Describe yourself in six books or less
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intergamer
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This is very difficult for me... even these 6 books only really describe my subconscious, which is just one segment of my personality
Fleming - Casino Royale (My suavity, my internal hero, my extreme attractiveness)
Heller - Catch-22 (My comic paranoia)
Pascal - Pensees (My Intuition)
Pratchett - The Discworld Series (My sarcastic fantasy)
LeCarre - The Tailor of Panama (My professional rational machiavelli)
Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity (the inner workings of my mind)
Real good thread though, I've always believed that personality is well expressed in one's favorite music/clothing/movies/books/art
Fleming - Casino Royale (My suavity, my internal hero, my extreme attractiveness)
Heller - Catch-22 (My comic paranoia)
Pascal - Pensees (My Intuition)
Pratchett - The Discworld Series (My sarcastic fantasy)
LeCarre - The Tailor of Panama (My professional rational machiavelli)
Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity (the inner workings of my mind)
Real good thread though, I've always believed that personality is well expressed in one's favorite music/clothing/movies/books/art
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intergamer
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Incidentally:
6 movies
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Gigi
From Russia With Love
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Casablanca
Some Like it Hot
The General (Buster Keaton)
6 painters
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Dali
Escher
Hopper
Magritte
Van Eyck
Da Vinci
6 musical artists
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Blues Brothers
Frank Sinatra
Chopin
Rachmaninoff
Lee Morgan
Rolling Stones
(I suppose John Williams too)
6 TV Shows
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Monday Night Football
Red Dwarf
Are You Being Served
World Series of Poker (Binions Horseshoe)
Jeopardy
Monty Python's Flying Circus
6 movies
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Gigi
From Russia With Love
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Casablanca
Some Like it Hot
The General (Buster Keaton)
6 painters
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Dali
Escher
Hopper
Magritte
Van Eyck
Da Vinci
6 musical artists
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Blues Brothers
Frank Sinatra
Chopin
Rachmaninoff
Lee Morgan
Rolling Stones
(I suppose John Williams too)
6 TV Shows
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Monday Night Football
Red Dwarf
Are You Being Served
World Series of Poker (Binions Horseshoe)
Jeopardy
Monty Python's Flying Circus
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gladhatter
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Intergammer you talking about the old and real world series of poker or this tv version they have came out with?
Hold'em in a unique and interesting game. In the end it is just a house game of course as a good dealer and well set game can get off well over a hand a minute.
I used to love the game. Both the country boy version and the professional casino rules. In fact I ran a game of it for 2 years and finally started marketing may unique table I developed for it. Then I sliced off the end of a finger and decided making hats was a safer thing and quit my hobby business .. I and to list my last table on ebay and rid it as I never did and stuble over I often.
Hold'em in a unique and interesting game. In the end it is just a house game of course as a good dealer and well set game can get off well over a hand a minute.
I used to love the game. Both the country boy version and the professional casino rules. In fact I ran a game of it for 2 years and finally started marketing may unique table I developed for it. Then I sliced off the end of a finger and decided making hats was a safer thing and quit my hobby business .. I and to list my last table on ebay and rid it as I never did and stuble over I often.
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intergamer
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both...i understand you would like old school poker over televised versions, but I also enjoy the commentators on ESPN - funny guys
gladhatter
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Haaa! Last time I sit in at Binions, the rest of the gang got comped for a fancy meal and it was trimmed out with the works and my naieve wife said, they even had shrimp as big as creme cans on that shrimp coctail and strawberry short cake and it was all FREE!!! Well I did not consider it so free as I donated 400 to them and never got a bite to eat. Well that was a nice teaser as we then drove 7 straight days up the Alcan through toke junction and white horse and finally got to Anchorage and there I donated anoter 10 grand and was convinces I had really learned the game. 2 more visits and 40 grand later I decided I positivly had learned to compete but just was no longer interested. You may want to add Doyle Brunsons book to your reading list as he was the only to ever win the real world series twice and really popularized hold'em.
