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  • shikitohno
    Member
    • Jul 2009
    • 1156

    #91
    Originally posted by PipenSnus View Post
    If you think Ulysses is incoherent, don't go anywhere near Finnegans Wake. The whole novel is one long dream sequence, entirely stream of consciousness, and loaded with multilingual puns.
    Well, I'll probably like it then. I enjoy Thomas Pynchon, so I'm pretty used to surreal and difficult to understand books, and I could read almost every section of Umberto Eco's The Name Of The Rose and understand them. If I remember correctly, that book was written in a mixture of mostly English, and a blend of Latin, French, Spanish, Italian and German. The only bits where the meaning really lost me there was certain German parts that I didn't get. As long as Joyce sticks to mostly Romance languages for the puns, I should enjoy it.

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    • sgreger1
      Member
      • Mar 2009
      • 9451

      #92
      Originally posted by skyline142 View Post
      Havent read a book in many many many years. But I decided to pick up 'DMT: The Spirit Molecule'. Very interesting so far.
      Holy shit, i was just hearing someone talk about that book today when discussing the ayuaski (sp?) drink they use as a halucinagenic in brazil.



      Im starting to read larry niven's "ringworld" series again. Awesome trilogy and i think a fourth book just came out.

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      • shikitohno
        Member
        • Jul 2009
        • 1156

        #93
        Ayahuasca, you mean, sgreger? Interesting stuff, but speaking from experience, it is the worst tasting thing I've ever drank intentionally. I liked the taste of shrooms, and even I thought this stuff tasted like ass. Intense trip though, if that's what you're looking for, and it's not all that difficult to get the necessary materials to make it in your home. If you happen to live next to a cop or DEA agent, I'd discourage making it in your house, though. You will have billowing purple, pungent smelling smoke coming out your windows for about two hours. Been meaning to read that book for a while.

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        • ratcheer
          Member
          • Jul 2010
          • 621

          #94
          I have just started Drood by Dan Simmons.

          Tim

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          • Big L
            Member
            • Aug 2009
            • 151

            #95
            Napalm and Silly Putty by George Carlin. It makes me laugh and rage at human stupidity he points out. Salt: a World History by Mark Kurlansky, more interesting than you would think. A couple Gundam 00 light novels in Japanese, because I'm a nerd.

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            • sgreger1
              Member
              • Mar 2009
              • 9451

              #96
              Originally posted by shikitohno View Post
              Ayahuasca, you mean, sgreger? Interesting stuff, but speaking from experience, it is the worst tasting thing I've ever drank intentionally. I liked the taste of shrooms, and even I thought this stuff tasted like ass. Intense trip though, if that's what you're looking for, and it's not all that difficult to get the necessary materials to make it in your home. If you happen to live next to a cop or DEA agent, I'd discourage making it in your house, though. You will have billowing purple, pungent smelling smoke coming out your windows for about two hours. Been meaning to read that book for a while.
              Yah thats the one! I have a hard enough time as it is spelling english words, so no chance of me spelling that one right. I used to like halucinagens but those days are way past me and im too afraid to do them again. Also, nothing tastes worse than shrooms man thats nasty.

              Which reminds me, i have another intiresting book ive been reading a page or two of the last month thats about the history of magic mushrooms and tries to postulate a theory that every religion may have its roots in the anicents taking halucinagens of some sort. Makes sense to me, would explain the spirit world, nature being alive and some of the other wierd concepts we see in early religion.


              I must go now because the earth-mother is watching!

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              • eyephantom
                Member
                • Jul 2009
                • 333

                #97
                The news

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                • bill77.017
                  Member
                  • Jul 2010
                  • 2279

                  #98
                  Metro 2033 by dmitry glukovsky.

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                  • LaZeR
                    Member
                    • Oct 2009
                    • 3994

                    #99
                    Playboy.

                    /thread

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                    • N0mad
                      Member
                      • Nov 2009
                      • 550

                      Originally posted by LaZeR View Post
                      Playboy.
                      /thread
                      I don't really care for the articles I just buy it for the pictures... There I said it! someone had to...

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                      • LaZeR
                        Member
                        • Oct 2009
                        • 3994

                        Originally posted by N0mad View Post
                        I don't really care for the articles I just buy it for the pictures... There I said it! someone had to...
                        I read the pictures to. I pretend I'm blind and practice my braille. *Wait* That's the other hand...

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                        • deadohsky
                          Member
                          • Nov 2009
                          • 625

                          Just finished The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger. Onto The Drawing of the Three.

                          From only reading the first book i have gotten really into it, it's amazing. I have come across two sites thanks to it:

                          www.thedarktower.com and www.librarything.com

                          Here is the majority of the books i currently own:

                          http://www.librarything.com/catalog/deadohsky

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                          • deadohsky
                            Member
                            • Nov 2009
                            • 625

                            I'm in a Stephen King mood right now. Just picked up Under The Dome. Not sure if i should put The Dark Tower on hold and read Under The Dome, or just both at the same time.... I'll probably read both. I have ADD with books, hard for me to read just one.

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                            • myuserid
                              Member
                              • Jun 2010
                              • 1645

                              Originally posted by deadohsky View Post
                              I'm in a Stephen King mood right now. Just picked up Under The Dome. Not sure if i should put The Dark Tower on hold and read Under The Dome, or just both at the same time.... I'll probably read both. I have ADD with books, hard for me to read just one.
                              I haven't read Under The Dome. Need to pick up the paperback sometime.

                              I've read the first four books of the Dark Tower series, and I love it.

                              Right now I'm reading Sleep No More by Greg Iles. He's probably my favorite author. If you've never read any of this books, I would highly suggest him to you.

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                              • Nvr2Stond
                                Banned Users
                                • Jun 2010
                                • 177

                                "The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison" "Wilderness"

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