What are you reading right now?

Allen Ginsberg: A Biography~Barry Mills
The Dharma Bums~Jack Kerouac
Memoirs Of An Ex-Hippie~Robert Roskind

 

The Status Seekers by Vance Packard.

Examines all the ways people try to "keep up with the Joneses"

 

Right now im reading,
Dharma Bums: Jack K
Smiling through the apocalypse: By the editors of Esquire
The Dark Side of Camelot
The portable sixties reader: Ann Charters

 

The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien

 

I'm Re-reading the greatest book I've ever read. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

 

I'm reading the Ginsberg bio too.

Also, The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula le Guin

 

"Parliment of Whores" - PJ O'Rourke

Its funny as hell, and the guy makes excellent points! He has a simple way of breaking down the political process/problems and then making them hilarious!

 

almoust half of summer I was reading Keruak."On the road"...Now I am finishing it.......but yeah ....then I'll have to read books for school...They aren't very interesting........

 

Seeds of Man by Woody Guthrie

 

Right now I'm rereading Phyllis Currot's Book of Shadows, it's so good.

 

The Teachings of don Juan by Carlos Castanada

 

Good to see lots of people reading Kerouac...he's one of my favorite authors.

Right now I'm reading "Walden and other stories" by Thoreau, just finished the essay on Civil Disobedience. Every American should read that.

As far as other books, I just finished "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and "Illusions" by Richard Bach. Both very good books.

 

I just bought "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I'm excited to start reading it because I've always heard good things about it.

 

I'm not gonna lie....I hated that book. I don't get the hype.

However, I do know one book that gets hyped that deserves it: "Catcher in the Rye." That is a phenomenal book

 

See...I liked Gatsby...it wasn't horrible...but it was one of the better books we read last year...

And I think that Catcher In the Rye sucked. My taste though...

 

i like the great gatsby, but i didnt like catcher in the rye, i just finished with the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, and i have a few books on my list now...

On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
One Flew over the Coocoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley

 

Here's what I'm reading...in this order...


Lord of the Flies- William Golding*
The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles- Translated by Paul Roche*
Autobiography of a Yogi- Paramahanda Yogananda**
Around the World In Eighty Days- Jules Verne**

*= required for school so I have to read 'em before the summer's through
**= my own; order subject to change depending on my mood

 

At the moment I'm reading Langenscheidt's Spanish in 30 Days.
Last real book I read was Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys.Weird book ,the movie is also pretty good.

 

Lord of the Flies is one of the best books ever.

 

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"The Power of Now" By Eckhart Tolle... VERY interesting... he breaks down the basic concepts of Zen Buddhism into an easier to digest, logic over emotions approach... he still acknowledges spirituality, but also keeps the emphasis on conscious, physical conditions as well... if you need grounding, this guy really makes it easy...