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 IgnatiusJReilly
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 Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#6447381 - 01/10/07 11:16 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Martian Time Slip!!! (Philip Dick)
oh, and What is the What by Dave Eggers,
along with Pharmako Gnosis by Dale Pendell...
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: IgnatiusJReilly]
#6447802 - 01/11/07 05:50 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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I was just reading about Pharmako/Gnosis last night...care to share a few words about it? I'm also curious about What is the What - I was underwhelmed by his other book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#6457585 - 01/14/07 03:48 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Larry Miller - Spoiled Rotten America
and Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception
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ethnoeste
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"The Secret Life of Plants"
What a Fantastic Read!
Also reading "A Diet for a Small Planet" by Frances Moore Lappe.
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deadendeavor
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ethnoeste]
#6461340 - 01/15/07 05:48 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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"Just a Couple of Days" by Tony Vigorito. Excellent so far.
I just finished "VALIS" by Philip K. Dick not long ago. That book will mess with you.
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mr_kite
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: deadendeavor]
#6463444 - 01/15/07 05:41 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Life of Pi
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IgnatiusJReilly
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What is the What is good, i think, though I never read his other book. It is fiction/biography, relating the story of a sudanese man's flight from civil war.
Pharmako Gnosis is essentially a book of one man's trip reports. It is poetic, though the poetry deals with that drug-induced realm and thus is not very engaging (i like simple, solid stuff). The art is well chosen and beautiful, and he does give us some history of usage and interesting anecdotes. Also, novel insights. Altogther the book is profound yet mundane. I like it.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: IgnatiusJReilly]
#6481525 - 01/21/07 12:28 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Kind of abandoning the Haight history for a carson mcculler's collection, which is mandatory reading for me
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ethnoeste
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#6496803 - 01/25/07 05:00 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Reading - Second Life: The Official Guide.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ethnoeste]
#6497745 - 01/25/07 09:05 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Just finished The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
Not nearly as awful as The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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jewunit
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#6498054 - 01/25/07 11:14 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Don't really feel like reading all of this, I'll just add my current reads
The Demon - Hubert Selby Jr. (great damn book)
Nichomacean Ethics - Aristotle (boooo to college philosophy. Not that the book doesn't get you thinking, but damn it's a HARD read.)
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He may in fact, be a literal bum, only able to make himself known to us here by occasionally stopping into dark internet cafes to make a few quick, frantic posts before the owners force him to leave because of the stench of rotting vegetables and desperation wafting forth from his pores.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: jewunit]
#6498413 - 01/26/07 06:17 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card.
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-Erik Davis
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Hyper_Panda_GO
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I'm reading two books at once this time
Doors of Perception by Aldus Huxley
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Both are pretty average
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#6518967 - 02/01/07 02:56 AM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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Life of Pi, by Yann Martel.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#6519274 - 02/01/07 08:25 AM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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hehe, you should be able to finish Doors of Perception in one sitting.
I just started "A Long White Con" by Iceberg Slim
written by a real life pimp.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Brewmaster]
#6519540 - 02/01/07 10:19 AM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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I just finished Dan Browns: Deception Point. It was a really intense, fast read. Edit: And Extremely good! 
Edited by Toddo (02/01/07 11:01 PM)
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Yoschie99
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Toddo]
#6522054 - 02/01/07 10:53 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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i've finally started on a book that's been on my "to read" list for like 7 years...
"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn
I abandoned a boook called "Trance" due to absolute boredom... wayyyy too many characters and seemingly extra-plot lines for my liking. Who knows, maybe they aren't extra.. but it was too much to keep my attention past the middle of the book.
yos-
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Brewmaster]
#6522290 - 02/02/07 12:15 AM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm reading it ten pages a day
It's not nearly as absorving as I thought it would be
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Brewmaster
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#6523429 - 02/02/07 12:02 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm with you. I thought it was a short little read that I'd finish in a day or two.
still haven't.... I didn't say it was good; just that I was reading it.
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On storing pedro tea...
Brewmaster: Well, the mescaline will still be in there, but I'd be afraid of it conjealing and trying to escape after it grew in size from eating all the other shit in my fridge, and possibly my dogs if it got out.
Pithlit: sentient drugs, now thats is an idea ...
OneMoreRobot: Idea? It's a fuckin' reality. You know Salvia? Nigga stole my TV.
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Hyper_Panda_GO
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Brewmaster]
#6525415 - 02/03/07 01:08 AM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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Meh, it doesn't help Beloved isn't all that great either
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