bluegreen17 | my second armload of books

i just went downstairs to get the rest of my library books from the car.

this bunch includes:

set this house in order by matt ruff
(fiction about people with multiple personalities)

american gods-neil gaiman

simpsons comics a go-go-matt groenig

intuition by buckminster fuller
(a long poem that's hard to understand,but like the man himself,it fascinates me even if i only understand a teeny tiny bit of it. he left us with an important alternative vision...even though he was terribly nearsighted.)

beyond therapy,beyond science-anne wilson schaef (about 'living in process')

the way we talk now:commentaries on language and culture by geoffrey nunberg

villa incognito by tom robbins
(i'm looking for some brilliant quotes in here...not necessarily for the story,though i did like still life with woodpecker and skinny legs and all.)

the new indians:a first full-scale report of the gathering 'red power' movement...a revolt against the white man's culture and debasement of the tribal way by stan steiner
(published in 1968)

the art of travel by alain de botton
(inspired by a review i read recently. it sounds like it's a philosophical look at travel. i liked his book 'how proust can change your life'.)

and now,i'm going to go watch the beginning of 'harvey' before i go to bed. i need to return it on wednesday,so maybe i will watch the rest of it tomorrow night. i've seen it before,but i want to enjoy it again. i love the fact that this movie is actually 'in' one of my other favorite movies, 'field of dreams'.

excuse me,time to get pixilated. vicariously,of course.

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That book is one of the better ones written about those times. Some of it is even true.

would you recommend something for me to read that would be better?

and what do you think of sherman alexie? people seem to be incredibly polarized in their opinions about him.

thanks for commenting!

You are welcome to the comments. I think I will friend you, you read good books.

There really isn't much written about that time that is any better than anything else. I'm reading Wounded Knee II right now, but it is based primarily on the fed files compiled from that time, and I'm on the other side of that fence and prefer family stories to that dross. The New Indians is a good book, but I always find that the best information on any given topic is gotten from those that were there, when possible. Unless you want to dredge through Where White Men Fear to Tread, as dreadfully boring as the latest Robert Jordan tome, you won't find many of those old uncles talking.

I love Sherman Alexie. He cracks me up.

yes,i do read good books! or at least,parts of them...so many books...what an abundance.

thanks for friending me. i just went over and read some of your journal...well,actually,most of it,since you've just started recently and it didnt take me long and it interested me. i look forward to reading more,especially about how you ended up a becoming a muslim!

yeah,primary sources are the best. for instance,i used to work in a natural foods store,and the people who came in and told their stories...be it a success story,horror story,whatever...in regards to health and using herbs or whatever. i definitely rely more on the information of someone who has experience...granting that people do differ... as opposed to an article in a magazine which might just be a thinly veiled advertisement. so i can see that point in regards to books about native americans.

you mentioned in one post being attached to the land. i can relate to that,but in a kind of weird way.

i think,though,if i expound on that right now,i'll end up writing a long long essay. to be brief,something i'm not especially likely to be,i will say that i'm absolutely in love with this planet...it's so beautiful and awesome and i could go on...i especially relate to the trees and the wind,and also the birds and the sky...and yet i often feel like life is a kind of hell,or at least a christian purgatory.i joined the pronoia community because i really do tend to get very negative and i don't want to be that way.

i grew up here in new hampshire,around trees and hills small and medium sized. we once travelled to montreal and i was kind of freaked out by the flatness of the plains of abraham. i'd be sad to be without the trees for long. and yet,even though i'm mostly french canadian american,i've felt a strong pull to scotland ever since i can remember.i have a hunch that if i ever get to go visit there...the highlands and hebrides islands particularly...i'm going to cry buckets because i'll be 'home'. and that has nothing to do with my genes or my blood. so where does that come from? i ask myself.

anyway,i look forward to reading more from you and commenting back and forth.

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