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Post by EddieBlake on Jun 4, 2021 10:24:21 GMT -7
I really like JD Salinger. Nine Stories was a very easy read. I don't think I read until around 10th or 11th grade.
I hated reading Emily Dickenson stuff. We get it, you're depressed...
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Post by bear on Jun 4, 2021 10:32:21 GMT -7
Fame is the one that does not stay — (1507) BY EMILY DICKINSON
Fame is the one that does not stay — It's occupant must die Or out of sight of estimate Ascend incessantly — Or be that most insolvent thing A Lightning in the Germ — Electrical the embryo But we demand the Flame
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Jun 4, 2021 21:13:32 GMT -7
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Post by salmon401 on Jun 4, 2021 21:13:32 GMT -7
I really like JD Salinger. Nine Stories was a very easy read. I don't think I read until around 10th or 11th grade. I hated reading Emily Dickenson stuff. We get it, you're depressed... Ever read any Sylvia Plath?
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Jun 5, 2021 4:36:04 GMT -7
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Post by EddieBlake on Jun 5, 2021 4:36:04 GMT -7
I don't think so.
I also really like Flannery O'Connor and Shirley Jackson.
Emily Dickenson just does nothing for me.
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Post by saulgoodman on Jun 5, 2021 7:06:14 GMT -7
Catching up on canon/classics Read Anne Frank's Diary last month Just finished Cathcher In The Rye in 2 days. I couldn't put it down because the endless monogue was so well written. It actually was kinda boring with random details and an influx of various characters, but that was comically contrasted by Caulfield's complete indifference for learning the details of other people's lives. I kept wanting to know what he was going to do next and where he was going to go. It was like reading a teenage Shia LaBeouf's thoughts in Rodney Dangerfield's voice. A quintessential novel for outsiders; depressed youth who hate school, need companionship, and are disillusioned about their future. You ever teach Catcher in the Rye, Bear? I taught it to a 10th grade class exactly 20 years ago. Amazed me how a group of people who seemingly did nothing but gripe could take so much umbrage with how much Holden Caufield griped.
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Post by saulgoodman on Jun 5, 2021 7:09:51 GMT -7
I read Hotels of North America by Rick Moody. It was funny if somewhat forgettable.
Reading The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, which I am digging. It's a personal identity crisis packaged as a double agent spy thriller.
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Post by bear on Jun 23, 2021 12:26:56 GMT -7
Reading The Auschwitz Volunteer now. I would say this is the definitive concentration camp text, written with factual intent, extensive detail, and with the authority of a first hand account. Written by Wietold Poleckzi, a Polish officer and Catholic, he deliberately was arrested by the SS to write a report on the camp. His mental strength is unreal and his writing poignant, meticulous, and humane.
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Post by bear on Jun 23, 2021 12:43:59 GMT -7
Catching up on canon/classics Read Anne Frank's Diary last month Just finished Cathcher In The Rye in 2 days. I couldn't put it down because the endless monogue was so well written. It actually was kinda boring with random details and an influx of various characters, but that was comically contrasted by Caulfield's complete indifference for learning the details of other people's lives. I kept wanting to know what he was going to do next and where he was going to go. It was like reading a teenage Shia LaBeouf's thoughts in Rodney Dangerfield's voice. A quintessential novel for outsiders; depressed youth who hate school, need companionship, and are disillusioned about their future. You ever teach Catcher in the Rye, Bear? I taught it to a 10th grade class exactly 20 years ago. Amazed me how a group of people who seemingly did nothing but gripe could take so much umbrage with how much Holden Caufield griped. To answer your question, I have not taught it, nor did I read it in school.
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Post by saulgoodman on Jul 4, 2021 16:44:32 GMT -7
Finished The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen- interesting idea: wrapping a racial identity crisis in a double agent spy story. Ended up more clever than entertaining to me though
Then read Zero K by Don Delillo - uses cryogenic human preservation as a way of exploring fear of death. As his pseudo science fictional explorations of this theme goes, I much preferred White Noise. But this wasn't bad.
