Recent content by PsychZero

Living with three other college age guys, there tends to be a beer can or two on there. But, we do have a coffee table book on coffee tables...:cool:

The Island of Dr. Moreau: H.G. Wells Winesberg, Ohio: Sherwood Anderson Various T.S. Eliot (I'm still reeling from it) The Nick Adams Stories: Ernest Hemmingway The Professor's House: Willa Cather Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Not to mention Plato and...

I see benefits and drawbacks. The largest drawback though would have to be the discontinuity of imagination and visual cues. Meaning, that what readers tend to imagine while doing just that, and what gamers see while playing the game are two seperate things. I thought that one of the...

You're absolutely right, Diamond somehow manages textbook amount of details into a novel type of read. I read The Third Chimpanzee by him over the summer and it was the same way, highly educational and very enjoyable. I definetly recommend it.

A Belgian Style Tripple Ale, called Final Absolution brewed by Dragonmead. OHHHHHHHH Heaven... My favorite beer that is around everywhere and I don't have to drive miles to find it is Killian's Irish Red. The new bottles are gorgeous! :cool:

I, too, drive a lot and audiobooks are great! Sometimes when I just can't seem to get the book down by reading myself, an audiobook helps to pave the way. I just recently used one to finish The Pillars of The Earth.

I will second THE STAND, by King. I kept saying to myself, "holy crap, would you spit it out already, man!" Also, some of Descates' work was hard to get through too...

Why is that? I thought that it was a pretty vivid account of depression, one which puts the readers through ups and downs(almost all downs here) realelistically. It addressess an important issue as well; the world of psychiatry and the trial and error techniques used with medication. It...

I'm going to give that specific credit to, Look Me in the Eye, by John Elder Robinson (Augusten Burroughs brother). What is parcticuarly astonishing about this book is it is written by a person with Aspergers Syndrome, which if you have known anyone with it, realize how hard it is for them...

Depending on your cup of tea, Prozac Nation, by Elizabeth Wurtzle is almost all time based during her(elizabeth Wurtzle) time spent at college. I can't remember which university it is though, some Ivy leaguer. I will warn you though that it is an exceptionaly detailed account of...

I enjoyed it. It takes either a lot of money, or a lot of well laid out plans to keep something of that magnitude secret for so long. The camera work, like mentioned above, does a great job of putting you in a situation where you believe to actually be there. This is the closest you can...

An old picture of Albert Einstein. He's been in there for years now, and I don't ever plan on changing it. Everytime I think of something besides Al in my book I get dismayed. Actually, I used to use dollar bills as book marks, but they'd always go missing.... I don't think I'll ever...

Studies have shown that girls tend to have a slightly higher vocabulary then the average boy student, it is minimal, but there. The same is said for studies have shown that boys typically perform better in tests of fluid intelligence, such as spatial recogonition and the such. Perhaps...

I only received two books as presents, but I did get quite a bit in terms of value as gift cards. The first book I received for Christmas was Look Me In the Eye, by John Elder Robinson, which I have devoured over the last 24hrs. The second book was The Pillars of Earth, by Ken Follet...

To be honest, I haven't looked too much into, aside from occasional thought. Also, I haven't found much directly relating to it in psychology courses per se, but I was browsing a few books the other day, and I believe an author named Steven Pinker may be able to give you a few ideas as to why...