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Birds_Can_Swim
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What book are you currently reading?
#5607060 - 05/08/06 11:24 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I figure since music has its own topic
Anyway...
Currently getting through Gail Tsukiyama's The Language of Threads. It continues where she left off on Women of the Silk and continues Pei's engaging adventures made bland by an unimaginative writing style and jumpy details
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kotik
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Birds_Can_Swim]
#5607224 - 05/09/06 12:39 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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just started reading the Portable Jung edited by Joseph Campbell.
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BioBunny
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Birds_Can_Swim]
#5607637 - 05/09/06 05:41 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Dostoevsky's novel Poor Folk
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michael_lifshitz
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: BioBunny]
#5608212 - 05/09/06 10:44 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Brave New World by Huxley.
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Blastrid
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I'm attempting to read The Illuminatus Trilogy... it's a big book, and i'm lazy.
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Blastrid]
#5609730 - 05/09/06 06:15 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hell yeah Blastrid. I'm on my 4th time through it right now. Only book that I'm reading all the time.
Other than that I'm reading:
Coericion by Douglas Rushkoff
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Something Happened by Joseph Heller - great book so far sad and hilarious at the same time.
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Darcho
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Still reading Hubert Dreyfus' What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critque of Artificial Reason.
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Wysefool
I AM SKELETON JELLY

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Birds_Can_Swim]
#5610496 - 05/09/06 09:12 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
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purpleberries
...thisis...LSD...25...

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Wysefool]
#5610956 - 05/09/06 11:21 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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i just finished reading that. i thought it was way cool that he fought his way through all the red tape to get approval to test DMT on humans. however, im not so sure he found out anything of great importance. he sure had some interesting ideas on the pituitary gland though. What do you think of the book so far?
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stemmer
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: purpleberries]
#5611047 - 05/09/06 11:44 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I think "the spririt molecule" is far beyond most people's comprehention,(its pretty far out) and much of it is very relavent(though it may not be new to you, or something). Not everyone can relate to the far out claims of shamans etc etc........ Most people who take drugs dont know a damn thing about the potential of hallucinogens....(this is true)....Most meaning more than half............. To stay more on topic: I just finished reading "virtues of selfishness" (Ayn Rand) for a second time. I am now reading "constitutional chaos" by judge Andrew P.
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ThaiKohSamui
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: stemmer]
#5611078 - 05/09/06 11:52 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Im currently reading "N.P." by banana yoshimoto for the 7th time in a row... nothing short of extraordinary... quite a unique little book... even read it on shrooms...
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stemmer
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ThaiKohSamui]
#5611122 - 05/10/06 12:05 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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SO what the hell is that book about. If you read it 7 times Ive got to know.
Koh samui was the first strain I ever grew myself. Love that strain more than most.
Give me a clue. Its not all that well known.
Id like to know, (the full title would be good).
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mycoprog
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: stemmer]
#5611855 - 05/10/06 08:33 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Porno
Irvine Welsh
i love his shit
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Wysefool
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: purpleberries]
#5614509 - 05/10/06 07:44 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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It's an interesting book so far, the people have had a lot of crazy experiences (especially the encounters with otherworldly beings and similarities between the experience and death). I agree with a lot of the things that Strassman sort of led me to think about, it seems like he wanted to say a lot of stuff but couldn't state it as fact. I don't think he discovered anything revolutionary really, or at least anything new. It was nice to have a bunch of first hand experience on DMT in book form though that's for sure. I'm just getting onto the part about Psilocybin now.
I think I would rather try Ayahuasca though, the people who have tried both seem to agree Ayahuasca gives you more time to work with.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0603/features/peru.html
This article really made me want to try it over DMT.
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moog
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Wysefool]
#5614579 - 05/10/06 08:03 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Wysefool said: DMT: The Spirit Molecule
Same! I just started it today.
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Psychoslut
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Birds_Can_Swim]
#5617087 - 05/11/06 12:45 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Monkey Handlers by G Gordon Liddy, and Brain Builders, by Marylin Savant.
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rewt5
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Psychoslut]
#5617099 - 05/11/06 12:50 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Started The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Pretty bad ass I'd say.
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zappa
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: rewt5]
#5617183 - 05/11/06 01:13 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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im reading 3 books at once right now. im reading george orwells "1984", john grishams "the client", and "go ask alice" (author unknown)
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EternalCowabunga
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Quote:
McKennaDMT said: Hell yeah Blastrid. I'm on my 4th time through it right now. Only book that I'm reading all the time.
Other than that I'm reading:
Coericion by Douglas Rushkoff Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Something Happened by Joseph Heller - great book so far sad and hilarious at the same time.
I stopped reading Something Happened about half way through because it was just too depressing that this family was so dysfunctional, and in some ways it reminded me of my own family.
Right now i'm reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. Awesome book, you really get a sense of the confused and fragmented mind of the main character.
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CptnGarden
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the spirit molecules a great book. read it once but plan to go through it again word for word once im done checking out my new personal library of books. currently reading the cosmic serpant, DNA and the origins of knowledge, by jeremy narby.
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FunkyLoFi
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: CptnGarden]
#5619165 - 05/11/06 09:42 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
This my first read of Tom Robbins. So far I like it...his style is kinda out there.
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David_vs_Goliath
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: FunkyLoFi]
#5619170 - 05/11/06 09:44 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0603/features/peru.html
This article really made me want to try it over DMT.
Amazing article, highly suggest reading it
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gema
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Currently reading Zoetrope: All-Story. Francis Ford Coppola launched a magazine devoted to supporting the brightest young voices in fiction. Zoetrope is also an art magazine, inviting a different contemporary artist to illustrate and design each issue.
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KungFu_Shaman
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: gema]
#5619842 - 05/12/06 12:49 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
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Anubis
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: KungFu_Shaman]
#5621896 - 05/12/06 05:09 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I recently finished the "21 Lessons of Merlyn: A Study in Druid Lore and Magik" by Douglas Monroe; I am in the midst of reading "The Wheel of Time: Crossroads of Twilight" by Robert Jordan. I am looking for a new book to read also. Maybe I will pick one up from the list above, although so far I have already read most of them.
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hot48yearolds
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Anubis]
#5629733 - 05/14/06 07:35 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Im reading "The Way of Zen" by Allan Watts. Amazing.
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ArcofaJourney
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: hot48yearolds]
#5629818 - 05/14/06 08:02 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer....facinating.
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Birds_Can_Swim
Fish Can Fly

