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I done read a book
    #8173249 - 03/20/08 07:23 PM (16 years, 2 days ago)

It had probably been like 6 months since I last read a book, heh. I finished Alduous Huxley's "Brave New World" earlier today.. not sure why I hadn't read it earlier. I read "Island" before BNW.

Anyone else read it, what did you think?

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Re: I done read a book [Re: Brugman]
    #8173339 - 03/20/08 07:43 PM (16 years, 2 days ago)

Cool book... took a little while for it to get started but the ending is wiiild. I thought island was more interesting since it seemed more associated with me. It also seemed to be more normative than simply descriptive of the future. The only problem with Island is when one brings it up in conversation, people invariably respond: the movie?! Kind of annoying...


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Re: I done read a book [Re: Brugman]
    #8193655 - 03/25/08 08:54 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

good here r some more to read


On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson
Slaughter House by Kurt Vonnegut
Junkie by William S. Burroughs
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley


Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1968
Strangely B. Stranger:

Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
(My license plate reads "Dr Nut"!)

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck
Leah:
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg - Carolyn Cassady
The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov (Paul Schmidt trans.)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
Leaving Las Vegas, John O'Brien

The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maughham
Cosmos, Carl Sagan
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway

Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Scratching the Beat Surface by Michael McClure


Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Informers by Bret Easton-Ellis
Books Of Blood vol. 1-3 by Clive Barker
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (tie)


Little, Big by John Crowley
The best American magic-realist novel ever
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany


Deceptive simplicity
Texasville by Larry McMurtry
Pure pleasure; the most fun I've ever had reading a book
All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews

Last Resort by Scott Sommer
A 25 year old loser goes home to his family's decaying seaside house; fun and true
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison
Would be perfect book with the addition of The Deathbird and a few other Ellison classics
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Richard:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Apocalypse by D.H. Lawrence
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Ask the Dust by John Fante
Road to Los Angeles by John Fante
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Sense of Beauty by George Santayana
Ulysses by James Joyce
Christina C:

Ahhhh Ti Jean...in my eyes you're best
Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Zany and great
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran


Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

The First Third by Neal Cassady
Oh the man behind the curtain....how interesting
Kerouac: A Biography by Ann Charters

Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady

SMUT (aka Trashy Romances) by certain authors
Always have to have a no brainer here and there
The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw
Living in Downeast Maine...Fishing is a part of life
Little:
Complete Fiction by Bruno Schulz

Cages by Dave McKean
The safety of illusions, the golden cage of lost hopes. McKean is the Stanley Kubrick of his medium.
Dr.Sax by Jack Kerouac
Kerouac´s highest high.
Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse

Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
) The Nature of Time by G.J. Whitrow

El Aleph by Jorge Louis Borges
"I can´t see Borges anywhere!" (Donald Cammell)
Dreams and Dead Ends by Jack Shadoian
The American Gangster/Crime genre from Shadoian´s POV: Poetic, essential, passionate.
London Fields by Martin Amis

Panegyric by Guy Debord
The society of the spectacle couldn't make it here!
Hammond Guthrie:
The I-Ching (original translation)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (original translation)
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller
The Rosy Crucifixion = Sexus, Plexus and Nexus by Henry Miller
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Ulysses/Finnegans Wake (as a 2 Vol. entry) by James Joyce
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot
The Elements of Style by Richard Strunk
Jean-Marie S.:
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
Ask the Dust by John Fante
Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll

Ninety-two in the Shade by Thomas Mc Guane
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Michael:
The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin
Film As A Subversive Art by Amos Vogel
Franz Kafka by Max Brod
The Air Conditioned Nighmare by Henry Miller
Demian by Herman Hesse
Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin


Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

All My Friends Are Going To be Strangers by Larry McMurtry



Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingwaay
Ask The Dust by John Fante
Sixty-Seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
White Trash
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
It Catches My Heart In Its Hands by Charles Bukowski


Tristessa by Jack Kerouac

Junky by William S. Burroughs
More Junk...Junk Sick..Junk....
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
& yes, by the sweat of your brow....
Down & Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow
take a rapid ride on the jazz train to.....

Be a writer...The Gamble for a Lifetime...
-10. (Let's Break The Rules) (Books by some new ones....)
Rope Burns by F.X. Toole...Get this book.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich...Get this book.
Doghouse Flowers by Steve Earle

A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick.
Using his own drug experience in the 60s. Dick builds a sci-fi novel that will capture you from the begining.
London Fields by Martin Amis.
Amis goes deeper than what Wolfe and Ellis went in Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho.
The Psychedelic Prayers by Tim Leary.

