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 Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: bradley]
#10480370 - 06/09/09 10:58 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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i didn't like dharma bums - i started it twice but just wasn't into it.
i also read on the road, by jack kerouac
it's better, but still kind of difficult to read.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: jenns_hot]
#10480410 - 06/09/09 11:08 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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I fucking loved On the Road but it gotta a little tedious 3/4 of the way through.
You should check out Tristessa, it's so short that Kerouac's style never gets a chance to get old, and it's just wonderful. Prose poetry at its finest.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: DroneLore]
#10480428 - 06/09/09 11:13 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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haha 3/4s the way through is when i stopped.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: jenns_hot]
#10482360 - 06/10/09 11:31 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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I liked Big Sur the best (out of D-bums, On The Road, and Big Sur). It's really just a bunch of self pity though.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: bradley]
#10484043 - 06/10/09 05:20 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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I loved On The Road. The only other Kerouac i've read was Maggie Cassidy, which i also enjoyed alot.
Currently reading Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. My aunt lent me this and it's well.. quite twisted so far.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: CptnGarden]
#10485998 - 06/10/09 11:41 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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A Wrinkle In Time..
This will be my second time reading it..
But the first time was years ago...
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: hAZyLAZy]
#10486132 - 06/11/09 12:26 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Dharma Bums is a fantastic read. What a beautiful way of viewing life, and what a precious free flowing mind Kerouac had. I read in a biography on Allen Ginsberg, that Trungpa Rinpoche absolutely adored Kerouac's writings. He couldn't get enough of it, and often asked Allen to read them for him. "Perfect example of buddhi mind", according to Trungpa. Guess they had more than a love of alchohol in common. 
Japhy Ryder is based on Gary Snyder who is also a poet.
Right now I am reading Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha - an unusually hardcore dharma book by Daniel Ingram.
It helps me more than I could put into words.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: rebus_minus]
#10486172 - 06/11/09 12:40 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Dharma Bums was one of the first really enjoyable books I ever read, I still am very fond of it.
I have Desolation Angels sitting on a shelf that I haven't read yet, just haven't really been in the mood for that sort of book.
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Dazzle Gradually - Lynn Margulis & Dorion Sagan
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#10495933 - 06/12/09 06:41 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Albert Camus
A Happy Death and The Stranger (Matthew Ward translation)
Great read for those who suffer from headaches and high blood pressure.
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DroneLore
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ocarina]
#10495958 - 06/12/09 06:47 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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I did not care for The Stranger when I read it but perhaps I should revisit it, as that was a couple of years ago.
I didn't hate it. It just bored me.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: DroneLore]
#10496261 - 06/12/09 08:06 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Reading Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Walter Kaufman translation) Pretty cool read. I really enjoy sitting down with a philosopher and studying their shit for a while. Unfortunately, there are numerous, seemingly esoteric, readings which I have trouble penetrating.
To solve this problem, I picked up Lawrence Lampert's Nietzsche's Teaching: An Interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It has proven useful thus far. 
Unfortunately, my mom, whom is super-religious, constantly asks about it. Being that the book seems to go against standard Christianity in particular, it is an awkward conversation to say the least. I just feel disrespectful to the author to lie. 
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Reading Pynchon's Mason and Dixon at the moment. The language is very strange, but some (most?) of the dialogue is riotously funny. Gravity's Rainbow will have to wait for another time. I am just not getting into and it's gotta go back to the lie-berry soon, so fuck it.
Also, picked up Love in the Time of Cholera today as well as All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. The Marquez book on the reco of several people here, and the latter because I'm not sure what I think of McCarthy. I thought The Road was really quite bad. I could've written that book. But I thought Blood Meridian was stunningly good. I couldn't, in a million years, have conceived of that story.
So what the fuck, we'll throw this at the wall and see if it sticks. Also, the Marquez book, in hardcover, for 5.75. Another steal!
I also have a ton of non-fiction, but Penguarky would probably cry if I listed it, so I wont.
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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]
#10497165 - 06/12/09 10:33 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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I found Blood Meridian insufferable.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: CptnGarden]
#10499155 - 06/13/09 09:43 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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don quixote
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Quote:
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I found Blood Meridian insufferable.
Did you ever start Shantaram?
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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]
#10499803 - 06/13/09 12:41 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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"1984" George Orwell
"Animal Farm" George Orwell
The Dark Tower series
And most likely re-reading "Sophie's Garden" soon.
Any suggestions about some trippy stuff? Schizophrenia fiction?
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Rocker232]
#10499829 - 06/13/09 12:48 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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José Saramago - A Caverna
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#10499856 - 06/13/09 12:54 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
Story races back and forth from hilarious and satirical, to fucked up and wrong.
Just my kind of story.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#10502581 - 06/13/09 11:25 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
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I found Blood Meridian insufferable.
Did you ever start Shantaram?
No, it's in The Pile...right now I'm drooling for more Foundation novels.
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