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Re: What ya reading? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks


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Re: What ya reading? [Re: drtyfrnk]
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Im LOVING it

Im not very scientific minded, but he really breaks things down to make them as understandable as possible

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Re: What ya reading? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

good, quick read.

interesting perspective.


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Re: What ya reading? [Re: afoaf]
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afoaf said:
Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

good, quick read.

interesting perspective.


Read that a couple months back. Definitely something I recommend people check out.


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Re: What ya reading? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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the past weekend i took a car trip to virginia, and so on the ride read vineland, by thomas pynchon. while there, i bought amerika by kafka, and read it on monday. now, i'm flipping between hell's angels by hunter s thompson (read it a year ago or so, but it's still very enticing), and a book of short stories of kafka's.

i like to read! :wink:


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Re: What ya reading? [Re: Krishna]
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I love to read. :smile:

How did you enjoy Vineland? Have you read Pynchon's other works? I've only read The Crying of Lot 49, which was one of the wildest reads of my life!


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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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Re: What ya reading? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
HELLA_TIGHT said:
I wanted to read that, I saw an article about it in Trip magazine. I was going to order it, but I got lazy.


You were referring to Teachings of Don Juan right Hella? That book seems like something you'd dig.


No, Zig Zag Zen. I've got Journey to Ixtlan, never read the other books though.


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Re: What ya reading? [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
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Pynchon is a maniac - I read Gravity's Rainbow a while back - very Joycean... I'd like to read it again.

I'm currently reading some ver. of the 1001 Arabian Nights, "Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism: The Theme of Chaos" by N.J. Girardot, and "Axe Handles" and "Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems" by Gary Snyder. Also slowly and occasionally reading "Faith and Practice in Islam" by Chittick, but I got a little bored so I'll have to pick it up again.

The two best novels I read this summer were "Tender is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "War & Peace" by Tolstoy. I highly recommend both, but the former is easier to read as it isn't so gargantuan.

p.s. Beware of Castaneda - he's full of shit. His books are entertaining but just nonsensical at points (smoking mushrooms, for example). Some of that archetypal-ish imagery might be useful during trips and other spiritual endeavors, I guess. The only practices of his that I found really worthwhile were those stated in "The Art of Dreaming" - they work quite well to induce lucid dreams.


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Re: What ya reading? [Re: mikeytwice]
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I've officially dropped Raymon Chandler's "The Big Sleep" in favor of Alex Grey's "The Mission of Art."

There is something of the quest for immortality, or at least "life extension," that fuels art. A well-made work of art will usually outlast its maker. Artists are in a race with time to try to extract from their depths a significatn body of work before they die. The fear and anger at the injustice of death cannot be underestimated as a catalyst for creation.


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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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Re: What ya reading? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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i've read the art of dreaming by castenada
such a great book
higly recommended


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Re: What ya reading? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
I've officially dropped Raymon Chandler's "The Big Sleep" in favor of Alex Grey's "The Mission of Art."

There is something of the quest for immortality, or at least "life extension," that fuels art. A well-made work of art will usually outlast its maker. Artists are in a race with time to try to extract from their depths a significatn body of work before they die. The fear and anger at the injustice of death cannot be underestimated as a catalyst for creation.


that's awesome!

It's sad though... most artists aren't recognized for their art in their lifetime. Alex Grey is an exception...

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Re: What ya reading? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita by Ram Dass

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Bible by people

Be Here Now by Ram Dass

and

Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

(yeah I'm jumping from book to book)


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"What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?"

"Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword"
- John Mayer

Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin.

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln

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Re: What ya reading? [Re: dblaney]
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I don't know how folks can read like that.

my coworker does that shit.

seems too disjointed for me to jump from one to the other.


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Re: What ya reading? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
I love to read. :smile:

How did you enjoy Vineland? Have you read Pynchon's other works? I've only read The Crying of Lot 49, which was one of the wildest reads of my life!


Vineland was damn nice. I've also read V by him, which i'd say was even better than vineland.


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Re: What ya reading? [Re: afoaf]
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I agree...I don't much understand it myself. But whatever...basically what I'll do is start one book then get sidetracked by a more interesting one then continue the first one, and continue on like that.

I think I have horrible reading ADHD or something


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"What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?"

"Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword"
- John Mayer

Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin.

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln

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Re: What ya reading? [Re: dblaney]
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reading several books at once makes your mind travel in all different directions  :scrambled:

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Re: What ya reading? [Re: it stars saddam]
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I need to learn focus in my life.


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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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Re: What ya reading? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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um...just started the new harry potter
after that i have the facts of life by graham joyce
and then hopefully anansi boys by gaiman will be out

k


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Re: What ya reading? [Re: afoaf]
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afoaf said:
I don't know how folks can read like that.

my coworker does that shit.

seems too disjointed for me to jump from one to the other.


Yeah, I end up favoring one more than the other, and end up only finishing of them. The other goes on my shelf never to be opened again.


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Re: What ya reading? [Re: knumb]
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gaiman.

:beavis:


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