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OFFICIAL NIKETALK BOOK CLUB. #NTBookClub: A Tale For The Time Being By Ruth Ozeki (June 2015)
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Apologies for the late response, guys.
I've added all of you into the #NTBookClub. You guys filled out the rest of group 4.
We've already selected the book of the month of June 2015. All of the info is on the first page.
I'll be updating the original post with the date of the "halfway point" discussion, all.
-Drew
jays25
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Apologies for the late response, guys.
I've added all of you into the #NTBookClub. You guys filled out the rest of group 4.
We've already selected the book of the month of June 2015. All of the info is on the first page.
I'll be updating the original post with the date of the "halfway point" discussion, all.
-Drew
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How's everyone else progressing in the book? Hope you guys are enjoying it.
-Drew
These Japanese kids are brutal to this chick. :x
I've always thought Japan was a bit more tame. Then again, this is the same country that's brought octoporn into the world.
I've always thought Japan was a bit more tame. Then again, this is the same country that's brought octoporn into the world.
-Drew
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I'm going to go check Barnes and Noble for the book either later on today or sometime tomorrow.
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Yeah man it's completely out there.
I used to be ok with bullying as a part of growing up
But the stuff Nao is going through compel rely changes that, when the administration is involved and still nothing gets better it's not surprising they have such high suicide rates
I used to be ok with bullying as a part of growing up
But the stuff Nao is going through compel rely changes that, when the administration is involved and still nothing gets better it's not surprising they have such high suicide rates
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Nao's 5th chapter in part 2 is the halfway mark correct?
I am enjoying the book so far
I am enjoying the book so far
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That is correct Mr. SweeeggNao's 5th chapter in part 2 is the halfway mark correct?
I am enjoying the book so far
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As many have said already, the flow of this novel feels really good. Like I'm floating in the sea in a zen like manor soaking in perspective and obscurity.
And if any of you guys watch silicon valley, the schrodinger's cat part was a funny coincidence..
And if any of you guys watch silicon valley, the schrodinger's cat part was a funny coincidence..
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“I knew that her little wave was not going to last and soon she would join the sea again, and even though I know you can’t hold on to water, still I gripped her fingers a little more tightly to keep her from leaking away.”
Excerpt From: Ozeki, Ruth. “A Tale for the Time Being.” Canongate Books, 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
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Excerpt From: Ozeki, Ruth. “A Tale for the Time Being.” Canongate Books, 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
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Man I love that quote
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sounds as if you guys are deep into the book and it's a nice solid read. Whenever mine gets here I have a lot of catching up to do.
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That escalated alarmingly fast
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Flowing exceptionally well 
Half-way done
drew
not to be a stickler, but can you remove the extra e in my name on page 1
Half-way done"What’s depressing is when everyone is trying too hard, and the most depressing thing of all is when they’re trying too hard and actually thinking that they’re making it."
"One of her vows was to save all beings, which basically means that she agreed not to become enlightened until all the other beings in this world get enlightened first. It’s kind of like letting everybody else get into the elevator ahead of you. When you calculate all the beings on this earth at any time, and then add in the ones that are getting born every second and the ones that have already died—and not just human beings, either, but all the animals and other life-forms like amoebas and viruses and maybe even plants that have ever lived or ever will live, as well as all the extinct species—well, you can see that enlightenment will take a very long time. And what if the elevator gets full and the doors slam shut and you’re still standing outside?"
"Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate."
"What is the half-life of information? Does its rate of decay correlate with the medium that conveys it? Pixels need power. Paper is unstable in fire and flood. Letters carved in stone are more durable, although not so easily distributed, but inertia can be a good thing."
"One of her vows was to save all beings, which basically means that she agreed not to become enlightened until all the other beings in this world get enlightened first. It’s kind of like letting everybody else get into the elevator ahead of you. When you calculate all the beings on this earth at any time, and then add in the ones that are getting born every second and the ones that have already died—and not just human beings, either, but all the animals and other life-forms like amoebas and viruses and maybe even plants that have ever lived or ever will live, as well as all the extinct species—well, you can see that enlightenment will take a very long time. And what if the elevator gets full and the doors slam shut and you’re still standing outside?"
"Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate."
