hskerholic Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 There is a book coming out called Fantasy Life by Mather Berry ESPN fantasy football analyst I am wanting to read. Check out this video Quote Link to comment
Chimalli Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Well I am reading Huskerboard DUH! Seriously, go check out "Not Taco Bell Material" by Adam Carrola worth every penny, on my second read. Quote Link to comment
The Dude Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 Started reading Moby Dick for about the 3rd time. I think this is the first time I've made it to chapter 8. I'm on a roll. Wish me luck. I've always had a fondness for the description of the oil painting in the Spouter Inn: On one side hung a very large oil painting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the unequal crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose. Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched. But by dint of much and earnest contemplation, and oft repeated ponderings, and especially by throwing open the little window towards the back of the entry, you at last come to the conclusion that such an idea, however wild, might not be altogether unwarranted. But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast. A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted. Yet was there a sort of indefinite, half-attained, unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to it, till you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant. Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through.- It's the Black Sea in a midnight gale.- It's the unnatural combat of the four primal elements.- It's a blasted heath.- It's a Hyperborean winter scene.- It's the breaking-up of the icebound stream of Time. But last all these fancies yielded to that one portentous something in the picture's midst. That once found out, and all the rest were plain. But stop; does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish? even the great leviathan himself? In fact, the artist's design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I conversed upon the subject. The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads. Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 Started reading Moby Dick for about the 3rd time. I think this is the first time I've made it to chapter 8. Moby Dick is one of only two books I've put down without finishing. The other was Anna Karenina. Just couldn't bring myself to care about either story. Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I'm going to re-read a series of favorite books. Which series should I read first? The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough or the Harry Potter books. Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I'm going to re-read a series of favorite books. Which series should I read first? The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough or the Harry Potter books. Hmm... I've never heard of the Masters of Rome series. Sounds pretty interesting. Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I'm going to re-read a series of favorite books. Which series should I read first? The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough or the Harry Potter books. Hmm... I've never heard of the Masters of Rome series. Sounds pretty interesting. Highly, highly recommended. It's long and very intricate, but McCullough paints a fantastic picture of Rome and the major personae who brought it to life. Quote Link to comment
808Husker in KCMO Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Just read the @dadboner book, Power Moves: Quote Link to comment
sd'sker Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Just read the @dadboner book, Power Moves: was it worth the time/money? Quote Link to comment
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