Discussion What book are you reading?

[Maudlin]

Right now, I'm reading The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda.

I'll be re-reading all three books, including A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan, after having learned some new things... I'm only a quarter of the way through the first in the series, and already understanding certain things much more than when I first read this book many years ago.

Are you currently into a book? If so, what are you reading?

I love those three. Read each multiple times. Castaneda was an interesting individual.

Right now I'm into a few different manuals and books... for some reason I can never just read one book at a time, any more. Must be gettin' old, or somethin'. Anyway, here's my current list:

"Hypnotism" by George Hoben Estabrooks

"Simple Sabotage Field Manual" Strategic Services Field Manual #3

"The Open Conspiracy" by H.G. Wells

https://ia804502.us.archive.org/30/items/the-open-conspiracy-h.-g.-wells/The%20Open%20Conspiracy%20-%20H.%20G.%20Wells.pdf

"What is the Internet of Bodies" -Rand corp.

What Is the Internet of Bodies?

RAND mathematician Mary Lee examines technologies that make up the Internet of Bodies (IoB); explores their benefits, risks, and ethical implications; surveys the regulatory landscape; and makes recommendations to balance IoB risks and rewards.

www.rand.org

"5.3.6 CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT
REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021" -Pfizer

https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/reissue_5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf

"FM 34-36 SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES INTELLIGENCE AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE OPERATIONS" -US Army

FM 34-36 Table of Contents

Thinking and Destiny -Harold Percival

https://thewordfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Thinking-and-Destiny-by-Harold-W-Percival.pdf

"BREAKING OTHER PEOPLES TOYS: SABOTAGE IN A MULTIPOLAR WORLD" Daniel Meegan

https://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle/10945/66686/20Dec_Meegan_Daniel.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

And

Gnosis, a Manifestation Manual -Neville Goddard

https://files.catbox.moe/9pp8pu.pdf

This was last week's list. I'll have "Thinking and Destiny" done tonight, but I've read the rest, at this point. Most are a pretty quick read... but the pfizer papers are like a subscription service to a magazine you hate... dull as hell, maddening, and seemingly endless. No small task, that.

 

[Csmith8827]

Upgrade by Blake Crouch but I'm certainly taking my sweet old time to do it. It's not even that long of a book... around 300-400pages...I think I'm about to hit the 100 page mark. In modern society when you're not incarcerated I find reading books to be like nearly impossible to do...

 

[card1nal]

The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia. I find it fascinating, but I'd imagine that it would be boring to anyone who isn't absolutely in love with all forms of jazz.

 

[DustInTheWind]

I enjoy reading fantasy books (probably to escape this world for a while, in some way). Heard good things about the book series 'Mistborn' from Brandon Sanderson, so currently reading through that trilogy. Quite nice so far.

 

[aweary]

Rereading the Takeshi Kovacs novels, Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan. Altered Carbon was made into a Netflix series, but it is different from the book.

Pulp science fiction, with some b.s. philosophy, but a lot of fun, don't take it seriously.

 

[Fl4u]

Anna Karenina.

 

[Grav]

Anglo-Saxon Food & Drink

 

[looking_for_peace]

finished Atonement by McEwan the other day. beautiful book. yesterday I read "I'm glad my mom died" by Jennette Mccurdy.. don't usually read biographies but it was a solid read.

 

[figtree]

are you my mother? by alison bechdel

 

[nico_wren]

I'm currently reading The Trial by Frank Kafka. I recently read his diary entries and Metamophosis, another story by him, and I have basically become completely obsessed^^

 

[The Eihwaz Tree]

The alchemist... I'm somewhere on page 102... I'm taking a long break from it due to my busy schedule.

 

[Source Energy]

The Red& The Black by Stendhal

I just finished Dry by Neal Shusterman

 

[body_snatcher]

Right now, I'm reading The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda.

I'll be re-reading all three books, including A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan, after having learned some new things... I'm only a quarter of the way through the first in the series, and already understanding certain things much more than when I first read this book many years ago.

Are you currently into a book? If so, what are you reading?

Oh no way this is awesome, I love Castaneda. Those books have some seriously powerful wisdom, goes right to the core of things. I've been rereading them

 

[winamp]

I am currently reading Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite

after hearing about it in several lists and not being able to find the other books in my list at my local library

I am also debating on what to read next

Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans

or

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

 

[AllCatsAreGrey]

I'm currently re-reading "The Inconvenience of Other People" by Lauren Berlant.

Excellent philosophy and culture analysis.

 

[CandycanePuke]

I'm between books in a reading slump. The last book I read was Tender Is The Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica. I think the next book I'll read is Strawberry Lane by Jodi Thomas, but it might be something else

 

[real human being]

my brain is too fkd for reading

 

[Freyja13]

I'm currently reading "Tranny" by Laura Jane Grace

 

[anxious_depressive]

The Collected Works of Edgar Poe

 

[Shiva_Story]

Principles of Dealing with the changing World by Ray Dalio

 

[nux_walpurgis]

I've been simultaneously reading East of Eden and rereading Time of Contempt (5th or 6th read).

Oh I really liked East of Eden. I remember it took my two summers to finish it though lol. But it was nice in a melancholic sort of way

Wheel of Time: The Great Hunt (Book 2)

I appreciate Robert Jordan's prose. It's not eloquent often, but it doesn't go overboard or skimp on details. The plot generally moves at a reasonable pace.

I am just the starting with the first book Eye of the World. I love his writing!