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 Penguarky Tunguin
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 Re: What book are you currently reading?  [Re: zappaisgod]
#7641649 - 11/15/07 08:12 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've gotten so into Against the Day that I just downloaded an episode of the History Channel about airships. 
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 zappaisgod
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You are not well, Chum.
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod]
#7641674 - 11/15/07 08:19 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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I didn't say I watched it.
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EternalCowabunga
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod]
#7641714 - 11/15/07 08:30 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Just got "Simulations of God" by John C. Lilly in the mail, going to start reading it tonight
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod]
#7642385 - 11/15/07 11:29 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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I am going to continue to flog the greatest book ever written, which is A Confederacy of Dunces.
I'll get around to that some time. I read that other book of his, Neon Bible, which he wrote when he was sixteen or so. Yawn.
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Krishna
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Quote:
OneLessForeskin said:
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zappaisgod said:
I am going to continue to flog the greatest book ever written, which is A Confederacy of Dunces.
I'll get around to that some time. I read that other book of his, Neon Bible, which he wrote when he was sixteen or so. Yawn.
c of D cant be compared with neon bible. i mean, the guy was 16 when he wrote neon bible, and it shows. C of D is a great read, though. As for the illuminatus! trilogy, also good good fun. Check out the Shrodinger's Cat trilogy (also by RAW) for more entertainment.
currently i'm reading Wilhelm Meister by Goethe. Was reading a bunch of essays by Bahktin on the Chronotope of Epic & Novel, and in one essay about the chronotope of the bildungsroman and it's influence on literature as a whole, he kept commenting on Wilhelm Meister as the first bildungsroman. previously i had only read the Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust by Goethe, so I figured I'd give this one a go - so far it is a great read, and Goethe's genius really shines through.
for "fun" i just finished Jitterbug Perfume (Tom Robbins) which makes it every novel of his that i've read. Also just finished a collection of short stories of Gogol, and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (not sure who it is by, the guy was on NPR talking about it and it sounded interesting but i thought it was a predictable piece of fluff.) So now focusing on the Goethe, more Bahktin, and some essays about Crying of Lot 49 (for the same class i'm reading the Bahktin)
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goldsorcerer
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7648277 - 11/17/07 05:22 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Robo
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: goldsorcerer]
#7648601 - 11/17/07 06:58 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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The Great Gatsby was a sad book 
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#7652350 - 11/18/07 07:48 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Robert Jarvik]
#7654457 - 11/19/07 12:08 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Just got done reading Hell's Angels by HST, then read the electric kool aid acid test, then read one flew over the cuckoos nest (hells angels got me interested in kesey haha)
Just picked up the picture of dorian gray on toddos recomendation ill let ya know how it goes this is my first wilde book.
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theorganicdomino
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7662319 - 11/21/07 10:54 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
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it stars saddam
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Just finished The Only Living Witness and Conversations With A Killer; both books are about Ted Bundy (the latter is solely comprised of interviews) and written by Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth. Excellent, excellent stuff for fans of true crime.
At the moment, I'm reading the last thirty pages of Justine by Marquis de Sade which, as I expected, was deliciously evil.
Later today I'm going to the bookstore to pick up Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk (I'm trusting zappaisgod's judgment on this one) and Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis.
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Silversoul
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7691899 - 11/28/07 06:22 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I recently decided to start reading the Qur'an.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Silversoul]
#7692015 - 11/28/07 06:42 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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The mansion on the Hill
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Madtowntripper
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7695280 - 11/29/07 03:26 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hyper_Panda_GO said:
Started The 2% Solution by...someone I forget who
Its for school, so I'll probably be switching around with Don Quixote
A little late for a reply, but I'm right in the middle of Don Quixote.
Hilarious.
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If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Cameron
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#7695885 - 11/29/07 05:40 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Endymion by Dan Simmons (third book in the four part Hyperion series). I'm halfway through and rapidly approaching the end. This entire series is one of those rare page turners that you can hardly put down; I'm completely immersed in it. Awesome stuff 
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Cameron]
#7696118 - 11/29/07 06:15 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Endymion by Dan Simmons (third book in the four part Hyperion series). I'm halfway through and rapidly approaching the end. This entire series is one of those rare page turners that you can hardly put down; I'm completely immersed in it. Awesome stuff
the greatest sci-fi book series in my opinion 
recently finished the fourth.
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Hyper_Panda_GO
Team Action!
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7696638 - 11/29/07 08:09 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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75 more pages of Don Quixote
I hate to say it, but I've resorted to speed readin
As well, I started Dugan Underground along with it
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Syle
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7696662 - 11/29/07 08:16 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I am in the middle of both The Island and The Fountainhead.
The Fountainhead is simply perfect. i couldn't ask for anything more from a book.
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Hyper_Panda_GO
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Syle]
#7696684 - 11/29/07 08:23 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I knew they existed, but that was the first pro-Rand opinion I've seen
I still need to read her
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