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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: ballsalsa]
#23898744 - 12/06/16 12:20 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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ballsalsa said: just finished Voices from the Civil War by Milton Meltzer and Ripples of Battle by Victor Davis Hanson. Both good reads.
Currently reading some R.A. Salvatore book about his Drizzt character. Good series of books for anyone who likes to fuck around reading AD&D based fantasy novels.
That's a good series. I read the whole thing like 5-6ish years ago. It's such a long series but I read the whole thing consecutively from first to last. I don't do that anymore because I like to make series of books last longer.
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: Canadian Jesus] 1
#23898751 - 12/06/16 12:32 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Slaughter house five by KV and the stranger by AC stopped me from suck starting a shotgun, so those are the only two books I canhojestly recommend to adults.
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akira_akuma
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: falsereality]
#23898757 - 12/06/16 12:36 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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i'm gonna end re-reading The Stranger (The Outsider) one day...
when it's pertinent.
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: ballsalsa]
#23898758 - 12/06/16 12:37 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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ballsalsa said: just finished Voices from the Civil War by Milton Meltzer and Ripples of Battle by Victor Davis Hanson. Both good reads.
Is Ripples of Battle a civil war book too?
I like civil war stuff, have enjoyed it since I was a child.
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: Lucis]
#23898764 - 12/06/16 12:43 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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its about a few battles and their effects on the people of their time, as well as on our modern times. The battle of Shiloh is one of the topics.
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: falsereality]
#23898766 - 12/06/16 12:45 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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falsereality said: Slaughter house five by KV and the stranger by AC stopped me from suck starting a shotgun, so those are the only two books I canhojestly recommend to adults.
suck starting a shotgun?
what dat?
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akira_akuma
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: ballsalsa] 1
#23898768 - 12/06/16 12:47 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Shelby Foote's Civil War is supposed to be really good, i wanna get the three-set hardcover, cause it's supposed to be a a classic.
also
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln And American Slavery by Eric Foner
and A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
on Vietnam, i wanna get Embers Of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
all of these come recommended if you like History. no, i ain't read them yet, but i plan on it.
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: akira_akuma] 1
#23898772 - 12/06/16 12:53 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think i mentioned The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan in another thread, but i'll mention it here as well. It is a super interesting way of looking at plant/human relationships.
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu was a surprising good little book. It was short, hilarious, and it managed to touch me right in the feels in ways i didn't expect.
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: ballsalsa] 1
#23898781 - 12/06/16 01:05 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals is good too. still haven't read Pollan's other works.
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: akira_akuma] 1
#23898897 - 12/06/16 03:29 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm reading "Mayflower" but Nate Philbrick.
I just want to take this opportunity to say don't let "TheMovement" into the book club. He is a book thief and can't be trusted around books.
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#23898945 - 12/06/16 04:27 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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anyone have good sci fi recommendations? outer space and the like? little green men?
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: Mescalean]
#23898951 - 12/06/16 04:36 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: akira_akuma]
#23898960 - 12/06/16 04:41 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Overview[edit] The book centres on the lives of three individuals — the physicist (and serial killer) Michael Kearney, on the verge of a breakthrough in theoretical physics sometime in 1999; Seria Mau Genlicher, the cybernetically-altered female pilot of a "K-ship", and the ex-space pilot and adventurer Ed Chianese. Seria Mau and Ed's stories take place in the year 2400 AD.
The lives of these three individuals are linked in many ways, though most tangibly by the presence of a mysterious creature called The Shrander, who appears in many guises to all three characters throughout the novel (with anagrammatic names of Sandra Shen and Dr. Haends). They are also linked by the Kefahuchi Tract, a space-time anomaly described as "a singularity without an event horizon", an object of awe and wonder that has been the ruin of many civilisations attempting to decode its mysteries.
The Shrander takes many forms, most often with the body of an old woman in a maroon wool coat, with a horse's skull for a head which may be similar to its original form. Harrison appears to have taken his inspiration for this strange entity from the legend of the Mari Lwyd, a creature with a horse's skull for a head, bedecked in ribbons, that features in the ancient folklore of Gwent and Glamorgan.
Elements of Light originally surfaced in Harrison's short fiction, particularly the stories "The Horse of Iron and How We Can Know It" and "The Incalling". The former contains prototypes of the Shrander and Kearney characters, whilst the latter deals with the Sprakes, a clan of dubious urban magicians. Both stories are available in the collected volume of Harrison's short fiction, Things That Never Happen.
okay, this sounds dope as fuck. interdimensional space demon type shit. aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: Mescalean]
#23898973 - 12/06/16 04:58 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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M. John Harrison is hailed by a bunch of writers, ect, as a master smithy of the sci-fi novel.
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: akira_akuma] 1
#23899118 - 12/06/16 07:08 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Everyone just wants to read their own book/won't stick around long enough to finish a book. We actually got through one full book with a couple people though.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/postlist.php/Board/261
Here I just made a new thread to get us started on reading another book if anyone is interested
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=23899115&page=0&vc=1#23899115
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: Oldgregg] 1
#23899394 - 12/06/16 09:38 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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some of the books i tend to re read are Island by aldous huxley, Lord of the Rings by tolkien, and many of the mythology books by joseph campbell. Island was actually what initially got me interested in shrooms.
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: Mescalean] 1
#23899642 - 12/06/16 11:28 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mescalean said: anyone have good sci fi recommendations? outer space and the like? little green men?
mesc if you havent read Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide series i'd absolutely recommend it. Parallels with the psychedelic experience well and is very funny sci-fi.
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: Mescalean]
#23900761 - 12/06/16 06:01 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mescalean said: anyone have good sci fi recommendations? outer space and the like? little green men?
Most recently I enjoyed Greg Bear - Anvil of Stars. It was a pretty trippy read had a small sense of psychedelia to it.
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: Mescalean]
#23901102 - 12/06/16 07:33 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mescalean said: anyone have good sci fi recommendations? outer space and the like? little green men?
Yeah, try out Shades of Earth by Beth Revis. Really cool book. Uniquely written. Has a male and female storyline, blended together.
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Re: shroomery book (reccomendation) club? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#23901109 - 12/06/16 07:35 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Is there a Dragon Ball Z book?
Or something like it?
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