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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: hpi]
#9731443 - 02/03/09 09:06 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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A Brief History of Time and DMT: The Spirit Molecule
Really enjoying them. Our minds and the universe are both unbelievably complex.
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usefulidiot13
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: fiddle]
#9731464 - 02/03/09 09:10 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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i have DMT: The Spirit Molecule.
i really enjoyed what the participants of the study had to say about the effects of DMT. i thought it was good, but not as good as TM or Carl Jung.
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deCypher
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Kada]
#9731715 - 02/03/09 09:51 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Kada said: For the 10th time.
Fuck yes! I love Robert Jordan.
Never got around to reading the last one of the series though; it always took him so long to release the next one that I had forgotten all 1,502 characters in the meantime.
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Kada
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: deCypher]
#9731739 - 02/03/09 09:55 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Robert Jordan died before he could write the 12th and final book. Brandon Sanderson is going to write it, and i guess he has all of Robert Jordans notes to finish it like it should be. I don't like any of Brandon Sanderson books, so im a bit dissapointed.
RIP Robert Jordan.
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deCypher
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Kada]
#9731808 - 02/03/09 10:06 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah, I haven't read any Sanderson but no-one can possibly live up to Jordan's magnificently complex writing style. Such an enthralling author.
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
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Penguarky Tunguin said: Moby-Dick for Literature class.
Palestine and Arab-Israeli Conflict for Middle East Politics class.
Would you mind posting your reading list for the latter? That'd be awesome.
What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam
Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents
This last book is really great. LOTS of detailed information and seems to be downright neutral so far. But we haven't got to 1948 yet.
The teacher only assigns two books because he's sends us about 5 articles a day to read, mostly links. I have a paper due on the recent Israeli- Palestinian conflict in less than week.
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: hpi]
#9733437 - 02/04/09 09:03 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Terence McKenna - Food of the Gods.
Saying that I've only read the first bit of the prologue so far, I've been busy 'studying' for exams. I'm hoping to actually sit down and read some more of it later, but I probably should revise.
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: hpi]
#9743602 - 02/05/09 08:39 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac
are you experienced by William Sutcliffe
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Catfish and Mandala
The Sacred Willow
The Girl in the Picture
Vietnam in the Absence of War
Laos
Mai Pen Rai
Off the Rails in Phnom Penh
private dancer
The Scribe by David Young.
is The Lotus Kingdom by Alastair Shearer
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson Slaughter House by Kurt Vonnegut Junkie by William S. Burroughs Michowel Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca edited by Ralph Metzner Cant Find My Way Home: America In the Great Stoned Age You Must Set Forth At Dawn by Wole Soyinka Ketamine: Dreams and Realities Blackfoot physics: a journey into the native american universe by f. david peat The Road - Cormac McCarthy Breaking Open the Head. Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake Wizard of the Upper Amazon: The Story of Manuel Cordova-Rios Back From the Void by Zoe 7.
A Star called Henry by Roddy Doyle. fierce invalids home from hot climates" by tom robbins
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
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 All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews
Last Resort by Scott Sommer
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
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.
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.
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
Working on the Edge: Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing
on Alaska's HighSeas by Spike Walker
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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HappyTrippin
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: 5150]
#9743743 - 02/05/09 08:41 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Staying fat for sarah byrns. Fucking good book
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Cameron
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: HappyTrippin]
#9744916 - 02/05/09 09:35 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. I'm two hundred pages in, and it's starting to pick up after a slow start.
This is my first novel by Steinbeck, and I've got mixed feelings about his writing style: often-times, he'll just throw all subject-verb rules out the window for an entire chapter. It's a very abstract approach -- a bit tough to get used to.
I'm also reading a psychology textbook for an introductory course. So far, it's been much more interesting than any novel -- lots of titillating tidbits.
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deCypher
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Cameron]
#9744933 - 02/05/09 09:37 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Steinbeck is an absolutely phenomenal writer. I haven't read The Grapes of Wrath yet, but Of Mice and Men is a classic and Tortilla Flat will make you want to drink jugs of wine all day and converse with like-minded intelligent bums.
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Doodle
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: deCypher]
#9745325 - 02/05/09 09:51 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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read darma punk its a good read, also the bluegrass conspiracy, and any of hunter s thompson book like the great shark hunt or redrum. Right now though im reading heat by james patterson, i know its now most here's preference but i like james patterson's books. Quick reads but they kill a little bit of time nice.
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Chief Broom
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Doodle]
#9745469 - 02/05/09 09:53 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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-------------------- "We took enough speed to keep Hitler awake in the bunker for 50 days and enough acid to make him think he was in the Austrian Alps." - Hunter S. Thompson
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Chief Broom]
#9745928 - 02/05/09 10:01 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Chief Broom said:
I love that movie.
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Chief Broom
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theres a movie?
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Chief Broom]
#9746081 - 02/05/09 10:09 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Read the top of the pic, corky.
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Chief Broom
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haha I didnt see that, I just pulled a random pic of the book form google! Im gonna have to go find that film now!
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mofo
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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: deCypher]
#9746919 - 02/05/09 11:14 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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tortilla flat, one of my favorite books ever
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