This is a great fun topic. I can easily fill a book but I am not going to write it now. I just lay my claim to the title.
This thread is going to be some kind of notes of my bookish excursions. It probably has nothing to do with any of you. It may not even have anything to do with me.
Currently I am reading J. M. Roberts' A Short History Of The World. A boring one to many of you but ask me if I care. I have his highly- regarded History Of The World as well. But I like shorter ones. I am not even sure I can finish shorter ones before life finishes me.
I like big pictures. I have no use for details which can't find their place in the grand scheme of things.
Off I go hitting my book.
- posted on 08/17/2005
我是这样的：再好的书，说放下就放下，宁可和一个朋友说些无关紧要的事。有时我想我迷上的实际上是一种问和答的游戏。
我给我的NEPHEW买过那种儿童书，带各种BUTTON：读到小狗叫了，就按一下，立刻传出狗叫，小孩子们就手舞足蹈，大脑哪一层就刻下了某种联系。这种TRICK，大人自然不稀罕。
但如果将来能做得出这样的书：你读得闷了，书问:“怎么了，不喜欢我了吗？” 你笑了，书说：“你笑了”。 你哭了，书说：“ 你伤心了”。
如果有这样的书，象我这样的人也愿意被它RUIN一生的:)
现代的人， 需要被体会。爱玩可以参与的游戏。
- Re: A Life Ruined By Booksposted on 08/18/2005
可爱的笨笨！！
应该也设计这样的一个电脑软件！喜怒哀乐它全懂.
但如果将来能做得出这样的书：你读得闷了，书问:“怎么了，不喜欢我了吗？” 你笑了，书说：“你笑了”。 你哭了，书说：“ 你伤心了”。
如果有这样的书，象我这样的人也愿意被它RUIN一生的:)
现代的人， 需要被体会。爱玩可以参与的游戏。
- Re: A Life Ruined By Booksposted on 08/18/2005
是啊，是啊。 你这么酷， 我只好走可爱路线了:))
玛雅 wrote:>>
可爱的笨笨！！
应该也设计这样的一个电脑软件！喜怒哀乐它全懂. - posted on 08/18/2005
笨笨 wrote:
我是这样的：再好的书，说放下就放下，宁可和一个朋友说些无关紧要的事。有时我想我迷上的实际上是一种问和答的游戏。
我给我的NEPHEW买过那种儿童书，带各种BUTTON：读到小狗叫了，就按一下，立刻传出狗叫，小孩子们就手舞足蹈，大脑哪一层就刻下了某种联系。这种TRICK，大人自然不稀罕。
但如果将来能做得出这样的书：你读得闷了，书问:“怎么了，不喜欢我了吗？” 你笑了，书说：“你笑了”。 你哭了，书说：“ 你伤心了”。
如果有这样的书，象我这样的人也愿意被它RUIN一生的:)
现代的人， 需要被体会。爱玩可以参与的游戏。
Quess what? If I were you I would start talking to the book that I happen to be reading and leave the uninvited friend in cold.
A well designed multi-media book will certainly be very cool.
Oh my God, reading human pre-history is so much fun, all the animals that one day would be priests and poets. Anybody wants to trade? :) - Re: A Life Ruined By Booksposted on 08/18/2005
Are you talking about this book: Ruined by Reading : A Life in Books by Lynne Sharon Schwartz?
- posted on 08/18/2005
gadfly wrote:
Quess what? If I were you I would start talking to the book that I happen to be reading and leave the uninvited friend in cold.
