February-1st-2009, 08:01 AM
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What Are You Not Reading Now
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Humans clearly attend closely to status, an important part of status is dominance, and a key way we show dominance is to tell others what to do. Whoever gets to tell someone else what to do is dominating, and affirming their own status. But we are also clearly built to not notice most of our status moves, and so we attribute them to other motives. And as long as we are making up motives, we might as well make up the most admired of motives, altruism. --Robin Hanson
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February-1st-2009, 08:43 AM
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I just received yesterday a package from Amazon.co.uk and the parcel was unsealed and beat to hell. The contents were in good shape except one book was completely missing. So I am not reading Roy of the Rovers: The Unauthorised Biography.
This follows Me Cheeta in my review of biographies of fake beings.
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February-1st-2009, 05:47 PM
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Your thieving postman has surprisingly good taste, Monte.
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February-1st-2009, 07:28 PM
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I'm going to have to interview that mail carrier. Should be easy to ascertain guilt or innocence.
"Excuse me, I have a question about a package of books you delivered."
"Oy, mate, I ain't stole nuffin. Yer arvin a larf."
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February-2nd-2009, 04:32 PM
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Reevaluating @ 500k
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February-2nd-2009, 04:55 PM
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I'm not reading the entire works if Nabokov, but I'm not really enjoying it.
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February-2nd-2009, 05:14 PM
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I'm not reading Dan Brown for the third time, and I'm getting more out of it than ever.
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February-2nd-2009, 05:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris D
I'm not reading Dan Brown for the third time, and I'm getting more out of it than ever.
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I'm looking forward very much to not seeing that movie.
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February-2nd-2009, 05:44 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Monte Smith
I'm looking forward very much to not seeing that movie.
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Even though it hasn't been released yet, I've already not seen it a few times. That has not only been great, it gets better every time.
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February-2nd-2009, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by steve(thelil)
Even though it hasn't been released yet, I've already not seen it a few times. That has not only been great, it gets better every time.
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Is it one of those movies where you have to have not read the book if you are really going to enjoy not seeing the film?
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February-2nd-2009, 06:45 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Monte Smith
Is it one of those movies where you have to have not read the book if you are really going to enjoy not seeing the film?
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I can't speak for anyone else, but I totally enjoyed not seeing the film after not reading the book - also several times. And I found that the adaptation was totally true to not reading the book.
A Full 5 Montes.
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March-6th-2009, 08:24 PM
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I'm not reading this book.
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March-6th-2009, 08:31 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Monte Smith
I am not reading Roy of the Rovers: The Unauthorised Biography.
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Oops. I actually am reading this now. Amazon sent me a replacement.
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March-7th-2009, 04:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Gordon B
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Now that's a real coincidence: I'm not reading the exact same thing! How far have you not gotten up to? I haven't gotten up to page 1. Or page 2 or 3, or any page for that matter.
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March-7th-2009, 09:32 AM
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I'm not reading the Joe Torre book. I'm almost done.
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March-7th-2009, 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by steve(thelil)
I'm not reading the Joe Torre book. I'm almost done.
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you need to not finish by the time the Selena Roberts A-Rod book comes out next month, so you have no time for that (unless they bump it back when he has surgery, in which case you'll have more time to not spend on the Torre one).
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March-9th-2009, 01:33 PM
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The mouldiest of all figs
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I'm not reading Gresham and it's working out very well.
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March-9th-2009, 01:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by clinthopson
I'm not reading Gresham and it's working out very well.
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I thought it was the law.
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March-9th-2009, 04:56 PM
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For as long as I've known my wife - about 15 years now - she's been telling me over and over that I absolutely must read A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving. In that time I have not read it many times.
I'm thinking of not reading it again soon.
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March-9th-2009, 05:00 PM
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The mouldiest of all figs
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Milstead
For as long as I've known my wife - about 15 years now - she's been telling me over and over that I absolutely must read A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving. In that time I have not read it many times.
I'm thinking of not reading it again soon.
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I was a very strange book and IMHO not up to other Irving works.
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March-9th-2009, 05:06 PM
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colors outside the lines
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I remember liking Owen Meaney very much. It seemed the most symbolic of any of his works which I seemed to appreciate at the time. Owen Meaney was like Jesus or a vampire or something. A Jesus-like vampire maybe. Irving completely checked out a while ago though didn't he? Last thing I remember reading was some ridiculous mid-life crisis thing that takes place in the Hamptons. LHM!
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March-9th-2009, 05:15 PM
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Once again I am not reading James Mitchener's The Source.
I didn't read it for the first time when I was in college. Now, having noticed that I still have that copy, I'm not reading it again.
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March-9th-2009, 05:17 PM
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colors outside the lines
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Once again I am not reading Snow Crash. A science fiction book where I have to follow someone on a skate board? No thank you.
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March-9th-2009, 05:18 PM
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I'm not reading The Talmud for the umpteenth time.
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March-10th-2009, 01:29 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete C
I'm not reading The Talmud for the umpteenth time.
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If you wouldn't spend your free time watching Pat Robertson on TV, you might have time to read it.
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March-10th-2009, 01:59 PM
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The mouldiest of all figs
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I never read Cathy.
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