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Old Dec 26, 04
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^^racy bits make the book.
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i just finished "the unbearable lightness of being" by milan kundera. /bliss
i read this book awhile ago, and if i remember correctly i was disapointed with the ending. were you?
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"History of civilization

From earliest times to present." (copyright 1966)

Its a point form account on the culture, religion, ecenomics etc. of the world starting at prehistoric man.

Im at feudal society.

This mo' fucka works better than any sleeping pill i've ever encountered.
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i've read taht one before scarface.

it puts you to sleep? weird...it has the opposite effect on me. i'm a huge fan of napoleon now.
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Old Jan 01, 05
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sharpe's escape by bernard cornwell. (heehee it's kinda about napoleon)

read it before, but i got it for christmas and, well, it's fucking sharpe!
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dan brown i think
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The Silmarillion - J R. R. Tolkien

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stupid white men by, well, i'm sure YOU know who wrote it.
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Old Jan 03, 05
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Currently im reading

Loaded

misadventures on the marijuana trail

by Robert Sabbag

It is a true story of a man who started out doing a documentery on pot smuggling in the 60s then eventually getting involved in the smuggling buisness with HA memebers and other smugglers dealers growers and the such. A surprisingly good read
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i got a sweet ass book on tape
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TV guide
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clothar the frank by jack whyte.

hopefully this one is better than uther eh?
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Well, I _was_ reading Virtual Light by William Gibson, but that was flailed on my last Van trip. So now I need to pick another. And I've got this copy of Snow Crash that's been eyeing me up lately. So I might jump on that. Or I may start reading more Heinlein or Philip K. Dick. Still not sure.
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Just finished:
Survivor
-palahniuk

Started:
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
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All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland

almost done!
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The Iliad - by Homer
i cant put it down
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I Hate Books

It must make you feel empty inside to be so dumb??
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The Iliad - by Homer
i cant put it down
really? i couldn't pick it up. i hate older books.

don quixote-funny at first, but then sucked.
dracula-how the Hell did anyone find that scary?
julius caesar conquest of gaul-my name is caesar and every summer i go up to gaul, kill the natives, return to rome, and do it all again next year (but it was actually written by caesar so it was cool).

there's a few more that i just don't want to name because i hated them ever so much.
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Old Jan 06, 05
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over the past couple of weeks i've read:

Perfume - without a doubt one of the weirdest novels i've ever read. the plot is depraved, and driven entirely by the sense of smell. very odd, but very interesting.

Disgrace by JM Coetzee - this one's actually a re-read, but i love love love this book. it's quite depressing, about life in south africa, but it's masterfully written and entirely engrossing.

Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo - Russo is one of my favourite authors; i love his wry portrayal of blue collar american life in small towns, and aspire to his dry wit. empire falls is still my favorite, but this one is quite enjoyable too, following the same essential story line.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - if you haven't read this, get on it. one of the formative novels of the dystopia genre. a bleak vision of a future where people are preconditioned and engineered to a happy, but meaningless existence.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - again, if you haven't read this, what are you waiting for. a bit hard to get into, because of the language, but one of the best and most evocative stories ever told, imo.

i'm currently reading:
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler - such a extraordinary man with such a vision. entirely warped, but interesting and crucial for any understanding of 20th century history.

Microserfs by Douglas Coupland - i love coupland, it's been too long since i've read any of his stuff. (and he's coming here in a few weeks i believe, anyone have any details?)

and i picked up two books at a $1 book sale yesterday, "the media of mass communications" and "technopoly: the surrender of culture to technology" that i haven't attempted yet, but will! also a text book about sustainbility and earth literacy, and another about buddhism in china.
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perfume has been on my list for awhile now.
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Old Jan 06, 05
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and how can you not like older books? they're formative for all western literature, let alone culture. homer's odyssey and illiad, and plato's the republic should all be read. same with the bible and the koran.
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i really enjoyed it, but in a nasty kind of way. it was pretty gratuitous. an interesting concept, but the author played a little too much to a reader's inner nastiness.
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and how can you not like older books? they're formative for all western literature, let alone culture. homer's odyssey and illiad, and plato's the republic should all be read. same with the bible and the koran.
i enjoyed the old testamet and the last few books in the new testamet and i don't think i'll ever get around to picking up the koran...not that i have anything against islam though.

i'll try to acquire a taste for those guys for you ok?
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I've been slowing gettin' throgh the ultimate xmas present for my dad:
The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
(massive coffee table book & CDs)

so many hundreds of gems....

(as per actual reading I just finished off Callahan's Keys
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