I THINK I HAVE A BETTER IDEA。 一边读一本好书之时，一边顺手写一本，至少NOTES ，让别人去读。 用这样的方式参与：)
A well designed multi-media book will certainly be very cool.我是“装一把可爱”的那个意思，真有这么“可爱”的需要，那就出问题了:)
Oh my God, reading human pre-history is so much fun, all the animals that one day would be priests and poets. Anybody wants to trade? :) - posted on 08/18/2005
NO, IT'S NOT MY IDEA. IT'S YOURS:)
benben wrote:
gadfly wrote:
Quess what? If I were you I would start talking to the book that I happen to be reading and leave the uninvited friend in cold.I THINK I HAVE A BETTER IDEA。 一边读一本好书之时，一边顺手写一本，至少NOTES ，让别人去读。 用这样的方式参与：)
A well designed multi-media book will certainly be very cool.我是“装一把可爱”的那个意思，真有这么“可爱”的需要，那就出问题了:)
Oh my God, reading human pre-history is so much fun, all the animals that one day would be priests and poets. Anybody wants to trade? :) - Re: A Life Ruined By Booksposted on 08/18/2005
zxd wrote:
Are you talking about this book: Ruined by Reading : A Life in Books by Lynne Sharon Schwartz?
No. I am talking about my book yet to be written. :)
I have a vague memory of the title you mentioned but thought it was by someone else.
- posted on 08/18/2005
benben wrote:
I THINK I HAVE A BETTER IDEA。 一边读一本好书之时，一边顺手写一本，至少NOTES ，让别人去读。 用这样的方式参与：)
Whatever. I love what Benjamin Disraeli once said, something like: if I can't find the book I want to read, I write one.
I think it is a pretty common thought that sometimes you feel certain subject should be written about, in the style you like, imbued with certain mood, with a technique you wanted to try and so on. Than do it and bring your brainchild to light. - posted on 08/18/2005
Month ago I ordered a copy of English version of Voynich's "The Gadfly" from my loyal dealer Amazon. The order came. The cover is plain yet elegantly adorable with only black title and author on the clossy white: a remembrance of believed purity long lost. Life is all about associations. I decided to save the book for rainy days down the road and found it a place besides other gods in the only shrine of an atheist, my bookshelf of the most cherished.
Note: the present gadfly has very little to do with that gadfly but who knows. - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/19/2005
It might be a little bit too late when you draw the conclusion after 6/7 of a life.
It also boosts my confidence in my faith: Don't read books when you are not that old. :) - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/19/2005
It also boosts my confidence in my faith: Don't read books when you are not that old. :)
Let me modify a bit: Don't hurry to read all the good books when you
are not old enough...
Gadfly will not only criticize, his story can be a book then.
- Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/19/2005
Look at the average life span, I maybe only at 1/3 of my hanging out around here. But what's good about another 2/3? You are as good as your energy can carry you. :)
I'm having someone playing first three of Beethoven's piano sonatas for my lunch and after-meal digestion. What complaint can I possibly have against life? :) - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/20/2005
爱一样东西，就意味最终被它毁，不然就不是爱！ - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/20/2005
The theme of Lolita :-)
马慧元 wrote:
爱一样东西，就意味最终被它毁，不然就不是爱！ - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/20/2005
So, if parents were not ruined by children, they didn't really love their kids.
QQ
A reader wrote:
The theme of Lolita :-)
马慧元 wrote:
爱一样东西，就意味最终被它毁，不然就不是爱！ - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/20/2005
其实父母对孩子的爱，有时也是一种彼此折磨。因为有爱就有期待。 - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/20/2005
马慧元 wrote:
爱一样东西，就意味最终被它毁，不然就不是爱！
Aren't women more devoted lot than men? It is almost suicidal. :)
Risk of being lukewarm, I would say let all party of love live, and live more.
And what if the object of love can think? "Aren't you guys out of your mind?" :) - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/20/2005
马慧元 wrote:
其实父母对孩子的爱，有时也是一种彼此折磨。因为有爱就有期待。
This has an element of truth and you know why? The lovers have more love than the object of love can handle. So in the end, one wonders whom they really love. :)
- posted on 08/21/2005
It may be safe to say that everything and every relationship is double-edged. So, take the "negative edge" as normal part of it while taking the "positive edge" as granted, and one will do fine. True, one feels hurt only when one has love, but being ruined by it to prove true or totality? Not to my liking anyway.
Artists have a tendency toward extremity, more or less, it seems.
