Anyone still Read Books?

Rolling Blackouts

Rolling Blackouts

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I've yet to run across any recommended reading threads on StP.
I usually travel with a good novel, a local native plants guide if possible, and of course, that good old C.C.
Off the top of my head:

--1984, George Orwell (fucking classic)
--Endgame, Derrick Jensen
--Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
--Recipes for Disaster, Crimethinc
--Steal This Book, Abbie Hoffman (outdated, but somehow still revolutionary)
--Fight Club, Chuck Palahnuik


(Sidenote) Is there any way to edit the typo in the title?
 
1. Fahrenhiet 451
2. 1984
3. The Naked and the Dead
4. The Terminal Man
5. Manson Now
6. How Green Was My Valley
7. Get In The Van
8. Get It On
9. 9/11 Commision Report
10. Tour Smart
11. Bruford
12. Never Cry Wolf
13. Rotten
14. The Holy Qu'ran
15. The Torah
16. The New Testement
17. Slaughter of the Innocent
18. One can make the difference
19. Doctor Zchivago
20. The Urantia Book.

When you are done with those, I'll turn you on to twenty more....
 
any Chuck Palahnuik book is good. when i was traveling i read alot, but im so busy now i cant find a whole lot of time. about 4 chapters in a book right now, had it for about a week.
 
yes I read.
Not as much as I used to but I read.
at the moment: Rolling Nowhere written by Ted Conover.
 
'The Manuscript Found in Saragossa', Jan Potocki
'Autobiography of a Supertramp', W H Davies
'Bushcraft', Mors Kochanski
'Smoke in the Lanes', Dominic Reeve
'Valis', Phillip K Dick
'High Rise', JG Ballard
'eaarth', Bill McKibben
'The Machine Stops', EM Forster. http://www.plexus.org/forster/index.html

and last, but by no means least,

'Vonu: The Search For Personal Freedom' by Rayo.
 
Currently reading:
Battle for the Mind: the physiology of religious conversions and brainwashing
There are a lot of good books on this thread so far. I cant find myself reading things for pleasure so much anymore though. Everything I get hooked on reading ends up being something more technical than pleasurable, and ends up taking ages to get through.
 
Well, this is what I read over the summer. Overall, I was pretty happy with all of them.

-A Brave New World: Huxley
-Doors of Perception: Huxley
-Heaven and Hell: Huxley
-Martin Eden: Jack London
-1984: Orwell
-Crime and Punishment: Dostoyevsky
-Social Contract: Rousseau
-Into The Wild: Krakauer
-Fear and Loathing in Vegas: Thompson
 
Puckett said:
any Chuck Palahnuik book is good. when i was traveling i read alot, but im so busy now i cant find a whole lot of time. about 4 chapters in a book right now, had it for about a week.
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The new one is terrible I was not impressed
 
I kinda stop reading when everything started being in serise. U get hooked on a story, then have to hunt all over creation to find the rest of it. I am not familure with the books mentioned so far. Are any of them dealing with surviving the colaps of the country? I found a really good story couple yrs ago where the government & all technology failed. Can't remember the title. It was a good story, but I couldn't Finnish it couse I couldn't find the rest of the books in the series. Would LOVE to find more storys like it.
 
Series drive me nuts as well. I think I know what book you are talking about. I'll see if I can find the name of it.
 
dolittle said:
I kinda stop reading when everything started being in serise. U get hooked on a story, then have to hunt all over creation to find the rest of it. I am not familure with the books mentioned so far. Are any of them dealing with surviving the colaps of the country? I found a really good story couple yrs ago where the government & all technology failed. Can't remember the title. It was a good story, but I couldn't Finnish it couse I couldn't find the rest of the books in the series. Would LOVE to find more storys like it.
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Is there any chance that it was the Fourth Realm Trilogy by John Twelve Hawks?
 
last books i took on the road were stranger in a strange land for fiction and a translation of yoga sutra for to keep my mind occupied, its a fucking guidebook through waking and not waking consciousness, pretty accurate too...
 
A lot of good reads in this thread.
My favorites:

- "Player Piano" Kurt Vonnegut
- "The Call of the Wild" Jack London
- "At the Mountains of Madness" HP Lovecraft
- "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion" by JRR Tolkien
- "Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk (I think he gets a lot of shit from critics, but he's one of the most original writers of our time)

As for non-fiction, I love anything about physics, anthropology and nature as long as it's from an objective standpoint and the writer doesn't get his personal beliefs, views and feelings involved.
 
orwell and huxley are some of my favorites :) as well as jack kerouac, "On the Road" and "The Dharma Bums" never get old
 
Be Here Now by Baba Ram Dass
Any Kerouac especially the Dharma Bums
Wild: An elemental journey by Jay Griffiths
House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski
Only Revolutions ^
Vedic Literature
 
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