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blissedout


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801390 - 06/28/06 11:37 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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You like E.E. Cummings, at all? He's one of my favorite poets. Skinny Legs and All is one of my favorites by Robbins, too. I have a copy sitting like 2 feet away from me.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Omnicracker]
#5801391 - 06/28/06 11:37 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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You know, i read Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas long ago...so long ago that I probably forgot about the fact that he mentions Food of the Gods. Hm. I should definitely look into rereading that!
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: blissedout]
#5801400 - 06/28/06 11:39 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Also, Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein. I am not a sci-fi fan, at all, but this book goes down as one of my favorite stories of all time. It just gripped me up to the very end and left me feeling all warm and shit. It's in my top 5, for sure!
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: blissedout]
#5801401 - 06/28/06 11:39 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah man I love e.e. cummings! He's awesome. I attached a Bjork song to this post in which she sings her favorite poem by him. I dunnoo if you dig Bjork or not but hey, here ya go.
-------------------- 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: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801418 - 06/28/06 11:45 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Awesome rendition! I have listened to Bjork for a really long time. She's great and she has some really tripped out videos! That one with the teddy bear chasing her through the forrest made it's way into my dreams on many occasions.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801423 - 06/28/06 11:46 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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OneMoreRobot3021 said: You know, i read Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas long ago...so long ago that I probably forgot about the fact that he mentions Food of the Gods. Hm. I should definitely look into rereading that!
it doesnt mention the book directly, but it names mckenna and explains his idea of the the "Cubensis Spore as the catalyst for Development of Human Intellegence, and Long Titles for Things" Theory.
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OneMoreRobot3021


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Omnicracker]
#5801449 - 06/28/06 11:52 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ohhhh yeah. The whole book just came flooding back to me, the bowling alley, the injun, the den of drinking businessmen and women.
-------------------- 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: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801578 - 06/29/06 12:32 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Right now I'm reading the sci-fi novel, Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
I'm probably going to read some book about LSD next becuase I like books about that subject.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801599 - 06/29/06 12:39 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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that book is a trip. he makes a lot of decent points, also a lot of crazy ones.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: KingOftheThing]
#5801615 - 06/29/06 12:43 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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It's pointless to make a point, if you don't make a face. Don't tell the Indians where you're staying, just by the way your cheek muscles are playing.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Kerbouchard]
#5801632 - 06/29/06 12:48 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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huff gas?
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Redstorm]
#5801649 - 06/29/06 12:53 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Currently Reading: "Muzzled : From T-Ball to Terrorism-True Stories That Should Be Fiction" by Michael Smerconish.
Next book: "Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5801677 - 06/29/06 01:02 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I just remembered another book I shall be reading in the next few days, the nausea by Sartrè but it's too depressing to read it right now...
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
#5802477 - 06/29/06 08:59 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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In the past month I've just ploughed through:
Inside out - Nick Mason's Floyd biography - so-so Scars of Sweet Paradise - Great Janis Joplin biography Room Full of Mirrors - Not bad Hendrix biography The Cosmology of Consciousness by Alan Watts - Fucking awesome book
I'm currently reading The Mission of Art by Alex Grey, which is one of the best books I have ever read
next up
I Am Alive And You Are Dead - a biography of Philip K Dick
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: theorganicdomino]
#5802530 - 06/29/06 09:23 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I just finished reading Fahrenheit 451, and highly recommend the book to anyone who has never read it before. It is an incredibly insightful look as to the future of TV and modern entertainment in general. In the end, it helped me realize that sometimes we need to bare ourselves to tragedy and pain so that we have some meaning to our lives, and so that when we die we can truly say that we understood what it ment to be alive.
As far as my next book, I did try to start "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" a book all about archetypes (the basis for my future academic English studies) but since the second summer semester is starting for me and I have two English courses, I will have to put that one off and start doing my assigned readings.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5802550 - 06/29/06 09:29 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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reading= The Holographic Universe,Michael Talbot plan on reading= The Unseen Hand: An Introduction to the Conspiratorial View of History,A. Ralph Epperson
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: LosAngelesGraff]
#5803066 - 06/29/06 12:18 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I am reading the bible(finally-i have been wanting to read it for a long time) Next I was thinking about reading "the electric kool-aid acid test" because i just read another book by tom wolfe " i am charlotte simmons" and liked it.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5803255 - 06/29/06 01:13 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Enjoy Skinny Legs and All, OMR. It's so fucking good.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
#5803261 - 06/29/06 01:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I will definitely take it along with me.
-------------------- 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: fairyt]
#5803357 - 06/29/06 01:49 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Funny thing about the book, Electric Koolaid Acid Test. I was on Grateful Dead tour, in 1994, and this guy begs me to trade him a few hits of lsd for his paperback copy of that book. I did it, of course and lost the book on Dead tour, that next year. Never got to read it, but I want to get another copy of it and read it.
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