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 FRACTALife
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 Favorite book? 
#594548 - 10/28/11 08:42 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Mine would have to be Siddhartha.
It is such a great book, if you haven't read it then read it now.
I love staying in and reading it, meditating, and 
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FRACTALife
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 Re: Favorite book? [Re: FRACTALife]
#594550 - 10/28/11 08:43 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Also, it's a great book for anyone who wants to get into meditation.
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CosmicFool
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: FRACTALife]
#594556 - 10/28/11 08:58 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Alice in Wonderland
the Hobbit
Eyes of the Dragon
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KaptKid
Spaced Pirate
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: FRACTALife]
#594562 - 10/28/11 09:29 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Treasure Island
Edited by KaptKid (10/28/11 09:30 PM)
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Spenner
The Spenner
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: KaptKid]
#594565 - 10/28/11 09:44 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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American Psycho
House of Leaves
The Very Hungry Caterpillar 
Also I own this book, haven't learned how to read it the right way yet.
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 Stoneth
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: KaptKid]
#594566 - 10/28/11 09:45 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Outsiders!
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nannybooboo
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: Stoneth] 2
#594567 - 10/28/11 10:00 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Remember Be Here Now - Ram Dass
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
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Manitou
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Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson the great
Pretty much any books from Carlos Castaneda (shamanism)
Artificial Paradise by Charles Beaudelaire (book on hashish (with opium in it), opium & wine during the years 1800's, really great!
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Moi qui avait accepté leurs lois
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: Manitou]
#594585 - 10/29/11 01:52 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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True Grit- Charles Portis
Republic- Plato
Journey to Ixtlan- Castaneda
Leaves of Grass- Walt Whitman
Where are the Children- Mary Higgins Clark
Punish the Sinners- John Saul
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CosmicFool
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: Spenner] 1
#594598 - 10/29/11 06:42 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Spenner said:
House of Leaves
very trippy
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iStoner
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: CosmicFool]
#594601 - 10/29/11 08:47 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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the giver
hitchikers guide to the galaxy
brave new world
1984
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DungenessDank
Lord of the Flies
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: iStoner]
#594604 - 10/29/11 09:28 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thebooedocksaint
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Things I've started to read
Ender's Game Series Mostly Finished
Lord of the Rings Trilogy Finished
Eisenhorn Omnibus Finished
Ravenor Omnibus Finished
The Elminster Series from The Forgotten Realms Last Two Books To Go
The Drizzt Series from The Forgotten Realms Last Three Books To Go
The Illiad Finished
The Odyssey Finished
The Divine Comedy Finished
The Things They Carried Finished
Thing I want to read:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Bicycle Diaries
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Spenner
The Spenner
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I really want to read Fear and Loathing, The Doors of Perception, and other cool psychedelic related books 
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iStoner
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: Spenner]
#594616 - 10/29/11 11:44 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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i have a book that contains the doors of perception, and heaven and hell. Such great books!
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nannybooboo
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: CosmicFool]
#594626 - 10/29/11 01:29 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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CosmicFool said:
Spenner said:
House of Leaves
very trippy
My old band name about 7 years ago was called Ash Tree Lane from that book. 
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RasJeph
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: Stoneth]
#594634 - 10/29/11 03:42 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Stoneth said:
Outsiders!
Stay Gold! One of my favorites too!
I've gotta say Hitchhikers Guide probably. The collection with all the shorts in one book.
I really liked Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Its like a darker Alice in Wonderland almost. The claymation movie is OK too, but of course the book was better.
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Jefferson
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: RasJeph]
#594648 - 10/29/11 05:09 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Assuming that your favorite book means just one I'd have to say Post Office by Charles Bukowski but I'm pretty sure if I was trapped on a remote island forever then reading this book over and over would probably drive me mad. That's not to say it isn't a really good book too. Of course I could rattle off a dozen more books but this topic said Favorite book? not favorite books.
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Connoisseur
Of Earth
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: Jefferson]
#594652 - 10/29/11 05:16 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Diary of a Brown Buffalo
DMT the Spirit Molecule
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Jefferson
Space Cowboy
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Is Hustler a book?
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Thebooedocksaint
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: Jefferson]
#594659 - 10/29/11 05:34 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Jefferson said:
Is Hustler a book?
If so, we must include comic books and other magazines though. Which sounds like a good other thread though.
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"Je pense, donc je suis (I am thinking, therefore I am)." -Rene Descartes
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ninja cat 09
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I'd have to say J.L. Bourne Day by Day Armageddon, I also enjoyed reading The Serpent and the Rainbow, by Wade Davis.
EDIT: judging by what wikipedia says it's nothing like the movie.
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Edited by ninja cat 09 (10/29/11 06:01 PM)
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Jefferson
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Thebooedocksaint said:
Jefferson said:
Is Hustler a book?
If so, we must include comic books and other magazines though. Which sounds like a good other thread though.
Raises more questions man. Like what is Mad Magazine? It has magazine in the title but its nothing but cartoons, art, satire, and parody. Does that make it a comic book or a comic comic book or a magazine?
 thinks I need to smoke some weed man 
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Thebooedocksaint
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: Jefferson]
#594666 - 10/29/11 06:18 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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And what about shonen jump, it's got a magazine subscription and cost; but it's like 100 pages of manga (comics).
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"Je pense, donc je suis (I am thinking, therefore I am)." -Rene Descartes
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Jefferson
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you just blew my mind man!!!
Doesn't anyone "read" hentai anymore?
