What are you reading?

TheSilenceEchoes · Post by **TheSilenceEchoes** » Sun May 08, 2011 1:24 pm

jakestott wrote:The Moneyless Man by Mark Boyle

I admire this guy and respect him so much for doing what he believes in. Being the change he wants to see in the world, living the moneyless lifestyle (he originally set out to do a year, but loved his new way of life so much he decided to continue on). Not just in his book, but from interviews, he seems like a great person who thinks people should stop thinking about how much we can consume, and start thinking about how much we can give to the world. I'd recommended it to anyone who is into self-sufficiency.

definitely want to read that one!!

Waterbagel · Post by **Waterbagel** » Sun May 08, 2011 3:32 pm

connecticut yankee in king arthur's court - mark twain

twain was always so hilarious

The909Virus · Post by **The909Virus** » Sun May 08, 2011 5:35 pm

The Road - depressing stuff but can't stop reading!

hexagonLife · Post by **hexagonLife** » Sun May 08, 2011 5:36 pm

TheSilenceEchoes wrote:
jakestott wrote:The Moneyless Man by Mark Boyle

I admire this guy and respect him so much for doing what he believes in. Being the change he wants to see in the world, living the moneyless lifestyle (he originally set out to do a year, but loved his new way of life so much he decided to continue on). Not just in his book, but from interviews, he seems like a great person who thinks people should stop thinking about how much we can consume, and start thinking about how much we can give to the world. I'd recommended it to anyone who is into self-sufficiency.
definitely want to read that one!!

Dude it's funny you should mention that, I was checking him out on youtube just the other night - have you seen 'moneyless in moab' yet? That guy (can't remember his name) is awesome, he is the same in that he just started for a year and has pretty much just kept on doing it.

I just finished my first Twain book, The Adventures of Huck Finn, awesome. Reading 1984 now.

Waterbagel · Post by **Waterbagel** » Sun May 08, 2011 7:19 pm

hexagonLife wrote: I just finished my first Twain book, The Adventures of Huck Finn, awesome. Reading 1984 now.

you'll love it!
brave new world is good too.

i love dystopian literature

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Sun May 08, 2011 7:41 pm

Waterbagel wrote:
hexagonLife wrote: I just finished my first Twain book, The Adventures of Huck Finn, awesome. Reading 1984 now.
you'll love it!
brave new world is good too.

i love dystopian literature

Read 1984 a couple months ago! Loved it!

Möbius · Post by **Möbius** » Sun May 08, 2011 9:45 pm

Tropic Moon by Georges Simenon
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Side note:

I enjoy black and white portraits of early/mid-twentieth century writers.

Simenon

Céline

hexagonLife · Post by **hexagonLife** » Sun May 08, 2011 11:02 pm

Möbius wrote:
Side note:

I enjoy black and white portraits of early/mid-twentieth century writers.

Simenon

Bruce Willis!

aged sea · Post by **aged sea** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:09 pm

I recently finished Flowers for Algernon.

Now I'm reading a book called My Stroke of Insight by a brain scientist who suffered a stroke and (8 years later) healed completely.

pointlessdude · Post by **pointlessdude** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:13 pm

Beautiful

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:33 pm

Ah another Infinite Jest fan, sir I hope you enjoy it, what a beautifully mammoth book

JosephG · Post by **JosephG** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:24 am

Underworld wrote-ten by don delillo

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:23 am

The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams.

In Technicolor · Post by **In Technicolor** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:33 am

I'm currently reading Picnic at Hanging Rock, very creepy book.

I've got so much on my reading list though, I hope to get it finished over spring break.

DJ Shadow's Endtroducing..... 33 1/3 Series
Dune by Frank Herbert
Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret
Sound Synthesis & Sampling 3rd ed. by Martin Russ

IanRedpoint · Post by **IanRedpoint** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:10 am

In Technicolor wrote: Sound Synthesis & Sampling 3rd ed. by Martin Russ

Haha. I have that by the side of my bed. Not sure what that says about me.

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:57 pm

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, it's mainly to aid my degree. Is it weird that I really enjoy reading critical texts? It's ridiculously thought provoking.

LightI3ulb · Post by **LightI3ulb** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:51 am

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson. The entire Sprawl series is so detailed and in-depth, I have a feeling I'll be rereading all three again when I finish this one.

Cryabetes · Post by **Cryabetes** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:32 pm

LightI3ulb wrote:Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson. The entire Sprawl series is so detailed and in-depth, I have a feeling I'll be rereading all three again when I finish this one.

Ha I just finished Neuromancer last night and started on Count Zero

Magrathea · Post by **Magrathea** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:21 pm

Cryabetes wrote:
LightI3ulb wrote:Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson. The entire Sprawl series is so detailed and in-depth, I have a feeling I'll be rereading all three again when I finish this one.
Ha I just finished Neuromancer last night and started on Count Zero

Classic stuff, I read that a few years back, I should again. His best work, the other things I've read while enjoyable did not have the sheer bravado of that trilogy.

Am I the only one that just CANNOT fathom Anathem by Neal Stephenson? Third time I try and by page 150 I said fuck it... It just feels like an exercise in style and composition, we're so far from Snow Crash it's not even funny.

subset · Post by **subset** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:42 pm