You need to read Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She is amazing! She left the muslim religion, her life is in constant danger and almost everything she said I could relate with through a mormon background. Another great gook is Stolen Lives by Malisa Oufkir. She is from Moracco and also has an amazing story to tell. Enjoy!
First I like that you have gone back to being Zeezrom.
Have not yet picked my next book. I just finished The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond. Pretty good. This was written in 1992 before Guns, Germs, and Steel. He laid out very well the basic timeline of human evolution and shed some light on the interesting intersection between the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon groups. I never realized that there was overlap with the possibility that Cro-Magnon eliminated the Neaderthals.
Also find it interesting that we have a 98% similarity in our DNA with chimpanzees.
Just finished Catch 22; been meaning to read it for years, and enjoyed it a lot. Not sure I get the end though. Currently working on 'An insiders view of mormon origins', 'Letter to a Christian nation', and 'Buddhism Without Beliefs', this last one by Stephen Bachelor. It's excellent. It extols the practice of Dharma without having to believe dogma, and describes how the Buddha never intended to be revered so highly or worshiped.
Jethro:
Just finished Catch 22; been meaning to read it for years, and enjoyed it a lot. Not sure I get the end though. Currently working on 'An insiders view of mormon origins', 'Letter to a Christian nation', and 'Buddhism Without Beliefs', this last one by Stephen Bachelor. It's excellent. It extols the practice of Dharma without having to believe dogma, and describes how the Buddha never intended to be revered so highly or worshiped.
Did you ever figure out how Milo bought eggs for 7 cents each, sold them for 5 and made 3 cents profit. I'd really like to know how he pulled that off. (Cuz then I'd get into the egg business...)
Kullervo:
Corporations, Taxation, Advanced Contracts, and Professional Responsibility.Still.
I feel your pain. Tax was my long, dark tea-time of the soul.
Fortunately, my Tax professor goes slow, uses lots of examples, and genuinely wants to help everyone understand the material. So the only really sucky thing about the class is that it's from 5:45pm-7:45pm.
Oh, and that I should be reading it right now, but I'm not.
Jethro:
Just finished Catch 22; been meaning to read it for years, and enjoyed it a lot. Not sure I get the end though. Currently working on 'An insiders view of mormon origins', 'Letter to a Christian nation', and 'Buddhism Without Beliefs', this last one by Stephen Bachelor. It's excellent. It extols the practice of Dharma without having to believe dogma, and describes how the Buddha never intended to be revered so highly or worshiped.
Did you ever figure out how Milo bought eggs for 7 cents each, sold them for 5 and made 3 cents profit. I'd really like to know how he pulled that off. (Cuz then I'd get into the egg business...)
Loved that book.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it made sense at the time they explained it. The logic quickly escaped me though. lol Pretty sure it was because when he bought them for 7 cents, he was actually buying them from himself, and had previously purchased them for 4.5 cents elsewhere, and had bought them for 2 cents before that or something... Oh, what the hell. I'm pretty sure it wasn't supposed to make sense in the first place...
I think the most savory climax of the book is when Yossarian is walking the streets of Paris without papers near the end. All the suffering he's witnessing is juxtaposed so well against the blind impotence of the authorities to capably address it. It was the perfect articulation of a cry for help I've ever seen on paper.
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life sucks...
