#1Oct 29th, 2005
What are you reading now??
#2
RE: What are you reading
Oct 29th, 2005
Maureen Dowd's "Bushworld". It's interesting to go back and read the old columns. When the Bu****es say that everybody agreed with them, they are lying.
#4
Re: What are you reading now??
Oct 29th, 2005
Did anyone ever read huxley's door of preception heaven and hell...Oi! I found it quite beautiful 
#5
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Oct 29th, 2005Quote: Originally Posted by peapod
Nope, can't say as I've read it. Did anyone ever read huxley's door of preception heaven and hell...Oi! I found it quite beautiful
On the non-electronic front though I am reading "Our Final Hour" by Sir Martin Rees... giving the hooman population a 50-50 chance of making it outta the 21st century.
#6
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Oct 29th, 2005Quote:
Jim Morrisson did. That's how the Doors got their name.Did anyone ever read huxley's door of preception heaven and hell
#8
Re: What are you reading now??
Oct 29th, 2005
Yes, well he wrote the book on mescline..an experiment of sorts...
I took my pill at eleven. An hour and a half later, I was sitting in my study, looking intently at a small glass vase. The vase contained only three flowers-a full-blown Belie of Portugal rose, shell pink with a hint at every petal's base of a hotter, flamier hue; a large magenta and cream-colored carnation; and, pale purple at the end of its broken stalk, the bold heraldic blossom of an iris. Fortuitous and provisional, the little nosegay broke all the rules of traditional good taste.
I continued to look at the flowers, and in their living light I seemed to detect the qualitative equivalent of breathing -but of a breathing without returns to a starting point, with no recurrent ebbs but only a repeated flow from beauty to heightened beauty, from deeper to ever deeper meaning. Words like "grace" and "transfiguration" came to my mind, and this, of course, was what, among other things, they stood for.
Perhaps some mescline might be in order
I took my pill at eleven. An hour and a half later, I was sitting in my study, looking intently at a small glass vase. The vase contained only three flowers-a full-blown Belie of Portugal rose, shell pink with a hint at every petal's base of a hotter, flamier hue; a large magenta and cream-colored carnation; and, pale purple at the end of its broken stalk, the bold heraldic blossom of an iris. Fortuitous and provisional, the little nosegay broke all the rules of traditional good taste.
I continued to look at the flowers, and in their living light I seemed to detect the qualitative equivalent of breathing -but of a breathing without returns to a starting point, with no recurrent ebbs but only a repeated flow from beauty to heightened beauty, from deeper to ever deeper meaning. Words like "grace" and "transfiguration" came to my mind, and this, of course, was what, among other things, they stood for.
Perhaps some mescline might be in order
#9
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Oct 29th, 2005
Thompson's mescaline-induced story is actually a little easier to read. It likely never would have happened without Huxley though.
#10
Re: What are you reading now??
Oct 29th, 2005
I am reading Nicci French's "The Red Room" - I buy a lot of bargain books, keep adding to them, and I never make any progress. I always have stacks of books. If I don't like one, I throw in in the charity box - and don't waste anymore time.
Percy
Percy
#11
Re: What are you reading now??
Oct 29th, 2005
You should read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series uncle. It's a five-book trilogy. :P
#13
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Oct 30th, 2005
Knots & Crosses,Last Of The Mohicans,Crown Of Swords, and Shakey 
#14
Re: What are you reading now??
Oct 30th, 2005
I just opened a book called,"THERE IS A SEASON; Memoir in a garden by Patrick Lane. It is a crappy, windy, rainy, Sunday and reading seems about as good as anything else to do. I'll send you a report next week peapod, and thanks.
#15
RE: What are you reading now??
Oct 30th, 2005
The Nick Adams Stories.....Hemingway
...actually the Old Man and the Sea also by Hemingway is a good book if you have kids. You could read it to them or have them read it.
...actually the Old Man and the Sea also by Hemingway is a good book if you have kids. You could read it to them or have them read it.
#16
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Oct 30th, 2005Quote: Originally Posted by #juan
I just opened a book called,"THERE IS A SEASON; Memoir in a garden by Patrick Lane. It is a crappy, windy, rainy, Sunday and reading seems about as good as anything else to do. I'll send you a report next week peapod, and thanks.
I read that in the summer, #juan (thanks pea :P ) - on the whole, it's a beautiful, uplifting read, but be prepared for a bumpy ride; there are some very dark, disturbing parts, too.
Well worth the effort, though. I look forward to seeing what you think.
#17
RE: What are you reading now??
Oct 30th, 2005
I'm reading Ishiguro's The Remains Of The Day right now.
#18
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Oct 30th, 2005
Same down here juan, no wind tho. I would reallyyyyyyyyy! like to see his garden, its somewhere out in sanaich I have heard. Hey juan have you been to cougar anne's garden?? next time we meet up I will give you the book. If you going to tofino or up that way, you should check out cougar anne's. Its a all day trip tho.
#19
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Nov 21st, 2005
I just bought this today,and can't wait to read it. The City Of Falling Angels by John Berendt[author of Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil]..a long time since the last book 
#22
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Nov 21st, 2005
The Bourne Legacy- by Eric Van Lustbader
( excellent)
( excellent)
#23
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Nov 21st, 2005
I saw the new Al Frankin book at Coles today. It's titled "Truth" I hope he has another bestseller from it.
#24
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Nov 21st, 2005Quote: Originally Posted by peapod
Could be fun .....in a trippy kind of way.......if you do it right!!!Yes, well he wrote the book on mescline..an experiment of sorts...
I took my pill at eleven. An hour and a half later, I was sitting in my study, looking intently at a small glass vase. The vase contained only three flowers-a full-blown Belie of Portugal rose, shell pink with a hint at every petal's base of a hotter, flamier hue; a large magenta and cream-colored carnation; and, pale purple at the end of its broken stalk, the bold heraldic blossom of an iris. Fortuitous and provisional, the little nosegay broke all the rules of traditional good taste.
I continued to look at the flowers, and in their living light I seemed to detect the qualitative equivalent of breathing -but of a breathing without returns to a starting point, with no recurrent ebbs but only a repeated flow from beauty to heightened beauty, from deeper to ever deeper meaning. Words like "grace" and "transfiguration" came to my mind, and this, of course, was what, among other things, they stood for.
Perhaps some mescline might be in order
I know a 16 yr old kid that read this and then tried it out himself, but with every drug you can think of and combinations of........his parents found his "drug journal", this past Aug. after he drowned while on Crystal Meth. Very sad, and quite troubled by it, as was this young
man was.
As for what I'm reading Four Feathers by A.E.W Mason. I was told it's good ( I haven't seen the movie) ,but am having trouble getting into it.
sigh. #25
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Nov 21st, 2005
It has the same moral theme as Conrad's "Lord Jim" A good read
#26
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Nov 21st, 2005
"Everything is Illuminated" by Johnathan Safran Foer.
(And I've got "The Bedside Book of Birds" by Graeme Gibson by my bedside, courtesy of a certain legume from The Island. )
(And I've got "The Bedside Book of Birds" by Graeme Gibson by my bedside, courtesy of a certain legume from The Island.
) #27
RE: What are you reading
Nov 21st, 2005
"Djinn Rummy" by Tom Holt
Rev, I loved the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Too bad we lost Adams so soon.
Rev, I loved the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Too bad we lost Adams so soon.
#28
RE: What are you reading now??
Nov 21st, 2005
Currently reading "America: A Narrative History" by Gerge Brown Tindall.
Adams was great.
Was disappointed in the movie, loved the old English TV series.
Adams was great.
Was disappointed in the movie, loved the old English TV series.
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