What are you currently reading?

Here we can list the books that we are currently indulging in, and maybe write a little somthing about them.

I recently started to reread The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. I am reading Part I now The Fellowship Of The Ring and am enjoying it very much. I've always been a nerd about the fairytale creatures, light and dark. I love to smoke and then delve off into the world of elves, orcs, and wizards and just drift away.

I am also reading Anarchy, State, And Utopia by Robert Nozick.
I enjoy reading about theories about what could be, the challenges, and obstacles that would be involved and just overall the learning experience a book like this gives me. i'm very interested in Anarchy and such. This book is full intelligent inquiries and mind opening conclusions. A good read for anyone interested in politics.

What are you reading?

"Lord of the Rings" eh... Never heard of it :wtf:



Right now I'm reading "The Shadow Rising", 4th book in the Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan. I'm absolutely in love with it.

I started reading, "My Son Jimi", by James A. Hendrix, as told by Jas Olbrecht. It's the third book, in a row, in which I've read about Hendrix, so I'm taking it slow.

I am about 30 pages away from finishing a book called "Prometheus Rising" By Robert Anton Wilson. Very interesting book, it seems to be making very interesting connecetions to every other philosophy and psychology/sociology books and ideas I am currently dabbeling in. I reccomend it to everyone.

Next, if I can find time between all the books I am assigned to read, I am interested in reading "The Poor Man's James Bond" by Kurt Saxon. It touches on some really interesting topics, such as the best way to murder and wrek havoc.:chainsaw:

Cannabis: A History. im liking it alot, although theres so many names, and dates to keep up with.

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Here, I'll give you "rep" to increase your reading material.

I'm bout to start reading The Road by cormac mccarthy. Just picked it up yesterday night. It looks pretty promising.

The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft

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Here, I'll give you "rep" to increase your reading material.

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Thanks! I'm a bit of a blank canvas at times.

Read all of the LOTR a while back and recently finished The Hobbit.
I thought the Hobbit was actually alot better than the LOTR.
Well worth a read if you haven't already, and acts as a cool 'prequel' - for those who read the LOTR's first - anyway.

Currently reading Honor: A History
really interesting book, the american spelling is driving me nuts though, lol

Aldo leafing through Heart of Darkness by Jospeh Conrad when on the move, have yet to get into properly yet

Use Of Weapons - Iain M. Banks

Pretty violent Sci fi.

[quote=40oz]I am about 30 pages away from finishing a book called "Prometheus Rising" By Robert Anton Wilson. Very interesting book, it seems to be making very interesting connecetions to every other philosophy and psychology/sociology books and ideas I am currently dabbeling in. I reccomend it to everyone.

RAW is a great author, and such a good book! I recommend
"Opening of the Way" by Isha Schwaller de Lubicz. Pretty eye
opening.

Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics Fourth Edition

C++ For Dummies.

It's 7 books in one that teach computer programming. The first book is the absolute beginner's stuff, then they get gradually more complex until it reaches the most advanced stuff.


I plan to develop Skynet myself, but this time make sure it serves me and only me. :cool:

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Stan Gibilisco.

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C++ For Dummies.

It's 7 books in one that teach computer programming. The first book is the absolute beginner's stuff, then they get gradually more complex until it reaches the most advanced stuff.


I plan to develop Skynet myself, but this time make sure it serves me and only me. :cool:

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I'll build it and you can program it!

I promise not to put any bugs that might hand control to me:D

current reads, non -fiction bios only

'Out of The Dust', Karen Hesse author, subject, 'The Dust Bowl 1934'

'The God Squad' Paddy Doyle author, subject, abusive nuns

bolshy great yarblockos to thee and thine!,yours truly is currently rereading a clockwork orange,a bolshy read if ever there was one!

Shoes were for Sundays, by Molly Weir, about life as a child being brought up in the Glasgow tenements in the early part of the 20th century, as I read this book I am beginning to appreciate some of the things my Gran used to tell us about when we were kids.

Cheers

NCM

Ultimate X-Men Volume 1. It's damned well drawn.

Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey.

Other than Tolkien and George R R Martin, I don't go in much for fantasy. But I saw this book recommended by Martin on his website, so I gave it a chance. It's pretty good!

It is a very similar story to LOTR; however, it is told from the point of view of the other side. There are a lot of analogous characters and certain analogous plot elements to what you have in LOTR. There is a Gandalf-like wizard-type character organizing a quest to destroy a powerful being that everyone in the world considers evil. But it is told from the point of view of those on the side of the "evil" one, although they don't consider themselves to be evil. The main character would be roughly analogous to the LOTR Witch King. So in this book you are rooting for the freakin' Witch King! In a way you end up hoping they can find and kill Frodo! Ha ha! It's actually really cool. The story stands in it's own right, so you don't have to read it as a twisted take on LOTR, but it is kind of fun if you know that story.

