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 Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:55 pm
Pietro Django Maximoff It's very short, but it's an incredibly vital read. It really helped to clarify just what he was intending to convey with Soma in A Brave New World relative to his thoughts on drugs as a whole.
It's tempting to suggest that Huxley was ahead of his time in terms of his perspective on drugs in relation to psychology and spirituality but it quickly becomes apparent that he was one of the primary influences on the psychedelic movement of the sixties. He also stays alot more grounded in his conclusions than say Timothy Leary.
Fun fact; Huxley died the same day that Kennedy was assassinated. Intriguing. I'm looking for both Doors of Perception and perhaps something by Timothy Leary now. Always had a vaue interest in drug culture, which I should probably expand beyond reading "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers". xp
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:59 pm
Or Jay and Silent Bob clips on your profile. xd You'd also do well to look up a little book called Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream by one Hunter S. Thompson. Maybe you've heard of him.
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:06 pm
Pietro Django Maximoff Or Jay and Silent Bob clips on your profile. xd You'd also do well to look up a little book called Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream by one Hunter S. Thompson. Maybe you've heard of him. But of course. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:13 pm
Ooo, we're talking about Aldous Huxley? Why didn't anyone tell me? whee
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:37 pm
Because of what you did to the Watchtower the last time we talked about him.
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:44 pm
Pietro Django Maximoff Because of what you did to the Watchtower the last time we talked about him. WE Bolovaxians are passionate, that's all...
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:54 am
Finished reading Private Wars by Greg Rucka today. Great, great book. I can't recommend Rucka enough as a novelist. Good pacing, very good characterizations, good action. With Rucka the action is never gratuitous and he doesn't go overboard with it. Even the "slow" areas hold interest as the dialogue and characters feel so natural you really feel like he's describing actually events. He's a fiend on research and it shows. He gives enough information that the read knows everything they need to know, but doesn't go into suck great detail as to be boring.
Now, I wait patiently for is next book due out in August.
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:46 pm
I finished reading LifeForce today. Interesting read. It was made into a movie in the early 80's by the same guy who did Poltergeist.
I must admit, though it starts off slow, the book became very intriguing once the action began. Not because it was typical vampire or alien fluff, but because the writer seriously took the time to relate Vampirism to psychology, social profiling, split personality disorder, sexual yearnings, possession, and even a very skewed version of the Adam-Eve Creationist belief. Very powerful stuff to consider in a very short read. and it definately made me consider who I choose to hang out with more carefully, especially when they get into kinesics and how there are numerous types of "vampires" that exist amongst us, from the sexual, to the emotional to even the plain old blood sucking, AIDS contracting, sick people.
Good stuff for such a short read.
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:21 pm
So I finished reading the latest Salvatore book and I was looking for the next thing to read. I realized that I've read The Fellowship of the Ring, but I haven't read the rest of the trilogy. So I'm reading The Two Towers. I'm only 130 pages into it and I've already discovered a bunch of stuff that I wish they would have put into the movie.
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:29 pm
So I'm currently waiting for Mouse Guard and Mice Templar. To tide me over till then I'm currently getting my Mice With Swords fix by reading Redwall. I'm really loving this book. Mossflower's the next in the series right?
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:17 am
Ted_Kord So I'm currently waiting for Mouse Guard and Mice Templar. To tide me over till then I'm currently getting my Mice With Swords fix by reading Redwall. I'm really loving this book. Mossflower's the next in the series right?
I'd recommend the former. The latter means you've got about four books to get through before you even get to Mossflower.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:56 am
Currently reading Foucault's Pendulum for research material relating to the comic I'm writing. Great book, but I'd have been utterly lost if reading Promethea and The Invisibles hadn't propelled me into getting all those books on Kaballah and Gnostic Christianity. @_@ In short, it's the Proto-Da Vinci Code in the same sense that The Invisibles is the Proto-Matrix.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:15 pm
Billy J. Batson Ted_Kord So I'm currently waiting for Mouse Guard and Mice Templar. To tide me over till then I'm currently getting my Mice With Swords fix by reading Redwall. I'm really loving this book. Mossflower's the next in the series right?
I'd recommend the former. The latter means you've got about four books to get through before you even get to Mossflower. I figured I'd read them in the order they were published. In the front of the book they have the books listed but I didn't know if they were listed in the order they were published in or what. It has Redwall, Mossflower, Mattimeo, Mariel of Redwall, Salamandastron, etc. Is that right?
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:56 am
Ted_Kord Billy J. Batson Ted_Kord So I'm currently waiting for Mouse Guard and Mice Templar. To tide me over till then I'm currently getting my Mice With Swords fix by reading Redwall. I'm really loving this book. Mossflower's the next in the series right?
I'd recommend the former. The latter means you've got about four books to get through before you even get to Mossflower. I figured I'd read them in the order they were published. In the front of the book they have the books listed but I didn't know if they were listed in the order they were published in or what. It has Redwall, Mossflower, Mattimeo, Mariel of Redwall, Salamandastron, etc. Is that right? That's the publishing order. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:55 pm
Currently reading Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany. It's a very cerebral read, much more than any Asimov novel. So far it's very much to my liking.
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