"What is the half-life of information? Does its rate of decay correlate with the medium that conveys it? Pixels need power. Paper is unstable in fire and flood. Letters carved in stone are more durable, although not so easily distributed, but inertia can be a good thing."
drew
not to be a stickler, but can you remove the extra e in my name on page 1
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I really wish I didn't binge to the end
But the last two hundred pages or so just needed to be read in one sitting
But the last two hundred pages or so just needed to be read in one sitting
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Flowing exceptionally well
"What’s depressing is when everyone is trying too hard, and the most depressing thing of all is when they’re trying too hard and actually thinking that they’re making it."
"One of her vows was to save all beings, which basically means that she agreed not to become enlightened until all the other beings in this world get enlightened first. It’s kind of like letting everybody else get into the elevator ahead of you. When you calculate all the beings on this earth at any time, and then add in the ones that are getting born every second and the ones that have already died—and not just human beings, either, but all the animals and other life-forms like amoebas and viruses and maybe even plants that have ever lived or ever will live, as well as all the extinct species—well, you can see that enlightenment will take a very long time. And what if the elevator gets full and the doors slam shut and you’re still standing outside?"
"Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate."
"What is the half-life of information? Does its rate of decay correlate with the medium that conveys it? Pixels need power. Paper is unstable in fire and flood. Letters carved in stone are more durable, although not so easily distributed, but inertia can be a good thing."
Apologies for that, brother.
fixed that right up for you.
-Drew
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ok guys sorry i forgot about this thread
can someone tell me what book i am suppose to be reading???
i wanna buy it tomoro at my closest retatiler or amazon it soon
i wanna b a part of this
can someone tell me what book i am suppose to be reading???
i wanna buy it tomoro at my closest retatiler or amazon it soon
i wanna b a part of this
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Any good reads on Buddhism?
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We're reading A Tale for the Time Being
Link included ^^^
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Just finished
Interesting inaugural read
Favorite Quotes:
"He couldn’t help it. It was his nature to need to know, to take things apart and sometimes put them back together."
"They liked books, all books, but especially old ones, and their house was overflowing with them. There were books everywhere, stacked on shelves and piled on the floor, on chairs, on the stairway treads, but neither Ruth nor Oliver minded. Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books. And indeed, buying books was her consolation for moving to a remote island in the middle of Desolation Sound, where the public library was one small humid room above the community hall, overrun with children."
"There’s so much to write. Where should I start?"
"What’s depressing is when everyone is trying too hard, and the most depressing thing of all is when they’re trying too hard and actually thinking that they’re making it."
"One of her vows was to save all beings, which basically means that she agreed not to become enlightened until all the other beings in this world get enlightened first. It’s kind of like letting everybody else get into the elevator ahead of you. When you calculate all the beings on this earth at any time, and then add in the ones that are getting born every second and the ones that have already died—and not just human beings, either, but all the animals and other life-forms like amoebas and viruses and maybe even plants that have ever lived or ever will live, as well as all the extinct species—well, you can see that enlightenment will take a very long time. And what if the elevator gets full and the doors slam shut and you’re still standing outside?"
"Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate."
"I’m reaching forward through time to touch you . . . you’re reaching back to touch me."
“Anything’s possible. People made it here in hollowed-out logs. Why not crows? They can ride on the drift, plus they have the advantage of being able to fly. It’s not impossible. It’s an anomaly, is all.”
"Life is fleeting! Don’t waste a single moment of your precious life!
Wake up now!
And now!
And now!"
"But if there’s one thing I’ve learned from my life, going from being a middle-class techno-yuppie’s kid in Sunnyvale, California, to an unemployed loser’s kid in Tokyo, Japan, it’s that a person can get used to anything."
"By making shadows bleed. You can feel life completely by taking it away."
“That life with my family is the dream,” he says. He gestures toward the ruined landscape. “This is the reality. Everything is gone. We need to wake up and understand that.”
"What is the half-life of information? Does its rate of decay correlate with the medium that conveys it? Pixels need power. Paper is unstable in fire and flood. Letters carved in stone are more durable, although not so easily distributed, but inertia can be a good thing."
