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What book are you currently reading? And what's next?
    #5798919 - 06/28/06 10:44 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I'm about 3/4 of the way through Terence McKenna's Food of the Gods at the moment, it's a pretty riveting read. Some wild ideas that require suspension of disbelief, sure, but all in all he's working with some really fascinating concepts.

next for me is gonna be Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5798928 - 06/28/06 10:46 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Yeah McKenna wanders off the rational radar every few steps, still a good book though, I haven't really read a book since I read that. No time I guess.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5798944 - 06/28/06 10:54 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Just started Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.  It's absolutley crazy.  It's written in this 1700's english with many words capitalized and ever y sentence is a pun within itself.  I just pass this chapter where Mason and Dixon meet this talking robotic dog called the L.E.D. or the Learned English Dog.  It's wild.  Fucking thing is almost 1000 pages, so nothing new up on the fiction horizon for awhile.  :cool:

Non-fiction, I just started Ken Wilber's Sex, Ecology and Spiritually, over 1200 pages.  I'm not sure I'm going to continue it, a little too detailed for me right now, but I might who knows.

I wish I had more people to talk to about books, all I have is this site.  :smile:


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #5798948 - 06/28/06 10:56 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Is that the first thing you're ever reading by Pynchon? I was intimidated by V and Gravity's Rainbow but I wrote a paper on his book The Crying of Lot 49 and how the entire thing could be seen as an LSD trip, and the weirdly symmetrical nature of the book. Based on that book alone I'd have to say Pynchon's a brilliant author, that one you're reading sounds intriguing.


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-Erik Davis


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5798953 - 06/28/06 10:59 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger. I have no idea what the next one is going to be though :tongue2:


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5798955 - 06/28/06 11:00 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)



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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Jim]
    #5798958 - 06/28/06 11:01 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Hey that looks like a good read.


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-Erik Davis


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5798959 - 06/28/06 11:02 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

For the Common Good, by Herman Daly and John B. Cobb

I have no idea what's next for me.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Jim]
    #5798961 - 06/28/06 11:02 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

Jim said:
A Walk in the Woods




my kind of book. :thumbup:


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5798965 - 06/28/06 11:04 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
Is that the first thing you're ever reading by Pynchon?  I was intimidated by V and Gravity's Rainbow but I wrote a paper on his book The Crying of Lot 49 and how the entire thing could be seen as an LSD trip, and the weirdly symmetrical nature of the book.  Based on that book alone I'd have to say Pynchon's a brilliant author, that one you're reading sounds intriguing.





I checked out Gravity's Rainbow from the library but never got around to reading it.  I just happened to pick up Mason & Dixon at Goodwill for a buck, in brand new condition.  Why the hell not I said to myself, a fucking dollar.  I had heard nothing but good things about Pynchon up to that point, so I bought it and started it.  Seems promising. :thumbup:

I had orginally started Gulliver's Travels, but I just wasn't getting into it, so I put it back on the shelf.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5798967 - 06/28/06 11:04 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

i'm slowly plugging through 'dmt: the spirit molecule'

next.. i'm not sure yet.. i have 'battle royale' the book, laying around.. i wouldn't mind reading that...

or, i may re-read 'electric kool-aid acid test'.. i need a good quote to get graphixed and put up w/ some blotter art i bought..

or, i may go to the strand and just see what i can find.. i love that place.

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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Yoschie99]
    #5798969 - 06/28/06 11:05 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

battle royale was fantastic


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5798977 - 06/28/06 11:07 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

halfway through this masterpiece



and i've slowly been working my way though dmt the spirit molecule by dr. rick strassman.. not too big on the whole reading thing to be honest.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: lowdominion]
    #5798994 - 06/28/06 11:13 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

have you seen the movie, too?
which first?
how do they compare?

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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5799001 - 06/28/06 11:17 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Just finished Haunted.

I have some reading to do for class, so I guess that's next on the agenda :shrug:


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Yoschie99]
    #5799028 - 06/28/06 11:26 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

last thing i was reading was Godel, Eshcher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of lewis carroll

it's a facinating book but i got too lazy... there's just SO much informaition in it that i felt like i had to check everything he was talking about befor i could continue (like listen to Bach's diffrent works, read about music theorie, understand the mathematics he was talking about... it was just too much for me)

a friend gave it to me after i described to him how i keep getting stuck when trying to explain reality to my self :smirk:
he said that this book tied some ends for him and sounded alot like what i was talking about... maybe i should make an effort and read it now? it's been sitting on my desk for a while now!


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Simisu]
    #5799060 - 06/28/06 11:38 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

http://www.jim-butcher.com/books/dresden/

I'm on the 5th one, highly recomended series.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Yoschie99]
    #5799076 - 06/28/06 11:43 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

the movie was good

The book was better though


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: gdman]
    #5799077 - 06/28/06 11:43 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

kill two birds and get stoned


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5799079 - 06/28/06 11:44 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I got stuck in a rut with the Great Shark Hunt for a while, but I'm back on track and reading again.

After I finish that up I'll have to go buy something else, I'm not sure what I'll get yet.


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