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作者: Ovaltine 時間: 2011-6-25 10:16 標題: What are you reading?

黄易尋秦記

anticipating my orders from chapters:

The Tao Of Wu
Sequel to the Wu Tang Manual, from the artist group Wu Tang Clan, a bunch of black rappers using Chinese wuxia literature as a theme to their songs. This book documents their road to success in the 90's.

Flood
Ark
Both books are disaster fiction leading to science fiction, Western literature seems to have a craze of an Armageddon. Global Warming leading to flood and then civilization is abandon on earth.

Food of the Gods: The Search For The Original Tree Of Knowledge A Radical History Of Plants, Drugs
An interesting theory of how drug use shapes our society, the oppression of psychedelics and the promotion of alcohol give space for a male-dominant, egotistical society. We all seem to view psychedelics drugs as dangerous, but it may be the stepping stone towards an egalitarian society.

The Wire Re-up: The Guardian Guide To The Greatest Tv Show Ever Made
Recap of themes in TV series called the Wire, this epic focus on urban decay and many American institutional failures through the drug trade in Baltimore, Maryland.

作者: FiChai 時間: 2011-6-25 10:43

Apple news. LOL

作者: satil 時間: 2011-6-25 11:28

The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking

作者: Ovaltine 時間: 2011-6-28 20:53

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Terence Mckenna on Institutions

作者: matt72178 時間: 2011-6-28 21:39

大秦帝國第二部 <<國命蹤橫>>。極度期待電視劇版本
蘇秦六國合蹤 VS 張儀連橫之策。商鞅, 蘇秦, 張儀IQ 應在160 之上。

作者: Ovaltine 時間: 2011-10-13 13:19

西遊記

A lot of my friends and family are complaining to me about my laziness, I am using my precious time to strive for intellect and a peace of mind, isn't that the most important in life? Industrial society think otherwise I suppose. I pay for my own food, pay for rent, pay for my parent's and friend's food sometimes, they say I could be more, meaning more materials? These so-called friends and family want you to conform to their industrial lifestyle, because they feel it's 100% right, they actually have anxiety over other people that are not them.

爭名奪利幾時休?早起遲眠不自由。
騎著驢騾思駿馬,官居宰相望王侯。
只愁衣食耽勞碌,何怕閻君就取勾。
繼子蔭孫圖富貴,更無一個肯回頭。

作者: 快樂牛郎 時間: 2011-10-13 13:32

These so-called friends and family want you to conform to their industrial lifestyle, because they feel it's 100% right, they actually have anxiety over other people that are not them.

can't agree more

作者: fibbi 時間: 2011-10-13 15:05

回復 6# Ovaltine

I guess, if you are a father you may think otherwise.
I"m not saying they are totally right, but different position....could think differently.

作者: 快樂牛郎 時間: 2011-10-13 16:10

回復 Ovaltine

I guess, if you are a father you may think otherwise.
I"m not saying they are ...
fibbi 發表於 2011/10/13 15:05

that's a valid point too

作者: raffaello 時間: 2011-10-13 18:45

回復 6# Ovaltine

I can't agree more as well. Some people simply "panic" when they see other people living a different lifestyle.

作者: Ovaltine 時間: 2011-10-13 18:51

回復 8# fibbi

that is true, my father has traditional Chinese ideologies, he probably expect me to reproduce. you can call me weird, but ever since I was 4 years old, i had this notion that i would not get marry or reproduce. no homo, but again other people think otherwise due to their narrow-mindedness.

作者: fibbi 時間: 2011-10-13 19:06

回復 11# Ovaltine

as a new parents, I guess I would understand what your parents expect.
Having kid or not is one thing. But I do vote for getting married if the right person appears. Having a companion is just better than not having one, IMO.

作者: raffaello 時間: 2011-10-13 19:13

本帖最後由 raffaello 於 2011-10-13 19:15 編輯

回復 11# Ovaltine

Just a piece of my mind to share...

Parents can expect a lot of their grown-up children but it doesn't mean you have obligations to satisfy all of their expectations. Good parents let their adult children plan their own lives. They give sensible opinions, not straight orders. Bottom line, follow your heart and your head but don't do anything stupid.

作者: fibbi 時間: 2011-10-13 19:15

Back to topic...Didn't have much time for reading recently...but I do check if 蔡智恆 (taiwanese writer) has new novel...

作者: raffaello 時間: 2011-10-13 19:18

I have just finished "Making a Living Without a Job" by Barbara Winter. A good book for people who want to start a small business.