“But it makes total sense,” Oliver said, glumly. “We live in a bully culture. Politicians, corporations, the banks, the military. All bullies and crooks. They steal, they torture people, they make these insane rules and set the tone.”
"where you go to high school decides where you’ll go to university,
which decides what company you’ll work for,
which decides how much money you’ll make,
which decides who you’ll marry,
which decides what kind of kids you’ll have and how you’ll raise them,
and where you’ll live and where you’ll die,
and whether your kids will have enough money to give you a classy funeral with high-quality Buddhist priests to perform the proper funeral rites to ensure that you make it into the Pure Land,
and if not, whether you’ll become a hungry vengeful ghost, fated to haunt the living on account of all your unsatisfied desires,
which all started because you flunked your entrance exams and didn’t get into a good high school."
"She explained to me that young people need lots of exercise and that we should exhaust ourselves on a daily basis or else we would have troublesome thoughts and dreams, which would result in troublesome actions."
"He was right. The writing had a similar feeling, precise and delicate, but full of energy and life. Ruth wondered how she could have missed that."
"No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain."
“To philosophize is to learn to die.” -- "To forget the self is to be enlightened by all myriad things. Mountains and rivers, grasses and trees, crows and cats and wolves and jellyfishes. That would be nice."
"I don’t really know why I’m writing this. I know I can’t find you if you don’t want to be found. And I know you’ll be found if you want to be."
"I’d much rather know, but then again, not-knowing keeps all the possibilities open. It keeps all the worlds alive."
Bruhhhhhhhhhh
"He sat in front of us at the kitchen table, with his fingers white and clenched together, and admitted that he had made the whole thing up. Instead of going to work as a chief programmer, he had been spending his days on a bench in Ueno Park, studying the racing form and feeding the crows. He had sold his old computer peripherals to raise some cash, which he used to bet on the horses. Occasionally he would win, and he would hold back some of the cash to bet again, and the rest he brought home to Mom, but recently he had been losing more than winning, until finally his cash was all gone. There was no high-yield blah blah account. There was no empathic productivity software. There was no start-up at all. There was only the five-million-yen fine from the transit company that they make you pay for causing a “human incident,” which is a nice way of saying when you try to use one of their trains to kill yourself. He bowed until his forehead almost touched the kitchen table and said he was sorry he had no money to buy me a present for my birthday. I’m pretty sure he was crying."
"He couldn’t help it. It was his nature to need to know, to take things apart and sometimes put them back together."
"They liked books, all books, but especially old ones, and their house was overflowing with them. There were books everywhere, stacked on shelves and piled on the floor, on chairs, on the stairway treads, but neither Ruth nor Oliver minded. Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books. And indeed, buying books was her consolation for moving to a remote island in the middle of Desolation Sound, where the public library was one small humid room above the community hall, overrun with children."
"There’s so much to write. Where should I start?"
"What’s depressing is when everyone is trying too hard, and the most depressing thing of all is when they’re trying too hard and actually thinking that they’re making it."
"One of her vows was to save all beings, which basically means that she agreed not to become enlightened until all the other beings in this world get enlightened first. It’s kind of like letting everybody else get into the elevator ahead of you. When you calculate all the beings on this earth at any time, and then add in the ones that are getting born every second and the ones that have already died—and not just human beings, either, but all the animals and other life-forms like amoebas and viruses and maybe even plants that have ever lived or ever will live, as well as all the extinct species—well, you can see that enlightenment will take a very long time. And what if the elevator gets full and the doors slam shut and you’re still standing outside?"
"Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate."
"I’m reaching forward through time to touch you . . . you’re reaching back to touch me."
“Anything’s possible. People made it here in hollowed-out logs. Why not crows? They can ride on the drift, plus they have the advantage of being able to fly. It’s not impossible. It’s an anomaly, is all.”
"Life is fleeting! Don’t waste a single moment of your precious life!
Wake up now!
And now!
And now!"
"But if there’s one thing I’ve learned from my life, going from being a middle-class techno-yuppie’s kid in Sunnyvale, California, to an unemployed loser’s kid in Tokyo, Japan, it’s that a person can get used to anything."
"By making shadows bleed. You can feel life completely by taking it away."
