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To: LoneClone who wrote (29625)	1/13/2007 2:23:55 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78419

Boy, LC, I agree completely with your take on the Foundation Trilogy. Asimov was certainly one of the great minds of the 20th century, but he was no artist. I could not get into his book either and I have read most of the good books in the world I know of over the years. I will order the one you suggested right now. My top 10 books for fun, of all time would include: To Kill a Mockingbird as #1 because of its moral and ethical beauty. Shogun, which I first read until I could no longer focus my eyes; "Musashi" on which shogun was based (read it twice-he should have won the noble prize for literaturre. talk about developing a character!). What made Musashi so great, besides developing the character is that is uses just a pinch of surrealism, like one would put salt and pepper on a steak, to draw out his characters and scenes. Lord of the ring trilogy, which I read in the 60's and as mentioned, mostly stoned and listening to Country Joe and the fish, Charlie Musslewhite's Southside band and other first generation hippie music-lol. Dune and Watership down.

To: LoneClone who wrote (29625)	1/13/2007 2:43:33 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78419

Just ordered Infinite Jest. The book store had a copy on hand. My mother read several books a week and both my daughters are big readers. I wanted my daughters to be readers and have a sense of humor. Develop their minds and be kind. that was about all I ever asked for or hoped for. People do not understand they need information to understand things. Remember scientific American's study regarding Knowledge directed perception. That is how the expert mind is developed. Voters do not understand they need to vote in a politicians and presidents who have knowledge and a conscience-lol.. We are not born knowing how to think well. That is learned. The main problem with bush, pure and simple (well besides being a sociopath-lol) is that he never read. He has no knowledge directed percption. Bush thinks he can just know the right answer. this man has been wrong about everything because he never had the knowledge to make correct decisions. He never even reached the grasshopper stage-lol. When he went into Iraq he did not know the difference between Shia and Sunnie and he sent very few people over there who knew the culture and knew the language. It has just come out they asked peopel they sent over there their position on roe versus wade. Bush sent the worst and the clueless to Iraq and boy did they screw it up. And he is intimidated book scholors. Karen Hughes his top advisor according to David Fume (who coined the term axis of evil) said GW does not evn like people who read books, or have novel ideas? What kind of thinking is that? GW has gottent the US in the worst mess in our history because of his ignorance, pure and simple!