The Book Thread - What You're Reading & Everything Book Related

[hunt4genetics]

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

I should go re-read that right now.


peace

 

[Ganja D]

I recently read
Smuggler's Blues
The Saga of a marijuana importer, by Jay Carter Brown.
Really amazing autobiography story and well written.

 

[hempluvr]

hahaha@hempluvr : is that top left magazine called skunk??

Yessirr!

 

[hippie_lettuce]

Abeng, by Michelle Cliff

 

[etinarcadiaego]

Blood Meridian - best book i've ever read.

LINK

 

[humble1]

The Dragons of Eden:
Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan

just a thought or two on how we think and why......

we all miss you, mr. x !

 

[Classyathome]

"My Side of the Mountain"

One of the most real books I ever read, and the catalyst for my appreciation of nature (and indirectly, herb).

That, and Playboy...

 

[tokinafaty420]

Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkein
The Giver - Louis Lowry
White Fang - Jack London

 

[Classyathome]

"White Hobbit Dick" Jack R. Melville...

j/k

 

[Croissant]

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

I should go re-read that right now.


peace

i agree and this stuff too

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-St...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265582414&sr=8-1

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
http://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Co...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265582807&sr=1-1

Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 9, Pt. 1)
http://www.amazon.com/Archetypes-Co...r_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265582856&sr=1-11

People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Histo...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265582966&sr=1-1

The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look At the Federal Reserve
http://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jeky...2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265583269&sr=1-2-spell

Propaganda
http://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Ed...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265583428&sr=1-1

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265583511&sr=1-1

No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
http://www.amazon.com/No-Logo-Space-Choice-Jobs/dp/0312421435/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_img_in_f

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0312427999/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Inc-Worl...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265583773&sr=1-1

The Hero with a Thousand Faces
http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Thousand...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265583917&sr=1-1

 

[2tall]

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castaneda

The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics - Gary Zukav

The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

 

[motaloca]

Post Office. Bukowski.

 

[Lloyd_Christmas]

Right now I'm re-reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain... hardly the deepest read ever but it's easy and fun. Some great stories in there.

also just read Remote by David Shields, I enjoyed that aswell...

 

[Herbasaurus]

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Fail-Succeed/dp/0143036556

 

[MickeyBlue42]

Right now I'm re-reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain... hardly the deepest read ever but it's easy and fun. Some great stories in there.

also just read Remote by David Shields, I enjoyed that aswell...

Nice one! I have just order kitchen c. with marching powder... cant wait. Havent read anything decent in ages

 

[Lloyd_Christmas]

You'll like it, he writes very well.

 

[robbiedublu]

The pillars of the earth by Ken follet.

Great book! One of my all time favorites. A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. Anyone who came of age in the Vietnam War era will appreciate it.

 

[Ruosk]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Hahah, pretty much what I was about to post, some of the best books I read last year. Check out Rum Diary by Hunter too, it's pretty different from most of his stuff, strong Hemingwayish vibe going on there. That being said, anything by Hemingway is worth reading too, especially "For Whom The Bell Tolls".

Metamorphosis by Kafka.

For something a bit more political, On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World by Jason Burke was an intresting read.

 

[LayedBack]

If you like fiction do yourself a favor and read "The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch", it's the first of a series of 7 to be written, and it is most excellent I promise!

Also a fan of Hunter S. Thompson and William Burroughs for drug novels.

R. A. Salvatore for the fantasy lord of the rings type shit

 

[*Journeyman*]

No Mind - I Am the Self...good luck finding it
I Am That
Silence of the Heart

The Biological Farmer
Teaming With Microbes
The One Straw Revolution