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Freeker
jackaroe

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Whats the best novel you've read lately?
#5357194 - 03/02/06 12:01 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Right now I'm about half finished Aldous Huxley's Point, Counter Point which I am really enjoying. The last great book I had read before this one was Thomas Wolf's From Death to Morning.
How 'bout you guys?
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Penguarky Tunguin
f n o r d

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Re: Whats the best novel you've read lately? [Re: Freeker]
#5357248 - 03/02/06 12:24 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles by Robert Anton Wilson. The prequel to The Illuminatus Trilogy, the best book ever written.
I breezed right through those books, I couldn't put them down.
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HSIHd
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I haven't read it recently(it's been about 2 or 3 years) but "Kon Tiki" is a pretty good book about 4 guys who sail across the world on a small homemade raft. True story and very interesting if you like things like that.
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mecreateme
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Honestly, I have found none better, than the Illuminatus, that is. So absorbing, so intersting, so high!
Right now, I am tackling The Adventure of Self Discovery by Stanislav Grof, great book. Has a nice holotropic breathing section, too. Accompanied by intense relaxation, amazing music, and hyperventilation, any of us can reach towards those mystical states of consciousness, without the aid of drugs. Sweet.
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BioBunny
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Registered: 03/02/06
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Re: Whats the best novel you've read lately? [Re: Freeker]
#5360707 - 03/03/06 05:34 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Two Russian novels I read recently, and highly recommend, are Mikhail Bulgakov's 'The Master and Margarita', and Nikolai Gogol's 'Dead Souls'.
I also immensely enjoyed Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist novel 'Nausea', and a few of J. G. Ballard's early science fiction works, 'The Drowned World', 'The Burning World', and 'The Crystal World'.
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TheQueen
Kosmic Art Pulse


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Re: Whats the best novel you've read lately? [Re: BioBunny]
#5361783 - 03/03/06 02:34 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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the last novel i read was Black Elk Speaks; i didn't realize the significance of black Elk's vision until after i had a dream of the Blue, White, Yellow and Red budded tree that Black Elk introduced as the new plant of his Indian people.
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recalcitrant
My Own God

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Re: Whats the best novel you've read lately? [Re: Freeker]
#5362057 - 03/03/06 03:48 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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My friend said A Scanner Darkly was coming out as a movie, to be directed by the guy who directed waking life.
So I read that.
When you're sick of reading big words in philosophy and occult books, a silly novel like that one, or Da Vinci Code, is a good break.
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Asco
Explorer of theMind

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Re: Whats the best novel you've read lately? [Re: recalcitrant]
#5362084 - 03/03/06 03:58 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ender's Game I just finished it and it really is remarkable. The ideas in are really different than most books.
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zappaisgod
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Re: Whats the best novel you've read lately? [Re: Asco]
#5362180 - 03/03/06 04:30 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Either "Drop City" by TC Boyle or "Lullaby" by Chuck Pahlaniuk. Can't remember which was more recent.
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