Book recommendations

you should read richard webster's books on each of the four archangels, michael / raphael / gabriel / uriel.  they will show you how to contact each and adjusting yourself into the higher planes of reality.  then you should read crowley's book of the law.  life is balance.  i know, i know . . . most people either find crowley to be a evil lunatic or an idiot who fooled the small minded.  but book of the law was indeed given to him by something not of this world, and if one pays enough attention while reading it, you can actually feel yourself being dragged into something that opens doors of corruptible realization.  i do prescribe not following your footsteps through that door, but instead having the mere knowledge that such things do exist, is indeed fascinating.

I really want to read the Keith Richards book.

I am currently reading the letters between Julia Child and her friend Avis.  They are really cool.

Also reading Freedom, which is pretty great, but really long.

Just about to start this after reading a New Yorker piece on it and having a dream about Cleopatra while masturbating this one time and then I woke up and I was all, wuh? Who is this Cleopatra and what is her story?
Advantage: me

Relaxer wrote:
Advantage: me

That's what Marc Antony said…

Well we're still talking about him so he must have done something right.
Plus that pimp scored some truly historic pussy. I must pay tribute.

ggw wrote:

Relaxer wrote:
Advantage: me

That's what Marc Antony said…

HISTORICAL BURN!!!

Did you know that Mark Antony killed himself after a fake report that Cleopatra died?  It was on Jeopardy the other night.  That Cleopatra book has gotten alot of rave reviews.

I hated Naked Lunch.

Anyhow, I can also recc The Hunger Games series for a good, light read.
I'm currently reading:

Rob Sheffield's "Talking to Girls About Duran Duran"
and "Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color that Changed the World," by Simon Garfield

Comics I have on deck:
Mouseguard: Winter 1152
The Best American Comics of 2010
and Batman RIP

I am buying that Mauve book for my mom.  Thanks!  That is her favorite decorating color.

Been reading 2-3 books at a time…I switch off when one has a lull

currently:
On The Road/Jack Kerouac
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Washington Confidential (crazy gossip paperback from 50's)

Seth wrote:
Been reading 2-3 books at a time…I switch off when one has a lull

currently:
On The Road/Jack Kerouac
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Washington Confidential (crazy gossip paperback from 50's)

you have time to read?  shouldn't you be booking shows instead?

sweetcell wrote:

Seth wrote:
Been reading 2-3 books at a time…I switch off when one has a lull

currently:
On The Road/Jack Kerouac
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Washington Confidential (crazy gossip paperback from 50's)

you have time to read?  shouldn't you be booking shows instead?

you have time to notice?  shouldn't you be bitching and complaining . . . oh wait.

walkonby wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

Seth wrote:
Been reading 2-3 books at a time…I switch off when one has a lull

currently:
On The Road/Jack Kerouac
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Washington Confidential (crazy gossip paperback from 50's)

you have time to read?  shouldn't you be booking shows instead?

you have time to notice?  shouldn't you be bitching and complaining . . . oh wait.

oooooooooohhh!!!

What? Sweetcell is like the most upbeat, positive person here, pot.

chaz wrote:
I just finished Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.

http://www.amazon.com/Shantaram-Novel-Gregory-David-Roberts/dp/0312330529

A great, great read.

Shantaram is indeed quite good.  It took me a while to get into the book, though.  The narrator (read: author) thinks a whole lot of himself and I didn't quite buy into the quality that everyone everywhere (even in the criminal underworld or the third world) was good at heart.  Other than that, an epic read.  Are they still making a movie of it?

miss wrote:
Anyhow, I can also recc The Hunger Games series for a good, light read.

I just finished this over the holiday break.  It was enjoyable.  I was surprised at how quickly violent it became.  I need to borrow the other two books from my girlfriend.

I just finished Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections"  I just started Greg Milner's "Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music"

Im reading the Dexter books now and give them praise.  For Burroughs, the Western Lands trilogy is pretty sweet and a good head trip.

brennser wrote:
A Visit From the Good Squad

http://www.amazon.com/Visit-Goon-Squad-Jennifer-Egan/dp/0307592839

I don't know about you, but I have been looking for pauses in songs ever since I finished the book.

And the Pulitzer people liked the book too:
http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2011

Patti Smith Just Kids . . .is fantastic

I am going to start Goon Squad soon. 

Currently reading book 4 of song of ice and fire and Undaunted Courage.

anyone here on goodreads?

Has anyone else read Everything Matters!  One of my favorite reads of last year.

ggw wrote:

brennser wrote:
A Visit From the Good Squad

http://www.amazon.com/Visit-Goon-Squad-Jennifer-Egan/dp/0307592839

I don't know about you, but I have been looking for pauses in songs ever since I finished the book.

And the Pulitzer people liked the book too:
http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2011

did you guys read it on a kindle?  if so, was the reading experience as bad as the first reviewer describes?