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[SomeGuy]

Man i love to read... HP's cool...so is Douglas Adams (HHG..and the Dirk Gently Series). I also really like Asimov. You all should check out the Foundation series, and all 6 Dune Books by Herbert..(most people only read the first 3 for some reason...) I also really like "The Da Vince Code" and "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown... anyone else really looking forward to his next book? "The Solomon Key" is the title I think.

SomeGuy Reviewed by SomeGuy on 01-16-2006. Start Reading! Hi people, I've noticed a grave decline in reading amongst my fellow man these days. This is a damn shame, because appreciation for books could counter the BS your television set spews out every second. People forget to read the great works of art that make up our history of literature. People forget that books were the only way to pass on knowledge up until eighty years ago. Are we going to ignore/forget all of life's information before 1915? Are we really that arrogant that only Rating: 5

[SomeGuy]

by the way...it shouldnt be too hard to guess the book and author of it quoted in my sig :-p

[potsmokingnome]

I honestly think, that most true to the bone weed smokers are very well educated people. Weed spreads curiousness, truly think about it the more I smoke weed the more I wanna learn about weed. granted I haven't reasearched weed much...um yeah I'm just stonned and can't make sense of my own thoughts, to type them properly...opps

[RastaKaze]

um yeah I'm just stonned and can't make sense of my own thoughts, to type them properly...opps

You just totally fucked the first part of what you were saying LOL

[Harvesthetic]

Man i love to read... HP's cool...so is Douglas Adams (HHG..and the Dirk Gently Series). I also really like Asimov. You all should check out the Foundation series, and all 6 Dune Books by Herbert..(most people only read the first 3 for some reason...) I also really like "The Da Vince Code" and "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown... anyone else really looking forward to his next book? "The Solomon Key" is the title I think.

Yeah the Da Vinci Code opened an important debate it's a good read, and makes you want to know more and more, props to mr. Brown :thumbsup:
By the way, the movie of the DVCode with Ian McKellen, Audrey Tatou & T. Hanks, i hope they pay tribute to the book man, ruining that would be a mortal sin

by the way...it shouldnt be too hard to guess the book and author of it quoted in my sig :-p

No it isn't

I honestly think, that most true to the bone weed smokers are very well educated people. Weed spreads curiousness, truly think about it the more I smoke weed the more I wanna learn about weed. granted I haven't reasearched weed much...um yeah I'm just stonned and can't make sense of my own thoughts, to type them properly...opps

I suggest good book, that is best read stoned, plus it's free, plus it's online
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The Emperor Wears No Clothes [/align]

Quote from this book:

The word "canvas" is the Dutch pronunciation (twice removed, from French and Latin) of the Greek word "Kannabis."*

Lol we have a government broadcasting station called Canvas

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

Dean Koontz fan here, and i read a lot on the internet... forums... lol

[SomeGuy]

I honestly think, that most true to the bone weed smokers are very well educated people. Weed spreads curiousness, truly think about it the more I smoke weed the more I wanna learn about weed. granted I haven't reasearched weed much...um yeah I'm just stonned and can't make sense of my own thoughts, to type them properly...opps

I dont want to catagorize but weed smokes are really broken down into a few groups...

1:Hates life/wants to get away/dosnt care
or

2.Has become intelligent enough to realize the lies pushed on us about weed and uses it for creativity (it makes my guitar so much more amazing and i am more creative) and socially for fun and experimentation with a diferent mental state...

yeah yeah yeah.... I know there are more...and those could be better defined...maybe into a book even...

but the gist of the people on this website would fit into that number 2 catagory

[Ganj]

Hi people,

I've noticed a grave decline in reading amongst my fellow man these days. This is a damn shame, because appreciation for books could counter the BS your television set spews out every second.

People forget to read the great works of art that make up our history of literature.
People forget that books were the only way to pass on knowledge up until eighty years ago.
Are we going to ignore/forget all of life's information before 1915?
Are we really that arrogant that only the info of the here and now counts?

Try to expand your horizon, try to get over the fact that books are deemed boring.
If you're young, try to learn to read books, and watch a little less tv.

I'm not saying tv is bad, because it can damn well educate you if you switch to the right channel, but... Ey...

Don't forget the people who wrote their pencils off for us... Their information is in no way inferior to what the Discovery Channel teaches us.

Now, here's a site on which you can read a nice collection of classic literature, for free. Print it out, learn it by heart, i don't care, but try at least. Don't forget, the iPod has a book function too in most cases.

Here's a couple of my personal favorites.



An Encounter - James Joyce
Childhood - Leo Tolstoy
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Note- This is just a selection, if you want any further suggestions on an author, or genre, just ask in this thread.

What do our fellow stoners read?

Peace, in writing, Harv

reading interests me greatly, but i'm poisoned by instant satisfaction...shoot me. i appreciate your efforts to be an inspiration to all us non-readers. i'll do my damndest, sir. i'm gonna start with frankenstien, by mary shelley. i'll get back to this thread when i'm done.

[LittLeWinG]

one book all of you stoners must read is the da vinci's code. alot of you probably have read this book...since it was on top of the charts for a while but meh. im just sayin its an amizing book. Blew my mind

[Roadking]

All that lives is independent of the Church. The power of the State is based upon tradition, upon science, upon popular suffrage, upon brute force, upon everything except upon the Church. Wars, the relation of State with State, are governed by principles of nationality, of the balance of power, but not by the Church. The institutions established by the State frankly ignore the Church, The idea that the Church can, in these times, serve as a basis for justice or the conservation of property, is simply absurd. Science not only does not sustain the doctrine of the Church, but is, in its development, entirely hostile to the Church. Art, formerly entirely devoted to the service of the Church, has wholly forsaken the Church. It is little to say that human life is now entirely emancipated from the Church; it has now, with regard to the Church, only contempt when the Church does not interfere with human affairs, and hatred when the Church seeks to re-assert its ancient privileges. The Church is still permitted a formal existence simply because men dread to shatter the chalice that once contained the water of life. In this way only can we account, in our age, for the existence of Catholicism, of Orthodoxy, and of the different Protestant churches.
All these churches...Catholic, Orthodox, Prostestant...are like so many sentinels still keeping careful watch before the prison doors, although the prisoners have long been at liberty before their eyes, and even threaten their existence. All that actually constitutes life, that is, the activity of humanity towards progress and its own welfare, socialism, communism, the new politico-economical theories, utilitarianism, the liberty and equality of all social classes, and of men and women, all the moral principles of humanity, the sanctity of work, reason, science, art,...all these that lend an impusle to the world's progress in hostility to the Church are only fragments of the doctrine which the Church has professed, and so carefully endeavored to conceal. In these times, the life of the world is entirely independent of the doctrine of the Church. The Church is left so far behind, that men no longer hear the voices of those who preach its doctrines. This is easily to be understood because the Church still clings to an organization of the world's life, which has been forsaken, and is rapidly falling to destruction.

- Leo Tolstoy