Literally Literary

[SecretLove69]

2 Books come to mind immediately ...

Rich Dad / Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

The Magic of Thinking Big by Dr. Swartz

Well, since I'm financially illiterate - maybe I should give Kiyosaki a read. I'll put him on my list with Suzi Orman.

And I like this quote 'Life is too short to be little.' We must enlarge our imagination of ourselves and act upon it.' so I'm thinking I'll add Swartz to my list too.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

 

[NorCalMan2007]

Well, since I'm financially illiterate - maybe I should give Kiyosaki a read. I'll put him on my list with Suzi Orman.

And I like this quote 'Life is too short to be little.' We must enlarge our imagination of ourselves and act upon it.' so I'm thinking I'll add Swartz to my list too.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

You are very welcome - You will thoroughly enjoy them SL - pm me if you have any questions !!

 

[SecretLove69]

You are very welcome - You will thoroughly enjoy them SL - pm me if you have any questions !!

I'm sure I'll have questions. Thank you

 

[chronicle_tenko]

First - thanks for your contribution - none of it sounds immature to me. (take that for what it's worth) LOL.
I like medieval tales too - but just haven't found one that I'm crazy about. Any recommendations?

AND Second - there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with being polyamourous. My theory is - I have a large capacity for love and affection - why stifle my emotions just because some people can't think outside their own boxes. Trust, loyalty and empathy are not exclusive to monogamy. Just because I've only been married once doesn't mean I can't have a lot of husbands.

WOW - I kinda got off the "literary" train there for a minute.

My thoughts are odd but very simplistic, I'm not one for complex. I tried being honest faithful and true to only one person. Invariably it either scared them or they manipulated it, or they left. I have cheated on people but mostly in spite or revenge, it still wasn't right but I've learned my lesson.

I am poly because I am whole. I don't need anyone to complete my life. At all. I am not a half of someone else's spirit, I have no soulmate, no true love and nor magical person who will make it all perfect. (Sorry kittybum). But I have love, and trust, and no jealousy. And I seek and will share my life and all that I have and am with other whole people.

On to books. Medieval style and fantasy genre.

have you tried the big guns, the really successful ones?

I speak of Narnia and LOTR. They have successful movies made are gigantic sweeping stories and some 60 years old. I also think Everyone has read or seen them. So there are the modern Big Guns.

I speak of Wheel of Time and Sword of truth. Both have multi book series that are ending soon. Wheel of Time at 12 (And each book is close to 900 pages on average so they're long reads).

And The Sword of Truth at 11. Both of them have final books coming out in either this year or next. Though Wheel of Time 12 may take a little longer since Robert Jordan has amyloidosis, and doesn't feel great.

If those are tried and done, or disliked I would highly reccomend the Discworld series, which is some of the funniest stuff I have ever read. Terry Pratchett writes them, they're wonderful if a little childish and they contain some of everything.

And if you can ever find them at all, I suggest the Old Kingdom (Likely in North America found as the 'Abhorsen' series) by Garth Nix. Wonderful books about good necromancers.

 

[mischevious eye]

If you like fantasy/comedy the Myth-Adventures books aren't bad. It is a series by Robert Aspirin. The main characters is a Kid from Klahd, who is a magician's apprententice, and a Per-Vect, a magician who lost his powers, and how they travel to different demensions to solve a problem. There is a lot of humour in them alot of play on words.

 

[done_got_old]

If you like fantasy/comedy the Myth-Adventures books aren't bad. It is a series by Robert Aspirin. The main characters is a Kid from Klahd, who is a magician's apprententice, and a Per-Vect, a magician who lost his powers, and how they travel to different demensions to solve a problem. There is a lot of humour in them alot of play on words.

I love them! Readers send in puns and he sometimes uses them in his books. My favorite is the 'heart attack'.

 

[mischevious eye]

He is writing them with a partner right now becasuse he got behind on his schedule. His other book a Phul and His money is just as good

 

[done_got_old]

He is writing them with a partner right now becasuse he got behind on his schedule. His other book a Phul and His money is just as good

Yes, I know. I haven't read that yet. I'll put it on my list.

 

[mischevious eye]

I think that there is 3 Phul books

 

[done_got_old]

I think that there is 3 Phul books

I'm going to look for them.

 

[asian_princess]

...I simply adore...Jane Eyre. .

I knew we were kindred.

this one line changed my whole view of love and writing in one fail swoop.

"Because," he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you -- especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, -- you'd forget me."

*sigh*

romance as its best.

 

[HornyProf]

okay

walt whitman can be quite inspired, especially song of myself
Roethke.. "I Knew a woman" and a few others "The Geramium" "My papas waltz"
"the waking:

I love the poem Marriage by Gregory Corso, and am a sucker for the beats. Howl, of course is, is genius.

