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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: funnybunny]
#6190063 - 10/20/06 09:23 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Mark Twain - Letters from the Earth  Philip K. Dick = Lies, Inc. Intoxication - Ronald K. Siegal, Ph.D.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: lukeboots]
#6191322 - 10/20/06 02:29 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Joseph Campbell is the shit.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Lion] 1
#6215739 - 10/26/06 09:37 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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AlteredAgain said: interesting read. i'm not all that far into it yet, but he comes off as more down to earth than many other 2K12 authors i have seen.
pinchbeck? down to earth? really?
that guy rubs me entirely the wrong way. to me he comes across as an opportunist, and a male chovinist, but that's just from my (limited) reading of him
I like him. He's got some great ideas and is smart enough to know when he doesn't know shit.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO] 1
#6344626 - 12/07/06 01:33 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Dhalgren - Samuel Delaney
The Philosophy of The Matrix
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod] 1
#6345273 - 12/07/06 05:49 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hell yes man. I'm enjoying the hell out of it right now. About 150 pages in...
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod] 1
#6345393 - 12/07/06 06:28 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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zappaisgod said: "This night wounds time," is, I believe the openig line. And I haven't read it in 20 years. Kid, Denny and Lanya is one of the greatest love stories ever. Orchids are weapons and there is a second moon named George

"to wound the autumnal city." is this opening line.
Like Finnegans Wake, begins in the middle of a sentence.
And the scorpions are intriguing as hell, though they haven't been that prominent.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod] 1
#6368102 - 12/13/06 09:39 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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zappaisgod said: "Against The Day" Thomas Pynchon
How is that?
Huge Pynchon fan.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod] 1
#6387621 - 12/19/06 06:36 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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zappaisgod said: "Against The Day" Thomas Pynchon
How is that?
Huge Pynchon fan.
Staggeringly good. I'm not yet deep into it but I'm getting the feeling it's going to be right up there with Gravity's Rainbow. I ran into a literature friend the other day and he was half into it and very excited. He wanted to tell me all kinds of stuff about it but stopped himself before I had to. He was struggling though. That's always a good sign.
Have you read Mason and Dixon?
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Krishna] 1
#6388686 - 12/19/06 11:37 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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How is that?
Tom Robbins is in my top 5 authors. Haven't gotten around to reading Fierce Invalids though.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Krishna] 1
#6394064 - 12/21/06 01:23 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's his newest fiction book. His newest book is Wild Ducks Flying Backwards. A collection of articles and essays.
My favorite of his that I've read so far is Skinny Legs and All.
I need to re-read Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 'cause I read that along time ago and can't remember a thing.
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Oh yeah. I'm retarded, but I still got the Ducks Flying Backwards part right.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Budda]
#6408081 - 12/29/06 01:02 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Budda said: im currently re-reading one of my favorites: the illuminatus triology.
Hell yeah bud! 
I'm halfway through my 5th reading of it. It's the only book that I'm constantly reading. I haven't stopped reading it for 3 years.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#6564531 - 02/13/07 08:32 PM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm about halfway through with Still Life With Woodpecker. Damn good so far, as usual with Tom Robbins.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: stoneage]
#6577446 - 02/17/07 08:26 AM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
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Well yeah. The book he wrote was called Fight Club.
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OneMoreRobot3021 said: I just bought J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island and a collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories to follow it up with.
Finished Concrete Island a while ago - interesting read, bit dry though. All British and metaphorical and what not...
H.P. Lovecraft's a delight.
I love reading his struggle with writing dialog though. It's great.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Silversoul]
#7092750 - 06/25/07 10:19 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Roxum said: The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson.
Me too. Love it so far.
Best book ever...
easily.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Madbudz]
#7094772 - 06/26/07 01:10 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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shrooms4u69 said: Half asleep in frog pajamas, I love Tom Robbins!
Half Asleep is awesome. Loved that book.
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OneMoreRobot3021 said: The Man in the High Castle was quite good. Other Dick books I highly recommend are
Time Out of Joint The Man Who Japed Clans of the Alphane Moon
OMR, read VALIS next.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Blend]
#7108892 - 06/29/07 09:34 PM (16 years, 6 months ago) |
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I agree. 
Plus, Dick mentions RAW's Cosmic Trigger in the story. Cool.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod]
#7612009 - 11/08/07 04:51 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Started Pynchon's Against the Day. Lovin' the shit out of it. Wish I had more time to read it though.
I've also been following up every chapter with a annotated wikipage of the book.
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