Ever read something over your head?
By imagenius128
@imagenius128 (109)
United States
February 19, 2010 9:06pm CST
For some reason, lately, I've been reading many books that are way over my head, in terms of intelligence level. I'm happy to say that I'm one of the smarter people I know, but these still just take me out sometimes. My current choice is The Tao Of Physics, but I almost was going for String Theory for Dummies. My last book was 2012, which discussed a new psycho-revolution occurring, according to crop circles. Okay, I admit that that one was just a little weird.
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@JJ4Ever (4693)
• United States
20 Feb 10
I love reading so anything with words is fair game for me! I've had this same issue lately. I think have a fairly high IQ as well - LOL - but I've been stumped recently. The sad part is that I "read" audio books at work. That is a normal function to my workday...and I've still been blown away! I'll be going along working and have to stop a second to comprehend what I've just listened to. You would think that an audio book would help simplify things for you a little bit, right? This stuff has been way over my head. The other thing is that they've been novels, not concepts and textbooks like the sort of things it sounds like you've been reading lately. I think this author wraps some of his concepts into his novels so I find myself a little lost at times. I'm happy to know I'm not the only one!
@imagenius128 (109)
• United States
20 Feb 10
Yeah, I've read some of those types of novels as well. I know that I was stumped a few times in Angels and Demons with the science, but it wasn't all that bad. The movie really downplayed the science, though, which made me sad.
@jeffb847 (30)
• Canada
20 Feb 10
Intriguing topic to bring up, I believe 2012 is realistic based on our past experiences. Just take life for example how do we learn, usually from our past mistakes and experiences. 2012 has a very realistic and problematic approach and increases awareness of our harm to our world as a whole. I believe technology is advancing so rapidly I am sure we are going to look for more advanced ways to save the planet, from global warming and CO2 admissions. As is our energy contribution throughout the world is really high we all need to work on reducing our energy per household and to stop taking this for granted. Every thing in this world has an opposite reaction right, left, up, down, etc. If you take something you need to give something back in return. This goes for energy as well.
@imagenius128 (109)
• United States
20 Feb 10
I have to say the best point he made in the book was the fact that technology has been increasing exponentially over the past millenia or two, and that we are about to run simply run out of intellectual space for any more, or it will begin happening at a rate so great that we as humans cannot keep up with the momentum that it has already built.
@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
23 Feb 10
Yes, a few months ago. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the book. It was fiction and the author was highly regarded and won some pretty prestigious awards. She was also as garbled as it gets and boring. I think her name was Marilyn something or other.
@snowy22315 (180805)
• United States
20 Feb 10
I'm with you, there aren't too many things that are, but one was Mason and dixon by Thomas PYnchon. It is written in like old English script and trying to wade through that is really cumbersome. I give my boyfriend alot of credit because he seems to be able to read it sucessfully.
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
19 Aug 10
I just got done reading a book that while it wasn't exactly a hard read, had I took the time to look up a few words here and there, I might have understood the meaning of what the main character was saying quite a few times. It was "The Whistling Season" and my only real complaint is that at points I would get halfway through a paragraph and realize that the author had switched back to the narrator's present.