James Joyce,Ullyessese.. hard to read but so fucking funny.

almost any poem by t s eliot or e e cummings is worth reading

 

[asian_princess]

Well, since I'm financially illiterate - maybe I should give Kiyosaki a read. I'll put him on my list with Suzi Orman.

And I like this quote 'Life is too short to be little.' We must enlarge our imagination of ourselves and act upon it.' so I'm thinking I'll add Swartz to my list too.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

Oh Secwet!! you'll love the Rich Dad series...they're not just about cut and dry financial...stuffs...i've read the entire series...like all 6 or whatever, and i'm poorer than a church mouse's left nostril.


btw...
i see you have a seacat quote in your sig... he is my rock tell him AP said hi

 

[SecretLove69]

And if you can ever find them at all, I suggest the Old Kingdom (Likely in North America found as the 'Abhorsen' series) by Garth Nix. Wonderful books about good necromancers.

I am going to find these - they look intriguing. Checked out the web link and just from the looks of that site I think the books will be enjoyable.

 

[SecretLove69]

Oh Secwet!! you'll love the Rich Dad series...they're not just about cut and dry financial...stuffs...i've read the entire series...like all 6 or whatever, and i'm poorer than a church mouse's left nostril.


btw...
i see you have a seacat quote in your sig... he is my rock tell him AP said hi

I think I shall also get into this series. Perhaps something to increase my intelligence and worth and then some fantasy to increase my imagination.

and yes, Seacat is a good fella - sweet and smart and sexy - the irresistable trifecta.

 

[SecretLove69]

Gregory Corso - genius.

Yeah - and this one just kinda touched me....

Spirit
is Life
It flows thru
the death of me
endlessly
like a river
unafraid
of becoming
the sea


It sort of reminds me of this one by William Rand

The snow melts on the mountain, And the water runs down to the spring.
And the spring in a turbulent fountain, With a song of youth to sing,
Runs down to the rioutous river, And the river flows to the sea,
And the water again goes back to rain to the hills where it used to be.
And I wonder if life's deep mystery isn't much like the rain and the snow
Returning through all eternity to places it used to know.
For life was born in lofty heights and flows in a laughing stream,
To the river below whose onward flow ends in a peaceful dream.
And so at last, when our life has passed and the river has run it's course,
It again goes back over the selfsame track, to the mountain which was its source.
So why clutch life, or why fear death, or dread what is to be?
The river ran its alloted span 'till it reached the silent sea.
The water went back to the mountain-top to begin its course once more.
So we shall run the course begun 'till we reach the silent shore.
Then revisit earth in a pure rebirth from the heart of the pure white snow.
So don't ask why we live or die or where or when we go;
Or struggle with the mysteries of life - that only God may know.

Thinking ahead for readings at my funeral.....maudlin aren't I?

 

[Bender_Rod]

I read mostly non fiction. So my favorite of that is Gerald Reitlinger, the SS: alibi of a nation 1922-1945. Not really a curl up on your couch and read book. He puts forward that the SS took the blame for all of Germany's sins in WWII (and before). He makes some good points by noting that the SS was created by taking not only men that fit the "speciman image" but also it
co-op'ed many of the police departments. Germany at that time had like in the US police for each "state" and municiple as well as "special", crimial and political police that were there before the Nazis came to power. Its not a pleasant read, but very informative.

For Fiction it has to be the "master" William Shakespear. I know that they are playes but I love how he takes course language and "street speak" and does it up to make us all think how proper he is.

Also, Chaucer has to go in there too. I have a thing for classics.

 

[SecretLove69]

Ahhh yes Chaucer.........Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

Hmmm the man knew of what he spoke.

I love the classics too. Had an English teacher WAY back in high school that drilled them into us and I'm so glad he did.

 

[Bender_Rod]

Ahhh yes Chaucer.........Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

Hmmm the man knew of what he spoke.

I love the classics too. Had an English teacher WAY back in high school that drilled them into us and I'm so glad he did.

Ever seen "A Knight's Tale"? That is how I always thought of people like Chaucer. Of courses the movie is completely out of his lifeftime as Chaucer was in during William II Rufus kingship, not Edward III.

 

[SecretLove69]

Ever seen "A Knight's Tale"? That is how I always thought of people like Chaucer. Of courses the movie is completely out of his lifeftime as Chaucer was in during William II Rufus kingship, not Edward III.

Yes YES - I loved that movie - have seen it a few times.
I think they were going for comic relief as opposed to historic accuracy.....but I agree and would have loved to have lived in that time.

 

[Bender_Rod]

I should add, growing up, Catcher in the Rye was likely the most influential book of my mid teenager years.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in college.

 

[SecretLove69]

The one I remember the most - from growing up years - and that I read again and again was Flowers For Algernon. It was such a touching and heart breaking story.