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Title: What are you reading?
Post by: Che Gookin on December 24, 2008, 10:58:09 PM
http://http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/site/c.kqIXL2PFJtH/b.2335915/k.D66F/The_Book.htm

Great book so far. Hope to get the movie later this week when I have a chance to get down to the DVD market(think open street market for DVDs, mostly pirated DVDs as that).
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Post by: Froderik on December 25, 2008, 09:39:52 AM
Tropic of Capricorn
by Henry Miller
(again)
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Post by: Deprogrammed on December 26, 2008, 04:58:30 PM
The Light On Synanon
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Post by: psy on December 26, 2008, 05:41:15 PM
Quote from: "Deprogrammed"
The Light On Synanon
Ya know.  I ordered that from amazon but it never got delivered.  I should do it again.  I've been wanting to read that.
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Froderik on December 26, 2008, 08:04:47 PM
Quote from: "psy"
Quote from: "Deprogrammed"
The Light On Synanon
Ya know.  I ordered that from amazon but it never got delivered.  I should do it again.  I've been wanting to read that.
Don't order it, rattlesnakes might show up in your mailbox.
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Che Gookin on December 27, 2008, 06:21:38 AM
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe
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Post by: Deprogrammed on December 27, 2008, 08:47:53 PM
Quote from: "psy"
Quote from: "Deprogrammed"
The Light On Synanon
Ya know.  I ordered that from amazon but it never got delivered.  I should do it again.  I've been wanting to read that.

I don't think ye can get it on amazon. The book is now out of print. My mother went through hell to get it for me. She ended up getting it for me for Christmas from somewhere in NY.

Great book, BTW, I am learning quite a bit....it is scary how much the game is straight inc./khk/pathways/safe/kidsetc.....
I am learning better ways to get involved through this book. It is simply amazing.
-DP
p.s. I am engrossed in it
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: psy on December 27, 2008, 08:51:51 PM
Quote from: "Deprogrammed"
Quote from: "psy"
Quote from: "Deprogrammed"
The Light On Synanon
Ya know.  I ordered that from amazon but it never got delivered.  I should do it again.  I've been wanting to read that.

I don't think ye can get it on amazon. The book is now out of print.

It's available used:
http://www.amazon.com/Light-Synanon-cor ... 858&sr=8-3 (http://www.amazon.com/Light-Synanon-corporate-cult-Pulitzer/dp/0872237613/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230428858&sr=8-3)
Also in hardback:
http://www.amazon.com/Synanon-Country-E ... 858&sr=8-8 (http://www.amazon.com/Synanon-Country-Exposed-Corporate-Pulitzer/dp/B000RKWF2E/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230428858&sr=8-8)
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Anonymous on December 28, 2008, 06:32:59 PM
three cups of tea
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Post by: Froderik on December 28, 2008, 07:37:05 PM
How to See
YOURSELF
As You Really Are

His Holiness the
Dalai Lama
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Post by: FemanonFatal2.0 on December 28, 2008, 09:59:28 PM
currently, Fornits.
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Post by: dishdutyfugitive on December 29, 2008, 10:14:17 AM
The manual to my new Amish fireplace.


I'm trying to reverse engineer this bitch and pinpoint the exact scientological powers that allow it generate massive amounts of BTU without real electricity, flame or weapons grade combustibles.
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Rachael on January 05, 2009, 11:57:55 PM
A Thousand Splendid Suns
 by Khaled Hosseini
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Post by: Anonymous on January 08, 2009, 01:43:53 PM
Pornography.
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Post by: 3xsaSeedling on January 08, 2009, 02:18:12 PM
Fornits right now...
Took about a year  but I just finished re-reading my
Stephen King collection and am now on to (ready for this?)
Revelations and Dante's Inferno!
always swore I'd read both 'someday'...



