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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7284509 - 08/11/07 12:44 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Stranger Than Fiction
By Chuck P.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: poke smot!]
#7301487 - 08/16/07 03:37 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Pynchon's Vineland
Awesome as usual, but I fear I won't finish my books before college
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7301751 - 08/16/07 05:17 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Life, The Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: AaronEvil]
#7311043 - 08/19/07 02:59 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
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That's a good trilogy by Pullman, I read it a few years back. We seem to have similar tastes in books as I think I remember you were reading some Neil Gaiman a while back. I highly recommend you read some Tim Powers. He will blow your mind!
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: muistrue]
#7311363 - 08/19/07 05:06 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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If we could combine all of our knowledge and understanding, we would RULE THE WORLD!
The Human Biological Machine as a Transformational Apparatus by E.J. Gold
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OneLessForeskin said: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Nice, I can't wait for the movie. I just re-read the book.
I'm reading The Two Towers by Tolkien, having just finished Fellowship. I will be moving on to Return of the King next. I've been on a bit of Tolkien binge lately, having read The Silmarillion and both Lost Book of Tales after re-reading the LOTR trilogy and The Hobbit in March of this year.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: TODAY]
#7311965 - 08/19/07 07:52 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Just finished The Terror by Dan Simmons. Next is either <i>The Crook Factory</i> by Simmons or Wolves of the Calla by SK. I'm also reading a veritable stack of tech books atm.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: unbeliever]
#7313133 - 08/20/07 04:35 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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finally got a hold of the last harry potter. =)
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: TODAY]
#7313185 - 08/20/07 05:31 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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TODAY said: I'm reading The Two Towers by Tolkien, having just finished Fellowship. I will be moving on to Return of the King next. I've been on a bit of Tolkien binge lately, having read The Silmarillion and both Lost Book of Tales after re-reading the LOTR trilogy and The Hobbit in March of this year.
You reread the LOTR trilogly in March, and now you're rereading it again, and you've already made it to The Two Towers? That is fucking dedication man. I respect that.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: it stars saddam]
#7313580 - 08/20/07 09:15 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Man, after I first read LOTR I re-read it twice in the span of like three months, then read Silmarillion and all of Tolkien's works I could get my hands on.
I still love those books. Every time I immerse myself deeper and deeper in the story, become a little more appreciative of the writing and narrative structure - some of the most wonderful, mystical emotions I've ever experienced well up in me when I read about the landscapes and histories of Middle-earth.
Right now I'm reading Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda and Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa, and listening to Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now on my iPod.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: it stars saddam]
#7318508 - 08/21/07 04:10 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've got no job and no kids. I've got all the time in the world to sit on my ass and read...still got respect for me? LOL. But yeah, I'm between college and career this summer so this is the last lounge time I'll get for a while.
Hey bug, its nice to see another fanaddict of Tolkien. Every time I re-read I pick up on something new and indeed get a clearer picture of the lands, relationships, and connections between things in LOTR and the histories of M-E as told in the Lost Tales, Silmarillion, etc.
I'm pretty sure I'll be reading LOTR about once a year, if not, then once every two years.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: TODAY]
#7320439 - 08/22/07 02:01 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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The centre of the cyclone - John C.Lilly
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Psilobuds]
#7320447 - 08/22/07 02:06 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Simulations of God
another thoughtful one by Dr. Lilly.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: TODAY]
#7320525 - 08/22/07 03:05 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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hey ive got that poster on my wall dude, nice 
as for what im reading: 1. lsd 2. the holotropic mind ... but i often end up starting books and not finishing them... even though i may be real interested. a lot of that has to do with my ocd though.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7320526 - 08/22/07 03:05 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't see why Vineland isn't recognized as one of Pychon's beter efforts
The dialogue and descriptions flow freely and the setting should make it more accesible to modern readers
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: it stars saddam]
#7330298 - 08/24/07 03:46 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ulysses by James Joyce
This is all I have been reading all summer, and I'm only 200pgs in. Everything you've heard is true. I will finish this beast by the end of the year.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: it stars saddam]
#7330313 - 08/24/07 03:51 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Everything you've heard is true.
Everything I've heard? So it's boring as shit, totally nonsensical, bourgeois fluff, and a linguistic portal to higher dimensions?
Is it worth it?
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: it stars saddam]
#7330341 - 08/24/07 03:58 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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it stars saddam said: Ulysses by James Joyce
This is all I have been reading all summer, and I'm only 200pgs in. Everything you've heard is true. I will finish this beast by the end of the year.
Ha I just bought that today, Im on page 10 at the moment. It doesn't seem as ridiculous as I had heard really. Actually its entertaining at the moment,although ive barely started it
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