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

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Please!

When recomending a book, make a bit extended post, like seen on first page.


Thank you readers!
 

zeppelindood

Captain Expando
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my take...

my take...

:wave: high Agnes... what a wonderful idea. I've been looking over this thread for a hour now... here's one of my favorites, I've been through this one dozens of times looking for anything I may have missed... it's simply the most detailed, imformative rock and roll book I have ever read ~

Book Description:
Led Zeppelin was the hottest, hardest, horniest, most hedonistic group in rock history. Their parties defined 60s and 70s excess, their concerts were long, loud and thrilling. Based on interviews and behind-the-scenes stories, here is the truth behind the genius of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and the late John Bonham.

Inside Flap Copy:
Led Zeppelin was the hottest, hardest, horniest, most hedonistic group in rock history. Their parties defined 60s and 70s excess, their concerts were long, loud and thrilling. Based on interviews and behind-the-scenes stories, here is the truth behind the genius of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and the late John Bonham.


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zeppelindood: Haha, better late than never.

Yeah, I am pleased to see, that some stoners are accualy reading something good beside ICmag :D

Agnes
 

vodka

Member
Being an avid reader i assumed this thread would be full of books I've read or already decided to pass on. There were however several good ones up there i didn't know that now have my interest so I figure i'll add one I just finished.

It is a book about teacher and student, although the ending is predictable and over-done, the lessons learned will stick with you forever. Oh, and if there are any Pearl Jam fans out there, the album yeild was based on this books teachings.





This book has me sort of spinning right now. I'm not sure what to make of it and it is begining to make me rethink all I've read before it.

The following text and the above image shamelessly stolen from amazon.

From the Back Cover
"A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet...laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny." -- New York Times Book Review.

"[Quinn] entrap us in the dialogue itself, in the sweet and terrible lucidity of Ishmael's analysis of the human condition...it was surely for this deep, clear persuasiveness of argument that Ishmael was given its huge prize." -- The Washington Post

"It is as suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction book you are likely to read this or any other year" -- The Austin Chronicle.

"Deserves high marks as a serious -- and all too rare -- effort that is unflinchingly engaged with fundamental life-and-death concerns." -- The Atlanta Journal Constitution.

About the Author
Daniel Quinn's first book, Ishmael, won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, a prize for fiction presenting creative and positive solutions to global problems. He is also the author of Providence, The Story of B, and My Ishmael. Yeild
 
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sunnyside

Plant Manager
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A MUST read is "How to Hydroponics"

http://www.howtohydroponics.com/



I have now received the 4th edition "How-To Hydroponics". Well, I must say that it is absolutely fantastic. It is so well written with crystal clear photographs and text to match. This book has to be a must for anyone with an interest in learning about Hydroponics or thinking of building a system. It covers everything you need to know about building your own system and then getting the most from it. I am equally sure that it could teach the more advanced hydroponist a few things as well. Well done and congratulations on writing such a clear and concise book on the art of "How-To Hydroponics".
 
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sunnyside

Plant Manager
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"Hydroponics Indoor Horticulture" by Jeffrey Winterborne



chapter excerpt:

"Like humans, plants actually need to respire 24 hours a day to survive. During the light cycle, plants will uptake faster if there is an abundance of oxygen available. As stated before, during the light cycle, the plants are constantly producing oxygen so this is not normally a problem. However, the roots of a plant, day or night, do not produce any oxygen. The plants’ internal oxygen is manufactured from the leaves splitting hydrogen from the water molecule to generate sugar, which then releases excess oxygen."

This has got to be the most thorough indoor gardening books ever printed. It even gives some 'esoteric' techniques that possibly only a handful of growers in the world are willing to undertake and exploit. Quite possibly the best resource available to growers, other than the forums :)
 

HotCha

Member
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."

--from "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita is the most amazing work of fiction i have ever read. everyone should read it.
 

guineapig

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"Biochemical and Genetic Mechanisms Used by Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria"

Some soil bacteria preferentially associate with the roots of crop plants and can exert beneficial effects on their hosts. They are collectively referred to as PGPR (Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria). PGPR strains are often found among the fluorescent pseudomonads.



Biocontrol of phytopathogens appears to be a major mechanism of plant growth promotion by these bacteria. Suppression of phytopathogens results from the production of secondary metabolites or by elicitation of the plant's own defence system. PGPR-based inocula must be able to compete with the indigenous micro-organisms and efficiently colonize the rhizosphere of the plants to be protected.

http://books.google.com/books?ie=UT...A1&printsec=4&sig=VxKO2c1QBgCFK0JUBDZmDv361wA

(click on link for some sample pages including a synopsis of the book)
<wheek wheek?>

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Hillibillieoncp, you posted the book i was going to post - The Celestine Prophecy, and i'm very glad that someone already posted some serious books, Crossing the Rubicon and the always up to date Orwelian 1984.

One thing i don't really like are novels (celestine profecy is one though) - Da Vinci's Code and The Conspiracy from Dan Brown for example - i prefer reading the synthetic version of truth, without the flowers and the red carpets..

