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I am reading Snow Crash which has really got me back into reading its one of the apacolyptics future books where everythign has just gone to shit. Along with that im reading some daily zen and tao meditiations. so whats in your head?
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I'm reading Hookah Forum. DUR!

Really though, I haven't read an actual novel in years. I should find something. Anyone have any suggestions?
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As previously posted in another thread I'm currently reading Victory of Eagles, the 5th book in the Napoleonic wars with dragon aerial corps historical fiction "Temeraire " series. Also I'm reading the 6th Stephen King Dark Tower novel, "Song Of Susannah". And Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

I heart reading.
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just finished reading rules of attraction by brett easton ellis
currently reading the island from aldous huxley. Since I'm reading the english version (I'm dutch) and huxley sometimes uses a quite difficult vocabulary, I'm advancing a bit slower than usual, but I'll get there sleep.gif
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QUOTE (NUBBS @ Aug 16 2008, 02:24 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ender's Shadow by Orsen Scott Card
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
AND lots of other comic books.



YES!!! Another comic geek on the forum. Nubbs you rule!!! Favorite comics/graphic novels/one shots?
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What is dis bokk?? NO REED!!! Right now I'm working on Stephen Kings The Gunslinger which is book one of his Dark Tower Series.
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QUOTE (Big Boss @ Aug 16 2008, 06:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What is dis bokk?? NO REED!!! Right now I'm working on Stephen Kings The Gunslinger which is book one of his Dark Tower Series.



Boss, you are doomed....every book gets better....settle in it's gunna be a long one pardner. I'm on book 6 right now and Thor is on book 7. On par with LOTR as a personal reading experience and possibly in the realm of great literary works IMO. Screw that, better than LOTR cause Stephen King may be wordy but this 7 book series warrants every one, and shit if it took me 3 tries to get past the beginning of the Hobbit (much love Tolkien).
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Once my class ends on Tuesday, I'm going camping for 5 days during which time I'll be reading Crime by Irvine Welsh, The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis (rereading before the film comes out), Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk and The Baby Jesus Butt Plug by Carlton Mellick III.

Stuie: Lullaby is incredible.

Pilgrim: It's well worth the slow advancement. Huxley is a personal hero of mine, and while I like his earlier works better, when he was more cynical and not yet obsessed with psychedelics, Island is still one of the best pieces out there.

Big Boss/gnr: The Dark Tower novels constitute an excellent story, one of my favourites actually; I've read through them 7 times, first picked up the Gunslinger when I was 11 which was the first 'real' book I ever read for pleasure.

But I wouldn't call them literary masterpieces, or even achievements- it's a very, very good story, but not particularly well written or personally enriching. I think King is a lot like Sheemie... he's got an incredible gift, he just doesn't have the basic tools necessary to bring it to full potential.

He's certainly no where even remotely close to the levels of KV Jr., his perhaps most celebrated contemporary or Tolkien, his professed inspiration for DT, but still his works are extremely enjoyable and entertaining to read. Edited by gaia.plateau
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QUOTE (giant ninja robot @ Aug 15 2008, 08:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
As previously posted in another thread I'm currently reading Victory of Eagles, the 5th book in the Napoleonic wars with dragon aerial corps historical fiction "Temeraire " series. Also I'm reading the 6th Stephen King Dark Tower novel, "Song Of Susannah". And Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

I heart reading.



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QUOTE (Big Boss @ Aug 16 2008, 06:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What is dis bokk?? NO REED!!! Right now I'm working on Stephen Kings The Gunslinger which is book one of his Dark Tower Series.



Boss, you are doomed....every book gets better....settle in it's gunna be a long one pardner. I'm on book 6 right now and Thor is on book 7. On par with LOTR as a personal reading experience and possibly in the realm of great literary works IMO. Screw that, better than LOTR cause Stephen King may be wordy but this 7 book series warrants every one, and shit if it took me 3 tries to get past the beginning of the Hobbit (much love Tolkien).



I only got to book 3, I prolly should pick it up and work on finishing that series next since I just finished reading tom clancy's rainbow six. Which was pretty damn good.


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I just finished reading "my sister's keeper" and now Im starting to read a book by a Brazilian author called "the two deaths of quincas water yell."

Soon after will be something by dave Sedaris.
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It seems that most who've replied are into fiction. Anyone reading non-fiction stuff now?

I just finished Real Food, one of the two I had been reading. I'll probably return to a few of the readers I have been trying to finish next. I will cozy up to either the Michael Eric Dyson Reader or the Alasdair MacIntyre Reader.

The last work of fiction I read...was...if I recall correctly, Post Office by Charles Bukowski, which was an awesome read if you're into dirty-old-man literature.
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QUOTE (giant ninja robot @ Aug 16 2008, 07:28 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (NUBBS @ Aug 16 2008, 02:24 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ender's Shadow by Orsen Scott Card
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
AND lots of other comic books.



YES!!! Another comic geek on the forum. Nubbs you rule!!! Favorite comics/graphic novels/one shots?


First of all, I know. Im an artist so I love all of Alex Ross' work. Batman: death and the city, Kingdom Come, Robin: Teenage Wasteland, Civil War series, 52 series, Marvels Marvels, Marvels Zombies[2 SUCKED], The Hood, War of the Dead, The Walking Dead.

QUOTE (Turkish @ Aug 16 2008, 11:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks.

Good stuff. I recommend.


Awesome, funny, and educational read!
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Been looking for this book for awhile, and just found it at my schools library.

Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age by Martin Torgoff

It's tells the history of illicit drug use in america from 1945-2000, covering jazz, bebop, the 60s counterculture, and many others. He twines his own personal experience with what was happening at the time.. I'm only in the first chapter, but i can tell this is gonna be a good read.
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