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Brugman
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I done read a book
#8173249 - 03/20/08 07:23 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 Michowel
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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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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Quote:
AtticusProphet said: 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) |
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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 ).
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) |
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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
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Re: I done read a book [Re: Noviseer]
#8195156 - 03/26/08 03:02 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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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