so I've done it again:  thread-killer!! ::unhappy::
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Post by: Rachael on February 23, 2009, 01:42:15 PM
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three cups of tea
Just started reading this too!
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Post by: asha-kun on February 24, 2010, 01:48:03 PM
Titus Andronicus (for the millionth time,) and The Heroin Diaries, by Nikki Sixx.
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Post by: Inculcated on February 24, 2010, 02:49:28 PM
Last night, I finished a slim copy of Robert J. Lifton’s Boundaries: Psychological Man in Revolution. Chapter 4 outlines his Protean Man. I’m making my way through Guernica. I can’t wait to get to Sean Carroll’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful which will lead nicely into Maria Sybylla Merian’s Chrysalis, my interest in which was reignited by a friend giving me Thomas Marent’s  lavishly photographed Butterfly.  I’m procrastinating a lot of other reading in favor of my current fantasy of running off and becoming a lepidopterist.
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Froderik on February 24, 2010, 06:26:35 PM
Just finished Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader

                                               - and -

The Pilgrim's Process (poems & collages by Chris Toll)
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: RTP2003 on February 24, 2010, 11:17:44 PM
The Place of Dead Roads by Wm. S. Burroughs
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Post by: seamus on March 15, 2010, 11:54:07 AM
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
Everything I know about Training and Racing sled dogs -George Attla
Title: Edited: Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Post by: Joel on March 15, 2010, 11:58:05 AM
Edited: Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Froderik on March 15, 2010, 12:04:11 PM
Finished reading Cornflakes With John Lennon (Robert Hilburn) not long ago..

Now reading Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)..
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Froderik on March 18, 2010, 12:19:18 AM
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Now reading Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)..
Just switched books and started reading DYLAN ON DYLAN: The Essential Interviews (edited by Jonathan Cott).
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Che Gookin on March 18, 2010, 08:01:49 PM
Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Piers Brendon for my at home reading.

Anthology of American Literature for my "I'm bored at work" reading.
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Inculcated on April 12, 2010, 03:49:42 PM
Tea leaves
...and Eliscu2’slink (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=30263&p=361394#p361394) to theIcarus project (http://http://theicarusproject.net/)
Which reminds me to return when I can to my unfinished reading of
Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction Edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev (http://http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100238060)
And to ask if anyone happens to know if Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History by Cathy Caruth would be worth the while.
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Che Gookin on April 14, 2010, 12:07:13 AM
The woman is making me read some book titled, "Dragon House," for my personal betterment. So far I'm noticing I'm only getting crankier with each passing chapter.
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Ursus on July 19, 2010, 09:33:29 PM
Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill. I put off this classic for the longest time, and I'm glad I did. Not sure I would have appreciated it as much when I was younger...
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Froderik on July 20, 2010, 10:03:46 AM
Quote from: "Froderik"
Quote from: "Froderik"
Now reading Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)..
Just switched books and started reading DYLAN ON DYLAN: The Essential Interviews (edited by Jonathan Cott).

Finished the Dylan book a while ago and continued with Huck Finn; finished that, now I'm reading The Popol Vuh...
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Froderik on September 06, 2010, 12:51:11 AM
The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993
The People Look Like Flowers At Last
The Roominghouse Madrigals
-by Charles Bukowski

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
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Post by: RTP2003 on September 06, 2010, 12:55:29 AM
"The Man In The High Castle" by Phillip K. Dick.
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Post by: Froderik on September 06, 2010, 12:57:37 AM
Quote from: "RTP2003"
"The Man In The High Castle" by Phillip K. Dick.

Good one; I re-read this one not too long ago... One of his best, as well as one of my favorites.
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: RTP2003 on September 06, 2010, 01:16:55 AM
Yeah, it's good shit.  Ever read "Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch?"
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Froderik on September 06, 2010, 01:00:46 PM
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Yeah, it's good shit.  Ever read "Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch?"

Yes, but it's been a while...that's one I'll have to read again. Another thing of his I've got into reading (again, in part) during these recent years is the VALIS trilogy. Sonic Youth sparked my interest in PKD by mentioning the trilogy in an article I happened to see in SPIN magazine back in the late 80's; it was soon after this that I started reading his books, beginning with VALIS.
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Post by: Froderik on November 27, 2010, 07:06:42 PM
"Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury

"The Birthday Party" and "The Room" by Harold Pinter

"The Continual Condition" by Charles Bukowski
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Froderik on December 08, 2010, 03:13:06 PM
"Come On In!" by Charles Bukowski
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Post by: seamus on December 17, 2010, 05:17:20 AM
RATIONAL RALPH touched my junk, NOW IM SUING! By seamus the GUINNESS pig. Followed by George Ross is an Idiot. By: antbody who knows jack shit.

