books to read

[Chris Hansen is back]

His essay about television and post modern American lit is astounding. I wish I'd come to his work sooner.

[oyolar]

You started with a great collection.  I like his non-fiction pieces a lot better than his fiction.  His short stories and first novel are no where near as good as they are made out to be.

[Mr. Lono]

Started the devil all the time(Polluck) a long time ago and took a hiatus to continue my life of debauchery. Came back to it and it is great. Definitely movie material in the right morbid mind. I usually go to the good ol Bukowski in times of madness and this book just seems real. In the best kind of fucked up way

[Mr. Kamikazi]

JD Salinger: Nine Stories

Benjamin Franklin: Savages of North America

And of course, Vonnegut, Slaughter House V

[aleksander]

Thorough work. Really depressing read.

Crazy, I just started No Logo two nights ago. I'll have to check this out next.

[yapple dapple]

Right now I'm reading Primitve mythology by Joseph Campbell. Man I thought the Power of Myth hurt my brain. This is not a easy read but so worth it.

RIP Joseph Campbell

[frig deuce]

Some recent good reads...

Atlas Shrugged (Rand) -> pretty epic. one of my favorite novels ever.
The Fourth Turning
Prometheus Rising (Robert Anton Wilson) -> made a bunch of my friends read it because it's an easy intro to psych and getting "out of the box"
Mind Lines (Michael Hall) -> fuck I've gotta re-read this shit to fully integrate it
The Ethical Slut -> got a new perspective on sex and open relationships...
Models (Mark Manson) -> one of the best books on pickup/seduction I've read.
Radical Honesty (Brad Blanton) -> pick it up, will change your life.

I just ordered:
Practically Shameless (Barry)... it's about working with your "shadow" as Carl Jung talked about. I read the intro and first chapter and it's hit home already.
Turtles All The Way Down (John Grinder)... a book about psychology and NLP if anyone's familiar with that... apparently a must read. pretty excited to get these two books soon.

[Chris Hansen is back]

This was one of the most noteworthy books I read in 2014. Really powerful stuff.

[abudabi]

am i the only person on here who has a hard time not disliking people who enjoyed atlas shrugged?

reading desolation angels by jack kerouac now. best book ive read so far.

[FriendlyComments]

Some recent good reads...

Atlas Shrugged (Rand) -> pretty epic. one of my favorite novels ever.
The Fourth Turning
Prometheus Rising (Robert Anton Wilson) -> made a bunch of my friends read it because it's an easy intro to psych and getting "out of the box"
Mind Lines (Michael Hall) -> fuck I've gotta re-read this shit to fully integrate it
The Ethical Slut -> got a new perspective on sex and open relationships...
Models (Mark Manson) -> one of the best books on pickup/seduction I've read.
Radical Honesty (Brad Blanton) -> pick it up, will change your life.

I just ordered:
Practically Shameless (Barry)... it's about working with your "shadow" as Carl Jung talked about. I read the intro and first chapter and it's hit home already.
Turtles All The Way Down (John Grinder)... a book about psychology and NLP if anyone's familiar with that... apparently a must read. pretty excited to get these two books soon.

Good list. If you/ or anyone is interested in doing a book trade, i'd be happy to mail some stuff off.

I just finished Cuck Palhniuk's 'Invisable Monsters'. Quite dark to read over xmas. If you're interested in transgender studies and people getting fucked up, this is could be a winner.

Currently reading:

Drive - Daniel H. Pink
Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna (druggggssss)
What Makes a Great Exhibtion? - Marincola
Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace

oh and im struggling through The Sound and Fury. fucking garbage, sorry.

[castillo's curls]

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Some recent good reads...

Atlas Shrugged (Rand) -> pretty epic. one of my favorite novels ever.
The Fourth Turning
Prometheus Rising (Robert Anton Wilson) -> made a bunch of my friends read it because it's an easy intro to psych and getting "out of the box"
Mind Lines (Michael Hall) -> fuck I've gotta re-read this shit to fully integrate it
The Ethical Slut -> got a new perspective on sex and open relationships...
Models (Mark Manson) -> one of the best books on pickup/seduction I've read.
Radical Honesty (Brad Blanton) -> pick it up, will change your life.

I just ordered:
Practically Shameless (Barry)... it's about working with your "shadow" as Carl Jung talked about. I read the intro and first chapter and it's hit home already.
Turtles All The Way Down (John Grinder)... a book about psychology and NLP if anyone's familiar with that... apparently a must read. pretty excited to get these two books soon.

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Good list. If you/ or anyone is interested in doing a book trade, i'd be happy to mail some stuff off.

I just finished Cuck Palhniuk's 'Invisable Monsters'. Quite dark to read over xmas. If you're interested in transgender studies and people getting fucked up, this is could be a winner.

Currently reading:

Drive - Daniel H. Pink
Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna (druggggssss)
What Makes a Great Exhibtion? - Marincola
Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace

oh and im struggling through The Sound and Fury. fucking garbage, sorry.

Blashphemy!

(Try Light in August for more accessible Faulkner)

[shark tits]

am i the only person on here who has a hard time not disliking people who enjoyed atlas shrugged?

reading desolation angels by jack kerouac now. best book ive read so far.

nah, i dislike anyone who likes ayn rand also on gp

[givecigstosurfgroms]

anais nin journals

[Mr. Lono]

Picked up Under the Volcano by Lowry

[Smell Good]

This is really good and funny so far. I'm enjoying revisiting this cast of lovable scumbags now that they're all early middle aged.

