Comments on: Inside the Vault: Book Meme http://www.kipesquire.net/2006/08/inside-the-vault-book-meme/ A Stitch in Time Saves Nine ... But Haste Makes Waste Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:02:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: George http://www.kipesquire.net/2006/08/inside-the-vault-book-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-3192 George Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:05:38 +0000 http://www.kipesquire.net/?p=2540#comment-3192 I thought The Jungle was a marvelous work of fiction. Of course, I read it blind -- not knowing that it was commie propaganda. That stuff didn't really even bubble up until the very end -- and clumsily then -- almost as if Michael Moore had written the last chapter. <BR /> <BR />Read it for the story of human life, love, and suffering. It's great stuff. I thought The Jungle was a marvelous work of fiction. Of course, I read it blind — not knowing that it was commie propaganda. That stuff didn't really even bubble up until the very end — and clumsily then — almost as if Michael Moore had written the last chapter.

Read it for the story of human life, love, and suffering. It's great stuff.

]]> By: Dave http://www.kipesquire.net/2006/08/inside-the-vault-book-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-3191 Dave Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:55:10 +0000 http://www.kipesquire.net/?p=2540#comment-3191 A Separate Peace? <br /> <br /> Are you kidding? <br /> <br /> Book that changed my life: Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Made me see the evil that is religion. <br /> <br /> Book that I read more than once: Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven. See above. <br /> <br /> A book I'd want on a desert island: what is a desert island, anyway? Too flush with water. <br /> <br /> Book that made me laugh: will have to get back to you on this. I don't laugh. <br /> <br /> Book that made me cry: can't think of one. Das Kapital? <br /> <br /> Book I wish I had written: the Da Vinci Code (it's all about the money). Serious answer: On The Origin of Species <br /> <br /> Book I wish had never been written: well, there are many. The Bible, the Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, the Little Red Book, Mein Kampf. <br /> <br /> Book I'm currently reading: I'm not. <br /> <br /> Book I've been meaning to read: None. A Separate Peace?

Are you kidding?

Book that changed my life: Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Made me see the evil that is religion.

Book that I read more than once: Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven. See above.

A book I'd want on a desert island: what is a desert island, anyway? Too flush with water.

Book that made me laugh: will have to get back to you on this. I don't laugh.

Book that made me cry: can't think of one. Das Kapital?

Book I wish I had written: the Da Vinci Code (it's all about the money). Serious answer: On The Origin of Species

Book I wish had never been written: well, there are many. The Bible, the Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, the Little Red Book, Mein Kampf.

Book I'm currently reading: I'm not.

Book I've been meaning to read: None.

]]> By: mahndisa http://www.kipesquire.net/2006/08/inside-the-vault-book-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-3190 mahndisa Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:45:28 +0000 http://www.kipesquire.net/?p=2540#comment-3190 08 20 06 <BR /> <BR />Kip those are very interesting titles, which I need to check out. I haven't read much of Carl Sagan as his time was after I came into the world. I would say that Steven Hawking fulfills the role of Carl Sagan for my generation. Ironically, seeing Steven Hawking in person (twice) I became more entrenched in the assertion that the Universe was created somehow. <BR /> <BR />Yes, I sure am a biased Christian in that regard. But when I see symmetries pop up all of the time in describing physical phenomena (even chaotic systems) I see order in a way. But I am not a fundamentalist and believe in the time evolution of our existence as well. I am sure that reading Sagan may make one get rid of the thought of an intervening and wrathful God, but it doesn't get rid of the question of how some entity (the universe) could create itself!!! <BR /> <BR />What I find most intriguing about your posts is how you process information. We can see the same news snippet and read the same stuff yet perceive it completely differently. That is why I like comng here! 08 20 06

Kip those are very interesting titles, which I need to check out. I haven't read much of Carl Sagan as his time was after I came into the world. I would say that Steven Hawking fulfills the role of Carl Sagan for my generation. Ironically, seeing Steven Hawking in person (twice) I became more entrenched in the assertion that the Universe was created somehow.

Yes, I sure am a biased Christian in that regard. But when I see symmetries pop up all of the time in describing physical phenomena (even chaotic systems) I see order in a way. But I am not a fundamentalist and believe in the time evolution of our existence as well. I am sure that reading Sagan may make one get rid of the thought of an intervening and wrathful God, but it doesn't get rid of the question of how some entity (the universe) could create itself!!!

What I find most intriguing about your posts is how you process information. We can see the same news snippet and read the same stuff yet perceive it completely differently. That is why I like comng here!

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