I have no good feelings fo the man as I remain convinced his theology of poker cost me 50 grand in AK but probably made me about even in my own game.
I have no good feelings fo the man as I remain convinced his theology of poker cost me 50 grand in AK but probably made me about even in my own game.
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gladhatter
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Do you find a movie is less than satisfactory after reading a book?westford said:
Common Sense: Thomas Paine
Self Reliance: Ralph Emerson
Civil Disobedience: Henry Thoreau
Light and Liberty: Thomas Jefferson
Bushido-The Way of the Samurai: Tsunetomo Yamamoto
The Art of War: Sun Tzu
Self Reliance: Ralph Emerson
Civil Disobedience: Henry Thoreau
Light and Liberty: Thomas Jefferson
Bushido-The Way of the Samurai: Tsunetomo Yamamoto
The Art of War: Sun Tzu
westford
Member
Sometimes, yeah. I thought the film of Shawshank was really faithful to the book. Morgan Freeman was not who I'd had in mind as 'Red', but he was excellent, and Robbins made a great Andy Dufresne. I prefer The Green Mile as a book. The film is good, but I just like the book better. Another book to film transition I'm not so keen on is A Simple Plan - again it is faithful to the story, but there's more in the book that never appears on screen - there's more of the characters' inner turmoil, etc.gladhatter said:
Tennessee R
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gladhatter said:
Most absolutely.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth,
The Mysterious Island,
Oliver Twist,
Etc.
I think that the only movie that was half as good as the book, would be Swiss Family Robinson.
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Indy_Jones88
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gladhatter said:
Yes especially "My Side of the Mountain"
The book was way better. Anyone else read it? Very good book, about a kid who runs away and survives in the wild. He also has a pet Prerigine Falcon. I recommend it to any everyone.
gladhatter
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Well with my limited reading and almost never having read for pleasure, I was as destroyed as learning there was no Santa Claus as I was to watch the Client after having read the book. I had loved the pelican briefs and other movies in that series or what ever you call it collection, I guess. then reading the book destroyed the movie or I could say made the movie un necessary as the book was a true pleasure. You would think i would take to reading more after tht but i still do not unless it is some technical info.
Indyologist
Well-known member
A few of my faves:
1.) The Bible
Others, not necessarily in order of preference:
All the Indy novels (except for Sky Pirates-- blah!) and comics
Some favorite Christian authors: Frank Peretti, Watchman Nee, Joyce Meyer, Neil T. Anderson, Andrew Murray, C. S. Lewis
Favorite "secular" books (again, not in any particular order):
Moby Dick, almost anything by Shakespeare, The Scarlet Letter, Pippi Longstocking series, fairy tales, Little House on the Prarie books, poetry, books on writing, self-help books. I read Shogun a while ago and that was excellent!!
The best book I have read lately is "The Introvert Advantage" by Marti Olsen Laney. I learned a lot about myself through this book. Right now, though, the LORD wants me to do a "book fast" and read only the Bible for a while. I haven't been "feeding my soul" lately like I should.
There are scads of excellent books out there. I'll add more of my favorites as they come to mind later.
1.) The Bible
Others, not necessarily in order of preference:
All the Indy novels (except for Sky Pirates-- blah!) and comics
Some favorite Christian authors: Frank Peretti, Watchman Nee, Joyce Meyer, Neil T. Anderson, Andrew Murray, C. S. Lewis
Favorite "secular" books (again, not in any particular order):
Moby Dick, almost anything by Shakespeare, The Scarlet Letter, Pippi Longstocking series, fairy tales, Little House on the Prarie books, poetry, books on writing, self-help books. I read Shogun a while ago and that was excellent!!
The best book I have read lately is "The Introvert Advantage" by Marti Olsen Laney. I learned a lot about myself through this book. Right now, though, the LORD wants me to do a "book fast" and read only the Bible for a while. I haven't been "feeding my soul" lately like I should.
There are scads of excellent books out there. I'll add more of my favorites as they come to mind later.
Indyologist said:
Wow, I have to say, when it comes to a character, that list is very ecelectic.