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This seems as good as any jumping off point for the concept and related variations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism Yeah, the book does seem to speak to American politics more than global. I wouldn't pigeonhole it to the time it was written though, as both Steve and I noted a lot of it is spookily prescient. I read it nearly two decades before he is reading it now (yet two decades after it was written still) and somehow we both found it eerily current. |
 After reading Boyhood I started reading this. I really like it so far. |
Right now I'm reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
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i am reading bertrand russel's sceptical essays.
its good and giving me a good perspective on life, which i think i'm in need of. |
on book 6 (of 7) of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.
this would be the second time reading the entire series and the 4th or 5th for the first three books. The Dark Tower > teh bible. |
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I keep meaning to read his stuff. Always hearing good things about it. |
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I'm own Dawn Treader now. |
  ^^ that's the cover of the 2008 summer fiction issue-- awesome! GET IT. |
I always want to get that one everytime I pass it in the bookstore !@#$%!.
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some of the best $5 you can spend this summer! |
$5? You're kidding right? We are talking about Faulkner right?
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i should pick up that new yorker.
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I always wanted to marry a woman that proof reads for the New Yorker. Always thought there was something unutterably romantic about the idea.
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She will most likely be a grammar nazi.
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Nothing at the moment.
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i bought my faulkner on sunday at the used bookstore for $4.50 and the new yorker new last night for $5 i meant the new yorker cos i said this summer. i loved the story by nabokov & the essay/reflection/whatever by murakami. looking forward to the rest-- annie proulx... well shit here's the table of contents: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/to...0080602/?yrail plus, there's some web-only material. the june 23 issue is already lsted so maybe subscribers are getting it already. im merely an occasional buyer. --- but find yourself a good used bookstore yo. best place ever. |
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The used bookstore I used to frequent is now closed. |
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i read this recently, dunno if you got the same edition as me but mine had a really interesting and insightful introduction, not of the likes of of 'OMG KEROUAC WAS SOOO COOL'. always a good read. |
susan sontag regarding the pain of others
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I really want to read that. Is it any good? |
Ulysses for the last 6 months. I feel smart when I hold it and dumb when I read it.
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from what I read, Ulysses and Finneganss wake are best if read aloud by an Irish person. the words/sounds make more sense that way.
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I've tried sounding it out in an Irish accent in my head, and it does help. But in the end I just end up reading everything three times, and eventually it all makes sense. It's a lot of fucking work, but it is an amazing book despite all that.
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Good to see you back, acousticrock87!
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Thank you much.
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sentimental education
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good to know... i was saving the introduction for later... the pic i posted is exactly the one i'm reading |
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i loved it. |
The Politics of Heroin, 1991 second edition
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just get an annotation book read it side by side, it's quite enlightening this one is kind of a classic:  one of the things joyce does is inject the whole of irish history and western culture into the brains of his subjects, and then he puts a microphone inside their heads, so the book helps you understand what they were thinking about, making you gain a 3D perspective so to speak. |
I plan to read it again like that, but I decided I would read it through once on my own. It's quite an experience, and you can only do it once.
I have been reading up a bit on each chapter after I finish, though. And that one you recommended I've considered buying several times, as it looks amazing (it has maps!), but it's about $30 minimum and I rarely have that much at once. |
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read this on the weekend-- i read comix too fast to ever "be reading them"
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eccchhhhhhh faulkner.
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