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What are you reading right now?

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Personally just I'm just about done re-reading fight club.

Currently on Betting On The Muse, bukowksi short stories and poems.

And cheap beer tuning my head a bit as well

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Atomic Lobster by Tim Dorsey.

Dorsey writes in the "crazy Florida people" genre, and his recurring character is Serge A. Storms, who is a serial killer of assholes and douchebags. His sidekick is a guy named Coleman, who always has a drink or a joint in his hand. Fun to drink rum or beer while reading.
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"The Doors of Perception" - Aldous Huxley

The author's own account of his experience with the drug mescalin. Sort of like a sophisticated version of a drunk blog post...

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A couple of books related to the books I'm writing now. (It's my hobby; no one would ever publish me. Some grandmas knit...)
And while Grumpy reads the paper and rants at me about everything in it that pisses him off, I'm leafing through a big, full color book about the making of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Found it in perfect condition, in a thrift shop, for a pittance. Wow, I am a big Gene Wilder fan.
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Mr. Salt:
Butterscotch, buttergin? Got something going on inside of here?
Willy Wonka:
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
rune:
I really must read more Wonka, and a good night to you.

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MDM Forums.
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redshift wrote:MDM Forums.
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Rat war I'm reading right now it's a story of commie ass army snipers fighting the Nazis and there snipers at the battle Stalingrad in WW2.The dude in the book well the Russian dude always got a half bottle of Vodka on them as they where fighting
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A couple of books by Christopher Hitchens ("God Is Not Great" and "Letters to a Young Contrarian") and "The Ballad of the Sad Café" by Carson McCullers.

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Classic & Sports Car Magazine (UK).

Best car mag on the planet, IMHO.
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The Dirt by Motly Crew. Good book lot of nastyness, but more more drugs and sex than drink. Except Mick Mars he's a boozaholick extrodinare.
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This board finally got me to read Bukowski (yeah, I was young and naive to have not read him before)

Started with Post Office, then Factotum, now Women. Also got Portions from a Wine Stained Notebook that I read on the crapper.

Also got the complete works of Emerson that I read on the other crapper.

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A few books that I would recommend as good lavatory reads:

An Incomplete Education whatever edition is up today. usually you can find this on the remainder table of a Borders of B&N.

Any of the "A/The Dictionary/Encyclopedia of ..." volumes. My two favorties were The Encyclopedia of Battles znd Dictionary of Theories.
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Fan mail from some flounder.
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