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...they will never be sure if they are on the right track. After all, the ultimate purpose of the canonical Bible is not to help us feel good in this life but to prepare us for what comes after. Therefore the Gnostic books will soon gather dust on the bookshelf, but they truly belong in the trash. John Bockman Tokyo...
...threw the rest of the Amazon package into the garbage-except for the Nancy Friday books. At least once a week from when I was 13 until I turned 15, I used to remove My Secret Garden from the family-room bookshelf, peruse the jaunty literary tales of women's sexual fantasies and carefully replace the book in exactly the same spot. Rereading the book, I realized that Friday was the one responsible for my inability to judge what is appropriate, by nonjudgmentally equating all sexual behavior. At one point, Friday writes that not thinking about bestiality when seeing...
...firm's San Francisco headquarters is festooned with games--a giant Pinocchio marionette, a glow-in-the-dark walk-through cave and a secret bookshelf that opens into another room, like something out of the old TV spy sitcom Get Smart. "We try to inject fun into everything we do," says Moog...
...number of colleges are assigning homework before their freshmen even set foot on campus--mandatory summer reading. The schools typically choose one book that will spark debate, remind freshmen that there is life outside the undergraduate ivory tower--and not be too heavy to make it from the bookshelf to the beach. Here's a look at some books on incoming freshmen's reading lists for this summer. --By Molly Worthen...
Before Nick can enter his room, however, he slips off his sneakers. His single is designed to resemble a traditional Japanese room—tatami mats carpet the floor, a bamboo roll-up shade covers his bookshelf, a tea set sits in the corner. He has no bed and no standard-issue desk, chair or bureau. Instead, his laptop rests on a small wooden table low to the ground, and he takes a futon mattress out of his closet each night...