The BOOK thread

[bumcakes]

Hahahah barbara,
thats funny, for years i used to perform in cambridge theatre (its seen many celebrities)...i went there... as part of this summer school for spoilt rich cambridge kids...i LOVED it.
(i was like the poorest kid there hahah...)
We used to perform for multi audiences too...deaf and hearing audiences and we had like a week to learn theatre sign language. Was great, we did alot of abstract stuff, the last performance i worked in a few years back really gives me the chills to look back on...it was the darkest creepiest show we ever did, but the best one aswell.
was brilliant though, we had to learn to tribal dance, and we used minimum speech and had to use our body language to bring the scene across...and the whole story line was based around the greek myth of narsiscism....and we used like disks taped to us to make relections all around the stage and stuff, cuz we'd do onstage and backstage learning and we'd always some up with great stuff

haha it was brilliant and alot of people said some parts really gave them the creeps, i think everyone agreed on the bit where we sing to the sun was the scariest bit...cuz there was a part in the story line where we had been damned to darkness.... but i'll shut up about it now lol

I couldnt be a comedian or anything though, im a twat.
LOL
i think at about a million miles per hour and everything that comes out of my mouth is just a miniscule of all the thoughts that are running around my head.

I think thats why i like to read though, cuz when you're reading you have to focus on the words and whats going on in the book...and you have to go word by word so it slows me down and helps me to relax...otherwise id be like the windup toy that never stops.
lol.

Although, does anyone here speed read?
When i was in school i was in top class for english and in 8th grade my class had finished all the work 3 months before the end of the year and there wasnt anything else to do, so our teacher taught us to speed read....we read some pretty dark stuff aswell that year...
...anyone here read Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights"??

I know im being a total geek now...but....the Bronte's... now theres some fucked up, but talented novelists.
And for all you chums that are hooked on the tv show "Lost"
...you should read William Golding's "Lord of the flies"
And for anyone out there that wants to read a really clever book that will actually baffle you, shocking, but clever as hell...you should read Luke Rhinehart's "The dice man" you'll learn from it aswell as be fascinated by the whole thing.
Anyone that wants to read a gripping wartime story(based on true experiences i believe) Sebastian Faulk's "Birdsong" is just amazing...
Another fucked up book ive read is a book by Graham Joyce called "The Tooth Fairy" totally fictional...but haha...it messes with your head a little, amaazing it is!
Speaking of books that spook you out and mess with your head...
If you want a shorter book, but at the same time for it to be totally gripping Susan Hill's "The Mirror" is truely creepy.
Im abit weary of reading it again LOL



lol...SORRY IM BEING SUCH A GEEEK! AHHHHHHHHHH!
ive gone on for ages...i got well carried away. SORRY!!!!!

..........*sigh*.................
i would so be an english teacher if i didnt hate homework and school so much lol.




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[azrael]

If you want a book to mess with your head check out the Principia Discordia, it's the founding book of the religion/joke Discordianism. I happen to be a Discordian, it seriously messed me up! It'll subvert everything you ever believed in if you understand it. It's like a self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners. Even if it doesn't expand your mind it'll make you laugh.

[ishbell]

David Suzuki, The Sacred Balance, I keep going back to it

This powerful, deeply felt book gives concrete suggestions for how we can meet our basic needs and create a way of life that is ecologically sustainable, fulfilling and just. It offers the seeds of a new direction for us all, one in which we can rediscover our place in nature and live in balance with our surroundings.

"This book is the most complete expression to date of an environmental ethic from one of the world's leading conservation writers, combining science, theology, poetry and philosophy to express a world view toward which the human species must shift in the twenty-first century. "The Sacred Balance" has a beautiful spirit." - E.O Wilson, author of "The Diversity of Life."

"The finest work to date by Canada's leading environmentalist, 'The Sacred Balance' is a celebration of wonder, a scientific journey of insight and wisdom and a profound meditation on the complexity and fragility of the biological forces that sustain all life on Earth." - Wade Davis, author of "One River."

"In 'The Sacred Balance' David Suzuki gives us his credo. He loves science, but is mindful of its power; wisely used, it can enrich us both materially and spiritually. For Suzuki, the requisite wisdom lies in respect for all of creation, and in this important book he makes that case with passion and understanding." - John Polanyi, Nobel laureate

"If there is such a thing as a 'must read' book this season, 'The Sacred Balance' is probably it." - Stan Persky, The Vancouver Sun

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azrael said:

If you want a book to mess with your head check out the Principia Discordia, it's the founding book of the religion/joke Discordianism. I happen to be a Discordian, it seriously messed me up! It'll subvert everything you ever believed in if you understand it. It's like a self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners. Even if it doesn't expand your mind it'll make you laugh.

