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What books are you currently reading?
    #9730113 - 02/03/09 06:29 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I'm sure there's already a thread like this is other sections of the forums but the pub is the most active so I'm making one here.

What's everyone reading at the moment>?

Here are my three, visual reference :



Kilo Class by Patrick Robinson. Tom Clancy style books.

The Case For Mars by Robert Zubrin.

The changing face of Nuclear Warfare by Lauren Martin.

Gotta love Adderall for giving me the concentration, motivation and memory required to read 3 books at once every day.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: hpi]
    #9730120 - 02/03/09 06:30 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)



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    #9730124 - 02/03/09 06:30 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: dr_gonz]
    #9730133 - 02/03/09 06:33 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Illusions by Richard Bach


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #9730174 - 02/03/09 06:39 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

The Serial Universe by J. W. Dunne. It's an explanation of his space-time theory, that being that the universe exists as an infinite regress.

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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: JohnnyTruant]
    #9730197 - 02/03/09 06:43 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Marijuana Law by Richard Boire (should be required for any weed-smoker)

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (everyone should know)


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: publicenemy1]
    #9730238 - 02/03/09 06:51 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

do those have words in them like my computer screen?

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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: AgingHippy]
    #9730262 - 02/03/09 06:56 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

no, it just rainbows on every page... pretty fuckin sweet.  easiest "reading" ive ever done


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: publicenemy1]
    #9730270 - 02/03/09 06:57 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

i wanna read some hunter s. thompson before i die

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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: dr_gonz]
    #9730271 - 02/03/09 06:58 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I am reading A New Earth also. Pretty cool that a book basically about ego death is in Oprah's book club haha.

There is hope.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: hpi]
    #9730272 - 02/03/09 06:58 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)



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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: AgingHippy]
    #9730342 - 02/03/09 07:14 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

i've read Fear and Loathing which is phenomenal.

I'm also itching to read Thompson's Rum Diary, Hells Angels, and Kingdom of Fear.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: publicenemy1]
    #9730365 - 02/03/09 07:16 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

where the buffalo roam was a book as well as a movie right? good movie btw

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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Silversoul]
    #9730382 - 02/03/09 07:17 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

silversoul!

thank you so much! my co-worker showed me that book one day and I COMPLETELY forgot about it.

aWesome, now I can git it.

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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Kupo]
    #9730391 - 02/03/09 07:18 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I'm getting fear and loathing in a couple days, i'm excited to do a book report on that :awesome:


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: AgingHippy]
    #9730398 - 02/03/09 07:19 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

i'm not sure if it's an actual book or not but i know its based off a couple of his semi-autobiographical stories.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Kupo]
    #9730418 - 02/03/09 07:21 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Yeah, i also really enjoyed the power of now and a new earth.  Tolle knows exactly what he's doing and talking about.

I enjoyed Ram Dass' Be Here Now immensely even more so than Tolle's books.


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    #9730434 - 02/03/09 07:24 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: publicenemy1]
    #9730445 - 02/03/09 07:25 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

"A Brief History of Time"

its a good read. :yesnod:


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: dr_gonz]
    #9730447 - 02/03/09 07:25 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I'm getting DMT: The Spirit Molecule, from my chemistry teacher tomorrow :headbang:


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: hpi]
    #9730449 - 02/03/09 07:25 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)



only in chapter two so far though so im not too far along.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: JohnnyTruant]
    #9730452 - 02/03/09 07:25 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

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The Serial Universe by J. W. Dunne. It's an explanation of his space-time theory, that being that the universe exists as an infinite regress.




I'm gonna order that book;

I have a big collection of war books and everything war related and recently started a collection of space books and I wanna expand it.

teefizzle, fear and loathing is a sick book!


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: HappyTrippin]
    #9730460 - 02/03/09 07:26 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Really good read!!