[TheRealDeal]

The first novel from The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle.

[Makaveli]

Franz Wright's "Walking to Martha's Vineyard" and "Wheeling Motel"

[Pelican]

y'all ever read a book by a woman other than ayn rand ?


literary sausage party in here

[oyolar]

Someone mentioned Anais Nin literally four posts ahead of you.

[shark tits]

y'all ever read a book by a woman other than ayn rand ?


literary sausage party in here

amy hempel, SE hinton. i fucks w/ her heavy. nah but she was sick when i was a kid. caroline knapp from the boston phoenix wrote a few memoir type books that i liked but then i tried to reread and wasn't so into. RIP.
handmaid's tale by margaret atwood was dece. kind of a woman's take on 1984/brave new world type future.

[givecigstosurfgroms]

Nin is the only author i'm familiar with, I was on a trip abroad without weed and her photo on the cover of one of her books drew me in.  I went on to read a bunch of her stuff.  Its inspiring how objective she is.  

[sametelt]

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am i the only person on here who has a hard time not disliking people who enjoyed atlas shrugged?

reading desolation angels by jack kerouac now. best book ive read so far.

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nah, i dislike anyone who likes ayn rand also on gp

A soft spot for Ayn Rand tends to be a huge red flag. I'm finishing Journey to the End of the Night by Celine now, moving on to Despair by Nabokov.

[Tufty]

 My favorite psychoanalyst and social theorist. This book questions the origin of ethics and religion and their true meaning. A very good successor of Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State"

[Makaveli]

y'all ever read a book by a woman other than ayn rand ?


literary sausage party in here

reading Fanny Howe's Second Childhood right now

[oyolar]

But not on Kindle.

[shark tits]

i wanna check out this book 'ringolevio' if anyone has a copy. i will add 'basketball diaries' and it's part 2 'forced entries'.

[frig deuce]

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Some recent good reads...

Atlas Shrugged (Rand) -> pretty epic. one of my favorite novels ever.
The Fourth Turning
Prometheus Rising (Robert Anton Wilson) -> made a bunch of my friends read it because it's an easy intro to psych and getting "out of the box"
Mind Lines (Michael Hall) -> fuck I've gotta re-read this shit to fully integrate it
The Ethical Slut -> got a new perspective on sex and open relationships...
Models (Mark Manson) -> one of the best books on pickup/seduction I've read.
Radical Honesty (Brad Blanton) -> pick it up, will change your life.

I just ordered:
Practically Shameless (Barry)... it's about working with your "shadow" as Carl Jung talked about. I read the intro and first chapter and it's hit home already.
Turtles All The Way Down (John Grinder)... a book about psychology and NLP if anyone's familiar with that... apparently a must read. pretty excited to get these two books soon.

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Good list. If you/ or anyone is interested in doing a book trade, i'd be happy to mail some stuff off.

I just finished Cuck Palhniuk's 'Invisable Monsters'. Quite dark to read over xmas. If you're interested in transgender studies and people getting fucked up, this is could be a winner.

Currently reading:

Drive - Daniel H. Pink
Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna (druggggssss)
What Makes a Great Exhibtion? - Marincola
Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace

oh and im struggling through The Sound and Fury. fucking garbage, sorry.

I wanna read all of Daniel Pink's books.

Do you have a goodreads account? I'm actually moving across the country and I gotta get rid of most of my books. I'll update the books I own now tonight and if you or anyone wants any of them I'll mail them if you pay for shipping. I'll add the link here to the books I own once I've updated the list. I'm in Canada so shipping should be something under $10 if you're in the states, I've no idea.

I just finished 5 books by Robert A. Johnson. He's like Joseph Cambell, but rather than comparing myths about the Hero's journey, he dissects archetypes of myths and relates them to human psychology and transformation, inner work, female psych, male psych, relationship psych, "shadow work". I'm on a binge and gonna read everything by him this month if I can get my hands of them all. I just ordered He and Living Your Unlived Life.

I also finished Practically Shameless and if anyone's interested in Carl Jung's shadow work, I highly recommend it.

[Glue Reed]

I made a similar post a few pages back, but just in case somebody missed it...

Does anybody have any really good non-fiction books they can recommend? It can be about anything really, I'm just dying for a new book and have been re-reading some of my old favorites to keep me occupied.

Currently re-reading the book Acid Dreams.  I can't recommend this book enough... it's about the invention of LSD; first about the government funded creation/experimentation of the drug, then about what it did to the youth culture once it finally got out to the public.  Although we all hate and are annoyed by hippies, the original hippy movement has always fascinated me, and the stories about Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters are as punk rock/anarchistic as anything Crass can think up.

Recommend me something, PLEASE!

[Andmoreagain]

Bout half way through Underworld by Don Delillo. It's great.  The intro made me feel like a baseball fan. A strange, possibly homeless man on the T got really excited when he saw me reading it. He told me about his conspiracy theories for a while.

[Nosferatu]

Last in the Oaktown Devil series. Might have been the best of the four. Drugs, sex, violence, money... Revenge?