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 Re: What book are you currently reading?  [Re: Madtowntripper]
#15774890 - 02/07/12 04:02 PM (3 months, 20 days ago) |
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
I have so many Heinlein books that I really love.
I think he's a better writer than any of his contemporaries, Asimov included.
This particular one of his is awful though.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#15775134 - 02/07/12 04:42 PM (3 months, 20 days ago) |
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Madtowntripper said:
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
I have so many Heinlein books that I really love.
I think he's a better writer than any of his contemporaries, Asimov included.
Time Enough For Love was a seminal tract in my intellectual development. Then again, so was Foundation. And Dune.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod]
#15775860 - 02/07/12 06:51 PM (3 months, 19 days ago) |
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Madtowntripper said:
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
I have so many Heinlein books that I really love.
I think he's a better writer than any of his contemporaries, Asimov included.
Time Enough For Love was a seminal tract in my intellectual development. Then again, so was Foundation. And Dune.
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this. really interesting stuff.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: cateyes]
#15777951 - 02/08/12 06:16 AM (3 months, 19 days ago) |
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now that looks like one cool book OneMoreRobot3021, did you read the updated version of it? just curious, but this is something that i'm deeply interested in... (a) safe plant/plants that stimulate(s)? fucking aye!!! gotta have a love of nature to be interested in a cool book like that!!! thank you for the heads up!
i just got done rereading "the wisdom of insecurity: a message for an Age of anxiety" by Alan W. Watts... it was just as an awesome read as it was years ago when i first read it. highly recommended to anyone who finds themselves slipping in and losing ground in this crazy world. read it and know you are going to be alright!
K~~~ 
Great suggestion! 
I'll be ordering it soon enough.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Jessica Swift]
#15778325 - 02/08/12 08:51 AM (3 months, 19 days ago) |
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Just finished reading the two first books in the Hyperion serie by Dan Simmons. Some of the best sci-fi I ever read. Waiting for the two last books in the serie(Endymion/The Rise of Endymion). Recommend these books to anyone into the sci-fi genre.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: machinelf]
#15778421 - 02/08/12 09:20 AM (3 months, 19 days ago) |
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Ordered John lily, center of the cyclone last week. Excited for this.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: weshroom]
#15778618 - 02/08/12 10:20 AM (3 months, 19 days ago) |
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Ordered John lily, center of the cyclone last week. Excited for this.
Did this come from the John Lilly thread I made recently? 
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Jessica Swift]
#15778817 - 02/08/12 11:28 AM (3 months, 19 days ago) |
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Wisdom of Insecurity is indeed a great read.
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mytehdogizflying
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Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
It's a good read so far. I'm trying to decide if I wanna read the next one in the series after this, or break it up with something else.
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Ahhh man I loved that series  definitely a great read and its influence is deeply felt in the current series i'm reading...
Up to book 4/10...
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: twighead]
#15801874 - 02/13/12 06:09 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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Ahhh man I loved that series definitely a great read and its influence is deeply felt in the current series i'm reading...
Up to book 4/10...
i've read all but the last of the series... then there's esslemonts additional books (four so far) and more to come.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: b0red5tiff]
#15801885 - 02/13/12 06:15 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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I've said before that I think that's probably the best fantasy series ever written, and among some of the best books I've read, but Esselmont's contributions are rather bad. I didn't enjoy the two that I read at all.
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If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#15802283 - 02/13/12 09:15 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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 Interesting...
I usually avoid those sort of unofficial extensions written by anyone other than the original author... I'm hoping the 10th book will satisfy me so I need not forray into them 
But damn, the series really is an amazing exercise in memory - SO. MANY. Characters. 
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: twighead]
#15802338 - 02/13/12 09:33 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles - The Earth Will Shake (1982)
Robert Anton Wilson
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: twighead]
#15802380 - 02/13/12 09:46 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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Interesting...
I usually avoid those sort of unofficial extensions written by anyone other than the original author... I'm hoping the 10th book will satisfy me so I need not forray into them
But damn, the series really is an amazing exercise in memory - SO. MANY. Characters.
oh its official and part of the mythos, they thought up the malazan world together and use similar characters. the first one is a prequel to the GotM, others are about the crimson guard etc
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: b0red5tiff]
#15802544 - 02/13/12 10:43 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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I'm in the middle of My EMT Text Book, and the Complete Sherlock Holmes Series. I'm definitely enjoying Holmes
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Madtowntripper
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: domesticgnome]
#15802785 - 02/13/12 11:45 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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Holmes is pretty awesome.
I own all of the Sherlock Holmes books and have read them tons of times.
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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway
If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#15802827 - 02/13/12 11:56 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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I'm currently reading Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. Murakami never fails to disappoint.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: white wizard]
#15824533 - 02/17/12 05:08 PM (3 months, 9 days ago) |
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The City and The City, China Mieville. This lad is definitely outre
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