What are you currently reading?

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

  1. Eric!

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    @EloiseAtThePlaza
    I miss her too, is she ok?
     
  2. Eric!

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  3. maxmayer

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    yeah, i am. Which his book have you read?
     
  4. maxmayer

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    :anguished::anguished::anguished: it will pass i hope
     
  5. I don't know. I hope she is just sick of us all, but otherwise doing ok.
     
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  6. alexsandro

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    The Dead Zone is the book i am reading
     
  7. Deidre

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    Do it, you'll find it rewarding. I think sometimes we approach ''religious texts'' with judgement, based on our own worldview, but if you read these books in the spirit that they were originally written, it changes the experience.
     
  8. hotwater

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    I read that book ages ago when I was kid and it offered up an interesting take on clairvoyance
     
  9. StellarCoon

    StellarCoon Dr. Professor

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    still on Dracula


    god
     
  10. hotwater

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    Great book

    From chapter one you’re immediately engrossed into the story as Jonathan Harker travels to Castle Dracula through the beautiful yet mysterious Carpathian Mountains.

    I remember after reading the chapter where Jonathan Harker encounters the three brides of Dracula (with their brilliant white teeth and their voluptuous lips) I put the book down
    and fell asleep. That night I had a dream where I encountered the three female vampires, only I let them have their way with me and it was incredible.
     
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  11. StellarCoon

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    i was actually hoping something similar who happen to me the first time i read it :laughing:

    this is my second read. slow, well-documented read. i'm writing summaries per chapter as i read on my notepad.
     
  12. hotwater

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    Reading the novel you’d never guess it was written in 1897

    Btw; the Master of horror fiction Stephen King best summed up the whole Vampire genre as “The Ultimate Zipless Fuck” which I thought was pretty cool
     
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  13. alexsandro

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    fullu agree with this opinion. I liked it too much :hearteyes:
     
  14. guerillabedlam

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    I agree, I just finished the book. The first half of the book seems like it could easily translate to film, the latter half seems like it could potentially be botched but likewise there is an opportunity for it to be pretty great.
     
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  16. MeAgain

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    Just got a copy of The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell.
    [​IMG]
     
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  18. MeAgain

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    Replying to my own post.........reading the beginnings of this book, which I have heard about for about 40 years but never read, I am struck by Huxley's mention of a theory by Dr. C.D. Broad that the brain is an eliminative organ, that is it only allows a partial knowledge of the world. It protects us from the "Mind at Large" by acting as a reducing valve aimed at limiting our consciousness.
    I had developed the same theory back in my early daze of chemical exploration.
     
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  19. hotwater

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    Homage to Catalonia
     

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