作者: 老友四號 時間: 2011-10-15 10:14

大江東去，重讀万历十五年。

作者: fishbelly 時間: 2011-10-17 08:14

本帖最後由 fishbelly 於 2011-10-17 08:26 編輯

辛亥：搖晃的中國（張鳴） - 一本絕對值得一讀的書本。作者從辛亥時常被忽略的人，事，物作起點，進而分析當時形勢得失，文筆通暢易讀，立場中肯，分析亦算精闢。
大力推薦此書。

看懂世界格局的第一本書（王偉） - 將 100 年來的世界大事以通俗易懂的文字娓娓道來，分析當中的關聯以及因果。看到一半已經有點茅塞頓開的感覺，對世界格局的博弈有新體會。

作者隱約透露一種民族主義，對歐美國家的文明不以為然，覺得只是西方國家其中一種政治宣傳伎倆。但瑕不掩瑜，有意了解西方各國崛起的來由的讀者可以一讀。

而家真係越來越少見到人（尤其係後生仔）拿起本書睇（工具書除外），希望呢個 post 可以堅持落去。

作者: fishbelly 時間: 2011-10-17 08:20

大江東去，重讀万历十五年。
老友四號發表於 2011-10-15 10:14

大江東去睇左大半，正如其他評論一樣，有點龍應台式嘅煽情。但整體來講此書確實以小人物的角度敘述時代的變遷。早年龍應台到溫哥華演講賣書時亦講話此書是關於親人家庭，而非 1949 的大是大非。

萬曆 15 年太耐之前睇，我都要重溫一下當中的深意。好書就是這樣，每次看會隨著時勢年紀有不同感受。

作者: fishbelly 時間: 2011-10-17 08:24

黄易尋秦記

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睇過黃易其他武俠小說，都係睇完就算，完全無印象，無感覺，無 insight，甚至連睇過邊本都唔記得，純屬 bubble gum 閱讀。我地呢 D 比金庸小說寵壞嘅人，真係好難返轉頭，正所謂 “由貧入富易，由富入貧難”

作者: 老友四號 時間: 2011-10-17 21:44

回復 18# fishbelly
唔好意思！係司徒華回忆录嘅大江东去？

作者: fibbi 時間: 2011-10-17 22:29

回復 19# fishbelly

睇過金庸，真係無乜興趣去睇其他嘅武俠小說。都有睇過吓古龍，黃易同埋倪匡。不過真係覺得麻麻哋。
嗰陣時喺圖書館借過飛狐外傳同雪山飛狐，唔係咁鐘意。不過宜家就想集齊番一套。好後悔無買齊成套小說。

作者: lo_pak 時間: 2011-10-17 22:33

本帖最後由 lo_pak 於 2011-10-17 22:35 編輯

回復 21# fibbi

It's not hard to read those 17 series... I used less than a year at my 2nd year of UBC... The Asian library at UBC even got the old version since I was born, worth reading...

作者: fibbi 時間: 2011-10-17 22:37

回復 22# lo_pak

I have the whole series except 飛狐外傳 and 雪山飛狐. Just want a complete collection on my bookcase that's all.

作者: fibbi 時間: 2011-10-17 22:39

回復 22# lo_pak

我有一日顛到用咗五個鐘頭一次過睇鹿鼎記book 1，廁所又無去，睇到六點幾天開始黑都無行去開燈。

I have the whole series except 飛狐外傳 and 雪山飛狐. Just want a complete collection on my bookcase that's all.

作者: lo_pak 時間: 2011-10-17 22:45

回復 24# fibbi

It's better than you've spent 5 hours in the bathroom reading the book... Is it?

作者: fibbi 時間: 2011-10-17 22:46

回復 25# lo_pak

you would read books in the bathroom? hm.....

作者: lo_pak 時間: 2011-10-17 22:51

回復 26# fibbi

A man can only "starring" at the book (normally magazine) for 5 straight hours in the washroom, not reading...

F Y I...

作者: fibbi 時間: 2011-10-17 22:54

回復 27# lo_pak

OK.......

作者: MoiRhapsody 時間: 2011-10-17 23:12

最近，試下睇喬靖夫既＜武道狂之詩＞，唔錯。

作者: MoiRhapsody 時間: 2011-10-17 23:14

我中四﹣中五個年暑假，都試過一個星期內不眠不休刨晒天龍八部。

作者: fishbelly 時間: 2011-10-18 00:31

回復 fishbelly

睇過金庸，真係無乜興趣去睇其他嘅武俠小說。都有睇過吓古龍，黃易同埋倪匡。不過 ...
fibbi 發表於 2011-10-17 22:29

我有大部分金庸小說，陪我長大。如果有興趣 contact 我一套套借比你

作者: fishbelly 時間: 2011-10-18 00:34

回復 fibbi

It's better than you've spent 5 hours in the bathroom reading the book... Is it?
lo_pak 發表於 2011-10-17 22:45

唔係窩，響廁所係我最專心睇書嘅時候。心無雜念，無電視，無電腦。

作者: fishbelly 時間: 2011-10-18 00:36

回復 fishbelly
唔好意思！係司徒華回忆录嘅大江东去？
老友四號發表於 2011-10-17 21:44

我一時眼快以為你話 “大江大海“。我去網上書店試過搵呢本書，計埋運費貴到飛起，唔捨得買。睇下有無好心人由香港返來幫我買。

作者: fibbi 時間: 2011-10-18 20:00

回復 31# fishbelly

多謝先。：）

作者: Ovaltine 時間: 2011-11-6 09:26

Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years.
The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature''s. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills-overpopulation, erosion, pollution-but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devil''s bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planet''s.

