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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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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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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)

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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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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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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: lowdominion]
    #5799084 - 06/28/06 11:46 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

excellent.. i really liked the movie.

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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Yoschie99]
    #5799095 - 06/28/06 11:50 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I am right now reading triggerfish twist by Tim Dorsey,I would recoomend it to anyone who lives in florida exspeicaly the tampa area. He is a local who writings amazing litutre about drugs in floridan society


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: gdman]
    #5799098 - 06/28/06 11:51 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

the dharma bums
by jack kerouactuca :grin:
its a damn good book. my kind of shit


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5799111 - 06/28/06 11:55 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

just finished reading "Dead Souls" by Gogol a few days ago, and "Everything is Illuminated" last night.

i'm thinking to start re-reading The Idiot - i need a book that'll last me a few weeks


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: notapillow]
    #5799133 - 06/28/06 12:02 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Have you read On the Road?


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Krishna]
    #5799134 - 06/28/06 12:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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i'm thinking to start re-reading The Idiot




It would totally fit you. :rimshot::flowstone:

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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
    #5799135 - 06/28/06 12:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

the dharma bums is so much better, imo.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Krishna]
    #5799144 - 06/28/06 12:04 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Maybe I'll read that next, then.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Krishna]
    #5799148 - 06/28/06 12:06 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

yeah iv read on the road. it dosent even compare to dharma bums. this is amazing for 1958.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
    #5799157 - 06/28/06 12:07 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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HELLA_TIGHT said:
Quote:

Krishna said:
i'm thinking to start re-reading The Idiot




It would totally fit you. :rimshot::flowstone:

^_^




:lol: considering the "Idiot" is the only sensible and intelligent character in the story, perhaps it would :smirk:

as for kerouac, read the dharma bums, big sur, and the subterraneans (plus satori in paris for good measure) - he really developed his speeded-out style to perfection in them...


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Krishna]
    #5799165 - 06/28/06 12:10 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

as for what im gonna read next i  might reread searching for the sound :shrug:
thats such a good read


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5799172 - 06/28/06 12:11 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

A 1910 2nd edition of The North Pole by Robert E Peary,in remarkable condition.As for whats next, who knows?


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5799191 - 06/28/06 12:21 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Current:

Ray Bradbury - The Cat's Pajamas (collection of short stories)

- I've been working on this one for quite some time... I like to just read a story or two, then set it back on the shelf... Its a nice book to mix into my other readings.

V. S. Ramachandran - A Brief Tour of Human Consciou5ness

- Its a decent read I suppose... Saw a review of it way back and thought it would be good because it deals with a lot of things like phantom limbs, synaesthesia, etc... To be honest, its an easy read, but I'm just not feeling it as the amount of time that seems to be dedicated to any one concept is minimal. This books seems like it might be a gateway into other books which deal more in depth.

Queue:

Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism And Human Emotion
Tom Wolfe - Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5799208 - 06/28/06 12:28 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Jared M. Diamond guns germs and steel, awsome read, almost done


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: HarvestTheBrain]
    #5799280 - 06/28/06 12:51 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

check out Collapse by Diamond when you finish Guns Germs and Steel - also an interesting read


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5799298 - 06/28/06 12:56 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Song of Susannah


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5799301 - 06/28/06 12:58 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I'm currently reading Stephen King's "Skeleton Crew". I think I'm going to be doing some researching for a bit of writing I'll hopefully be starting soon, so I'm not yet sure what book I'll be reading yet.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Redstorm]
    #5799336 - 06/28/06 01:10 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

books are boring


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: capliberty]
    #5799344 - 06/28/06 01:11 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Plato's Republic, books planned to read next. Whatever is assigned to me for classes.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Simisu]
    #5799371 - 06/28/06 01:18 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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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!




