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 viktor
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Any Tom Robbins fans in here?
I loved Another Roadside Attraction. His style took a bit of getting used to, but the book is extremely entertaining and I couldn't wait to read what wacky ideas he'd come up with next.
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 Re: What book are you currently reading?  [Re: viktor]
#16040299 - 04/03/12 10:22 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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viktor said:
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MentalMeltdown said:
Any Tom Robbins fans in here?
I loved Another Roadside Attraction. His style took a bit of getting used to, but the book is extremely entertaining and I couldn't wait to read what wacky ideas he'd come up with next.
Thats one of his few i havent read. Robbins is brilliant and truly one of a kind. The way he uses language, his content, and the way he beautifully brings so many different elements and ideas together is remarkable.
My favorite Robbins novels would have to be Jitterbug Perfume and Villa Incognito. Hands down two of my favorite novels. Completely original. I couldnt begin tobriefly tell ya what theyre about.
Definitely check those out, you wont regret it.
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Finished Macbeth and Coriolanus today
Coriolanus was really good.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: viktor]
#16041722 - 04/04/12 07:02 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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viktor said:
Do you mean The Dice Man by Luke Rheinhart or is there a book called The Ice Man? Because The Dice Man is a great read, quite disturbing once you realise that you're in a similar situation to the protagonist and could conceivably do something as crazy as the book's premise, i.e. base all your decisions on the roll of a die.
http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Ice_Man.html?id=Oqc6FmtUbpEC&redir_esc=y
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viktor
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ChaosOne]
#16041756 - 04/04/12 07:42 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Ice_Man.html?id=Oqc6FmtUbpEC&redir_esc=y
Oh cool. Looks like an interesting read. Ever read any of Chopper's books?
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: viktor]
#16044202 - 04/04/12 07:13 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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nothing currently. re-read the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho last.
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MentalMeltdown said:
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viktor said:
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MentalMeltdown said:
Any Tom Robbins fans in here?
I loved Another Roadside Attraction. His style took a bit of getting used to, but the book is extremely entertaining and I couldn't wait to read what wacky ideas he'd come up with next.
Thats one of his few i havent read. Robbins is brilliant and truly one of a kind. The way he uses language, his content, and the way he beautifully brings so many different elements and ideas together is remarkable.
My favorite Robbins novels would have to be Jitterbug Perfume and Villa Incognito. Hands down two of my favorite novels. Completely original. I couldnt begin tobriefly tell ya what theyre about.
Definitely check those out, you wont regret it.
I was on a Tom Robbins binge earlier this year. I read Villa Incognito, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, and am currently working on Skinny Legs and All.
I've also read Another Roadside Attraction, Jitterbug Perfume, and Even Cowgirls get the Blues.
Fierce Invalids was my favorite by far. Robbins really is a master of writing; it doesn't really matter what he's describing because he does it so creatively. He uses words the way Alex Grey uses colors.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ShroomScape]
#16045309 - 04/04/12 11:04 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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I got a free copy of the Hunger Games for my Kindle so I'm reading it. It's pretty good, definitely keeps me reading. It's like a vacation for my brain considering all the heavier non fiction I've been barreling through.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: viktor]
#16046348 - 04/05/12 05:02 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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No but they would be worth a read-never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
The Ice Man is graphic and worth a read
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
I got a free copy of the Hunger Games for my Kindle so I'm reading it. It's pretty good, definitely keeps me reading. It's like a vacation for my brain considering all the heavier non fiction I've been barreling through.
Definitely agree. It's nice to have some light reading now and again. A good read all around.
I'm about halfway through LOTR The Two Towers. It's a bit dry here and there, but thoroughly entertaining. So far the series isn't nearly good as I imagined, but I love whole paths, destiny, good vs evil themes. Good stuff
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: McTwist]
#16061080 - 04/08/12 03:47 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Henry David Thoreau - Walden
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saucerfulofsecrets
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: keeks]
#16061767 - 04/08/12 06:56 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Henry David Thoreau - Walden
I wish English was my first language so I could enjoy good literature such as the book you're currently reading, without any cognitive obstacles. i wouldnt even think of getting it translated.
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Henry David Thoreau - Walden
I wish English was my first language so I could enjoy good literature such as the book you're currently reading, without any cognitive obstacles. i wouldnt even think of getting it translated.
You seem to have a good level of English, just keep reading. I can read well in Spanish and decently in French and Italian, and the more you read, the more it becomes almost as natural as your native language.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Lion]
#16062128 - 04/08/12 08:28 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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thanks. that's proabably what i'll do. once i get done studying:(
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Over the weekend I read a wonderful novella by G.K. Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday. From 1908, very reminiscent of Philip K. Dick in ways.
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The Eerie Silence : Renewing Our Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence by Paul Davies.
Whole-heartedly recommended.
Great read.
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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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Robert Anton Wilson - The Illuminatus Trilogy
as well as
Aldous Huxley - Island
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: I-opening]
#16067004 - 04/09/12 09:50 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Re-reading (again) Entheologues by Martin Ball.
By the way, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book to anyone interested in entheogens in any way. Discusses basically the whole spectrum of known major entheogens with leaders in their study. Some really great stuff here. And I came across SEVERAL other really good books via the conversations and books the interviewees authored.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Shh]
#16074880 - 04/11/12 12:59 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Alternating between Catching Fire (the 2nd book in the Hunger Games, excellent before-bed brain vacation reading) and Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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Madtowntripper
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First Hunger Games book = Pretty Good.
Second Hunger Games book = Pretty Bad.
Third Hunger Games book = Awful.
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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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