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What book are you currently reading?

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Xtc <3 said:
Just finished 'Infinite Love is the only truth, everything else is illusion' by David Icke.
An excellent book which provides a lot of insight into the 'Matrix' we live in, I love his writing style and dry humour as well.
Currently im reading Huxleys 'The Doors of Perception' for the 6th time. Timeless classic imo.
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sounds good...

I stiiiiiill haven't read the doors!
 
Naked Lunch (W. S. Burroughs), yaaay! I already read Junky and loved it. It took me forever to get N.L. in English, and I started reading it yesterday. So far, it's really great. I really love Burroughs' style. I've already seen the movie, but apparently, it's very different from the book.
 
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In 1990, Kim Traill set off for the former Soviet Union with a smattering of vocabulary, a lust for wild adventure and a swag of youthful idealism about the great Communist experiment. It would take some time for the scales to fall from her eyes.

Over the next 17 years Kim discovered a Russia few tourists see. She ate some of the world′s worst food, went to places few of us would venture, made good friends and met a lot of seriously dodgy people. On collective farms and on 40-hour train journeys, at red carpet parties and in marriage agencies, on nuclear bases and in the frozen wastes of Siberia, she navigated the country′s changing fortunes, bearing witness to the horrific events of war, nuclear accidents, drug and alcohol addiction and ethnic rivalries. She even tried to make herself into a good Russian woman, abandoning her uniform of jeans, boots and Russian prison coat for heels and a skin-tight dress.

Red Square Blues is a full-blooded charge through a crumbling empire as it lurches from dark power to open society and back again. It is an eye-opening portrait of an eternally surprising country, leavened with the kind of bone-dry humour only life in a repressive police state can produce.
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Recently been introduced to this, hilarious Irish author and read 2 of his books, if you want funny as fuck then these are for you:

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Sami Macbeth is not a master criminal He’s not even a minor one. He’s not a jewel thief. He’s not a safe-cracker. He’s not an expert in explosives. Sami plays guitar and wants to be a rock god but keeps getting side-tracked by unforeseen circumstances.

Fifty-four hours ago Sami was released from prison. Thirty-sex hours ago he slept with the woman of his dreams at the Savoy. An hour ago his train blew up. Now he’s carrying a rucksack through London’s West End and has turned himself into the most wanted terrorist in the country.

Fast, funny, hip and violent, BOMBPROOF is a non-stop adventure full of unforgettable characters and a heart-warming hero – Sami Macbeth – a man with the uncanny ability to turn a desperate situation into a hopeless one.
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Just bought 'The Good Theifs Guide to Amsterdam' by Chris Ewan because it was the cheapest, decent looking book, I could find in the shop.
 
you're thinking about the yage letters :) queer is about burroughs in mexico and his gay pursuits
 
I'm ashamed to say that I still haven't finished The Idiot by Dostoevsky, I just haven't had the time with all my work.

Might sit down on sunday or something and just read for the whole day, want to finish it :)
 
After about twenty years of refusing to read it (I don't read war books) I've just read it for the second time. Class book, really hilarious laugh-out-loud in places, dark look at the futility of war.
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And because that was so good I read this one by him too. On the whole its crap. But not totally. First it contains some of the most vehement, vitriolic anti-government information (as to how the American government works and all the corruption that goes on) you could ever read. Nominally the book is about a jewish family. In reality it all turns into the biggest anti-Kissinger rant ever published. Its a venomous political rant thinly disguised as a novel.

And secondly it (my edition does anyway) contains a couple of pages half way in that I've never seen done in any book. Heller just stops writing the novel and confides with the reader how shit the book is. Its around this point that he all but stops the pretence of writing the novel and just lays full on into Kissinger. Heller must have had some interesting discussions with his publishers, and his lawyers, about this book.

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Yeh, I'm thrashing my way towards the ending of another of his books - Something Happened.

It's about a malcontent mid-ranking executive, his family, his whores, his fears and his regrets.
 
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