QQ
马慧元 wrote:
其实父母对孩子的爱，有时也是一种彼此折磨。因为有爱就有期待。 - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/21/2005
So in the end, one wonders whom they really love. :)
爱别人其实有一部分就是爱自己，爱自己的所爱，爱自己的付出。象一个正反馈一样，爱一种东西(一个人)，其中的牺牲和付出在就暗示自己：我是爱它(他，她)的，然后就会为这种爱投入更多。说到这里已经严重跑题了。：) - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/21/2005
After all, one's life can only be ruined by oneself, not by love of books (or art, or anything), or by love of (or from) another person. :) - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/22/2005
To qualify for free shipping I added Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century (Immensee. Peter Schlemihl. Brigitta) to accompany GEB. It used to be hard to find an English version of Immensee here.
I have a such glowing memory of reading Guo Moruo's translation of the novella in my young years. I don't know how I am going to feel when I read it now. For the memories! - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/25/2005
刚才跟新换的头儿开会，两个小时，一点儿CHEMISTRY都没找到，
倒是让我在笔记本里翻出了这几行字，上次读这条线时就想到没找到。
美
唤起的是什么
又被什么摧毁
是希望
一份更美的希望
一个更新的生命
舍弃它的人
走向没有希望的毁灭
爱上它的人
爱上生命本身
虽然我用和你们不同的方式RUIN LIFE，但没准儿，也会遇到同样的问题:)
马慧元 wrote:
爱一样东西，就意味最终被它毁，不然就不是爱！ - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/25/2005
benben wrote:
刚才跟新换的头儿开会，两个小时，一点儿CHEMISTRY都没找到，
虽然我用和你们不同的方式RUIN LIFE，但没准儿，也会遇到同样的问题:)
马慧元 wrote:
爱一样东西，就意味最终被它毁，不然就不是爱！
Why were you seeking chemistry with your new head for? The agent can be dangerous. :)
Yeah yeah yeah, all roads lead to Rome. :) - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/25/2005
No no no, not all kinds of chemistry lead to Rome:)
gadfly wrote:>Why were you seeking chemistry with your new head for? The agent can be dangerous. :)
Yeah yeah yeah, all roads lead to Rome. :) - posted on 08/25/2005
很多年前，我问过一个朋友：假定两人带给你同样的物质条件和安全感，你是要一个无法忍受的boss，还是要一个无法忍受的“物质情人”，前一个你要每天忍受7－10小时，还要作不喜欢的工作；而后者呢，你只需忍耐他每个晚上最多7个小时的折磨，呵呵～～
两者都要你出卖身体和情感～
至今她还没回答我～
当然咯，肯付你养尊处优的物质情人从来都是稀缺资源，如果运气好了，碰上，玛雅坚决鼓励各位MM勇敢选择～
腻烦他了，不是还有忍受不了的boss吗？哈哈，不过那是要无依无靠时最后的一根稻草，不要轻易选择这样的boss啊，要被他们弄成智障残疾人的。
我曾经有过最少3个无法忍受的boss，造成了我对boss的终身恐惧症，其痛之深只有那些受过“性侵害”的人才能相比～～
benben wrote:
刚才跟新换的头儿开会，两个小时，一点儿CHEMISTRY都没找到，
倒是让我在笔记本里翻出了这几行字，上次读这条线时就想到没找到。 - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/25/2005
我鼓励MM们，自己把自己养尊处优， 什么难事吗。工作是可以换的。去他们的物质情人。
天下没有免费的午餐。物质是我们挣来的。感情也是我们挣来的。去他们的物质情人。
- Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/25/2005
I will give up 养尊处优 for a good boss and a good lover. :-) - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/25/2005
I will give up 养尊处优 to be a good boss and a good lover. :-) - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/25/2005
adagio will give up 养尊处优 and a good lover to be a good boss :-)
adagio wrote:
I will give up 养尊处优 to be a good boss and a good lover. :-) - Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/25/2005
benben wrote:
adagio will give up 养尊处优 and a good lover to be a good boss :-)
I am already one, so no need to give up anything. :)
- Re: A Life Ruined By Books :-)posted on 08/26/2005
那倒不一定，拥有才谈得上放弃。
adagio wrote:
benben wrote:I am already one, so no need to give up anything. :)
adagio will give up 养尊处优 and a good lover to be a good boss :-)
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