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作者: fishbelly 時間: 2011-11-6 23:31

本帖最後由 fishbelly 於 2011-11-6 23:32 編輯

看懂世界格局的第一本書（王偉） - 將 100 年來的世界大事以通俗易懂的文字娓娓道來，分析當中的關聯以及因果。看到一半已經有點茅塞頓開的感覺，對世界格局的博弈有新體會。 fishbelly 發表於 2011-10-17 08:14

很遺憾需要 “今日的我打倒昨日的我”，看完大半，我必須說作者原來很 “愛國”，很 “仇美”，太多主觀情緒，太陰謀論。

作者: fishbelly 時間: 2011-11-6 23:35

Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

In this provocative, wide-ranging book ...
Ovaltine 發表於 2011-11-6 09:26

When I see "evolution", I can't stop thinking how people might evolve to have more fingers for keyboard typing 囧

作者: fishbelly 時間: 2011-11-6 23:42

一口氣看完一本關於北韓的譯本書 “我們最幸福” （original is Nothing to Envy： Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick)

http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010507026

簡直看到欲罷不能，雖然作者依然有一些以美國人的主觀意識，但訪問到的幾個 “脫北者” 確實提供很多北韓政府的邪惡證據。基本上這不是一本口誅筆伐類型的書籍，而是從日常生活中讓讀者了解到北韓人的無奈，作者甚至流露一種對無知人民的同情。

總而言之，是一本精彩絕倫的書，很好看。

作者: Ovaltine 時間: 2011-11-7 03:55

Good to hear from you fishbelly, I hold deep interests in North Korean affairs.

Here are a couple of books regarding the state on NK:

The Reluctant Communist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Robert_Jenkins

Somewhere Inside
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200 ... ists_by_North_Korea

http://nautilus.org/publications/essays/napsnet/reports
Webpage used by foreign diplomats and NK experts.

作者: Ovaltine 時間: 2012-8-5 23:21

1q84
Norwegian wood

easily the best novels i read this year.

作者: Ovaltine 時間: 2012-10-25 03:04

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james lovelock the vanishing face of gaia

tariq ali - the ideas of communism
tariq is affiliated with noam chomsky, bunch of left wing intellectuals who hates civilization or the empire.

作者: Look4chrisng 時間: 2012-10-25 09:22

Norwegian wood is not my cup of tea. Waaaay too dark and depressing. Need to see something more uplifting.

作者: Look4chrisng 時間: 2012-10-25 09:26

Read Canadians.

I really like Margaret Atwood. Her stories are usually dark, but it's at least dark humor.

作者: Ovaltine 時間: 2012-10-29 07:50

The only Canadian I've read is Douglas Coupland, not a big fan. non-fiction I like Ronald Wright's a short history of progress. I've been reading james lovelock and listening to chris patten on youtube though. this past governor likes to criticize the Asians, he certainly thinks the Anglo race is superior, but a very intelligent man.

作者: Ovaltine 時間: 2012-11-19 02:16

本帖最後由 Ovaltine 於 2012-11-19 02:24 編輯

圍城錢鍾書 I can see the 30s elite is similar to the Chinese peasants family today, society didn't change much.

speaking of 金庸, I can't read it anymore, I can't believe I used to like this stuff, the books are great, and the author is very well informed and it serves entertainment value, but way too much morality involved. 金庸 always put his main character on a moral high ground, I think i can't read it because it is trying to program me into this moral high ground character in real life, would not be practical. I can't accept 金庸 anymore after I've read Game of thrones. LOL.

天龍八部 and
鹿鼎记 are the exception.

作者: Look4chrisng 時間: 2012-11-22 14:06

本帖最後由 Look4chrisng 於 2012-11-22 14:15 編輯

回復 45# Ovaltine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyvPMxr5n1U

If you like reading so much, I think you would like this.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/sh ... nce-of-the-hedgehog

Nothing better than a mean/old/poor lady's nasty comments on the upper class French society.

I can't find the movie anywhere (not in BT), but the book is in library. (Vancouver Library even has the chinese translation of the same book.)

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