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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.

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

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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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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.
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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.
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Read Canadians.

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

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

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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.
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1q84
Norwegian wood

easily the best novels i read this year.
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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.
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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。

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