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 Re: What book are you currently reading?  [Re: b0red5tiff]
#16600618 - 07/27/12 05:49 PM (10 months, 17 days ago) |
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Finished my Hemingway sun also rises, ah the beauty.
Just began, max nomads political heretics. Running out of options as my selection dwindles before my approach back to my home library.
1L
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hmm...
"I'm naked and fearless... And my fear is naked."
"life isn't worth living without the threat of death"
"I got my plans in a ziploc bag, let's see how unproductive we can be"
"nobody lives their lives fully except for bull fighters"
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ashfiken] 1
#16600894 - 07/27/12 06:47 PM (10 months, 17 days ago) |
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Just finished Steven Erikson's Memories of Ice last night.
There's only one thing to do now . . .
Onward, to House of Chains. 
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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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coorslight
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Ghost towns of Pennsylvania
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Madtowntripper
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ashfiken]
#16602752 - 07/28/12 12:23 AM (10 months, 17 days ago) |
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Quote:
ashfiken said:
Finished my Hemingway sun also rises, ah the beauty.
Just began, max nomads political heretics. Running out of options as my selection dwindles before my approach back to my home library.
1L
Love the Hemingway.
Did I tell you that already?
Read more of it.
There is so much.
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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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ashfiken
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#16602784 - 07/28/12 12:29 AM (10 months, 17 days ago) |
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Ah, you have! I still dont mind a passionate statement from anyone, especially about lit.
It was a great one, felt horribly sorry for the main fellow the entire time though. As any man must, haha.
Reading more of him soon.
Seeing about all these damned revolutionaries, anarchists, and dreamers in history, ATM.
1L
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hmm...
"I'm naked and fearless... And my fear is naked."
"life isn't worth living without the threat of death"
"I got my plans in a ziploc bag, let's see how unproductive we can be"
"nobody lives their lives fully except for bull fighters"
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ashfiken]
#16603015 - 07/28/12 01:06 AM (10 months, 16 days ago) |
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Just finished Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, Sharon Old's Satan Says, and a MAry Oliver Compilation. Onward through Dostoevsky again, a Tin House Journal, Best American Poetry Compilation, and the shit fiction I have to critique.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#16614339 - 07/30/12 01:58 AM (10 months, 14 days ago) |
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Life of Pi is pretty awesome.
It gets more weird than sad.
Makes you think about animal captivity also.
Yeah, a lot of perspective I hadn't thought about before there.
33 Stategies of War
Robert Greene
R.G. is kind of an evil sack of shit, but the stories he recounts from history are great reads.
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
So I can understand what all the kids in PSP are fussing about.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Lion]
#16705231 - 08/15/12 06:36 PM (9 months, 29 days ago) |
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Finished House of Chains. I'm taking a break from The Malazan Book of the Fallen until after I get back from Burning Man. Not sure what I'll read in the meantime.
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-Erik Davis
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"You are all pretentious twats" ! Wrangler Cottage Industry
BRILLIANT WORK OF EXTREME ALOOFNESS.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: wrsgte]
#16712692 - 08/17/12 03:43 AM (9 months, 27 days ago) |
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i am working on george rr martins A dance with dragons.....got it signed by him last summer however was a bit side tracked and reread the last 2 books following the HBO running of the first book.
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He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool—shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a Student—teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep—wake him. He who knows and knows that he knows is wise—follow him.”.... Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in." Timothy Leary
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b0red5tiff
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Quote:
OneMoreRobot3021 said:
Finished House of Chains. I'm taking a break from The Malazan Book of the Fallen until after I get back from Burning Man. Not sure what I'll read in the meantime.
just finished "reapers gale", heading on to "toll the hounds". still before i do that im gonna read roberto Bolano's "monsieur pain".
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: b0red5tiff]
#16723641 - 08/19/12 01:20 AM (9 months, 25 days ago) |
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. 
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: spiritguru]
#16725301 - 08/19/12 10:16 AM (9 months, 25 days ago) |
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just finished Stephon King's The Stand now onto To Green Angel Tower
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Penelope_Tree
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Galvie_Flu]
#16725402 - 08/19/12 10:48 AM (9 months, 25 days ago) |
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Im reading Murakami's "Wind-Up Bird Chronicles"
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Penelope_Tree]
#16725616 - 08/19/12 11:56 AM (9 months, 25 days ago) |
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Just finished "Oryx and Crake." Meh. Just when you think it gets going it ends....
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magicSpoons
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Recently finished Molloy by Beckett.
Very much what I'm into and I'll certainly be reading the rest of the trilogy.
Sometimes I wonder if the lack of obvious meaning or moral is in itself the point the author is getting across about the nature of life, but I really hope that his intention was just to follow two fictitious yet believable lives without trying to directly embed an idea or ideology into the reader's mind. Rather the reader can extract whatever lessons he wants, or instead just be entertained.
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Madtowntripper
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Quote:
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Just finished "Oryx and Crake." Meh. Just when you think it gets going it ends....
It's weird 'cause I read that a few years ago and remembered liking it very much.
But then I just re-read it a few weeks ago on vacation and didn't enjoy it in the least.
Not even sure I finished it the second time.
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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]
#16730290 - 08/20/12 10:34 AM (9 months, 24 days ago) |
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I just felt Atwood left way too many questions unanswered. I don't mind an open-ended ending, but there were some major holes that weren't filled. I guess I would say I enjoyed it, but I most likely will never read it again.
I just started "Cloud Atlas" last night. It's great so far.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Quote:
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Just finished "Oryx and Crake." Meh. Just when you think it gets going it ends....
It's a trilogy, you know.
Unfortunately the 2nd book was kinda meh.
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-Erik Davis
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