the week (my hometown is at 1 hour's drive away from Bucharest) to sit down at my own computer, and give you and Peaches a good answer! I felt that you and Peaches deserved from me an intelligent and well-crafted answer, and not a speed note written at a public computer 10 minutes before I had to catch English literature class! so right now I am thinking wisely at what I will answer to you over a cup of Earl Grey. by the way, who told you about 'imi pare rau'? was it chuck norris?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Xynoxia

    Xynoxia says

    Well, here's the problem: REAL trashy vampire books are just that--trashy (Christine Feehan's formulaic stuff is a good example). You don't seem like a trashy reader to me. But there's lots of really good non-trashy vampire novels out there (well, comparatively). I think you'd like Christopher Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends, which is like vampire/comedy/bit of romance. Alternatively, Charlaine Harris' and early Laurell K. Hamilton stuff is vampire/horror/mystery/romance and might be enjoyable to you. But really, there's a reason why most vampire books are written by females...

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Cheryl S

    Cheryl S says

    Haha- that's awesome- CRAVEN MEWLING CAT! Where did you get that one? Maybe that should be your name...

    Funny stuff, the part about Nietzsche's massive mustache and a review sung in the key of WTF. Only you could come up with something so clever.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Xynoxia

    Xynoxia says

    Yeah... It's an inverse relationship. The more flesh, the trashier it is!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )


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