I had a professor recommend that book to me.  Went to the library and saw how thick that fucking book was.  Cracked it open and read the intro and a few pages.  I thought the exact same thing you did.  I need more knowledge about pretty much everything if I'm going to enjoy that book.  :smile:

I've heard nothing but good things about that book though.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #5799450 - 06/28/06 01:43 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I read it full when I was 17, my teachers couldn't understand my bad grades at all :lol:

I'm now on the "ultimate hitchicker's guide to the galaxy", then will gon into "animal farm", "2001:a space odyssey" and then recover a few goldies: "So spoke Zaratrustra", "Ender's game", "Flowers for Algernon" and the all-mighty foundation+robots series by Asimov. It's going to be a long summer! :yesnod:


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #5799511 - 06/28/06 02:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

"Notes from the underground" -F. Dostoyefski

Next one probably is "The man who was Thursday" by Chesterton.

By the way hey. I'm Mark, 20 years old. Nice to be part of this board.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Krishna]
    #5799516 - 06/28/06 02:05 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

ill def chek it out thanks


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5799521 - 06/28/06 02:07 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I'm almost finished 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn about what occurred in the twin towers during the 102 minutes between the crash of flight 11 and the collapse of the north tower.  It focuses on the human aspect of the events, something you don't get a sense of by watching the footage from that day.

Next up is Blood and Oil by Michael T. Klare or Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku.  I can't decide at this point:smirk:.


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    #5799650 - 06/28/06 02:45 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)



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    #5799663 - 06/28/06 02:49 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Almost done with the awesome The Ptolemies by Duncan Sprott and after that...don't know


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    #5799668 - 06/28/06 02:50 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku.  I can't decide at this point:smirk:.




I was going to buy that one a few days ago but it might be as exagerated as that discovery channel "alien planet" documentary so I'm not too sure now... It looks ñike he is a respeced phycisyst so it might actually be good. Please let me know if you like it.


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    #5799681 - 06/28/06 02:55 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I'm halfway into Irrational Man by William Barrett, there's a ton of information on existentialism in there, next I'll be reading The Illusion of Technique by the same guy.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: HarvestTheBrain]
    #5799726 - 06/28/06 03:12 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Jared M. Diamond guns germs and steel, awsome read, almost done




We're learning about that guy in my anthro class, we just watched the PBS documentary on it.


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    #5799731 - 06/28/06 03:13 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

hey, nice to see everyone's reading their stuff, the books mentioned here are awesome, at least the ones i've read already.

Right now i'm reading "Discoveries: Birth of the Universe" by Trinh Xuan Thuan, a very good scientific book told in simple words which recounts the universe as we know it today, from the big bang to the formation of galaxies and stars, to the appearance of life and consciousness.

Next I'm gonna read a book full of coversations between Krishnamurti, the 20th century spiritual master, and other intellectuals like physician David Bohm, and other philosophers or theologists or writers. There's about a dozen conversations in there, promises to be interesting.


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    #5799751 - 06/28/06 03:17 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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"animal farm"




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    #5799770 - 06/28/06 03:24 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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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!




I had a professor recommend that book to me.  Went to the library and saw how thick that fucking book was.  Cracked it open and read the intro and a few pages.  I thought the exact same thing you did.  I need more knowledge about pretty much everything if I'm going to enjoy that book.  :smile:

I've heard nothing but good things about that book though.




i got a little further then that but i really felt like i'd miss out if i don't listen to the fugues and really take my time with it... (my computer is lame and i haven't been downloading music for months  :crazy: so that kinda makes it harder too)

deepman  :thumbup:
i've never been much of a reader sadly (i'm too picky in what i read) but you're lucky i guess  :tongue:

so is it worth it... dose it actualy connect the dots?


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    #5799842 - 06/28/06 03:48 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

"Junky" by Boroughs

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    #5799894 - 06/28/06 04:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Currently reading The Return of the King and the Doors of Perception/ Heaven and Hell. I'm thinking about either reading some William Blake, or John Milton Paradise Lost/ Paradise Found next.