One of the things about LOTR is that people are pretty much unambiguously good or bad. The only time there is an internal struggle within a character about good or evil, it has to do with a good person struggling with the corrupting influence of the outside evil of the ring. This is a bit more of a modern story in that it gets into the ambiguous nature of good and evil --- it's hard to say who is right and who is wrong. The villain of one side is the hero of the other, and they might have their own doubts about their own righteousness. It's a pretty good book for the fantasy genre, I think.

Carlos Castaneda - The Fire From Within.
(Its pretty trippy... mainly when stoned:stoned:)

"The Post American World" by Fareed Zakaria. Saw him on the Daily Show and liked what he had to say. Not as good as The World is Flat or the any other global econ book... more general, less specific examples.

The World is Flat is a very good read too if youre into globalization and all that. Talks about how the US is getting left behind in math and science and cites less graduating engineers/mathematicians and the fact that we no longer dominate world math/science contests... Friedman also does a Weds/Sunday op-ed column in the times if you like his stuff. :thumbsup:

DrSpiggity

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"The Post American World" by Fareed Zakaria. Saw him on the Daily Show and liked what he had to say.

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Fareed Zakaria has a new weekly show that is about to start on CNN.

yeah its like sundays at noon though... *headslap*

i should dvr it! :thumbsup:

drspiggs

World War Z - Max Brooks

Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks

I (heart) zombies

Quantum Physics.. A Beginners guide by Alastair I.M. Rae

teaming with microbes
jeff lowenfelds & wayne lewis forward by elaine ingham

OMG! i feel so bad is everybody out there reading books? i cant remember the last time my lazy ass read a book. i guess i'll go to barnes and nobles today. There is more to life then going to work for 8-16 hrs. 5 days a week, i just didnt know everyone was spending the extra hours reading. :stupid:

Crockett's Victory Garden. And it is making me feel guilty, because I am a couple months behind schedule for what I'm supposed to be doing in my veggie patch :(
I'm also reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by one of my favorite authors, Barbara Kingsolver (Poisonwood Bible- go read it). It's a nonfiction account of the first year she and her family became 'localvores' and started growing all their own food.

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OMG! i feel so bad is everybody out there reading books? i cant remember the last time my lazy ass read a book. i guess i'll go to barnes and nobles today. There is more to life then going to work for 8-16 hrs. 5 days a week, i just didnt know everyone was spending the extra hours reading. :stupid:

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Do your Requyred reading...

I love to read read read

feeds my brain stems

my first book I read other than 'green eggs and ham' was 'Joy in the Morning" then 'Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones' I was 13

I found out where babies really do come from reading those books


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read everyday

lol

The cannibal within-Mark Mirabello.
I have read some powerful shit but this is just fucking CRAZY.

Threads like these contribute to the NEW stoner stereotype. A group of intelligent, knowledge seeking citizens. I love it!

After going through my book collection yesterday, I am overwhelmed with how many I want to re-read. Non-fiction is great because you learn volumes on the initial read, then refer back later and find that the same information has more impact.

Now that I'm in between semesters, I can start "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. I've been dying to read this one. I research Huxley all the time, but have yet to read any of his writings.

For non-fiction, I am jumping around between:
The Holographic Universe (Talbot)
The Next 50 Years (compilation of essays)
Forbidden History (multiple authors)

I also have this weird obsession with reading my judge's manual from the 19th Cannabis Cup in A-dam almost daily. They give you a booklet to make comments on shops and strains. Whenever I read it, I am transported straight back to that amazing city. If you've never been there, it's incredible. However, it is a heartbreak to have to leave. It's like spending two weeks in heaven, then they say "Oh, there's no more room so you can't stay... but you can hang out in Jersey until next time." :(
(nothing against Jersey, just a metaphor) :jointsmile:

Keep reading... stay in school!
Stay :D and Keep :jointsmile:

Kill All Your Darlings, by Luc Sante (which among other things, contains his famous High Times essay. "Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?")

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick. Anybody ever seen the movie or read the book? Incredible, incredible story, semi-based on Dick's actual life. Very powerful book, I finished it in two days and I highly recommend it.

"The pain, so unexpected and undeserved had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn't hate the cabinet door, I hated my life... My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing."

current read

'The Magic of Believing" author Claude M. Bristol

'Positive creative thoughts lead to action and ultimate realization, but the real
power, much more than action itself, is the thought.
Remember always:
"Whatever men and women can conceive mentally, they can bring into materialization" Health, Wealth, and Happiness must follow if the proper mental pictures are created and constantly maintained, for the law of cause and effect is immutable"
'Know Thyself, Know your power

read on

'the last true story i'll ever tell'

john crawford

soldiers account of the war in iraq.

Just picked up The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul. It is an amazingly quick read considering the breadth of topics he indulges.
I am particularly interested in his views on foreign affairs though most people not in the know about Dr.No would say it is another boring economics text.