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Re: books to read
« Reply #390 on: March 08, 2010, 06:47:53 PM »
it seems like all i ever do anymore is read so ill get around to reading everything is illuminated eventually.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #391 on: March 08, 2010, 10:04:23 PM »
maybe im not sophisticated or maybe i gave up too early on, but as i read into everything is illuminated i found it so hard to follow and so uninteresting i just put it away...
anyway currently hocus pocus

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Re: books to read
« Reply #392 on: March 09, 2010, 02:03:06 PM »
loved hocus pocus. i read this last:

i wouldn't suggest reading it. it's too much of a timely novel and there are better books that deal with an assault on materialism
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Re: books to read
« Reply #393 on: March 10, 2010, 05:11:55 AM »
maybe im not sophisticated or maybe i gave up too early on, but as i read into everything is illuminated i found it so hard to follow and so uninteresting i just put it away...
anyway currently hocus pocus
it is kinda hard to read, definitely a book you have to read a few times to grasp whats going on. I really like Foer's work tho. on a side note as im reading "eating animals" i get a call from the local grocery store about the steak taquitos i just ate have been recalled because they may contain e coli... fucking great!!!
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Re: books to read
« Reply #394 on: March 17, 2010, 09:00:42 AM »
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a good read

Jonathan Sanfran Foer amazing


here a youtube link for anybody that hasnt seen the movie
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« Reply #395 on: March 17, 2010, 02:52:28 PM »
finished catch 22 last night, what a great fucking book. wasn't too stoked on the first 50-100 pages, feeling that it was getting redundant, but once i got past the hump... damn, it was good. that book tells the story of all humanity.

immediately following the conclusion of 22, i tore through WS Burroughs Queer, which wasn't really a great read, but i was through in less than 2 hours.

Post Office by Bukowski is a good read.

I also finally finished the Lord of the Rings books last week and i was kind of sad to see them go, i enjoyed company from middle earth quite a bit...

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Re: books to read
« Reply #396 on: March 17, 2010, 03:27:08 PM »
finished catch 22 last night, what a great fucking book. wasn't too stoked on the first 50-100 pages, feeling that it was getting redundant, but once i got past the hump... damn, it was good. that book tells the story of all humanity.

immediately following the conclusion of 22, i tore through WS Burroughs Queer, which wasn't really a great read, but i was through in less than 2 hours.

Post Office by Bukowski is a good read.

I also finally finished the Lord of the Rings books last week and i was kind of sad to see them go, i enjoyed company from middle earth quite a bit...

I'm going to start reading that, a coworker has it and I asked him if I could borrow it, I've only heard good things about it.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #397 on: March 17, 2010, 08:49:27 PM »
Im reading The Tao of the Wu written by the RZA right now so far its an excellent book definitely recommended to any Wu fan

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Re: books to read
« Reply #398 on: March 18, 2010, 09:30:12 AM »


It's about this guy.
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He's got his 8-track playin' really fuckin' loud

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Re: books to read
« Reply #399 on: March 18, 2010, 05:56:57 PM »


Read this in one sitting. Good stuff.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #400 on: March 18, 2010, 08:12:07 PM »

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Re: books to read
« Reply #401 on: March 18, 2010, 09:33:06 PM »
a biography of albert camus, i am absolutely in love with this man.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #402 on: March 18, 2010, 09:42:46 PM »


It's about this guy.

I know it's a bit "steretypical arrogant north american" to scoff at the ineffectual justice systems of European countries but holy shit, did they ever fuck up with that guy.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #403 on: March 19, 2010, 03:22:45 AM »
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maybe im not sophisticated or maybe i gave up too early on, but as i read into everything is illuminated i found it so hard to follow and so uninteresting i just put it away...
anyway currently hocus pocus
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it is kinda hard to read, definitely a book you have to read a few times to grasp whats going on. I really like Foer's work tho. on a side note as im reading "eating animals" i get a call from the local grocery store about the steak taquitos i just ate have been recalled because they may contain e coli... fucking great!!!

Yeah, I gave up on it as well. It just felt so uninteresting, and I had something else I wanted to read more. Might pick it up again sometime.

This is my next read, I've been eagerly awaiting to get to it:

take what small comfort there may be left
seize what you love and damn all the rest

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Re: books to read
« Reply #404 on: March 21, 2010, 09:52:04 AM »
Just finished reading Blood Meridian, so fucked:

"one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand
and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and
bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew..."
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Re: books to read
« Reply #405 on: March 21, 2010, 06:57:13 PM »
^haha damn, The mental picture I got from that was FUCKED.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #406 on: March 23, 2010, 06:19:20 PM »


i liked it
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Re: books to read
« Reply #407 on: March 23, 2010, 06:31:00 PM »
^haha damn, The mental picture I got from that was FUCKED.
Thing is, that's not even the worst of it. Those infants got away with their scalps it sounds like.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #408 on: March 23, 2010, 06:32:59 PM »


Reading this right now. Pretty funny so far. It has come highly recommended but some really funny people I know.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #409 on: March 24, 2010, 02:31:50 PM »




i tried to read this but the english slang got the best of me

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Re: books to read
« Reply #410 on: March 24, 2010, 02:45:59 PM »
Started this today, seen the movie, but never read the book.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #411 on: March 24, 2010, 03:13:27 PM »
Both these books by the Waughs are great.  I have never seen the movies and never want to.

Island in the Sun by Alec Waugh- about the british and a murder in a caribbean island



And Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh


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Re: books to read
« Reply #412 on: March 24, 2010, 03:17:02 PM »
Started this today, seen the movie, but never read the book.

book is better, have fun.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #413 on: March 24, 2010, 03:23:40 PM »
Last few books I read



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Re: books to read
« Reply #414 on: March 24, 2010, 03:27:56 PM »

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Re: books to read
« Reply #415 on: March 24, 2010, 04:58:22 PM »

I liked this book alot, it was extremely insightful on the Hell's Angels and their mentality, as well as you giving a look a Thompson before he became the Hunter Thompson everyone knows and loves.  I just finished Fear and loathing in Las Vegas and am moving onto Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, I hope to get through most of his major works before 2010 is over.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #416 on: March 24, 2010, 05:10:01 PM »
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I liked this book alot, it was extremely insightful on the Hell's Angels and their mentality, as well as you giving a look a Thompson before he became the Hunter Thompson everyone knows and loves.  I just finished Fear and loathing in Las Vegas and am moving onto Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, I hope to get through most of his major works before 2010 is over.

You should also check out "The Rum Diary". Thompson's shot at a semi-fiction.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #417 on: March 24, 2010, 08:18:48 PM »


Finally got it yesterday, haven't started it yet though, will tonight.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #418 on: March 24, 2010, 09:26:14 PM »
reading and re-reading my copy to pieces...


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Re: books to read
« Reply #419 on: March 26, 2010, 08:40:25 PM »
No holds barred, til labias say "free us"
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