Danica asked me for my to-read pile

[petronia]

So that she could prove to me that nothing in it was important enough to justify not moving Dorothy Dunnett to the very top. XD; Keeping in mind that I would actually have to go looking for Dunnett at the library, I've whittled this down to the physical pile in my house, in order of acquisition:

• Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services by Kim Goodwin -- yeah OK this is for work
• Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon -- I REMEMBERED HER NAME, GUYS
• Persuasion and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen -- gotta 'fess up: Dunnett aside, I've not read Heyer or half of Austen
• Cheap Complex Devices by John Sundeman -- "short story collection" purchased from the author at SXSW, alongside Acts of the Apostles, a novel related via Nabokovian meta. Already finished the latter, which started well and irritated me increasingly until I was in a fervour of grump by the end; suspect I would like this one better
• Reality Is Broken by Jane Mcgonigal -- impulse purchase as I missed her talk at SXSW
• The Four-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss -- my current diet (it's working creepily well). This:The Hacker's Diet::agile:waterfall. Kevin Rose crops up in the narrative like a jack in the box, which you can't say for most self-help tomes out there. For more profound hilarity, the case study for the "getting ripped" chapter was Neil Strauss, the dude who wrote The Game (which I've been reading on and off in the bookstore... more on this?). He comes off as super-nerdy, but then that's the point of The Game. It was like the setup to a Hollywood bromantic comedy. What T4HB doesn't relate is whether Ferriss was getting tips from Strauss on picking up women, although it does contain two chapters on female orgasm, with diagrams. This book probably deserves its own entry
• Burning Chrome by William Gibson -- re-read, but I don't remember anything in it
• The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence -- there is a new biography of Lawrence out, which sent me back to this in the hope of maybe grokking the geography this time around. Though I've realized the thing about this book, above and beyond the prose style, is that I just enjoy spending time with the dude. LOL INFJs, idek why I like them so much, from an I/ENTP POV they are basically nutters. You can't convince one, really, but you can imprint them. Maybe that is why the main MBriggs page says this is a grebt romantic pairing, bawling

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[petronia]

Well, I really loved the Austens I have read. P&P is and will always be one of my favorite books. I just have this thing where I don't read everything by an author. XD;

I might? The problem is, though, it would have to be a reading group where we read the books I wanted to read, or I'd fail out pretty quickly. XD;;;

No but that is exactly it - I think I actually posted this about Spock and McCoy like a grillion years ago. It's an insanity the other side has a mad respect for, because that set of internal processes would render me (and, I feel reasonably safe in positing, Spock) non-functional. If I had Lawrence's ~*feelings*~ I would just curl up in a fetal ball and whimper. The best part is, he doesn't talk about his feelings in the book! Or when he does, it's in this po-faced stoic elided manner! Possibly he didn't realize the entire book is awash in restrained feeling, or he did and hated himself roundly for it.

It's actually weird that the INTP respect is reserved not for healers, but for (those we perceive as) warriors. Because on the other hand, all warriors are fundamentally kind of misguided. IDK what that implies really.

[karalee]

Bahahahaha well I always did love that pairing! And I'm sure if *I* lived in Spock's head I would have gone crazy. There is a bit of aspiration to that in me, though, b/c every so often I wake up and decide the ~feelings~ are a hindrance, but the resolve never lasts very long. (And I posit that supposing Lawrence really was an INFJ, your second theory would be correct.)

re: the book club, I'm okay with that actually since I am perfectly capable of grabbing books that I want to read on my own time. Book clubs for me are for finding material filtered through someone else's taste, that I may not have found on my own. But it would have to be a group where I can ... soundly mock ... things I don't like XD