We Quit Cigarettes

[Conan]

Tolkien's writing is beautiful. It took me quite a while to actually get through the books because I kept stopping and re-reading paragraphs to attempt to memorize their beautiful phrasing and flow.

Once you get past the pages of elvish singing and feast descriptions, they're damn good books.

 

[BantyChooks]

What nonfiction have you read recently?

"Birds: Their Life, Their Ways, Their World" and "In Search of Schrodinger's Cat". Currently working on "A Beautiful Mind" (a rather overly journalistic, yet interesting, chronicle of the life of a master mathematician) and starting on a book detailing the theory of relativity next.

 

[Kiki]

Speaking of books, has anyone here read Nahoko Uehashi's Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit? It's a good book, in my opinion.
I realize that it's kind of off topic, given that we were just talking about The Lord of the Rings. Sorry.

Is this anime stuff?
I haven't Googled yet.

 

[BantyChooks]

Once you get past the pages of elvish singing and feast descriptions, they're damn good books.

Those feast descriptions are a thing of BEAUTY.

 

[Kiki]

Is this anime stuff?
I haven't Googled yet.

I was so close.

 

[Conan]

Speaking of books, has anyone here read Nahoko Uehashi's Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit? It's a good book, in my opinion.
I realize that it's kind of off topic, given that we were just talking about The Lord of the Rings. Sorry.

I have not, but I've heard good things about her books.

 

[BantyChooks]

I haven't. I've started several textbooks, but I haven't finished them. I suffer from very low processing speed.

Then quit reading textbooks for a while! I suggest reading The Martian. It'll give your processing speed a break. It's the most recent fictional book I've read. I would class it as science fiction—it's hilarious, plain and simple. I couldn't put it down.

 

[Conan]

Currently working on "A Beautiful Mind" (a rather overly journalistic, yet interesting, chronicle of the life of a master mathematician) and starting on a book detailing the theory of relativity next.

Just watch the movie.

 

[Kiki]

I haven't. I've started several textbooks, but I haven't finished them. I suffer from very low processing speed.

If you tell yourself daily you have a fast or good or whatever is needed to finish speed.... you'll have one.


Repeat after me.
I am going to finish this.
My speed is perfect.
I will understand it.

 

[Conan]

Those feast descriptions are a thing of BEAUTY.

That shit is ridiculous. I glaze over like a donut, and skip pages.