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dmtryptamine
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod] 1
#6372597 - 12/15/06 12:45 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Alduous Huxley - Chrome Yellow
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Kerr
Who else would I be

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: dmtryptamine] 1
#6376680 - 12/16/06 12:51 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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dmtryptamine said: Alduous Huxley - Chrome Yellow
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fung_us_among_us


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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Kerr] 1
#6376725 - 12/16/06 01:03 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
damn it's good.
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muistrue
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Back From the Void by Zoe 7. All about his experiment's with smoking salvia divinorum at the peak of the ayahuasca journey. That's not all he is also using mind machines to stimulate his brain during these experiments. Combining Ayahuasca, Salvia, and the hemospheric mind machines has allowed him to discover a whole new level of reality never documented before that he calls Zenith 7. I highly reccomend this book to all psychonauts.
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unbeliever
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: muistrue] 1
#6379993 - 12/17/06 05:13 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Juggling a bunch of books now, not only DH Lawrence's The Lost Girl but also Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent as well as a couple technical books. Finished the Tank Girl collection at least, hah!
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navajo
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: unbeliever] 1
#6382338 - 12/18/06 07:12 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Friedman's "Capitalism and Freedom."
I just purchased last night "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (for a re-read) and "The Sirens of Titans" by Kurt Vonnegut.
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OneMoreRobot3021


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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: navajo] 1
#6382758 - 12/18/06 10:57 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, and MOKSHA by Aldous Huxley.
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TrippinNinjaBuddha
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: unbeliever] 1
#6383327 - 12/18/06 02:03 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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The winter of our discontent is amazing.
Any aldous huxley, also top shelf. I loves me some Island.
I'm about to start Down and Out in Paris and London.
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feelings
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A Star called Henry by Roddy Doyle.
About an abandoned Irish boy growing up in the Dublin slums. And is a rebel soldier basically his whole life.
Pretty Good.
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TwiztdPsychonaut
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: feelings] 1
#6384924 - 12/18/06 11:01 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thieves in High Places by Jim Hightower
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zappaisgod
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OneMoreRobot3021 said: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, and MOKSHA by Aldous Huxley.
I didn't know Eugenides wrote that. I recently read Middlesex and thought it was very good. I would recommend it to any serious reader.
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Penguarky Tunguin
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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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OneMoreRobot3021


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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod] 1
#6387930 - 12/19/06 08:00 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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OneMoreRobot3021 said: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, and MOKSHA by Aldous Huxley.
I didn't know Eugenides wrote that. I recently read Middlesex and thought it was very good. I would recommend it to any serious reader.
Everyone I know who has read both prefers Middlesex so I'm very excited to read it.
-------------------- 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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Krishna
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read yourself some Island by Huxley if you haven't already...
currently i'm reading "fierce invalids home from hot climates" by tom robbins
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Penguarky Tunguin
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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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OneMoreRobot3021


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I've read every Tom Robbins book, which kind of sucks, considering he's in my top 5 as well and I've got nothing left to discover. He's fairly old, too, who knows how many he has left in him..
-------------------- 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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idiotek


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Just got finished with "Stranger In A Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein, and I'm reading "Snow Crash" by Neal Stepehenson right now. It's awesome so far, but I'm only about 100 pages deep.
The Heinlein book was pretty far out but I thoroughly enjoyed it, especially in the last 5 pages or so..
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Krishna
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it's one of my least favourite books of his, although still typical robbins and entertaining enough.
read everything by him except this one, which i believe is his newest
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Penguarky Tunguin
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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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OneMoreRobot3021


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There's one book newer than Fierce Invalids - Villa Incognito, which actually has a character in common with Fierce Invalids.
-------------------- 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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