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zappaisgod
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Dhalgren is flat out no bullshit one of the greatest books I have ever read
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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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zappaisgod
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"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
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO] 1
#6345373 - 12/07/06 06:21 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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william gibson's neuromancer.
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Penguarky Tunguin
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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: Hyper_Panda_GO] 1
#6347709 - 12/08/06 11:07 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ivi] 1
#6347795 - 12/08/06 11:36 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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In Search Of The Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky   
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO] 1
#6354199 - 12/10/06 02:00 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Just finished Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) and Mort (Pratchett). And now, heh, I'm reading a tank girl comic collection.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO] 1
#6354257 - 12/10/06 02:25 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for the millionth time... Somehow it never gets old
Hocus Pocus -Vonnegut. So far not my favorite of his, but still a good read
and The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton. I've been through this one more than once, but not for over a year so it's almost like new.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: younikrawn] 1
#6355822 - 12/10/06 09:08 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hamlet- Shakespeare bored me
Tuesdays with Morrie- Not as horrible as I imagined, but still pretty bland.
Now to get back to In Cold Blood...
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: younikrawn] 1
#6356143 - 12/10/06 10:41 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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younikrawn said: Hocus Pocus -Vonnegut. So far not my favorite of his, but still a good read
Was about to grab that off my shelf for a re-read but saw my TG collection. Maybe I'll nab the Vonnegut next. Or maybe Still Life With Woodpecker if I've unpacked that box of books yet.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: unbeliever] 1
#6356197 - 12/10/06 10:54 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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GEB (Goedel, Esher, Bach) - Douglas Hofstaedter
Angel Tech, A Modern Shaman's Guide To Reality Selection - Antero Alli
The Mayan Oracle: Return Path to the Stars - Ariel Spilsbury (on its way)
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: wilshire] 1
#6356210 - 12/10/06 10:58 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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wilshire said: william gibson's neuromancer.

just got this classic recently, haven't begun to read it yet though.
how do you like it?
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO] 1
#6356217 - 12/10/06 10:59 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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George Orwell 1984
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: unbeliever] 1
#6363897 - 12/12/06 09:25 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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younikrawn said: Hocus Pocus -Vonnegut. So far not my favorite of his, but still a good read
Was about to grab that off my shelf for a re-read but saw my TG collection. Maybe I'll nab the Vonnegut next. Or maybe Still Life With Woodpecker if I've unpacked that box of books yet.
I saw that at the library today, I opted for Slaughterhouse Five, havent really gotten into yet though, but I do love Vonneguts work.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Kerr] 1
#6366438 - 12/13/06 03:06 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Against The Day" Thomas Pynchon
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Kerr] 1
#6366952 - 12/13/06 05:21 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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younikrawn said: Hocus Pocus -Vonnegut. So far not my favorite of his, but still a good read
Was about to grab that off my shelf for a re-read but saw my TG collection. Maybe I'll nab the Vonnegut next. Or maybe Still Life With Woodpecker if I've unpacked that box of books yet.
I saw that at the library today, I opted for Slaughterhouse Five, havent really gotten into yet though, but I do love Vonneguts work.
Yeah I wound up by-passing that shelf entirely and I'm now reading DH Lawrence's The Lost Girl
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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: Hyper_Panda_GO] 1
#6368147 - 12/13/06 09:51 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed, And What We Can Do About It by Judge James P. Gray
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zappaisgod
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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.
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