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What book(s) are you reading now?

I really liked Naked Lunch but I got through it way too quickly.

Tell me Bukowski goes and I've heard and and read so much about him to the point that i think he interests me but am yet to read anything of his.

I'm reading the KGB and the World, The Mitrokhin Archive II at the moment by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin.
I'm humbled more and more everyday by the things im constantly learning.

Reminds how me much I know as I opposed to what I don't know.


How does the saying go, It is only when you realise that you know nothing at all that you realise that you know something? Its along those lines anyway.
 
Rules of life by Richard templar

Its a self help book that a friend reccomended to me.

Dont like the title though, to me the world 'rule' implies that people shouldnt live by their own. Should be 'Things that you should know but probably do but just dont enforce them upon you way of life and you should't feel pressured in to doing so.........of life'

Much better
 
A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul. Interesting writer; great subject. He goes down to the American South and talks to both whites and blacks freely, being neither himself.
 
rathersilly said:
Tim Winton - Breath.

I'd always been a little skeptical of "universally acclaimed" writers - not really sure why... I'd never even picked up anything of his, probably because it's the kind of work that'd be on a curriculum... I just drank the whole thing in a sitting and was absolutely spellbound from start to finish.

The central theme, and the nature of the protagonist rings so familiar with something many people here experience...
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Yeah, I found it was a compulsive read, as Winton's work generally is. Didn't think it was his best though, by any means. Dirt Music would have to be my favourite.
 
i tried to read catch 22, it didn't hold me past three chapters. i couldn't get into it right now, i've heard it's great.
reading, turn coat by jim butcher now. love the series.
 
Curently:

A collecton of Lovecraft stories.
Drawing Down The Moon- Margot Adler (a summary of wiccan/pagan goups in Amerca, so its not holding my attention to well)
The Tree of Life- Israel Regardie (a look into occultism, qaballah, Golden Dawn tradtions, Thelema)
Book of Tao- I'm always reading this one :)
Bhagavad Gita- same as above

Not readng much for pleasure as for knowledge of late, though am realsng that the true knowledge is more found in doing then reading.
 
i just finished "love the people" by bill hicks absolutely brilliant the man is a genius
:)

im about to start bret easton ellis's "the rules of attraction"

im also reading the filth a graphic novel by grant morrison the man is my idol
 
Jean Jacques Rousseau- The Social Contract
Guy De Maupassant- Bel-Ami
Soren Kierkegaard- Repetition
 
Awesome to see so many others are reading Bret Easton Ellis! I am reading David Foster Wallce "The Broom of the System". Anyone else like DFW? You should read Infinite Jest, anyone who wants a LONG excellent read. It's madness.

Fasteddie, Isabel Allende is an excellent writer. Her short stories are beautifully written-very witty. I recommened her writings to anyone who likes latin american culture or reading in general ;).
 
Currently reading Snow by Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish author who won the Nobel for literature some years back. It's a wonderful novel, politically-oriented, realist fiction that gives many insights into the Turkish psyche and society. Reads somewhat like Rushdie, minus the biting humor.
 
Sgt Dan Mills - Sniper One

Stephen king - IT

just finished Slash's autobiography
 
About to start Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams, with the runner-up being either an Osprey work on the comparison between WWII Japanese and American carriers, or David Cordingly's Under the Black Flag.
 
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