What are you currently reading?

Discussion in 'Books' started by Dirtyhippycommiebastard, Sep 15, 2010.

  1. Dirtyhippycommiebastard

    Dirtyhippycommiebastard Member

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    Here's what i'm reading.

    1.The autobiography of Abbie Hoffman(aka Soon to be a major motion picture)

    2.How the republicans stole christmas and Toxic talk by Bill press

    3.Gangs of New york by Herburt astbury

    How about you guys?
     
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    The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance by Bruce Fink
     
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    Just finished Bartleby & Co by Enrique Vila-Matas and highly recommend it for those of you interested in writers who turned their backs on writing. A philisophical enquiry that's easy to read.
     
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    Fight Club by Chuck Palahinuk

    Sure most of you have heard of the movie
     
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    Mr. Frankenstein Malice...in Sunderland

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    Chuck Berry's autobiography... a great read :)
     
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    Under the Dome by Stephen King. It's a bit boring so far.
     
  8. Duck

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    I'm sorta in between books, as I just completed The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike by Philip K Dick and had my mind blown like all of his 'normal' fiction. I don't have a clue what I could possibly follow it up with.

    But I'm reading Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning, based on a psychologist's recommendation, and it's alright.

    And as far as comics, I'm almost done with the KnightSaga of the Batman family comics, and I'm hoping my library has the next volume of Kabuki by David Mack :cool:
     
  9. Sam_Stoned

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    Pihkal and a book of Lovecraft stories. Interesting synergy.

    Also Scientific American and Discover magizines.
     
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    Dude, is that what the movie was based on? I love that movie and I even asked the librarian if it was based on a book, he said no. :rolleyes:
     
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    He has a few gems, but his work gets so redundant. He's not one of those authors who you read his whole catalog IMO.
     
  12. The Imaginary Being

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    Conn Iggulden - Conquerer series.
     
  13. Dirtyhippycommiebastard

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    Yup.That's how i first heard about it.Scorcesse's film is GREAT!

    Check it out here.
    http://www.amazon.com/Gangs-New-York-Informal-Underworld/dp/0307388980/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285956574&sr=1-1"]Amazon.com: The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (Vintage) (9780307388988): Herbert Asbury: Books
     
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    I mostly agree, but I really don't think Fight Club is one of those gems (even though I love Jim Uhl's screen adaptation)

    Invisible Monsters and Rant are so good it's hard to believe he wrote them.
     
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    Memories of John Lennon by Yoko Ono and others...nice reading. Maybe because it´s a new stuff for me...I saw Lennon for years as those charismatic guy from the Beatles, not a single musician.
     
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    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
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    Feed Your Pets Right, Merion Nestle and Maldon Nestheim
     
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    Bruce Wayne: the Road Home, and by currently, I mean right fucking now.
     
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    I'm reading The Dead Zone by Stephen King. It is a pretty good book so far.
     
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    finishing this:
    http://www.amazon.com/Physical-Universe-Introduction-Astronomy-Books/dp/0935702059/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289356075&sr=1-1"]Amazon.com: Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy (Series of Books in Astronomy) (9780935702057): Frank H. Shu: Books: Reviews, Prices & more

    it's one of the best books on science i've ever read, albeit not one of the most recent ones. it covers everything from atoms and quarks to chemistry to special relativity to stars and galaxies to evolution to neurons.

    just started this:
    http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Universe-Quarks-Don-Lincoln/dp/9812387056/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1289356117&sr=1-1"]Amazon.com: Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos (9789812387059): Don Lincoln: Books

    also reading:
    http://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Friendships-Homosexuality-Renaissance-Sexuality/dp/0195122925/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289356304&sr=1-1"]Amazon.com: Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence (Studies in the History of Sexuality) (9780195122923): Michael Rocke: Books: Reviews, Prices & more

    and this little book:
    http://www.amazon.com/Vanders-Human-Physiology-Mechanisms-PHYSIOLOGY/dp/0077350014/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289356420&sr=1-1"]Amazon.com: Vander's Human Physiology: The Mechanisms of Body Function (HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY (VANDER)) (9780077350017): Eric Widmaier, Hershel Raff, Kevin Strang: Books: Reviews, Prices & more
     

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