  Gone way down on Shawn Arnot, By: Father , Doctor,Lawyer, Indian Chief, Vergil Miller Newtron; or what ever he calls himself this week.............
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Post by: Froderik on December 24, 2010, 12:03:10 AM
"I Am Ozzy" by Ozzy Osbourne .  ::evil::
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Post by: Froderik on January 14, 2011, 12:45:30 PM
"Don't Tell Me How To Drive"
Poems by: Timothy S. Meinbresse  . :tup:
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Post by: Froderik on January 23, 2011, 11:03:43 AM
Jack Chick cartoons:

Creator ot Liar?
Hi There!
The Contract!
The Execution
Somebody Goofed
The Word Became Flesh
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Post by: seamus on January 23, 2011, 10:05:52 PM
A creeal box....cause I made 2nd phase.....wheeee..im comin home :rofl:
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Post by: Froderik on February 14, 2011, 04:51:11 PM
"Blind Date" by Jerzy Kosinski
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Post by: Inculcated on February 15, 2011, 11:11:31 PM
Lately:
Trance and Treatment- Speigel and Speigel
Been up to my ass in Pema Chödrön and Thich Naht Han
Got bored and delved into The Spiritual Brain by Beauregard and O’leary
From there revisited Steven Pinker for The Stuff of Thought
The Dark Sacrament- Keily and Mckenna (won’t rule it in or out)
‘lightened up with an absolutely disturbingly pleasurable read from David Sedaris’ Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

Most recently:
Middlesex – by the guy who wrote The virgin suicides
Coma- by the guy who wrote The Beach
Skymall magazine and in flight safety instructions
IRS form 1096 instructions
 And  Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System-by Lonny Shavelson
Would rather be reading Gary Zukov’s The Dancing Wu Masters, but it’ll have to wait on the coffee table.
Sadly, refused to pay the exorbitant fees for John Briere’s texts on the list.
Additionally, a skim of Belen Mena's Pachanga was coveted dearly and deemed too rich for my blood at $195
 Will whore for Amazon. ::evil::
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Post by: Froderik on March 14, 2011, 12:18:10 PM
THE BOOK OF ANTENNAE

An Alphabet Sequence
As Composed By

DANIEL NOMO HIGGS
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Post by: D. Bryan Odd on May 08, 2011, 06:35:32 PM
You can talk about fictitious works, 'cause I haven't gotten those copyrights yet, but you better not mention any historical events without my express written consent, or I will sue you.

I am not Brian Dodd.
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Post by: webdiva on May 15, 2011, 07:46:57 PM
:rocker: One can not copyright history. Of course anyone with 1/2 a brain knows that!
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Post by: Che Gookin on May 24, 2011, 08:59:59 AM
Anything by Robin Hobb.
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Post by: RTP2003 on June 22, 2011, 02:18:38 PM
Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Side Effects by Woody Allen

How The Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman
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Post by: Inculcated on July 11, 2011, 04:19:19 PM
Read:
Having read When The Body Says No Exploring The Stress-Disease Connection- by Gabor Maté lead me to…
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close encounters with addiction- by Gabor Maté I highly recommend this and have posted as much at some lengthy detail in the a t p (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=37533&p=402566#p402566)forum.

Other recent reading:    
Nomads of the Wind The Migration of the Monarch Butterfly and Other Wonders of the Butterfly World - by Ingo Arndt
More Butterfly fodder for the weightless lilt of being unburdened by the reality of humanity.
As per Frod’s recommendation, Charles Bukowski. I happened upon The Continual Condition in the remainders... doubting I have contracted it.

