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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Lion]
    #7330355 - 08/24/07 04:06 PM (16 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

bug said:
So it's boring as shit, totally nonsensical, bourgeois fluff




Hell no.

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a linguistic portal to higher dimensions?




It could be.

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Is it worth it?




Absolutely.

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: it stars saddam]
    #7330367 - 08/24/07 04:08 PM (16 years, 7 months ago)

Right on! :cool:


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“Strengthened by contemplation and study,
I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: it stars saddam]
    #7330492 - 08/24/07 04:55 PM (16 years, 7 months ago)

Ive gotten a bit farther into it now, and its definitely a challenging read. I basically have to have dictionary.com and to a lesser extent wikipedia open while reading this book

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: TheCow]
    #7330511 - 08/24/07 05:01 PM (16 years, 7 months ago)

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TheCow said:
Ive gotten a bit farther into it now, and its definitely a challenging read. I basically have to have dictionary.com and to a lesser extent wikipedia open while reading this book




This method of reading it takes away from the magic. Just ride it out and don't feel obligated to have an explanation for every last detail.

Edited by it stars saddam (08/28/07 04:43 PM)

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: it stars saddam]
    #7331989 - 08/25/07 03:47 AM (16 years, 7 months ago)

Hm, I guess Im totally the opposite. If theres a word in the English language I do not know that Joyce uses, I find it useful to look it up. After all it is part of my language and I realistically should know it. The wikipedia stuff I have to use less, but for stuff like 'Agenbite of inwit' that he uses a few times Id like to know what it means.
Finnegans Wake is an impossible read, but have fun with it.
Check out A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man if you want more Joyce, that is a quite excellent book

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: TheCow]
    #7345390 - 08/28/07 04:44 PM (16 years, 7 months ago)

This book is going to be a long haul for you man.

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
    #7347154 - 08/29/07 03:44 AM (16 years, 7 months ago)

Breaking Open the Head..

About psychedelics, their use around the world, experience, and the importance of the knowledge they gift to humanity.

I hope to be picking up 2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl (SP?) by the same author, Daniel Pinchbeck. And also hope to be getting The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley.

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: it stars saddam]
    #7347162 - 08/29/07 03:54 AM (16 years, 7 months ago)

Im on page 160 right now, but I haven't been reading it that frequently. I figure Ill be done in a few weeks as over the weekends I usually step the reading up. If you get stumped about what hes talking about at any point though check this website out
http://www.columbia.edu/~fms5/ulys.htm
It has the full text plus annotations for all but like 3 of the chapters

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: TheCow]
    #7348345 - 08/29/07 12:36 PM (16 years, 6 months ago)

porn blogs


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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: TheCow]
    #7348884 - 08/29/07 03:28 PM (16 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

TheCow said:
Im on page 160 right now, but I haven't been reading it that frequently. I figure Ill be done in a few weeks as over the weekends I usually step the reading up. If you get stumped about what hes talking about at any point though check this website out
http://www.columbia.edu/~fms5/ulys.htm
It has the full text plus annotations for all but like 3 of the chapters




160? Damn, you're movin' right along. I'm only 200 pages in and I've been reading it all summer. Nice work man, and thanks for the link.

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: it stars saddam]
    #7348930 - 08/29/07 03:46 PM (16 years, 6 months ago)

I had trouble with the first three chapters. The main character Daedalus was a literary man, so his monologues in his head were all really complex with references to shit Ive never heard of. However Leopold Bloom is more your average man, so Ive actually been really enjoying the book now as I can understand most of whats referenced.

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: TheCow]
    #7351646 - 08/30/07 11:43 AM (16 years, 6 months ago)

I'll be picking up Jurassic Park soon.  I heard it is amazing, as well as The Lost World.  Then I might read Billy and the Cloneasaurus. :wink:


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ca'rouse (k-rouz)
intr.v.
To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: TODAY]
    #7351654 - 08/30/07 11:44 AM (16 years, 6 months ago)

It's on of my favorite books I've ever read. Both of them.


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Shroomery Composition Contest

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Toddo]
    #7351716 - 08/30/07 11:55 AM (16 years, 6 months ago)

Just finished The Subtle Knife, now on to The Amber Spyglass to finish off the trilogy.


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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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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #7351772 - 08/30/07 12:08 PM (16 years, 6 months ago)

nice.  i think the first or the second was my favorite.  i :heart: iorek byrnison

Toddo, i'm very much looking forward to the two JP novels.  Now i'm extra excited :smile:


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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: TODAY]
    #7351916 - 08/30/07 12:42 PM (16 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

TODAY said:
I'll be picking up Jurassic Park soon.  I heard it is amazing, as well as The Lost World.  Then I might read Billy and the Cloneasaurus. :wink:


Man, do we have similar literary tastes.  Jurassic Park and The Lost World are both great, easy reads.  I actually enjoyed the latter more but it's been a long time since I've read them.  I've read all of Crichton's stuff and it doesn't get any better than those two.


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“Strengthened by contemplation and study,
I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Lion]
    #7351985 - 08/30/07 01:05 PM (16 years, 6 months ago)

After Ulysses I have these 3 books I ordered. Big Sur by Kerouac, Spring Snow By Mishima, and Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Lion]
    #7352151 - 08/30/07 01:53 PM (16 years, 6 months ago)

I was going to wait a week or so before getting another book but it seems more and more likely that my feet will carry me to the library this afternoon :smile:  I'm sure I'll love it, my friend who always recommends me the best books really loved these two and also thought The Lost World was better.


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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: TODAY]
    #7353802 - 08/30/07 09:21 PM (16 years, 6 months ago)

Wicca a guide for the solitary practitioner by scott cunningham.

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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Jive turkey]
    #7354748 - 08/31/07 02:57 AM (16 years, 6 months ago)

catch 22

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