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Eh.
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Role of Honor by John Gardner.
JAMES BOND RULES!.......
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...Hmmm, a signature? How about......
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 EcstaticTrance
Roadtripper
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Getting started with Lamb, from Christopher Moore, whom PenguarkyTunguin had suggested me a couple months ago, I can already say that Im gonna love the stuff from the couple pages Ive read until now.
And since I was searching for something to read when I went at my parent's place, Ive picked up some Wayne W. Dyer, which is actually greater than I thought. Helped me get into an healthy routine again, since I was getting a bit too hard on partying and sleep deprivation after coming back from my hitchhiking trip into Central America. Gotta work now, if I wanna hit the road again (India).
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Madtowntripper
Sun-Beams out of Cucumbers
Registered: 03/06/03
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I want to go to India so badly.
I just cannot get my funds straight for any kind of trip lately.
I'm so bad with money.
But I'd really love to be immersed in that culture. It looks like a great place to visit for a few months.
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OneMoreRobot3021
punky jewster
Registered: 06/06/03
Posts: 56,599
Loc: new york shitty
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The Book (on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are) by Alan Watts.
Rarely have I come a cross a writing style from which I derive as much joy as that of Alan Watts. The man is a vessel for wisdom and insight into the human experience all delivered with a mirthful, humorous tone.
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The Drug Policy Alliance  Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
"The psychedelic experience - it has a tremendous force to revivify the spirit, particularly because it is not an ideology. It is not something someone 'figured out.' It is an EXPERIENCE. And this is important to bear in mind." - McKenna.
"We're not mad, we're just doing what we want. You rigid thinkers can't recognize the healthy sanity of that." - Harlan Ellison, "Crackpots"
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b0red5tiff
i deliver the news
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there is no pill, piece, puzzle, solution
pulse, reaction, inhilation, exhale, gag
fall out, retarding, pussyhole theory
you fucking dumb fuck
Get killed
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You know... I've been lying awake at night. I feel... like I'm sleeping... but I'm awake. That's when I hear him. And lately, when I hear him... all at once... I understand. Everything. John, do you remember the last time you were happy?
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jenns_hot
Hungry
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I'm reading Dean Koontz's "The Watchers". Really good so far.
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 Cameron
perma-stone
Registered: 10/31/07
Posts: 2,143
Loc: Canada
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"What is Life?" by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.
It's an informative look at several different facets of life: the biosphere, bacteria and its evolution, the emergence of multicellularity, etc. The authors go into great detail outlining the history of philosophical, medical, and religious thought on life and its place in the Universe.
An interesting read, it is. 
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Madtowntripper
Sun-Beams out of Cucumbers
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 Re: Lamb [Re: Cameron]
#8869240 - 09/02/08 10:58 PM (3 months, 10 hours ago) |
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New Books This Week:
The Giant Leap : Mankind Heads for the Stars by Adrian Berry. Really excited about this one. Non-fiction describing possible future methods of interstellar travel and the problems associated with them. Read the first few chapters at the library and it sounds exceptionally great.
Underground by Haruki Murakami
Palestine Inside Out : An Everyday History of the Israeli Occupation by Saree Makdisi
Constantinople : A History of the Capital of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris
And some fiction to balance it out...
Pebble in the Sky, the new book by Isaac Asimov
And a couple of Kurt Vonnegut novels, since I was relatively impressed by Breakfast of Champions
Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle
I had read S5 back in middle school or junior high and really didn't appreciate it. We'll see if I like it any more now. And Cat's Cradle on a trusted friends recommendation.
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Cameron
perma-stone
Registered: 10/31/07
Posts: 2,143
Loc: Canada
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aNeway2sayHooray
unsane,beyondsanity
Registered: 07/07/05
Posts: 3,539
Loc: Le~Bama
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Re: Lamb [Re: Cameron]
#8869789 - 09/03/08 01:53 AM (3 months, 7 hours ago) |
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One River Written by Wade Davis
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  "Please.I have a heart condition."
MrJellineck said:
Profits, prophets. That's all you jews think about.