Re-read:
Zeitoun- David Eggars

Will be moving on to V.S Ramachadron’s The Tell-Tale Brain: A neuroscientists quest for what makes us human.
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Post by: Samara on July 11, 2011, 04:45:43 PM
En este hermosa día en México, que estoy leyendo los datos y estadísticas para mi tesis .... golpes.
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Post by: Inculcated on July 11, 2011, 04:52:54 PM
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En este hermosa día en México, que estoy leyendo los datos y estadísticas para mi tesis .... golpes.
Statistics as summer vacation reading…Not at all sure if/how this colloquialism translates, but Chupa para usted.  :heartbreak:
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Post by: Froderik on July 12, 2011, 01:11:37 PM
Quote from: "RTP2003"
Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Side Effects by Woody Allen

I liked reading those little books by Woody Allen; I read that one, and one called "Horsefeathers."

I got turned on to Celine via reading Bukowsi; read "Journey to the End of the Night" years ago (Also, I had known that Jim Morrison wrote a song inspired by its title, if not its thematics.) Later on I found a copy of another good one by him called "Guignol's Band," which I still have...
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Post by: RTP2003 on July 12, 2011, 11:28:34 PM
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Quote from: "RTP2003"
Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Side Effects by Woody Allen

I liked reading those little books by Woody Allen; I read that one, and one called "Horsefeathers."

I got turned on to Celine via reading Bukowsi; read "Journey to the End of the Night" years ago (Also, I had known that Jim Morrison wrote a song inspired by its title, if not its thematics.) Later on I found a copy of another good one by him called "Guignol's Band," which I still have...

Have you ever read Castle To Castle by Celine?  KInd of an erratic read, but interesting.  It's the true story of the author and a bunch of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers and collaborators retreating from the advancing Allied armies.  Celine actually did write some propaganda pamphlets for the Nazis during the Vichy France regime, and so earned a spot with the retreating Germans.  No one in the party really knew who he was or what exactly he was doing with them; they had a vague notion that somehow he had ties to Partei big shots, so he was reluctantly accepted as they retreated from "Castle To Castle".
Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Froderik on July 14, 2011, 04:44:45 PM
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Quote from: "Froderik"
Quote from: "RTP2003"
Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Side Effects by Woody Allen

I liked reading those little books by Woody Allen; I read that one, and one called "Horsefeathers."

I got turned on to Celine via reading Bukowsi; read "Journey to the End of the Night" years ago (Also, I had known that Jim Morrison wrote a song inspired by its title, if not its thematics.) Later on I found a copy of another good one by him called "Guignol's Band," which I still have...

Have you ever read Castle To Castle by Celine?  KInd of an erratic read, but interesting.  It's the true story of the author and a bunch of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers and collaborators retreating from the advancing Allied armies.  Celine actually did write some propaganda pamphlets for the Nazis during the Vichy France regime, and so earned a spot with the retreating Germans.  No one in the party really knew who he was or what exactly he was doing with them; they had a vague notion that somehow he had ties to Partei big shots, so he was reluctantly accepted as they retreated from "Castle To Castle".

No, I haven't read that one, and had not heard of it until now, thanks!
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Post by: davidchatman on July 25, 2011, 02:20:31 AM
I am reading "Willow" by  Julia Hoban. nice book to read. I recommend you
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Post by: Froderik on August 04, 2011, 10:50:14 PM
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (1-4)

Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon

The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukov

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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Post by: jsonmure on February 09, 2012, 01:34:21 AM
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson is my favorite book and lastly I have read it.
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Post by: Ursus on February 09, 2012, 11:34:56 PM
Hiroshima, by John Hersey (©1946)

(http://http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/59/c0/42cac060ada09dcf4402f110.M.jpg) (http://http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/AtomicEffects-Hiroshima.jpg/200px-AtomicEffects-Hiroshima.jpg)
On right: Hiroshima in ruins, October 1945, two months after the atomic bomb exploded[/list][/list]

Of possible interest:

Title: Re: What are you reading?
Post by: Che Gookin on March 26, 2015, 08:45:11 PM
The Pirate Hunter

Real life story of Captain Kidd, turns out he wasn't quite a pirate.