'No More Buying Books Until I've Read the Ones I've Already Bought' Thread

scrooge2008

InaPickle wrote: »

Take a bow, Scrooge - that's brilliant going! How many did you have to read to start with?

Seven, i've read four and i've got three more to go x.

elantan

angela110660 wrote: »

Where I work they started a bookshelf for staff to borrow a book for 20 pence and money goes to charity. They have some super books donated by staff - hard and paperbacks and there is no time limit on returning them. Have read loads of books at 20p a time already, including some by Lynda La Plante, The Kite Runner, some Jodi Picoult, Kate Atkinson, Paul Theroux and still loads there to tempt me.

that is a fantastic idea

elantan

scrooge re the secret ... yes it can be a worry and i think it can take things too far .... dont want to give my whole opinion just now incase it affects other peoples decision on whether to read it or not etc ... but what i will say is ... if you do read it read it very critically and question everything

ThinkingOfLinking

I bought that Kath Kelly book via Greenmetropolis.com, the one about How I Lived for a year on £1 a day...as soon as it arrives, if it ever does given it's been 9 days already waiting....that's the next one on my to be read pile.

InaPickle

I've finished 'Of Mice and Men'. It's stunning. Absolutely stunning. Steinbeck manages to pack more into 121 short pages than many authors manage to pack into a novel twice or even thrice the length. If you haven't read it, I would seriously recommend it. The tension is ramped up unrepentantly, and when you have read the last page you realise how structurally brilliant it is thanks to the foreshadowing of the climax during the rest of the story.

Take a posthumous bow, Mr Steinbeck. You deserve it.

:T :T :T :T :T

Different_Corner

Pickle, my eldest studied this last year and I have to admit I haven't read it, but I recall wanting to - added to must read list. Aswell as the Kath Kelly book.
So what's your take on The Secret ?

InaPickle

Different_Corner wrote: »

Pickle, my eldest studied this last year and I have to admit I haven't read it, but I recall wanting to - added to must read list. Aswell as the Kath Kelly book.
So what's your take on The Secret ?

Um...hard to say. At first the circumlocutory way in which it was written was really, really annoying and I kept shouting things like 'I don't care about getting your film made, just tell me what this so-called 'Secret' is!' in my head. Then when I saw what 'The Secret' was, it made me think that maybe if it had just hit me with the fact first off, I might have just gone 'Oh, is that it?' and sloped off, which, in retrospect, is probably the reason that it was written in the order in which it was written. Clever. Cleverer that I had previously thought it to be, at any rate.

As for 'The Secret' itself, I know a fair number of people who think in what they term to be 'New Thought' ways, so it wasn't quite as revolutionary a revelation as it might have been to me, say, five or ten years ago, but the way it is written is very persuasive, although one must of course ask oneself if the universe is anything but morally neutral, and if, indeed, there are abundant riches of various descriptions at out command as a result of this assumption? It also made me thing of someone's signature on here (can't remember who), which says something along the lines of 'If you knew the journey was going to be OK, would you worry or sit back and relax?', which is, to my mind, essentially, the message of the book: have faith and hold on. I guess it's a bit like a reassuring 'To Do' list, in which any individual pens in the things that (s)he deems to be desireable in their life. I think that most people could realistically obtain many of the things which they would like to do if they only held on a bit longer than they might otherwise do in life, and that this book would encourage them to do so in order to fulfil their wish. I guess it's a subliminal reassuring pat on the back, and who hasn't needed that from time to time?

To those of you who have not read 'The Secret', I don't think I've given crucial away, and would recommend that you read it yourself and make up your own mind. I think it resonates with my life at the minute, but as with anything, I assessed it and decided what was relevant and what was not in my existence, and would encourage you all to do the same.

P.S. Would happily read that Kath Kelly book as well, but I think it's about time 'La Dame aux Camelias' bit the dust once and for all! (May may well be the month to finish off books which I have already started. )

elantan

InaPickle wrote: »

, 'If you knew the journey was going to be OK, would you worry or sit bck and relax?',

that might just be my signature

so mice and men eh ... never read it have heard it is good ... might pop on off to the library and get it ... could i go to the library ... well i think i might give it a try

elantan

different corner would you recommend the secret?

InaPickle

elantan wrote: »

that might just be my signature

so mice and men eh ... never read it have heard it is good ... might pop on off to the library and get it ... could i go to the library ... well i think i might give it a try

:rotfl:It might well just be! :rotfl:

Right, so what did you think to it? You have been very cagey. I have spilled my guts, now it's your turn!