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    #5799900 - 06/28/06 04:04 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

"Answered Prayers" by Truman Capote . He's a unique individual :grin: I like him .

Peace,Love,Happiness and Harmony
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Antoine]
    #5799902 - 06/28/06 04:04 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

William Blake is key.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5800033 - 06/28/06 04:42 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Im reading The Exception to the Rulers, Exposing Oily Politicians and the Media that Love Them, by Amy Goodman, next will most certainly be something by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: waterbug]
    #5800035 - 06/28/06 04:43 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I'm looking for 3 good paperbacks to take to Europe with me, that's the point of this thread. :smile:


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5800046 - 06/28/06 04:46 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I heard Clifford the Big Red Dog got good reviews.


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    #5800063 - 06/28/06 04:52 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

read some fucking Vonnegut, I promise youll be entertained


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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)

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)

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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    #5800174 - 06/28/06 05:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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)

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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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)

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)

crime and punishment by Dostoevsky

next i might check out Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung., sounds like my kinda book


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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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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)

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!!:crankey:

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)

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)

Summer makes it so easy to put down a book and forget to pick it back up again. :frown:


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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)

Summer makes it easier for me to read, but then again, I tend to sit at home a lot...


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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)

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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    #5801334 - 06/28/06 11:24 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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)

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)

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.:yawn:


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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)

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)

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. :tongue:


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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)

Did the pics come out good? She NEEDS to be scanning them!:snap:

:smile:

Back on topic, I need to finish that book, because I want to start reading Desolation Angels.


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    #5801380 - 06/28/06 11:34 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Yeah the pictures were grrrrrreat. :grin:

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.


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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)

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.

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    #5801390 - 06/28/06 11:37 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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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    #5801391 - 06/28/06 11:37 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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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    #5801400 - 06/28/06 11:39 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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.


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    #5801418 - 06/28/06 11:45 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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.:runaway:


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    #5801423 - 06/28/06 11:46 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!




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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    #5801449 - 06/28/06 11:52 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Ohhhh yeah. The whole book just came flooding back to me, the bowling alley, the injun, the den of drinking businessmen and women.


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    #5801578 - 06/29/06 12:32 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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. :toomuchacid:


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    #5801599 - 06/29/06 12:39 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

that book is a trip. he makes a lot of decent points, also a lot of crazy ones.


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    #5801615 - 06/29/06 12:43 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

It's pointless to make a point, if you don't make a face.
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    #5801632 - 06/29/06 12:48 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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    #5801649 - 06/29/06 12:53 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Currently Reading: "Muzzled : From T-Ball to Terrorism-True Stories That Should Be Fiction" by Michael Smerconish.

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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)

I just remembered another book I shall be reading in the next few days, the nausea by Sartrè :bow: 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)

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

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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)

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)

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)

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)

Enjoy Skinny Legs and All, OMR.  It's so fucking good.  :smile:


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    #5803261 - 06/29/06 01:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

:smile: I will definitely take it along with me.


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    #5803357 - 06/29/06 01:49 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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. :frown: Never got to read it, but I want to get another copy of it and read it.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: blissedout]
    #5803362 - 06/29/06 01:53 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)



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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5803367 - 06/29/06 01:55 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Reading "The Moral Animal, Why we are the way we are, The new Science of evolutionary psychology" By Robert Wright.
Has definitely changed the way I think about pretty much all living creatures, especially people. It is Copy-write 94 so it is a little dated but worth the read.
Next:
Maybe I'll finish "the Spiritual Machine" or start one of the ones mentioned here. I've got a ton that I have ripped to MP3. I usually listen to books on the drive to work since it takes about 40 min either way.


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    #5803371 - 06/29/06 01:57 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

My dad listens to books all the time. For me reading is so much a textural thing, feeling the book in my fingers, that I can't really get into audiobooks so much.


