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  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,272
    spontaneous evolution by bruce lipton. audio book

    it's mind-blowing
  • backseatLover12backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    edited April 2014
    I just read Heave is for Real. I'd love to discuss it with someone else who has.

    And if anyone wants to read it, I'll gladly take my copy out of the trash for you.
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  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain Posts: 31,266
    edited April 2014

    I just read Heave is for Real. I'd love to discuss it with someone else who has.

    And if anyone wants to read it, I'll gladly take my copy out of the trash for you.

    deleted my previous post, this isnt the thread for such discourse, lol!
    Sorry, my shelf is full. :)
    Post edited by F Me In The Brain on
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  • madtowndavemadtowndave Posts: 4,012
    Watership Down by Richard Adams & A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
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  • afroannnieafroannnie Posts: 12,995
    Just finished up this
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    Great read...more detail than the movie (that I watched when it first came out) especially about his multiple appeals and more in depth about the Canadian commune that helped him.

    Now indulging my geeky side with this:
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    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • Jnich2424Jnich2424 Posts: 608
    Finally read "Red Dragon" Now I've got to finish Silence, and Hannibal. I've also got a bunch of others lined up, but haven't had as much time as I would like as of late.
  • SD48277SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    Just finished: Worst.Person.Ever., by Douglas Coupland. Worst.Book.Ever. The critics were not wrong about this one.

    Currently reading: This Is the Story of A Happy Marriage, by Ann Patchett.
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  • EnkiduEnkidu Posts: 2,996
    Nothing says Happy Mother's Day like reading about teenage Juliet Hume and Pauline Parker killing Pauline Parker's mother (the movie Heavenly Creatures was based on the case). The book is very good though.

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  • jlaustinjlaustin Posts: 2,355
    Gerald's Game - I'm on a Stephen King binge right now.
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  • afroannnieafroannnie Posts: 12,995
    jlaustin said:

    Gerald's Game - I'm on a Stephen King binge right now.

    I highly recommend 11/22/63 if you haven't read that one yet...

    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain Posts: 31,266

    jlaustin said:

    Gerald's Game - I'm on a Stephen King binge right now.

    I highly recommend 11/22/63 if you haven't read that one yet...

    Agree! Worlds better than Gerald's Game imo.
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  • jlaustinjlaustin Posts: 2,355
    Thanks for the recommendation, will definitely pick that one up! Read Misery years ago, but just recently started my binge - so far read Cujo, and Rage from the Bachmann Books.
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    2018 Seattle 1 & 2, Missoula, Chicago 1

  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    School is done. I don't know what book to read first.
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  • 23scidoo23scidoo Posts: 19,258
    William Beckford - Vathek
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  • joberschlakejoberschlake Posts: 1,179
    Vince Flynn - Separation of Power
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  • afroannnieafroannnie Posts: 12,995
    jlaustin said:

    Thanks for the recommendation, will definitely pick that one up! Read Misery years ago, but just recently started my binge - so far read Cujo, and Rage from the Bachmann Books.

    Cool! I've recommended it to several people and everyone seems to like it :)
    I just read Rage recently too...I hadn't read it previously.
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    I couldn't figure out what book to read to begin my summer, so I had a little poll on Facebook to see what book I should read first (which afroannie was part of). My choices were One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Sun Also Rises, and Ham on Rye. This was the one had the most replies:

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  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain Posts: 31,266
    Good book. If you like it I would recommend checking out The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. It is about Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters acting like wackos in the 60s. Highly entertaining read and might make a good follow up on reading Kesey's most famous book.
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560

    Good book. If you like it I would recommend checking out The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. It is about Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters acting like wackos in the 60s. Highly entertaining read and might make a good follow up on reading Kesey's most famous book.


    I read that the summer after my freshman year of college. Wacky is the word to describe it. Loved it.
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    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • vant0037vant0037 Posts: 6,116
    Finally finished Women In Love by D.H. Lawrence. Longest it's taken me to finish a book. Really tough.

    Just started this:

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  • freshymadfreshymad Posts: 54
    "The Hero With a Thousand Faces," by Joseph Campbell. I got about 40 pages in and had to stop reading because it scared me. I put the book down and sat by the river to watch a thousand fireflies light up the ridge. It's funny, the first night, I didn't even see them til I left the fire and stared long enough at the darkness for my eyes to adjust. It was the most beautiful sight; bugs like shooting stars under the clear night starry sky framed in the trees -- and it was all real.
  • 23scidoo23scidoo Posts: 19,258
    The great Phillip K. Dick - The divine invasion
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • PJSirenPJSiren Posts: 5,863
    The Bird Artist by Howard Norman(for the second time, it's actually my favorite book)
    Music is my Religion and Pearl Jam, my Savior!
    Tattooed Dissident!
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    I am reading it for my book club. I don't like it, but i am only half way through.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037

    A Philosophy of Walking - Frederic Gros

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    "It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth."—Nietzsche

    In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B — the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble — and reveals what they say about us.

    Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau’s eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophy of Walking is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Newch91 said:

    I couldn't figure out what book to read to begin my summer, so I had a little poll on Facebook to see what book I should read first (which afroannie was part of). My choices were One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Sun Also Rises, and Ham on Rye. This was the one had the most replies:

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    Not a bad choice at all.

  • 23scidoo23scidoo Posts: 19,258
    Night Film by Marisha Pessl..great thriller..800 pages..
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • StevieGStevieG Posts: 850
    I'm about to start Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh.
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  • EnkiduEnkidu Posts: 2,996
    I just started the new Stephen King and it's all I want to do. Just read read read.

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