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OneMoreRobot3021
punky jewster
Registered: 06/06/03
Posts: 56,599
Loc: new york shitty
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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabrial Garcia Marquez.
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The Drug Policy Alliance Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
"The psychedelic experience - it has a tremendous force to revivify the spirit, particularly because it is not an ideology. It is not something someone 'figured out.' It is an EXPERIENCE. And this is important to bear in mind." - McKenna.
"We're not mad, we're just doing what we want. You rigid thinkers can't recognize the healthy sanity of that." - Harlan Ellison, "Crackpots"
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blissedout
Lysergically displaced
Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 16,264
Loc: Rat Race
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I'm reading a sort of biography of the times that Ralph Steadman spent with Hunter S. Thompson. I can't remember the name, but it's written by Steadman with a foreword by Vonnegut. It's pretty interesting.
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Here and now.
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Madtowntripper
Sun-Beams out of Cucumbers
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Do you mean the Thompson book The Curse of Lono, which is about him and Steadman, or do you mean Steadman's book The Jokes Over?
Either way, both are good, although Lono gets strange at times.
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OneMoreRobot3021
punky jewster
Registered: 06/06/03
Posts: 56,599
Loc: new york shitty
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#8881978 - 09/05/08 11:53 AM (2 months, 28 days ago) |
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I'm responding just to change the name of all the posts.
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The Drug Policy Alliance Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
"The psychedelic experience - it has a tremendous force to revivify the spirit, particularly because it is not an ideology. It is not something someone 'figured out.' It is an EXPERIENCE. And this is important to bear in mind." - McKenna.
"We're not mad, we're just doing what we want. You rigid thinkers can't recognize the healthy sanity of that." - Harlan Ellison, "Crackpots"
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Madtowntripper
Sun-Beams out of Cucumbers
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Cameron
perma-stone
Registered: 10/31/07
Posts: 2,143
Loc: Canada
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"Ilium" by Dan Simmons. Anyone familiar with the "Hyperion" series knows what to expect from this: epic far-future science fiction told through spectacular prose and masterful story progression. It's a complex plot, involving post-humans surviving with dinosaurs on Earth, a group of super-intelligent nanobots populating the moons of Jupiter, and resurrected scholars surveying the 'Iliad' at the foot of Mons Olympus on Mars under the instruction of living Gods from Greek mythology. I don't know how they're connected yet either.
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zappaisgod
horrid asshole
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Quote:
Madtowntripper said:
Either way, both are good, although Lono gets strange at times.
Ya think?
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Abuse
Creature of the grass
Registered: 08/08/08
Posts: 409
Loc: The Lost Island
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Silversoul]
#8883098 - 09/05/08 03:59 PM (2 months, 28 days ago) |
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The God Delusion- Richard Dawkins
Quote:
Silversoul said:
Pistis Sophia - translated by G.R.S. Mead
-AMAZING avatar, sweeet. 
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ChildoftheKoRn said:
The altered mind state of any psychedelic drug will let you see life in a new light.
You will love life more and cherish the time you have because it is short.
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blissedout
Lysergically displaced
Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 16,264
Loc: Rat Race
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Quote:
Madtowntripper said:
Do you mean the Thompson book The Curse of Lono, which is about him and Steadman, or do you mean Steadman's book The Jokes Over?
Either way, both are good, although Lono gets strange at times.
The Joke's Over
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Toddo
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Well, I just finished House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski What a fucking good book. I mean, yeah that format was really interesting, but beyond all of that, it was just a damn good novel. It really touched me. I might have to put this in my top 5 favorite books I've ever read.
Watership Down by Richard Adams-I just started it yesterday and I can already tell I'm in good hands. Haha...the whole reason I picked this up is because Stephen King referenced to to it so much in The Stand. I've also seen the cartoon...which was actually pretty dark (and damn good.)
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space-metaphor as myth and as religion by Joseph Campbell. This will be my 2nd Campbell book (the first one was Pathways to Bliss.) He's just one of those souls that I just feel completely in tune with. Look forward to reading this book.
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