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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5806558 - 06/30/06 11:11 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Exactly. I love opening up an older book and seeing dog eared pages. I know someone actually read it and I'm sharing in the assimilation of the same knowledge.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
#5806560 - 06/30/06 11:12 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's been a long while since I was in a really good used bookstore, that's good stuff right there.
-------------------- 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]
#5806568 - 06/30/06 11:14 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm really lucky. There's about 5-6 within blocks of me. One has this awesome Metaphysical section with a lot of used Robert Anton Wilson books, which of course I already spent full prince on.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
#5806571 - 06/30/06 11:17 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Where do you live again? Boulder, Colorado? I lived in Estes Park one summer and they had a good used bookstore from what I can remember.
The best one I've ever seen is on the outskirts of Baltimore, my dad said he recently drove by there and it was closed.
-------------------- 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: Penguarky Tunguin]
#5806576 - 06/30/06 11:19 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Ehh, well-read books have too much humanity in them. I like the smell of the paper and the ink, with crisp words shouting out at me from a virgin page.
Its something about popping their cherry which gets me so excited. I think of its future and the eyes that will read it long after I have left my own residual energy imprint upon it.
But hey, in the end its just a difference in preference
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneWhoHasSeen]
#5806607 - 06/30/06 11:43 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I find audio books are great for road trips.
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5806738 - 06/30/06 12:53 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
OneMoreRobot3021 said: Where do you live again? Boulder, Colorado? I lived in Estes Park one summer and they had a good used bookstore from what I can remember.
The best one I've ever seen is on the outskirts of Baltimore, my dad said he recently drove by there and it was closed.
Just south of Downtown Denver. I used to go to Estes Park all the time when I lived in Fort Collins, about an hours drive away.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
#5806742 - 06/30/06 12:54 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Cool. I worked for a friend of my dad's who did family reunion and large group photography up in the mountains. It was a good time.
-------------------- 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: Penguarky Tunguin]
#5806754 - 06/30/06 12:58 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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They don't have nice used bookstores in NY??
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
#5806756 - 06/30/06 12:58 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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They have a couple, but..I dunno. Something about finding them in random small towns is always better.
-------------------- 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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