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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5800071 - 06/28/06 04:54 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Get those other Tom Robbins you haven't read. Derrr.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5800171 - 06/28/06 05:29 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I just finished reading Women by Charles Bukowski yesterday. (I love characters I can relate to.)
Today I think I might go get Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung 'cause--ever since my last mushroom trip a week ago, and every time I trip, I guess, for that matter--I can't shake the idea that all things are merely symbols.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: goliath_91710]
#5800174 - 06/28/06 05:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hell yeah man, make sure to checkout Joseph Campbell too.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5800793 - 06/28/06 08:54 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Just started Even Cowgirls Get The Blues by Tom Robbins, who is such a great author. Also just checked out the complete works of E. E. Cummings from the library, to throw in a poem here and there. Books in this thread I also hype: Dharma Bums DMT: The Spirit Molecule Vonnegut!!!!!! More Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)
Next: ????? Maybe one of the books in this thread. I hear Pynchon mentioned along with Vonnegut and Robbins, so...
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Kerr
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
#5800796 - 06/28/06 08:55 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I just finished Martin Pretchels's Secrets of the Talking Jaguar, just got an ebook of The Keys of Enoch by JJ Hurtak. Very excited about this new one
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Kerr]
#5801236 - 06/28/06 11:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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crime and punishment by Dostoevsky
next i might check out Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung., sounds like my kinda book
...i always love book threads...
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: bobjones]
#5801248 - 06/28/06 11:05 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
bobjones said: crime and punishment by Dostoevsky
next i might check out Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung., sounds like my kinda book
...i always love book threads...
Book threads are always great. You remember all the ones you've been wanting to read that have slipped your mind, and all the ones you've already read that have become so much a part of you you take them for granted.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801312 - 06/28/06 11:18 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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CRime and Punishment was a good read. I am kind of reading a fantasy novel by R.A. Salvatore, but I haven't picked it up in a few weeks. Damn summer and it's fun festivities!!
I really want to read this copy of Searching for the Sound, by Phil Lesh, but he is such a douche that I might not ever get around to it.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801313 - 06/28/06 11:19 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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If you're into computers at all, let me recommend In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neil Stevenson (I think.)
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: blissedout]
#5801318 - 06/28/06 11:19 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Summer makes it so easy to put down a book and forget to pick it back up again.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801324 - 06/28/06 11:21 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Summer makes it easier for me to read, but then again, I tend to sit at home a lot...
-------------------- The story goes, or the way that I was told There was a king that always felt too high and then he fell too low And so he called all the wise men to the hall And begged them for a gift to end the rises and the falls But here’s the thing, they came back with a ring It was simple and was plainly unbefitting of a king Engraved in black, it had no front or back But there were words around the band that said Just know: This Too Shall Pass
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801328 - 06/28/06 11:22 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Suprisingly, summer if when I get most of my reading done. I've already put away like five or six books since school ended.
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OneMoreRobot3021


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Redstorm]
#5801334 - 06/28/06 11:24 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I need to read a TON when I'm in Europe. I'm aiming to churn through five books in the month.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801341 - 06/28/06 11:25 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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All the time on trains you have two choices of book types.
Choice chiseled checkloslvokian chicks or Chuck Norris Chilli cook off.
Both books would be a great read. I know it will be a blast. Have a bottle of wine, a book, a lot of time, and an open mind.
How exciting. Imagine the faces of the people over there. Wow.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801346 - 06/28/06 11:27 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Need to influence/spark the fire for your writings/musings? Jesus, my eyes are burning! I may not be on much longer. Benadryl and some herbal tea danksis made for me makes for a sleepy blissed.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801350 - 06/28/06 11:27 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I was really on a good track earlier in May, but I have slacked off a bit recently. I read Stephen King's The Stand (1200 pages) in six days.
I guess having a job slows me down now as well.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: blissedout]
#5801353 - 06/28/06 11:28 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I hung out with Ani two nights ago, just smoked a bunch of herb and listened to music and looked at maps and at all of her pictures from Wakarusa and Bonnaroo, I'm so jealous she got to meet Elijah (not to mention his esteemed parents), she was gushing over him.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801368 - 06/28/06 11:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Did the pics come out good? She NEEDS to be scanning them!:snap:

Back on topic, I need to finish that book, because I want to start reading Desolation Angels.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: blissedout]
#5801380 - 06/28/06 11:34 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah the pictures were grrrrrreat. 
RandalFlagg gave me a copy of The Brothers Karamazov at the Canadian Ski Gathering but it's just too hefty for me to bring along in my pack, I gotta keep shit light. I dunno, I'll probably bring Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins and a couple of others TBD. Definitely bringing my tiny book of William Blake poetry.
-------------------- 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 book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: blissedout]
#5801389 - 06/28/06 11:36 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thats great. I just finished Half Asleep in frog pajamas, Tom Robbins. it was a good read that mirrored many events in my life right now, like most good books do. Then, after i started posting, i noticed that the first post suggested Food of the Gods - McKenna, which is alluded to many times in this book. if youre addicted to your synchonicities then read this.
next up: the autobiography of Malcom X, i hear its the one of the best autobiographies ever written.
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