“That life with my family is the dream,” he says. He gestures toward the ruined landscape. “This is the reality. Everything is gone. We need to wake up and understand that.”
"What is the half-life of information? Does its rate of decay correlate with the medium that conveys it? Pixels need power. Paper is unstable in fire and flood. Letters carved in stone are more durable, although not so easily distributed, but inertia can be a good thing."
“But it makes total sense,” Oliver said, glumly. “We live in a bully culture. Politicians, corporations, the banks, the military. All bullies and crooks. They steal, they torture people, they make these insane rules and set the tone.”
"where you go to high school decides where you’ll go to university,
which decides what company you’ll work for,
which decides how much money you’ll make,
which decides who you’ll marry,
which decides what kind of kids you’ll have and how you’ll raise them,
and where you’ll live and where you’ll die,
and whether your kids will have enough money to give you a classy funeral with high-quality Buddhist priests to perform the proper funeral rites to ensure that you make it into the Pure Land,
and if not, whether you’ll become a hungry vengeful ghost, fated to haunt the living on account of all your unsatisfied desires,
which all started because you flunked your entrance exams and didn’t get into a good high school."
"She explained to me that young people need lots of exercise and that we should exhaust ourselves on a daily basis or else we would have troublesome thoughts and dreams, which would result in troublesome actions."
"He was right. The writing had a similar feeling, precise and delicate, but full of energy and life. Ruth wondered how she could have missed that."
"No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain."
“To philosophize is to learn to die.” -- "To forget the self is to be enlightened by all myriad things. Mountains and rivers, grasses and trees, crows and cats and wolves and jellyfishes. That would be nice."
"I don’t really know why I’m writing this. I know I can’t find you if you don’t want to be found. And I know you’ll be found if you want to be."
"I’d much rather know, but then again, not-knowing keeps all the possibilities open. It keeps all the worlds alive."
Bruhhhhhhhhhh
"He sat in front of us at the kitchen table, with his fingers white and clenched together, and admitted that he had made the whole thing up. Instead of going to work as a chief programmer, he had been spending his days on a bench in Ueno Park, studying the racing form and feeding the crows. He had sold his old computer peripherals to raise some cash, which he used to bet on the horses. Occasionally he would win, and he would hold back some of the cash to bet again, and the rest he brought home to Mom, but recently he had been losing more than winning, until finally his cash was all gone. There was no high-yield blah blah account. There was no empathic productivity software. There was no start-up at all. There was only the five-million-yen fine from the transit company that they make you pay for causing a “human incident,” which is a nice way of saying when you try to use one of their trains to kill yourself. He bowed until his forehead almost touched the kitchen table and said he was sorry he had no money to buy me a present for my birthday. I’m pretty sure he was crying."
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I haven't even started the book yet. With work, buying and moving to a new house, and everything else, I just haven't had any time this month. My contributions will more than likely be non existent this month. Hopefully next month brings me more free time.
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What a great way to open up this club.
Messed around and finished the novel. The whole concept of time throughout the book and the quantum mechanics part at the end is mind blowing. Ozeki perfectly layered this with a great storyline and underlying plots. Nice blend of contemporary culture and history as well. I wanted to pace myself but I ended up finishing the last couple hundred pages in a day.
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Im only like ~130 pages in and its has gotten sorely depressing lol. Haven't read something like this since... 13 Reason Why back in 8th grade Loving it so far though I get excited on BART cuz thats the only time i get to read it
Loving it so far though I get excited on BART cuz thats the only time i get to read it
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I'm not all the way to the mid point yet.. Work has me busy.. Is the discussion today? or shall we extend it a little bit?
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Try to treat it as a priority or set aside 30 minutes a day. We all have 24 hours in a day. It's an interesting read. Good luck.
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I find it easy to read over my coffee in the morning, then when I get home I usually look forward to reading some more before I turn the lights out.
It's a lot easier to find time once you start getting into the flow of the book
It's a lot easier to find time once you start getting into the flow of the book
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yeah I could carve out 30 minutes a day but I'd rather sleep an extra 30 min.Try to treat it as a priority or set aside 30 minutes a day. We all have 24 hours in a day. It's an interesting read. Good luck.
I just can't wait until this month is over - it's been a nightmare.
