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 Chespirito
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
Then I started in on Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis - wow! I'm 60 pages in and totally and utterly hooked. I haven't read anything of his in a while and forgot what a great voice he has.
I liked that book, though some people have differing opinions on that.
I recently finished reading DeLillo's Libra
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millzy
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 Re: What book are you currently reading?  [Re: Chespirito]
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i hope it holds my attention this time. there are other books in this series that are among the best i've ever read fiction wise.
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psyke101
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: millzy]
#16085964 - 04/13/12 05:06 PM (12 years, 5 days ago) |
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@Millzy  I fricken love Banks' Culture series, and Surface Detail is one of the best in the series IMO. Hope you dig it.
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 King Klick
That Guy Everyone Knows
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: psyke101]
#16086370 - 04/13/12 06:58 PM (12 years, 5 days ago) |
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Shit, last apprentice 10.  I prefer children's books. I don't like much hard reading. Also i'm reading rise and fall of the 3rd reich.
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ShroomScape
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
Alternating between Catching Fire (the 2nd book in the Hunger Games, excellent before-bed brain vacation reading) and Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
I have Flow sitting on my shelf. Nothing too terribly insightful but an enjoyable read. It's the kinda book I'm glad I read but I regret buying.
Personally I much prefer Abraham Maslow over Csik; two good books of his are, "Toward a Psychology of Being," and "Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences."
I am currently reading
Email to the Universe by Robert Anton Wilson
Followed up by:
Free-Will by Sam Harris
Emergence by Steven Johnson
(and a rereading of ) Kluge by Gary Marcus
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millzy
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: psyke101]
#16086973 - 04/13/12 09:24 PM (12 years, 5 days ago) |
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psyke101 said:
@Millzy I fricken love Banks' Culture series, and Surface Detail is one of the best in the series IMO. Hope you dig it.
man that's good to hear! glad to see a fellow culture fan on here. 
i picked up the hardback of this when it first came out and haven't had the chance to give it my full attention. the first time or so it just didn't hold me. glad to hear it's good. i've been needing some culture in my life.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: millzy]
#16087255 - 04/13/12 10:31 PM (12 years, 5 days ago) |
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Dune
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Bridgeburner
Not spiritual at all.
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b0red5tiff said:
ordered "river of gods" because someone recommended it here
Did you get it yet?
Did you like it?
I think it's an amazing SF work.
im in the middle right now and its a bit confusing with all the indian words etc
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psyke101
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Bridgeburner]
#16092686 - 04/15/12 08:45 AM (12 years, 3 days ago) |
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@ Millzy
I love his descriptions of Culture society and technology. I wanna be a citizen of The Culture.
Just finished reading The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx and had to write an essay about it... blah.
Discuss the merits of The Shipping News using one or more of the tenets of Liberal Humansim.
I chose: What is valued is demonstrated or shown, not explained.
Pretty sure I fucked it up... hafta wait and see.
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millzy
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: psyke101]
#16092906 - 04/15/12 09:42 AM (12 years, 3 days ago) |
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psyke101 said:
@ Millzy
I love his descriptions of Culture society and technology. I wanna be a citizen of The Culture.
yeah, i want drug glands and an enhanced, perfect body that lives for 1000 years. best sci fi series ever.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: millzy]
#16093298 - 04/15/12 11:40 AM (12 years, 3 days ago) |
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Man, Cosmopolis really really did it for me. What a fantastic read.
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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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Jessica Swift
यन्त्र
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Do it. Lovely read, and only takes a couple of days.
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Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Jessica Swift]
#16093478 - 04/15/12 12:54 PM (12 years, 3 days ago) |
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Escape from Evil -Ernest Becker.
Read it at your own risk. 
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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.
With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Icelander]
#16099305 - 04/16/12 08:40 PM (12 years, 2 days ago) |
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Just finished THE BOOK by Alan Watts, quick read and really makes you think.
Now reading the invisible landscape by the McKenna brothers... really hard to get your head around. real science-y and technical. I preferred food of the gods a lot more hahaha
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More Beats
sheekle: fuck peace love and unity
sheekle: death despair and misery
sheekle: is where it's at
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MentalMeltdown
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Absent Minded]
#16099664 - 04/16/12 09:51 PM (12 years, 2 days ago) |
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Just finished THE BOOK by Alan Watts, quick read and really makes you think.
Now reading the invisible landscape by the McKenna brothers... really hard to get your head around. real science-y and technical. I preferred food of the gods a lot more hahaha
I was trying to acquire The Book and when i couldn't i ended up reading The Wisdom of Insecurity which was a great book. Watt's books are always rich with knowledge that makes me reevaluate my perspective. The Book is definitely next on my list.
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I recently read Doghouse Roses by Steve Earle. Its a collection of about 8 short stories some of which are subtly connected to each other. The stories are unique and well written. His style reminded me of Robbins which says alot about the quality of the book and is a compliment in itself. I really enjoyed it.
I also found it interesting that i stumbled across that book when i did because some of the stories were ironically similar to the situations i had recently found myself in IRL.
I also didnt know that Earle was a prominent singer/songwriter until after i had read it.
Its def a book you wont regret reading.
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I have been re-reading the Fables of Aesop with my son. He's not interested in the morals at all, but I find the stories deceptively simplistic and very interesting.
Also re-reading the Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engel. Highly recommended!
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shut ur fucking mouth. before a penis is are be enters
LordSenate said:
Cheese poop... Who gives a fuck gotta eat lots of cheese.
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HeadTripVertigo
at least I'm housebroken
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: sun_spots]
#16103345 - 04/17/12 06:50 PM (12 years, 1 day ago) |
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VUnderground
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Just started on this. 
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questioneverything
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: VUnderground]
#16107547 - 04/18/12 05:08 PM (12 years, 14 hours ago) |
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The lost city of z by David grann. The author is a little out of his element, being nothing but a humpty-dumpty shaped writer for the new York staff and writing a biography about one of the most daring explorers of recent history. It's based on the diaries and manuscripts of colonel Percy fawcett as he charted the territory of the Bolivia-brazil border and fell in love with the idea of finding a lost ancient civilization and their city. I'm about halfway through it. The dude was the definition of man.
Percy fawcett. Look him up.
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