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    #5803375 - 06/29/06 01:57 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Nice! That's one of the bes grow guides that I know of. I used to have it, but I loaned it to a friend and never saw it again.:mad: I have a copy of The Deluxe Marijuana Growers Guide, though.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: blissedout]
    #5803380 - 06/29/06 01:59 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Nice! That's one of the bes grow guides that I know of. I used to have it, but I loaned it to a friend and never saw it again.:mad: I have a copy of The Deluxe Marijuana Growers Guide, though.





How is that one, should I get it, or is the same info?


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    #5803401 - 06/29/06 02:07 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

They are basically the same.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: blissedout]
    #5803749 - 06/29/06 03:44 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

reading still life with woodpecker
mostly because of a thread here a few weeks ago
thanks to everybody who recommended it. its fantastic so far and im going to end up reading lots of robbins now

last book i read was
qed the strange theory of light and matter by feynman
a bit of a slog and lots of little arrows pointing in all directions but some mind blowing concepts. worth the slog.

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all tomorrows parties by gibson
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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5804055 - 06/29/06 05:19 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I know what you mean. There are some draw backs but if I didn't;'t do audio books I would get much less reading done. You have to be doing something repetitive or you get board or your mind wanders.


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    #5805170 - 06/29/06 11:46 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: Omnicracker]
    #5805640 - 06/30/06 01:51 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Just finished Coming Into The Country. Great read  :thumbup:


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    #5805724 - 06/30/06 02:15 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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The Horror. The Horror.

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    #5806401 - 06/30/06 09:49 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

:lol: Oh Bobo.


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    #5806405 - 06/30/06 09:52 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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    #5806406 - 06/30/06 09:55 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

The Count of Monte Cristo, then The Three Musketeers.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5806409 - 06/30/06 10:00 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Oh and I'm currently reading:

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong - James W. Loewen
The Hollow Man - Dan Simmons
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    #5806455 - 06/30/06 10:21 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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I know what you mean. There are some draw backs but if I didn't;'t do audio books I would get much less reading done. You have to be doing something repetitive or you get board or your mind wanders.




You know, I have been thinking about audio books and I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing wrong with them. And as long as you buy the unabridged versions I doubt they are worse then a book.

I mean, people have been passing down stories by mouth long before they did so with the written word. So it isn't surprising that it is so much easier to keep your attention focused on a speaker rather then words in a book.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneWhoHasSeen]
    #5806459 - 06/30/06 10:23 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I don't think there's anything "wrong" with audiobooks at all...to me reading is such a physical activity, that's all. Putting your feet up, turning the pages...ahh...i get pleasure out of it.


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    #5806480 - 06/30/06 10:34 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I agree with both sides.  I love picking up a book and reading it, but I also like doing household activities while listening to an audiobook.  :shrug:


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    #5806544 - 06/30/06 11:04 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I love the smell of the leather on the covers and the delicious aroma of paper that has never been read. Hmmmm, makes my eyes water just thinking about it.

But after a while my eyes hurt if I read for too long, and it is nice to do other things while you listen to a book.

I wonder. Reading a book is proven to increase ones vocabulary, I wondering if listening to audio books does the same.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? And what's next? [Re: OneWhoHasSeen]
    #5806546 - 06/30/06 11:05 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I like the smell of books published in the late 80's and early 90's, that are well-worn and well-yellowed-and-read.


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    #5806558 - 06/30/06 11:11 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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.  :grin:


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    #5806560 - 06/30/06 11:12 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

It's been a long while since I was in a really good used bookstore, that's good stuff right there.


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    #5806568 - 06/30/06 11:14 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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.  :crankey:


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    #5806571 - 06/30/06 11:17 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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. :sad:


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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)

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 :smile:


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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)

I find audio books are great for road trips.


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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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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. :sad:





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)

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.


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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)

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)

They have a couple, but..I dunno. Something about finding them in random small towns is always better.


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