Burning Chrome by William Gibson.

Bobok by Dostoevsky.
Dark tale about a drunk and the voice that he hears in the cemetery.
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami.


Jim Camp:
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller

Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller
The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet

Journey To The End Of The Night by Celine
Death On The Installment Plan by Celine
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.



Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Journey to the End of the Night by Celine

The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham


Allison M.:
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Maggie Cassady by Jack Kerouac
Demian by Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse




Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Beach by Alex Garland


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Re: I done read a book [Re: 5150]
    #8193759 - 03/25/08 09:14 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I'm reading The Terror by Dan Simmons, its fucking awesome.


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Re: I done read a book [Re: g00ru]
    #8193784 - 03/25/08 09:20 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Great long list 5150 Ive been meaning to read a couple off of their especially The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Rum Diaries.


Heres a link to The Doors of Perception if you guys are interested.


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Re: I done read a book [Re: Razor3lade]
    #8194252 - 03/25/08 10:30 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

ive got "the doors of perception" by huxley, only got a few pages into it. havent went any further. i have shitty reading habits... i never do anything but i have all these books i want to read but only get a little way through then give up.... i need to change that.


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Re: I done read a book [Re: PilzeEssen]
    #8194288 - 03/25/08 10:37 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

a clockwork orange is a book?

read fight club and shantaram


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Re: I done read a book [Re: Brugman]
    #8194314 - 03/25/08 10:43 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

It's good. A classic, but sometimes hard to take read. I hav eread it thre times now and each time, I have experienced a different final set of feelings.


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Re: I done read a book [Re: AtticusProphet]
    #8194317 - 03/25/08 10:45 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

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a clockwork orange is a book?



OMG

The writing style in this book is like gutter british. Soooo hard to initially read, but once you get the lingo, it's a fucking GREAT book!


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Re: I done read a book [Re: Brugman]
    #8194947 - 03/26/08 01:34 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

Brugman said:
It had probably been like 6 months since I last read a book, heh. I finished Alduous Huxley's "Brave New World" earlier today.. not sure why I hadn't read it earlier. I read "Island" before BNW.

Anyone else read it, what did you think?




Cool, I'm actually planning on finishing BNW tomorrow morning! I'm at the part where Linda's just died in her soma-coma, John's attacked Lenina, and Bernard's basically done for as he's lost his momentary prestige and is being shipped off to Iceland(?). So far, I think it's a great book. This is the first of Huxley's books I've read and I'm really enjoying his style - I find it very easy to picture the scenes in my head through his fluid use of old English (plus it's fun to learn wacky new words to throw around :tongue:).

I'm not quite sure what to make of the story line so far, and how it applies to our society and where we're headed. I think I'll have to learn a little more about Britain in the 1930's so I know what kind of perspective Huxley was writing from before I can fully understand the points he was trying to get across. It's a frightening story, though, and it seems so plausible. I can imagine our society evolving to that extent some day, as we seem to be headed away from individualism with the introduction of the mass media, pop culture, technological advances (the internet - soon to link the majority of the developed world), etc. What's even more amazing is the fact that Huxley himself foresaw these kinds of changes in great detail over seventy year ago! Before television, even, he had realized a world of great complexity that isn't so far from what we live today...

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Re: I done read a book [Re: 5150]
    #8194964 - 03/26/08 01:41 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

we have similar tastes--many of my all-time favorites are on your list (On the Road, Dharma Bums, Rum Diaries, Electric Kool-aid, Siddhartha).  You must be or must have been an english major, yea?  The choices seem pretty... curricular.  Can't beat having old wise asses tell you what to read though.  And they know where all the good books are :thumbup:


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Re: I done read a book [Re: Noviseer]
    #8195156 - 03/26/08 03:02 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I like his writing style and idea's but the book i somehow found lacking in some way, great concept but couldn't keep my attention.


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Re: I done read a book [Re: Felinor]
    #8195338 - 03/26/08 05:16 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

love BNW excellent read.
Catch 22 is a classic.
obviously most Hunter S. is excellent as well as
Jack Kerouac.


sci-fi guys will like anything by Cordwainer Smith and 'The stars my destination' by Alfred bester.

i also quite like a bit of Voltaire, and Richard dawkins is always nice.

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Re: I done read a book [Re: Noviseer]
    #8196194 - 03/26/08 11:44 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

no just someone who takes alot of time off, although that wouldnt be to bad a major,some of them i havent read, but i,d say 85% of them i have read,reading definetly helps cultivate a calm mindset able to deal with adversity, some pyschiatrist,s actually recommend books especially the old russian authors to their patients


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