wasted Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Sean Penn to direct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oregunsnroses Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 yeah he already did direct the movie. It came out awhile back, a year or two I think. Starring Emile Hirsch I think thats how you spell his name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Is that in paperback yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlfan88 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 (edited) Seneca the Younger, On the Shortness of LifeFirst chapterThe majority of mortals, Paulinus, complain bitterly of the spitefulness of Nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, because even this space that has been granted to us rushes by so speedily and so swiftly that all save a very few find life at an end just when they are getting ready to live. Nor is it merely the common herd and the unthinking crowd that bemoan what is, as men deem it, an universal ill; the same feeling has called forth complaint also from men who were famous. It was this that made the greatest of physicians exclaim that "life is short, art is long;" it was this that led Aristotle, while expostulating with Nature, to enter an indictment most unbecoming to a wise man—that, in point of age, she has shown such favour to animals that they drag out five or ten lifetimes, but that a much shorter limit is fixed for man, though he is born for so many and such great achievements. It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing. So it is—the life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it. Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, so our life is amply long for him who orders it properly. II. Why do we complain of Nature? She has shown herself kindly; life, if you know how to use it, is long. But one man is possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion to tasks that are useless; one man is besotted with wine, another is paralyzed by sloth; one man is exhausted by an ambition that always hangs upon the decision of others, another, driven on by the greed of the trader, is led over all lands and all seas by the hope of gain; some are tormented by a passion for war and are always either bent upon inflicting danger upon others or concerned about their own; some there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude in a thankless attendance upon the great; many are kept busy either in the pursuit of other men's fortune or in complaining of their own; many, following no fixed aim, shifting and inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course, but Fate takes them unawares while they loll and yawn—so surely does it happen that I cannot doubt the truth of that utterance which the greatest of poets delivered with all the seeming of an oracle: "The part of life we really live is small."5 For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. Vices beset us and surround us on every side, and they do not permit us to rise anew and lift up our eyes for the discernment of truth, but they keep us down when once they have overwhelmed us and we are chained to lust.Other chapters: http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/sen...ger/brev_e.html Edited September 11, 2008 by axlfan88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest knerken Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Currently reading both No Country For Old Men and a Coen-brothers biography. I'm working on an in-depth presentation on the Coen-brothers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illusions Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 I gotta get back into reading, it's a great experience how it puts pictures in your head and the story is custom made for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Currently reading Legend by David Gemmell, Twas a birthday present. I don't normally read much fantasy other than LOTR, having said that I'm enjoying this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
November_rain Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 I´ve just finished "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer and I have started reading " New moon " and have "Eclipse " handy too :xmasssanta: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAC185 Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 On The Road by Jack Ker-o-ac.Did i say this already.And y'know the old loves like Catcher in the Rye and lets see....Fear & Loathing.You see I'm re-reading books at the min so I'm gonna say like Steppenwolf, Perfume and ho..................yeah like Factotum.Virgina Woolf is a long time love too.Dostoevsky..shouviuwgiuiueriug or whatever way you fancy spelling it is a gaureneteeeeeeddddded good read if you can keep track of all the Russian names. I can't.And the likes of Portrait of Dorian Gray/Grey I DONT KNOW are like essential, ESSENTIAL reading. Á Rebours/Against Nautre is the shit.Yes on all counts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nameless_girl Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Virginia Woolf sits well with me lately. As well as Sara Teasdale, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Sarah Kane and Wendy Cope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevGNR666 Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 been interminably reading Levi-Strauss and Brigit Kelley for classes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Just started reading Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. It's funny how WW2 books always fascinate me; I haven't read a WW2 book I didn't enjoy thus far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzraelFenris Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 im readin requiem for a dream, book is so much better than the movie ( my opninion ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
November_rain Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I´m currently reading the Twilight saga. I am finishing the third book and I have to buy the fourth one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 The Cult of the Amatuer by Andrew Keen.Very interesting read. How youtube is destroying our economy! And music and life in general.Also reading Rant by Mr. Fight Club and Scar Tissue by A. Kiedis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevGNR666 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Of Grammatology by Derrida is my bible at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlfan88 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Of Grammatology by Derrida is my bible at the moment.Good luck with it...I can't stand "French theory". The only French theoretician that I enjoy is Guy Debord (and he despised "French theory"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyDeeds Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I'm reading "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!" for fun at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I've read that. Is that the one where he teaches some guy science and he shows how to pick up girls at a bar?Feynman designed the nuke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 This is writing related rather than about a book. Chuck Palahniuk, he of Fight Club, was accused of stealing stories from the writers on his website all while ago. He denied this obviously. I used to go when it was free. Anyway I posted a story which was called Rites of the Mill, which about about a guy who turns into a rabid dog.When I heard he stole stories from forum members, I thought yeah right.So I was walking through bookstore and I see the cover of this book with rabid dog which is exactly same as pic I posted next to a story. It's like the one off King for a Day by FNM.The story inside isn't the same at all, but I can see how people on his site...I think he was picking up ideas from that forum. Half ideas would become finished stories.Nothing wrong with it, if you ask me but it makes you think.He's a full on writer, other people can only get $10 for there stories online.It's like he took a rabid dog idea added something about a cult and then used The Witch of Portbello as the style of the book. Take alot of speed and start writing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyDeeds Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I've read that. Is that the one where he teaches some guy science and he shows how to pick up girls at a bar?Feynman designed the nuke.Haha yeah, that's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Why are you reading that?He also hangs out with an artist.I think this was after his wife died.After building the nuke he became a peacenik and like playing drums at love ins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyDeeds Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Why are you reading that?He also hangs out with an artist.I think this was after his wife died.After building the nuke he became a peacenik and like playing drums at love ins. Because Feynman was incredibly brilliant, I've listened to a lot of his lectures, and he's a bit of a crazy guy, so he's interesting. I'm (attempting to be) a physicist, so when I'm not doing physics problems, I read about physics and physicists for fun. And make 39 posts per day at mygnrforum, of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallen Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 (edited) ANYTHING BY MATT REILLY!!!! Except Hovercar Racer, thats for kids.Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab....Its a true story about an SAS team in the Iraq War (1991), get captured and quite fucked up in "interrogation" told from the authors perspective.He also writes fiction books now and they are awesome too.The Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel....They are set in caveman times.The Grail Quest trillogy by Bernard CornwellThe Axis trillogy by Sara DouglassAnything by Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson or Wilbur Smith as well. Edited October 16, 2008 by Fallen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Why are you reading that?He also hangs out with an artist.I think this was after his wife died.After building the nuke he became a peacenik and like playing drums at love ins. Because Feynman was incredibly brilliant, I've listened to a lot of his lectures, and he's a bit of a crazy guy, so he's interesting. I'm (attempting to be) a physicist, so when I'm not doing physics problems, I read about physics and physicists for fun. And make 39 posts per day at mygnrforum, of course Just I know quite a few physicists would never even have heard of him. I know that book sort of made it into Michael Palin territory.He was famous for lectures that made complete sense when he was speaking but after he left everyone was suddenly completely lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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