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Post by noclevername on Jul 4, 2021 17:57:57 GMT -7
Idk if I posted this in here cause it took me way too long to finish with working so much; just finished The Great Work of Your Life: A guide for the journey to your true calling - was a good read!
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Post by bear on Jul 4, 2021 18:10:20 GMT -7
Idk if I posted this in here cause it took me way too long to finish with working so much; just finished The Great Work of Your Life: A guide for the journey to your true calling - was a good read! pls tell us what you saw. what sayeth the guide!
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Post by saulgoodman on Aug 8, 2021 12:44:45 GMT -7
While ter'ing w/ the phish, i have been taking in a book i think folks here would especially dig: Dancing in the Streets- Barbara Ehrenreich.
About shared ecstatic pleasure and its anthropological origins and history. Particular focus on the suppression and resilience of group dance.
It's great. Y'all would like it.
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Oct 7, 2021 18:31:48 GMT -7
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Post by deadphishbiscuits on Oct 7, 2021 18:31:48 GMT -7
Just finished A Lions Tale ,Traveling the world in spandex . Chris Jericho first book
That was a goodun
Started his 2nd book Unfisputed
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Nov 19, 2021 22:43:20 GMT -7
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Post by bear on Nov 19, 2021 22:43:20 GMT -7
On to this: Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe Book by Carl A. P. Ruck, José Alfredo González Celdrán, and Mark Alwin Hoffman This illustrated book traces the history of an unlikely force in the shaping of Western civilization: the use of psychedelic mushrooms, namely by a secret society called the cult of Mithras. Nero was the first emperor to be initiated by the group’s “magical dinners,” and most of his successors embraced the ritual as a source of spiritual transcendence. The cult was officially banned after the Conversion, but aspects of their rituals were assimilated or co-opted by Christianity, and the brotherhoods persist today as secret societies such as the Freemasons. This is a fascinating exploration of a powerful force kept behind the scenes for thousands of years. this is a good book that has been exhaustively researched and loaded with cultural connections throughout the last 3000 years. It is illuminating and very thorough but it also has asshole sentences like this: "The slaughter of the Bull by the hero deity it represents — whether Gorgon and Perseus or Cosmic Bull and Mithras - is at basis a myth of the harvest of the sacred plant and its cosmological or astronomical ramifications in the catasterization of its attendant agents."
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Post by thecosmicbandito on Nov 19, 2021 22:53:21 GMT -7
nans on knowing what that means.
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Nov 20, 2021 20:19:58 GMT -7
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Post by bear on Nov 20, 2021 20:19:58 GMT -7
"Thus, the pinnacle of human achievement and human civilization dwells, as Plato holds, not in the material world and its manifestations, but in access to the eternal, archetypal dimension of ideas.
Entheogens will always help to make us more human, to step outside our immediate and primordial responses to realize a "higher" good - that of the collective striving beyond itself in a manner consistent perhaps with the ecology of an intelligent cosmos, defined, as humanity is, not by the individuality of its parts, but by the interconnectivity of the whole."
Conclusion is A+
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Dec 27, 2021 9:47:40 GMT -7
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Post by thecosmicbandito on Dec 27, 2021 9:47:40 GMT -7
BUMP, because I was thumbing through this thread. (intentional pun, get rekt)
Used books are cheap AF on amazon and I have a gift card with plenty of $$ left for like 3-5 more books. Shill me a good book.
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Post by higs on Dec 27, 2021 9:51:27 GMT -7
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
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Dec 27, 2021 9:53:49 GMT -7
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Post by thecosmicbandito on Dec 27, 2021 9:53:49 GMT -7
I took a few from this thread, current shopping cart:
Cosmic Banditos by A.C. Weisbecker (forgot where my copy ended up) Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis (just started The Big Short) American Fire by Monica Hesse (+1 pts for benhuman) Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger (+1 pts for venk) Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim (say less, twice recommended at this point)
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Post by thecosmicbandito on Dec 27, 2021 9:57:49 GMT -7
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut I just found several of my Vonnegut books visiting fam. I def read those buy think they were library era and honestly my Vonnegut era was so fast and tight that I confuse every single book and couldn't tell ya which was which. I have Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions, and Bagombo Snuff Box. Never read any Tom Robbins tho.
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