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Thebooedocksaint
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: Jefferson]
#594668 - 10/29/11 06:32 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Jefferson said:
you just blew my mind man!!!
Doesn't anyone "read" hentai anymore?
 You don't admit to that dawg.
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Manitou
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The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Clockwork Orange
Alice in Wonderland
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Doors of the Perception
Rum Diary
Apocalypse Now
The Last of the Mohicans
Any books by Don Miguel Ruiz are also really interesting, they are about Nagual shamanism, just like Castaneda, but since Ruiz was born into that culture, he knows what he is talking about. Castaneda, during the writing of the books, didn't quite understand what he was writing, as he was learning at the same time.
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Pour un instant, j'ai respiré très fort
Ça m'a permis de visiter mon corps
Des inconnus vivent en roi chez moi
Moi qui avait accepté leurs lois
J'ai perdu mon temps à gagner du temps
J'ai besoin de me trouver une histoire à me conter
Pour instant j'ai oublié mon nom
Harmonium - Pour un instant
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BeekEr
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: Jefferson]
#594679 - 10/29/11 09:00 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Jefferson said:
Is Hustler a book?
The Tao of Wu
And God Is Not Great
Fight Club
& I'm not gonna lie, when i was younger i really enjoyed Harry Potter books, now i just think hes lame as fuck.
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Jefferson
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: BeekEr]
#594698 - 10/30/11 12:26 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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BeekEr said:
Jefferson said:
Is Hustler a book?
And God Is Not Great
& I'm not gonna lie, when i was younger i really enjoyed Harry Potter books, now i just think hes lame as fuck.
God is not Great was pretty good... maybe... it was a little great too. Well maybe not if you're a christian, jew, mormon, or muslim.
I dunno dude I don't think there's much shame in admitting reading the Harry Potter books. The movies didn't do so well because only kids went to see them. Besides I read those when I turned 20 just to see what all the hub bub was with all those Evangelists... After reading all 7 books I still don't fucking understand it. Those christians can be pretty stoopid and crazy sometimes. They aren't bad books(The Twilight series on the other hand is shit) in fact the last few had me turning pages really fast and enthusiastically especially that last one. I read that one in two days and I've never read a book that size that quick before.
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RasJeph
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: BeekEr]
#594723 - 10/30/11 07:14 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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BeekEr said:
I'm not gonna lie, when i was younger i really enjoyed Harry Potter books, now i just think hes lame as fuck.
No need for embarrassment. I still like Harry Potter. Although after watching the movies with Rifftrax I'll probably never see them the same again.
Also - I forgot the Old Man and the Sea and To Kill A Mockingbird. I had to read both of them twice in high school because I failed english that year. I didn't mind though, I really enjoyed both books.
The Scarlet Letter was what made me fail. Fuck that book and fuck the guy who wrote it. I read 2 pages of it and told the teacher I wasn't coming back until the end of the semester.
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Captain Caveman
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: Jefferson]
#594726 - 10/30/11 07:24 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Jefferson said:
Is Hustler a book?
Rendevous With Rama - Arthur C. Clark
The Talisman & The Stand - Stephen King
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Jefferson
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: RasJeph]
#594728 - 10/30/11 09:23 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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RasJeph said:
No need for embarrassment. I still like Harry Potter. Although after watching the movies with Rifftrax I'll probably never see them the same again.
I say the same about most movies rifftrax does. Even the ones I previously liked. But transformers is waaaaaaaaaaay funnier with Rifftrax.
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RasJeph said:The Scarlet Letter was what made me fail. Fuck that book and fuck the guy who wrote it. I read 2 pages of it and told the teacher I wasn't coming back until the end of the semester.
Yeah as a teenager I was really hoping that book might be a little more erotic. Who knew a book about adultery wouldn't have any fuckin sex parts. That would be like Mary Shelly's Frankenstein if all the monster did was wax emo and didn't kill anyone. But at least Easy A was really good.
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BeekEr
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Re: Favorite book? [Re: RasJeph]
#594786 - 10/30/11 08:43 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Jefferson said:
BeekEr said:
Jefferson said:
Is Hustler a book?
And God Is Not Great
& I'm not gonna lie, when i was younger i really enjoyed Harry Potter books, now i just think hes lame as fuck.
God is not Great was pretty good... maybe... it was a little great too. Well maybe not if you're a christian, jew, mormon, or muslim.
I dunno dude I don't think there's much shame in admitting reading the Harry Potter books. The movies didn't do so well because only kids went to see them. Besides I read those when I turned 20 just to see what all the hub bub was with all those Evangelists... After reading all 7 books I still don't fucking understand it. Those christians can be pretty stoopid and crazy sometimes. They aren't bad books(The Twilight series on the other hand is shit) in fact the last few had me turning pages really fast and enthusiastically especially that last one. I read that one in two days and I've never read a book that size that quick before.
Ya the HP books were great. I never read all of them, pretty much cause the movies made it such a fad. The twilight series is shit! Movies books and all. Nothing about that series intrigues me in the slightest.
RasJeph said:
BeekEr said:
I'm not gonna lie, when i was younger i really enjoyed Harry Potter books, now i just think hes lame as fuck.
No need for embarrassment. I still like Harry Potter. Although after watching the movies with Rifftrax I'll probably never see them the same again.
The Scarlet Letter was what made me fail. Fuck that book and fuck the guy who wrote it. I read 2 pages of it and told the teacher I wasn't coming back until the end of the semester.
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nannybooboo said:
Remember Be Here Now - Ram Dass
YES!!! Mine too 
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