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[browneyedgurl]

"How to Know God", by Deepak Chopra. Very interesting.

[twitch]

Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things - Barry Glassner
The Big I Am - Ralph Steadman
The Devils Music - ????

and I believe that's it for right now.

[seventhson3]

I just finished Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy which was very surprising; not at all what I expected. I just started Island, by Aldous Huxley.

[adayinthelife]

I finished The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde (a fine piece of art)) and The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter Thompson. I really enjoyed both, in different ways off course. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a frightening but enlightening reading experience.

Next I'll read :
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysse by James Joyce
On The Road by Kerouac (I've been trying to read this one for a year)
The Naked Fest by Burroughs
and maybe, if I'm brave enough, I'll read some Dostoievski.

yeah On the road can be tough to get into but I swear as soon as you get into it there's no way in hell you can ever go back.. I've read it like 3 or 4 times in the past year..

I just finished reading another book by Kerouac titled Orpheus Emerged, fantastic work. It's nothing like On the Road but it was still compelling. It's also really cool how he bases all the characters around people he was hanging out with at the time. So the characters are real.

I need a new book. I might try to find Dharma Bums by Kerouac next.
Edited: Oh yeah, my signature comes from On the Road... both quotes.

Edited by adayinthelife, 09 September 2003 - 10:21 AM.

[carlyanne]

InStyle.
yeah, i really need to find some new books.

[Stiffinifty]

I am reading:

"perks of being a wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky

"holidays on ice" by David Sadaris

"Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging" by Louise Rennison


Books are fun

[DeMatj]

how can people read more than one book at a time? i find that story lines just get messed up and you forget stuff and it becomes a labour...

or perhaps i'm just not too bright.

anyhow, i'm reading "the lovely bones" by alice sebold. it's pretty addictive and moving. at times.

[twitch]

how can people read more than one book at a time? i find that story lines just get messed up and you forget stuff and it becomes a labour...

or perhaps i'm just not too bright.

anyhow, i'm reading "the lovely bones" by alice sebold. it's pretty addictive and moving. at times.

I try to read a number of different subjects of both fiction and non-fiction at the same time so I don't get too confussed. If I read like 2 Vonnegut books at the same time it would really confuse me. I also choose like 2 really dry and heavy books with 2 light and easy books so I can switch off if Im in a different mood.

[DeMatj]

that's fair. it must just be i'm one-track-minded. or dumb.

[mittensonfire]

James Brown's autobiography.

[Sniper]

that's fair. it must just be i'm one-track-minded. or dumb.

I can never read more than one book at a time either. Even when I attempt to do so, I invariably end up getting engrossed in one of them, and end up dropping the others until I'm finished.

[pinkangel79]

I do that too (read several things at once depending on my mood). I got used to reading several different books on 4 different subjects at once for my degree. I have to stop myself skim reading the books I read for pleasure still because I got into the habit of only gleaning major themes and the most important information.

Edited by pinkangel79, 09 September 2003 - 04:33 PM.

[fraserw2]

nothing. i blame school for making me not want to read

[Los tres grande]

Benjamin Franklin- Edmund Morgan

[White-Blood-Cells]

Right now I´m reading LOTR The Two Towers and HP and the orther of the Phoenix for the fifth time I think. Great series!

[southern_dandy]

I think we will read some Roald Dahl once we finish J.K Rowling.

I love Roald Dahl. He was my favorite author. May I suggest BFG, The Twits, or The Witches?

[Godalfree]

Im on page 5 of Naked Lunch... The damned trials at the begining of the book and such took a few days to read (Given that I have, say from 12:30 to 1:00 at night to fulfill my reading pleasure!)