What are you currently reading? v2

[Marmalade]

I'm reading this week's Lidl leaflet. Little gem lettuce @ 79p with 50% extra next week, and a cool bamboo rug for 7.99. Wooohoo!

 

[Doody OD]

Living in the end times - Slavoj Sizek

Finding it pretty hard going really but also rewarding. Think I may need to read some material before this to get the most out of it.

How are you finding it, I would have done a lot of study on Lacan, is Zizek still drawing heavily on Lacan's work?

 

[coors light]

reading (The general) at the moment, its about the life of martin cahill an Irish criminal who was murdered by the Ira.

 

[justinsayno]

Just gunna have a cup of tea then begin 'The brotherhood of the screaming abyss' by Dennis Mckenna :D

 

[ructions]

I'm reading "Sick City" by Tony O'Neill at the moment. I'm just under a 1/3rd of the way through it and so far its a brilliant book. The first part of the book is introducing and getting to know the different characters. Everyone in the book is totally nuts! 8( The one thing that all of them have in common is drugs, they all take massive amounts of drugs. Every drug you can imagine.....

I've been glued to this book since I started it. The characters are all totally off the wall, mad bastards! Most of them are really likable, although there are a few dodgy heads as well. There is really strong language through-out the book. Some of the stories the characters tell are outrageous and some are really crude. I bought the e-book version of this book for my Kindle. My eyes sometimes get tired reading, so I normally have the text kind'a large on my Kindle, but I had to make the text really small today coz I was reading it on the bus. The language and the descriptions in the book were that harsh that I didn't want anyone on the bus reading over my shoulder. This book is not for the faint-hearted! Its shocking and yet really funny at the same time, with some tragedies thrown in.

Its a fast moving book, I reckon I'll read it fairly quickly. The author's name is Tony O'Neill. He seems to have written a good few books and all of them seem to center around drugs. That guy Shane who writes the blog "Memories of a Heroinhead" recommended this author, I'm really glad of his recommendation. I'll deffo be reading more of Tony o'Neills books.

If you enjoy reading books about people getting up to crazy stuff on drugs then you'll enjoy this book. I'm off to bed to read it now. Nite all!

Here is the link to "Sick City" : (you can read the first few chapters for free on Amazon)

http://www.amazon.com/Sick-City-A-N...UTF8&qid=1374455599&sr=8-1&keywords=sick+city

 

[matt<3ketamine]

Battle royale, very good so far

 

[alasdairm]

just finished this:

very evocative of growing up a teenager in the uk in the early 80s.

alasdair

 

[Limpet_Chicken]

Some PDF files from people who have designed and built their own cyclotrons and linacs. I fancy having a go at it.

 

[alasdairm]

^ what would you do with it?

alternately, build a tesla coil or a laser

alasdair

 

[Limpet_Chicken]

I figure it would be a great way to get those elements for my collection that would otherwise be bloody difficult to get hold of, from neptunium upwards, (americium of course, being available much more easily than the rest in tiny quantities). depleted uranium on the other hand would be perfect for that purpose, at least, for small samples of 239Pu and neptunium, via alpha bombardment of beryllium as a neutron emitter, and then subsequent neutron capture and separation of the resulting mixture of nuclides.

And of course, for all sorts of other fun experiments, and practically useful stuff, such as producing X-rays, bremmstrahlung, etc., electron-beam welding, tritium generation, I'd imagine could be useable for pumping a plasma pinch in a spheromak (a kind of spherical tokamak design, surprise surprise, as the name suggests,which is something else I've long wanted to have a crack at some time, as apparently, it may be possible to use harmonics created within the pinch itself to sustain a reaction, rather than solely external pumping, which is the downfall of most fusion setups to date, that they haven't yet been able to self-feed the magnetic bottle that stabilizes it, the plasma hits the side of the reactor vessel and immediately cools, stopping D/T or DD fusion.

Would be neat as hell to try, even if I couldn't (and I don't rate my chances of succeeding all too high) realize selfcontainment.




The question, alasdair, is not what would I do with it, but what WOULDN'T I do with it

And besides, who the heck wouldn't want their own particle accelerator to fuck about with?

 

[parttime crackhead]

You need locked up.



I'm still charging on with the 3rd Game of Thrones book. It's a fucking mission due to having watched the TV series. I've still got half this one & another full book to go before I'm going to get anything majorly new to the story. There's a few differences (enough to mean I can't just skip ahead) and a bit of extra detail to keep me interested but I essentially know what happens for the next good while. It's a cunt. Gonna power through though.

Got 1984 queued up for afterwards. Haven't read it since school.

 

[brimz]

I'll have a loan of that brimz son .
Just finished ' One flew over the cuckoo's nest '
Been years since I first read it , that crafty ol' Indian .

It's a loan mate

Real eye opener even for me .

 

[pinkpapaver]

I'll have a loan of that brimz son .
Just finished ' One flew over the cuckoo's nest '
Been years since I first read it , that crafty ol' Indian .

I love that book. i might give it another read. Is the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy worth a read? i want to read something nice n easy. I've been reading the bible. I've got to the end of exodus. It's just like Hello or something all that name dropping.
I lent one flew over to someone I used to work with he wasn't impressed with it. i was amazed. i love the film too. I lost it during the drug drought.

 

[knock]

is the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy worth reading?

Fuck yes. But that's the teenage geek in me speaking. (He still speaks quite loudly, with a half-broken voice)

Just get it PP!

 

[The Liberal Media]

Just started this and I was thinking, this guy's batshit crazy..

It became a bit clearer when I read this



My kinda book

Interesting bloke, had some cool ideas on his own interpretation of the yoga sutras as well as all the dolphin and brain engineering books
Floating around on the net you can find Francis Jeffrey's "So Far Workshop" & also the workshop Lilly did with Claudio Naranjo

 

[Limpet_Chicken]

Why the hades do you say that, crackhead.

Its hardly like I want to make a bomb...I certainly do not. Just to fill out my element collection. The likes of technetium, polonium, the transuranics with a sensible half-life, and promethium are not particularly easy to get hold of.

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

Is it legal Limpet? Just asking...

 

[Limpet_Chicken]

AFAIK it depends on the quantity. Certainly in the US, there are threshold levels, before which one needs no licensing.

 

[parttime crackhead]

I just imagine you cooking up a nuclear reactor in your garden shed.

 

[Limpet_Chicken]

I am far more interested in clean, aneutronic fusion than I am in setting up somethihing like, say, a fast breeder reactor, ..disposing of spent fuel could attract unwanted scrutiny. Not that I would be doing anything shady, I am a man of science, not of islam. WMD, I want nothing whatsoever to do with; even outside the context of that terrorist threat, I have always been dead against NBC warfare.

Surely, there can't be that many people who have never wanted to own their own particle accelerator/fusion reactor ?

And need locked up? thats more than just a tad hypocritical, considering this is a drug user message board. Explain yourself.