What Are You Reading?

[cigsthecat]

I just finished reading my dad's book. He finally wrote it during that month-of-writing-a-book thing. I am proud of him!

Now I'm just starting on Phil Donahue's autobiography.

[Diff-chan]

I watched the DVD and read some of the book. You are right, very broad strokes. Even though the reading is relatively dense, the arther falls into the same hole that other modern pop authors have of just giving one or two examples. That isn't real science.

Given that, it is still a good book with pretty good ideas. I'd like to see more examples, but I can buy the argument he is trying to make.

I finished the book - and actually he addressed the science aspect of it in the last paragraph. His basic argument was that history is not considered a science, though it could be and should be - and he outlined a way to actually tackle it from that angle.

Really it's impossible to summarize 50,000 years of human history in a whatever page # book (Kindle doesn't have pages). So I can see why the broad strokes were used. At the end he listed other readings which go into more detail, so overall I think he did a good job. I'm also glad he's from my alma mater, it's alwasy good to get the school out there like that in a good light.

[Doc Holliday]

I can usually read 30 minutes before I fuck sleep, really

Does your wife find the small penis causes you to last shorter or longer than the average man?

I'm trying to think back from a physics perspective, that with being smaller, you have to make more repetitions, faster, to cover the same force, correct?

[Michael]

This is correct.

[Pineapple]

I just read a comic/graphic novel/whatever for the first time in probably ten years. A buddy of mine at work tonight came over with Batman: Hush vol. 1 and said "I come bearing gifts, enjoy". I certainly did. A cool story that made me care about Batman once again, drawn by my favorite childhood artist, Jim Lee. Fuck that guy is sick. I completely dug the whole thing and luckily had like 2 minutes in between calls tonight so I was able to read and retain most of it. And just awesome freakin' art. I opted to save vol. 2 for tomorrow, hoping it's as good and explains that dude who was always watching with the rags all wrapped around him. The kid also mentioned another Batman comic/novel/something where Batman dies and they try to figure out his replacement that he's gunna bring in for me to read, so that sounds cool too. I might actually be getting back into comics. Are there more than 2 volumes of Hush? If so I might need to go pick that shit up. Also did W.I.L.D.CATS ever go anywhere? That was my defacto hands down favorite comic when I was younger. I would definetly like to check that out again, it's what got me drawing comic style as a kid.

Other current reads: George Carlin's "When will Jesus bring the pork chops?" and Lee Childs "Bad Luck and Trouble". Also on and off with John Saul's "The Guardian". I picked this up after being completely uncomfortable reading "Save the children" in highschool, which was a pretty sick horror novel. I don't find this one as disturbing just yet, but I can see it getting there later.

Also, Batman kicking Superman's ass is pretty fucking cool.

[YellerDog]

Comic nerds hate on Hush! I don't understand why! It's really cool!

If you like Hush you should read All-Star Batman and Robin! It gets hated on a lot too, but has some neat Jim Lee art and is Insane.

"I'm The Goddamn Batman."

[Doc Holliday]

I liked Dark Victory.

[Pineapple]

Comic nerds hate on Hush! I don't understand why! It's really cool!

If you like Hush you should read All-Star Batman and Robin! It gets hated on a lot too, but has some neat Jim Lee art and is Insane.

"I'm The Goddamn Batman."

Cool, I'll have to check that out!

I liked Dark Victory.

I think that might be the one the kid is bringing in tonight, he told me the title but I can't recall it.

[Diff-chan]

Comics lol.

[YellerDog]

Videogames lol.