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 leoside
Just nod if youcan hear me
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 Re: Recommend a book [Re: robbyberto]
#8391194 - 05/12/08 12:01 AM (4 months, 24 days ago) |
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Harry potter and the philosophers stone
Enchanting
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waiting for sedation to disconnect my head
or any situation where i'm better off then dead
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 justin_thyme
tool
Registered: 02/28/07
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Loc: OU
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Anything by Carl or Nick Sagan
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 astronaut
manual labor advocate
Registered: 09/11/07
Posts: 556
Loc: Oregon
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Camus, Albert; "The Stranger"
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand; "Journey to the End of the Night"
Eliot, T.S; "The Waste Land"
Hesse, Herman; "Siddartha"
Hofstadter, Douglas; "I Am A Strange Loop"
Joyce, James; "Finnigan's Wake"
Kafka, Franz; "Metamorphosis"
Nietzsche, Friedrich; "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
Stirner, Max; "The Ego and It's Own"
^^ some of the most important literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, IMO. Each of those is also an exceptionally enrichening read, that I cannot recommend enough to anyone.
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In another Time's Forgotten Space, your Eyes looked through your Mother's Face.
Wildflower Seed on the Sand and Stone, may the Four Winds blow you Safely Home!
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jewunit
The HebrewHammer
Registered: 01/11/07
Posts: 13,150
Loc: Columbus, OH/Syracuse, NY
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Re: Recommend a book [Re: robbyberto]
#8391217 - 05/12/08 12:10 AM (4 months, 24 days ago) |
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Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n Roll by Rick Coleman.
Good read, slightly biased in the opposite direction than you would usually read (at least earlier, I guess now people like this are starting to get their recognition.)
Don't bother if you're not interested in rock history and roots, it's Fats' biography.
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thedefone
take it on the otherside..
Registered: 10/06/07
Posts: 1,475
Loc: Schlachthof-Fünf
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Re: Recommend a book [Re: jewunit]
#8391275 - 05/12/08 12:34 AM (4 months, 24 days ago) |
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Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions - by, Richard Erdoes. Got me into Native Spirituality.. a subject I was stuck in for months.
The Long Walk - by, Slawomir Rawicz. Greatest escape story ever told. Better than Papillon.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat - by, Oliver Sacks. Awesome, short essays about bizarre psychiatric disorders.
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I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
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SyntheticMInd
dream knot dream
Registered: 01/21/08
Posts: 2,543
Loc: time
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Re: Recommend a book [Re: thedefone]
#8391281 - 05/12/08 12:35 AM (4 months, 24 days ago) |
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hyperion - just got this in the mail a few days ago and is seems like one badass sci-fi book.
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I don't do drugs, I am drugs
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
- Salvador Dalí
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myshoesarered
Mushabelly Snoozem
Registered: 12/12/07
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Loc: The Mitt
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Wow, I'm late to the party. Ship of fools by Katherine Anne Porter.
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"What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling all round the sun,
and when we meet on a cloud
I'll be laughing out loud,
I'll be laughing at everyone I see,
Can't believe, how strange it is to be anything at all..."
"...nobody has yet died of amazement & you always come back to planet Earth..."
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justin_thyme
tool
Registered: 02/28/07
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Quote:
SyntheticMInd said:
hyperion - just got this in the mail a few days ago and is seems like one badass sci-fi book.
oh yeah, that's a good one. i got bored in the beginning but if you can make it through the first 120 pages you'll be hooked.
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DimensionX
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The original Dune novels are my favorite books. If you read the whole series its a beautiful story about the evolution of humanity.
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perosiste
Overcomplicates shit for fun
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House of Leaves
Mark c Danielewsky(sp)
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Risk Management will be the downfall of western civilization.
My avatar really says "Holy Fuck I love being white"
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blewmeanie
Jacoby Liberation Front
Registered: 10/01/06
Posts: 5,085
Loc: Gainesville Fl
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Re: Recommend a book [Re: perosiste]
#8391781 - 05/12/08 07:31 AM (4 months, 23 days ago) |
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong;
not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich;
not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned;
and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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theorganicdomino
Psychedelic ZenBuddhist
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Posts: 1,643
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Re: Recommend a book [Re: blewmeanie]
#8391854 - 05/12/08 08:10 AM (4 months, 23 days ago) |
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Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
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"You've got to get hold of the thread of marching time, pull the fuck thing down, get on the end of it and pang yourself to the infinitude of absolute mind"
Ken Campbell - Furtive Nudist
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dirtworshipper
Sitting in theheart cave
Registered: 05/12/07
Posts: 1,879
Loc: at The Guru's lotus feet
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The Way of the Pilgrim
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Aum Shanti Shanti Shantihi (Aum! Peace! Peace! Peace be with Us All!)
(Click and Read)
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TheHappyHippies
Dick Hippie
Registered: 05/07/08
Posts: 107
Loc: Your mom, somewhere near ...
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How to Expand love
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Under the old oak tree,
The Village Idiot sat...
Amusing himself, by abusing himself
And catching it in his hat!
-Anonymous
Today's asshole is Chris!
-Chris Leavins & Colty
(www.cutewithchris.com)
-- Yes, I am THE Dick Hippie
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dutchmushroom
mushroom invader
Registered: 08/02/06
Posts: 1,114
Loc: outer space
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fear and loathing in las vegas is great! ikts by hunter s thompson,
i would alos recomend "lsd my problem child" by the great docter albert hofmann who receintly passed away
also you can;t go wrong with the lord of the rings books
peace out Dm
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i won't slave for beggers pay, like-wise gold and jewels, but i would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools < jerry garcia
you may say im a dreamer but im not the only one
-john lennon
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/7025542/an/2/page/0 < im asking nicely please check this page out
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SgtBob
Animator
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Hyperspace - Michio Kaku is a great read, part of his stories are biographies too which are very interesting.
Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna, also a great read. Can get off topic if you have ADD.
also this art book i picked up is interesting:
Fractals - The patterns of chaos by john briggs.
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-ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!!!!!!!!
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arago
ol' fartage
Registered: 02/07/06
Posts: 82
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Re: Recommend a book [Re: SgtBob]
#8393110 - 05/12/08 02:56 PM (4 months, 23 days ago) |
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Until They Bring the Street Cars Back
Plainsong
Both pretty cool and not mainstream
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guruu
Space Trucker
Registered: 08/09/07
Posts: 4,357
Loc: Atlanta, GA (sometimes)
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Quote:
SyntheticMInd said:
hyperion - just got this in the mail a few days ago and is seems like one badass sci-fi book.
Hyperion and its sequel are both extremely badass books.
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"I want a tie-dyed shirt made with the blood of Jerry Garcia"
-Kurt Cobain
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