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snuffleupagus · 05-28-2007, 07:34 AM

Blood Done Sign My Name...summer assignment. Its about the town I live in though, so its kind of interesting.

See, when I was little, my dad was friends with a guy that had lived in this town his whole life and he used to show up completely unannounced at my house and talk about the 60s and 70s to my brother and me (this is such a long sentence). Its pretty cool to read a book with those stories in it. And it didn’t beat around the bush at the beginning- I hate books that take forever to get to the plot. So maybe I wont mind reading it…

snuffleupagus · 05-28-2007, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by potvinpothead

the things they carried

That is a kick-ass book!

yeeyee123 · 05-28-2007, 08:54 PM

everything is illumated by Johnathan Safran Foer.

So far a good book, reminds me a bit of borat as I read it

**Captain Cannabis** · 05-28-2007, 09:02 PM

my chem lab manual

pullmeunder · 05-28-2007, 09:10 PM

arthur c clarke - childhood's end

stoner_logic · 05-28-2007, 09:16 PM

im drudging through Chronicle's: volume one by bob dylan.

ebolaman · 05-29-2007, 11:52 PM

i can't seem to just read one book at a time cuz i like having options according to my mood. right now im reading the bible(about to start exodus) and the third wave(recommended for anyone who wants a pretty accurate idea on what our civilization is evolving into).

tedkennedy · 05-30-2007, 05:23 AM

"Monster", some autobiography of an LA GANG member turned black civil rights guy. its meh... its got enough violence but not enough drugs/sex

Burner of trees · 05-30-2007, 02:57 PM

i read moster before...its ok, dudes were fucking gangster though.

Man in Black · 05-31-2007, 02:23 AM

Dylan Thomas-Collected Stories.

This man writes the most disturbing stories I have ever read, as disturbing if not more than Poe. But they are also hauntingly beautiful, very psychadelic and dreamlike, at least the ones I've read so far.

I think Poe probably influenced him a lot. They both died young and were alcoholics, but so are all poets.

tedkennedy · 05-31-2007, 04:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Burner of trees

i read moster before...its ok, dudes were fucking gangster though.

i read past the hundreth page and its actually getting more interesting.

yea there were "gangster" but really they were just conned into wasting their lives dieing and getting locked in prison over stupid bullshit rivalries.

it takes a bigger man to try to end violence.

im most shocked by the fact that the dude commited X amount of murders and been in jail multiple times before he was even 18 years old.

BearsysRevenge · 06-18-2007, 06:50 PM

way to ruin the book for me ted lol j/p

i'm reading Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy... good book, really good book

Silverleaf · 06-20-2007, 04:50 PM

Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott. I feel like I'm becoming more paranoid about everything as I'm reading it, though... Fuckin' X-Files shit, trust no one, all that.

It's a great book, though -- I highly recommend it, not only to people interested in the assassination, but if you're into alternate histories and the politics of the 1950s-1980s, it's totally up your alley.

Jakeisuseless · 06-20-2007, 05:28 PM

Lolita

Silverleaf · 07-09-2007, 07:03 PM

Just read Don DeLillo's Libra which is a fantastic novel, I highly recommend picking it up. Currently on Conspiracy by Anthony Summers. Reading patches from The Final Report of the Warren Commission on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy as I see fit. Trying to manage my study of the kill from a topic-point of view, reading about the kill zone first and the immediate cover-up, then Oswald, then Ruby, then the other possible conspirators, that sort of thing. Damned interesting, the Kennedy assassinations.

Silverleaf · 07-09-2007, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by snuffleupagus

That is a kick-ass book!

I'd like to second that motion. It really fucks with your head, because he doesn't define what a war story is until halfway through the book, and then you realize that the entire thing is extrapolated... or is it??? Totally mind-boggling. Great read.

edit: My favorite is The Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong

07-16-2007, 05:55 PM

atheist manifesto: the case against christianity, judaism, and islam by michel onfray

tamarussia · 07-23-2007, 10:38 AM

A Clockwork Orange is definitely a better book than movie, although depressing, also enlightening

verklingen · 07-23-2007, 10:46 AM

Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins

Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past ... - Google Book Search

Flamingnun · 07-23-2007, 10:49 AM

new harry potter

05-28-2007, 07:34 AM	#81 (permalink)
snuffleupagus the queen slug Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 176 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Blood Done Sign My Name...summer assignment. Its about the town I live in though, so its kind of interesting. See, when I was little, my dad was friends with a guy that had lived in this town his whole life and he used to show up completely unannounced at my house and talk about the 60s and 70s to my brother and me (this is such a long sentence). Its pretty cool to read a book with those stories in it. And it didn’t beat around the bush at the beginning- I hate books that take forever to get to the plot. So maybe I wont mind reading it… __________________ this world is hopeless, but i love it anyway.

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ebolaman Ebolaman Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 120 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	i can't seem to just read one book at a time cuz i like having options according to my mood. right now im reading the bible(about to start exodus) and the third wave(recommended for anyone who wants a pretty accurate idea on what our civilization is evolving into). __________________ Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'T is the majority In this, as all, prevails. Assent, and you are sane; Demur, -- you're straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain. -Emily Dickinson

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tedkennedy now 14% blacker Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3,335 Thanks: 4 Thanked 112 Times in 73 Posts	"Monster", some autobiography of an LA GANG member turned black civil rights guy. its meh... its got enough violence but not enough drugs/sex __________________ BRACe YO' SELF FOOL!

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Man in Black sic semper tyrannis Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio Posts: 646 Thanks: 106 Thanked 48 Times in 38 Posts	Dylan Thomas-Collected Stories. This man writes the most disturbing stories I have ever read, as disturbing if not more than Poe. But they are also hauntingly beautiful, very psychadelic and dreamlike, at least the ones I've read so far. I think Poe probably influenced him a lot. They both died young and were alcoholics, but so are all poets.

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BearsysRevenge Adminfiltrator Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: I've got BuffaLOVE Posts: 4,444 Thanks: 574 Thanked 139 Times in 100 Posts	way to ruin the book for me ted lol j/p i'm reading Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy... good book, really good book __________________ Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music -George Carlin

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tamarussia YaHookan Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 4 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	A Clockwork Orange is definitely a better book than movie, although depressing, also enlightening

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