I have it.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: hpi]
    #9730504 - 02/03/09 07:31 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

i really recommend the archaic revival to anyone who hasnt read it.

idk i thought it was interesting as fuck.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: hpi]
    #9730621 - 02/03/09 07:46 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

the red ripper- andrei chikatilo

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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: filthee]
    #9730658 - 02/03/09 07:52 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Moby-Dick for Literature class. 

Palestine and Arab-Israeli Conflict for Middle East Politics class.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #9730691 - 02/03/09 07:55 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

There's politics in the mid east? :lol:

Fucken sand ni***rs.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Salomon]
    #9730744 - 02/03/09 07:59 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: usefulidiot13]
    #9731000 - 02/03/09 08:14 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

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i really recommend the archaic revival to anyone who hasnt read it.

idk i thought it was interesting as fuck.




I have it, although I've never read it cover to cover.  I like to read it in snippets.  It would make good bathroom reading material actually.


Right now, I'm reading "Before the Beginning" by Martin Rees, and "Interior Castle" by St. Teresa of Avila.  I'm about to start "The Revolution" by Ron Paul as well.

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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: mofo]
    #9731049 - 02/03/09 08:22 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

yeah i read it cover to cover and now i just read certain chapters over again when i want.  ive read the whole thing at least twice.  great stuff.

i have a lot of psychedelic books and such.

i also recommend Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung.  very interesting book.  he was a bad ass.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: mofo]
    #9731051 - 02/03/09 08:22 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I'm about to start "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner for American Literature class.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: skydog]
    #9731218 - 02/03/09 08:36 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I am actually reading "Food of the Gods" by McKenna at the moment.

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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #9731221 - 02/03/09 08:36 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

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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.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: antiPock]
    #9731240 - 02/03/09 08:39 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

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I am actually reading "Food of the Gods" by McKenna at the moment.



how is that? :o


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: antiPock]
    #9731261 - 02/03/09 08:40 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

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I am actually reading "Food of the Gods" by McKenna at the moment.




ive read that one and own it, too.  its very good IMO.

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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: HappyTrippin]
    #9731297 - 02/03/09 08:44 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I am enjoying it, and it definitely is an interesting take on evolution and the emergence of awareness/consciousness and the possible role of plant hallucinogens in spurring development of the genome and/or culture over time.

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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: antiPock]
    #9731414 - 02/03/09 09:01 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

yeah i thought those were some bad ass ideas thrown around in that book about human evolution and plant hallucinogens.  i mean, its not for sure but it is possible in my opinion.

great book:thumbup::thumbup:


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: usefulidiot13]
    #9731421 - 02/03/09 09:02 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

This threads doing well :laugh:

Hope it continues...


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: hpi]
    #9731436 - 02/03/09 09:05 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

For the 10th time.



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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: hpi]
    #9731437 - 02/03/09 09:05 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I'll throw some random ones out there.
To kill a mockingbird.
Animal Farm.
Of mice and men
:strokebeard:
Pretty awesome reads.


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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)

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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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: fiddle]
    #9731464 - 02/03/09 09:10 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

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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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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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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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: deCypher]
    #9731739 - 02/03/09 09:55 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

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. :frown:

RIP Robert Jordan.


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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)

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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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #9733404 - 02/04/09 08:52 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

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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.  :smile:

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)

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)

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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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: 5150]
    #9743743 - 02/05/09 08:41 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Staying fat for sarah byrns.
Fucking good book


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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)

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. :smile2:

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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)

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.  :thumbup:


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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)

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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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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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Chief Broom]
    #9745928 - 02/05/09 10:01 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Chief Broom said:





I love that movie.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #9745964 - 02/05/09 10:01 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

theres a movie?


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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)

Read the top of the pic, corky.


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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #9746090 - 02/05/09 10:11 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

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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Re: What books are you currently reading? [Re: deCypher]
    #9746919 - 02/05/09 11:14 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

tortilla flat, one of my favorite books ever :thumbup:

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