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ArcofaJourney]
#5630866 - 05/15/06 12:24 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Just started Duncan Sprott's The Ptolemies today
Looks to be quite promising
Historical fiction is where it's at (especially when it's narrated by the Egyptian god Thoth
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funnybunny
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Birds_Can_Swim]
#5630969 - 05/15/06 12:53 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Libra (Don DeLillo) The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (Sogyal Rimpoché) Ender's Shadow (Orson Scott Card)
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Lakefingers

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Darcho]
#5631127 - 05/15/06 01:52 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Darcho said: Still reading Hubert Dreyfus' What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critque of Artificial Reason.
Comparatively interesting book. Pleasure reading or for school/work?
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Lakefingers

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Lakefingers]
#5631143 - 05/15/06 01:58 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'm reading/researching:
"Poetry, Language, Thought" / Martin Heidegger "The Essence of Truth" / Martin Heidegger "City of Glass" / Paul Auster "Illusion's Game" / Chögyam Trungpa "The Philosophy and Poetics of Gaston Bachelard" / Mary McAllester "Philosophical Investigations" / Wittgenstein
And every few days I'm reading some poetry that I bought a few weeks ago.
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mecreateme
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Birds_Can_Swim]
#5639128 - 05/16/06 07:48 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Info-Psychology by Timothy Leary.
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psychocactustrip

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: mecreateme]
#5640700 - 05/17/06 01:44 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hells Angels - Hunter S Thompson
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