The book i'm reading right now is actually quoted on my sig, thats basicaly one of the first sentences of the book, Occult Ether Phyics from William Lyne also author of 1995 polemic book "Ufos are man made machines" - here's the preface,



Is there a "Secret Physics" with a different set of rules --- hidden away from us earlier in this century, by a powerful elite who fear the technology based on it will strip away their power and wealth,and loberate us from their grip? Dynamite comes in small packages, and this little stick of scientific dynamite, blows apart pseudo-scientific myths and instills the truth.

some like tickles in the brain, others prefer small taps, i say bring in the hammer, wake up time
:bat:
 

Vermonster

Active member
The last book i read was : : Cannabis Culture [Paperback] by Matthews, Patrick; Matthews, Patrick.
It was an ok read. Not much new information, but there was a lot in there about British culture andhasish that I was not aware of. Likewise, there was a few good stories....
I'm currently reading a book on money laundering by a former RCMP detective: Crime School: Money Laundering: True Crime Meets The World Of Business.
His opnions are shit, but some of the tales and the information in the book is good. I feel like I'm learning a lot.
I like this thread allot though, because I read a book a week and I'm always looking for good feed back on good books. I was also thinking about writing a book some day, maybe I could get some opnions on my first chapter? Thanks guys :wave:
 

Vermonster

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I want to recomend a book as well. This book was a great read and had amazing tales.......... this book is:


Book Description
The untold story of life on the road with the Grateful Dead, written by an insider who lived it from the early days to today.

Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens. Busted as a teenager for selling acid in the summer of 1968, Parish landed in Riker's Island. The experience changed him and after getting out he did his best to stay out of trouble, securing a job moving music equipment at the New York State Pavilion. The first show he worked was a Grateful Dead concert in July of 1969 and Parish was captivated by the music. A life seemingly headed nowhere had suddenly found its calling as he fell in quickly with a band of likeminded misfits who formed the nucleus of what would be the greatest road crew in rock 'n' roll history.

Parish traveled to California where his apprenticeship began. Working for the band for free and learning his craft, Parish got to know Jerry, Bobby, Phil, Billy and Mickey and through the years their relationships forged an unbreakable bond. He became very close with Garcia in particular, acting as his personal roadie and later manager for his solo performances and Garcia Band shows. He was there during times of trouble (like when a pimp held Garcia hostage at gunpoint in a New York hotel room), spending hours by his bedside when Garcia was in a coma in 1986, and performing the duties of best man at his wedding. He was also the last friend to see Garcia alive.

Throughout the Dead's historic run, there were parties of biblical proportion and celebrity run-ins with everybody from Bob Dylan to Frank Sinatra--but there was a dark side to life on the road and tragedy didn't just strike the musicians.

But Home Before Daylight is a story of friendship, of music and redemption. It is a piece of music history, one that reflects the American spirit of adventure and brotherhood. Seen through Steve Parish's eyes and experiences, The Grateful Dead's wild ride has never been so revealing.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
I loved it and hope you do too!!!!!!!!! :woohoo:
 

ethanp711

New member
A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present

A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present

A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present - Howard Zinn


Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency.
Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher, historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, "My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all)--that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth."

If your last experience of American history was brought to you by junior high school textbooks--or even if you're a specialist--get ready for the other side of stories you may not even have heard. With its vivid descriptions of rarely noted events, A People's History of the United States is required reading for anyone who wants to take a fresh look at the rich, rocky history of America.


This book rocked my entire foundation, a perspective rarely presented to generations up and coming. Believe or dis-believe, just read this book...

ethan-
 

polygonwindow

New member
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

My Favorite, im surpirsed nobody has mentioned him yet.

His books are Dark Comedy. He takes an objective look into mankind, our darkside, what it is to be a human, and the utter pointlessness of our own existance, it sounds negative and it kinda is, but its very thought provoking.

A lot of his books are political, most of them deal with some kind of post apocalyptic event, or disaster.

Slaughter House Five, is a story about 5 friends who were POWs in Dresden durning the firebombings, and how one of the 5 friends goes crazy, and starts to think that he travels through time and space with aliens from Tramalfadore.

Player Piano is a lot like 1984

Timequake focuses on an event called the timequake, and what it did, is it set everyone back 10 years. Everyone was forced to repeat the previous 10 years, and they were powerless to do anything different, they had to repeat it exactly how it happened. The underlying point in this book is the difference between people and animals, during the 10 years that everyone had to repeat, they became animals, in that they had no choice in what they did, they just had to do what they did before. its an interesting concept.

Deadeye Dick is sort of an Autobiography,but the events are all kinda symbolic. In this book, the main character is from a wealthy family. At age 12 he goes up onto his roof and shoots one round out of a 30-0-6 over the roofs of his town, the bullet strikes and kills a pregnant woman who was vacuuming her living room. Later everyone one in his town gets killed by a neutron bomb, his mom dies of Cancer because of having a Radioactive mantlepeice. Its really hard to explain this book really.
 
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The book thread

The book thread

I looked for a book thread but didn't find one.
This thread is for all people who love literature and would like to share some good titles, no matter if it's popular stuff or extremely high brow, there's good stuff to be found in all genres.
These books are currently on my nightstand

James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia

Frederic Manning - Her Privates We

Don Delillo - Underworld

David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
 

Tarkus

Mother Nature's Son
Veteran
As to no ones surprise, I am gonna suggest the following....
Dune series - Frank Herbert (6 books, and Brian and Kevin wrote the seventh recently)
House: Atreides, Harkonnen, Corrino - Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson (3 different books)
Butlerian Jihad, Machine Crusade, Battle of Corrin - Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson (3 different books)
 
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"Democracy is in the Streets" - James Miller
"Failed States" - Noam Chomsky
"Hegemony or Survival" - Noam Chomsky
"The State and Revolution" - Vladamir Lenin
"Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II" - William Blum
"Capital, Vol 1" - Karl Marx
"The Culture of Narcissism: American Life of Diminishing Expectations" - Christopher Lasch

No fairy tales for me.
 
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This is a thread about fiction literature, not politics, please keep it that way.
 
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I'm sorry, should've just pointed out stinko isn't needed here, post all you want.
 
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