Sounds very interesting Azrael. I read that you are very much interested in theology; any other books you recommend?

[verbalpocketplay]

I'm reading Joan Baez's book and she's talking about the relationship which she had with Bob Dylan. She tells about all of the little things they used to talk about and one of them was what to name their child if they were ever to have one. And guess what the name was?? SHANNON !!!

[ishbell]

What a coincidence, not many kids were called Shannon at that time. Wonder what he would have been like?

[azrael]

ishbell said:

Sounds very interesting Azrael. I read that you are very much interested in theology; any other books you recommend?

any listed in the theology/religious studies section of my myspace but I particularily recommend Jesus & The Lost Goddess by Peter Freke & Simon Ghandi, & also Goddless Morality by Richard Holloway.

[blindmelon1091]

I just got done reading Roots by Alex Haley again.....it remains the best book I've ever read. Lately I've been really into books about mistreatment of African-Americans in the US. Anything from slavery to sharecropping to civil rights is in my current reading list. Roots is on top though. I also am starting this book called The Doors of Perception about mind altering experiences with LSD. Actually a very interesting book so far.

-CHRIS-

[verbalpocketplay]

"I just got done reading Roots by Alex Haley again.....it remains the best book I've ever read. Lately I've been really into books about mistreatment of African-Americans in the US. Anything from slavery to sharecropping to civil rights is in my current reading list. Roots is on top though."(sorry i messed up the quote box heheh)

do a little research on Roots, i'm not sure but i remember hearing how half the story was fabricated. some parts were overexaggerated, if not made up, and the story about the main character Haley ripped off from some other guy.

if you want to read a book about african-americans treatment in modern day, read Makes Me Wanna Hollar by Nathan Mccall. I know book recomendations are a dime a dozen from someone you really don't know. but the book is gritty, and true, as hell. in fact i can send it to you if you want.

i just got these three babies ;D








not really a crue fan, but rock n roll debauchery makes me smile

what's that you say....? read something educational? #no#

[blindmelon1091]

verbalpocketplay said:

do a little research on Roots, i'm not sure but i remember hearing how half the story was fabricated. some parts were overexaggerated, if not made up, and the story about the main character Haley ripped off from some other guy

Yeah man over half the story is obviously speculation...I mean there are no written records to show what a man from the Gambia in Africa in the 1700's did while he was there so Haley speculates based on tribal traditions and probably exagerates some parts a bit. There are however ship records to show slave carge from that era at that time. Using this and family oral stories Haley peices together and validates that Kunte Kinte was a slave from the Gambia in the 1700's and he is a direct relative of him. Haley even went to Africa and visited his distant cousins. I find it amazing that he could trace his family history back that far.

-CHRIS-

[azrael]

verbalpocketplay said:

not really a crue fan, but rock n roll debauchery makes me smile

that doesn't matter it's an amazing book, it'll make you laugh 'til your sides split & cry just as hard

[verbalpocketplay]

yeah i'm lookin forward to it, i started reading the Jane's book...i love it, love the band as well.

azrael said:

that doesn't matter it's an amazing book, it'll make you laugh 'til your sides split & cry just as hard

i hear that chapter about vince losing his daughter is pretty rough...

[azrael]

Yeah I was struck down with apendicitis at the time of reading that part & I didn't know I had it I was just in loads of pain & so I got a bout of hyperchondria!

That part is heartbreaking, you can't read it without shedding a tear or two.

[verbalpocketplay]

you guys have to read this book, i just got done reading it. even if you're not a fan of jane's addiction it talks alot about the whole early punk scene going on in L.A and the start of the grunge thing going on in Seattle.(which maybe really started in L.A? up for debate?)

there's even some slash comments and a little part about axl.

it shows the business side of music and how nasty it really is, how nobody really gives a shit about the music....even some of the musicians.

but on a happier note....some parts are frickin hilarious....the porno for pyros guys are talking about how paranoid they got from doing so many drugs on this island while they were supposed to be getting clean

..."We had armed bodyguards with submachine guns and shoulder holsters in this tree house and Perry was running around naked with a gun one night. These two hired goons were just lauging their asses off at us, milking it for all they could get. They'd be like snickering, 'Hey, Perry, you now, I think we saw something last night....' that would be, like, another five grand...or whatever, and Perry would just be oblivious."

[*Sonya*]

I had no idea that Jane's Addiction book existed! I'm definitely going to get a copy, I love them!