Rain

craigb


I might go for the second-most influential book of all time (after the various incarnations of the Bible):

I never heard of this one before it was mentioned on South Park - where it caused officer Barbrady to quit reading forever.

Well, South Park IS a very educational cartoon...

sharke


Apparently eating soy gives you moobs...Stallone regimen or no Stallone regimen....

Looks as though someone came up with a solution....for women I guess...

 
  Rain the Stallone book looks like a good read. Nietzsche well.....

I still prefer Nietzsche. ;)

I can't name a single book. My reading history is "periodical".

The first big things were the Tarzan books and Ernest Thompson Setons animal stories.
Then, in my teens, came historical novels, mostly the ones by great finnish writer Mika Waltari (don't get fooled by the movie "the Egyptian").

Then came the "social awareness" period, mostly with the latin american writers.

Then it got fuzzy, until I found some more or less traditional books about the complexity of human life in general. Then, close to my 40th anniversary, after moving to a house in the country, I lost my ability to read. My mind was so occupied by everyday have-to-do's that I couldn't concentrate on any book. That was very embarrassing and I couldn't even admit it to any of my friends. I felt crippled, mentally disabled.

Having read books eagerly all my life, I suddenly couldn't get through two pages. Now, during the last 20 years I've read less than a dozen of books, and I feel I've missed a lot.

Rain

sharke


Apparently eating soy gives you moobs...Stallone regimen or no Stallone regimen....

Stallone is a bigger advocate of the mediterranean type of diet than of soy, IIRC. And even then, one of the things I dug when I read this book is that it doesn't fall into such a systematic pattern. 


I've read somewhere that a guy had issues w/ soy, but he was drinking like 2 gallons of soy milk every day. Had he be drinking as much regular milk he'd had gotten kidney stones or other issues. Too much of anything, obviously.


I do eat soy every now and then. I like the taste of soy milk, though I rarely buy any. I also like certain tofu-based asian meals or to toss some in my salads.  


I see lots of guys my age and older w/ moobs out there - tofu may be responsible for a big 1 or 2 % of that. Lack of exercise and a crappy diet are a much more common cause. 

When I try to research the pros and cons of soy I find equal amounts of positive and negative, and generally give up. There has been concern expressed about the high level of estrogen compounds in it though. Personally I'm not a big fan, either the beans or the milk. I am however a HUGE fan of almond milk, rice milk, oat milk and hemp milk. They might not have as much protein as soy milk, but I get my protein from other places (Sun Warrior do a great complete vegan protein, as do Vega and Vibrant Health). I also eat a lot of quinoa, it's my new favorite food. I buy a hot quinoa flake cereal from Whole Foods that is just out of this world, and it's a complete source of protein.


When I recently gave up dairy I had full on withdrawal symptoms. Headaches, coughs, aches and pains, moodiness. It reminded me of giving up smoking. Dairy has casomorphines in it, which is similar to morphine. It's a drug. They say it's to great a sense of well being in the calf when it feeds from its mother. Whatever it was, I was addicted to it. Cheese is the crack form. 

craigb


I might go for the second-most influential book of all time (after the various incarnations of the Bible):

Atlas Shrugged is a hard slog, but I think it's worth a read. Her writing style can be a little wooden though. I understood that style more after I read her book "The Romantic Manifesto" which outlined her theories of art. Atlas Shrugged is selling a philosophy, and it does it with cartoonish characters who are imbued with a set of exaggerated characteristics designed to communicate the essentials of her ideas. Personally I found her descriptive style to be a bit of a chore. I much prefer her non-fiction works, like Capitalism and The Virtue of Selfishness. 

  I get the exact same way sometimes Kalle. I love going to book sales and buying used books, but haven't had the time to read half of them, just extremely preoccupied. 

 Our local library periodically has a used book sale. Toward the end of the sale they are simply trying to get rid of the books. These are books donated for the sale not used library books. The last time I went they were offering books by the bag for 2.00 American dollars.All the books you could get in a bag were yours and these were big bags....so I racked up quite a little horde of reading material. I have been there twice and gotten lots of books.

I do a lot of traveling around the city and used to slog heavy books around with me everywhere. Thank God for smartphones and e-readers. I read books on my iPhone now - you would think it was a pain, but it isn't. 

The bible. 


It's been critized, studied, talked about, analyzed and re analyzed, read, burned, loved, hated more than any other book in history. 


It's my favorite book.