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danlennon3
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recommend me a book
#9567513 - 01/07/09 09:11 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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I wanna start reading more so I need some recommendations. I enjoy non-fiction books.Some of the subjects I like reading about are quantum mechanics, space,science,ayahuasca,nature, philosophy,Buddhism, alternate dimensions,the pineal gland,evolutionary biology,psychology. Any suggestions?
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Re: recommend me a book [Re: danlennon3]
#9567561 - 01/07/09 09:18 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Cannabis, by Martin Booth. If you smoke (or even if you don't) it's very informative and bulging with historic facts about cannabis and hemp.
If you are into the hippy culture/60's/acid/Ken Kesey try the 'Electric Kool Aid Acid Test' by Tom Wolfe, might not be your kind of thing but I learned a lot from it, changed the way I thought about drugs and substances.
This might be a bit too far away from your kinda thing but try some Hunter S. Thompson. Fear & Loathing On the Campaign Trail '72 is a good one that got me into politics (I could'nt stand them).
Sorry if none of these float your boat, but I consider them among the best books I have read.
Chief.
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Re: recommend me a book [Re: danlennon3]
#9567565 - 01/07/09 09:19 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Conversations with God.
Don't be fooled by the title, its not a christian propaganda machine, its an amazing book. I promise it will make you think about a lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_God
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Re: recommend me a book [Re: danlennon3]
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Re: recommend me a book [Re: danlennon3]
#9567583 - 01/07/09 09:20 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ken Wilber "A Brief History Of Everything"
It is pretty much as described, a brief history of everything as well as predictions for future. Gives a good treatment of science vs. spirituality, as well as evolving consciousness.
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Re: recommend me a book [Re: danlennon3]
#9567597 - 01/07/09 09:22 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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best bppk list on the internets.....,approvesded by al gore and his butt priate friend the bush brothers, jed , w, calmeth....elder senior....corpse of a wife..laura etc...
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
are you experienced
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
I read "Catfish and Mandala" in Viet Nam and found it fantastic. The writter was bicycling in the same places I was traveling and it was very funny.
The Sacred Willow is a wonderful history of Vietnam, in novel form. It is extremely well researched, I was both engrossed and educated.
"The Girl in the Picture" is very sad, but good war history.
"Vietnam in the Absence of War" by Thomas Rampton is a good account of two bicycling trips through Vietnam. It is not about the war, but biking down Highway 1.
"Laos" by Judy Rantala is a wonderful account by the wife of an American industrial arts teacher in Laos--prior to the communist take over.
'Mai Pen Rai" is the story of a State Department wife living in Bangkok, I belive in the early 1970's--very entertaining.
I am sorry that I don't have the names of most of the writters because I pass most books on after I read them, but I think I bought all of them at Amazon.
As for "Off the Rails in Phnom Penh," that one I bought in the Bangkok Airport and as a female reader I found it absolutely sickeningly repulsive and sad, I have no idea if the ending redeems the rest of the book because even though I tried several times I could never get more than half way through th
'private dancer' is impossible to put down till the twist-in-the-tail conclusion, its the story of a bar girl and her customer/boyfriend, told in the first person, from both perspectives - should be mandatory reading for all single males arriving in TH
The Scribe by David Young.
is The Lotus Kingdom by Alastair Shearer
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson Slaughter House by Kurt Vonnegut Junkie by William S. Burroughs Michowel Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca edited by Ralph Metzner Cant Find My Way Home: America In the Great Stoned Age You Must Set Forth At Dawn by Wole Soyinka Ketamine: Dreams and Realities Blackfoot physics: a journey into the native american universe by f. david peat The Road - Cormac McCarthy Breaking Open the Head. Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake Wizard of the Upper Amazon: The Story of Manuel Cordova-Rios Back From the Void by Zoe 7.
A Star called Henry by Roddy Doyle. fierce invalids home from hot climates" by tom robbins
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Siddartha by Hermann Hesse A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1968 Strangely B. Stranger: Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (My license plate reads "Dr Nut"!)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck Leah: Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg - Carolyn Cassady The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov (Paul Schmidt trans.) Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco Leaving Las Vegas, John O'Brien
The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maughham Cosmos, Carl Sagan A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Scratching the Beat Surface by Michael McClure
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs The Informers by Bret Easton-Ellis Books Of Blood vol. 1-3 by Clive Barker A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (tie)
Little, Big by John Crowley The best American magic-realist novel ever Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Deceptive simplicity Texasville by Larry McMurtry Pure pleasure; the most fun I've ever had reading a book All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews
Last Resort by Scott Sommer A 25 year old loser goes home to his family's decaying seaside house; fun and true Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison Would be perfect book with the addition of The Deathbird and a few other Ellison classics Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Richard: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac Apocalypse by D.H. Lawrence Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Ask the Dust by John Fante Road to Los Angeles by John Fante Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Sense of Beauty by George Santayana Ulysses by James Joyce Christina C:
Ahhhh Ti Jean...in my eyes you're best Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins Zany and great The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The First Third by Neal Cassady Oh the man behind the curtain....how interesting Kerouac: A Biography by Ann Charters Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady SMUT (aka Trashy Romances) by certain authors Always have to have a no brainer here and there The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw Living in Downeast Maine...Fishing is a part of life Little: Complete Fiction by Bruno Schulz
Cages by Dave McKean The safety of illusions, the golden cage of lost hopes. McKean is the Stanley Kubrick of his medium. Dr.Sax by Jack Kerouac Kerouac´s highest high. Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard ) The Nature of Time by G.J. Whitrow
El Aleph by Jorge Louis Borges "I can´t see Borges anywhere!" (Donald Cammell) Dreams and Dead Ends by Jack Shadoian The American Gangster/Crime genre from Shadoian´s POV: Poetic, essential, passionate. London Fields by Martin Amis
Panegyric by Guy Debord The society of the spectacle couldn't make it here! Hammond Guthrie: The I-Ching (original translation) The Tibetan Book of the Dead (original translation) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller The Rosy Crucifixion = Sexus, Plexus and Nexus by Henry Miller Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey Ulysses/Finnegans Wake (as a 2 Vol. entry) by James Joyce The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot The Elements of Style by Richard Strunk Jean-Marie S.: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac Ask the Dust by John Fante Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
Ninety-two in the Shade by Thomas Mc Guane Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis Michael: The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin Film As A Subversive Art by Amos Vogel Franz Kafka by Max Brod The Air Conditioned Nighmare by Henry Miller Demian by Herman Hesse Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
All My Friends Are Going To be Strangers by Larry McMurtry
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingwaay Ask The Dust by John Fante Sixty-Seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac White Trash Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs It Catches My Heart In Its Hands by Charles Bukowski
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac Junky by William S. Burroughs More Junk...Junk Sick..Junk.... Factotum by Charles Bukowski & yes, by the sweat of your brow.... Down & Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow take a rapid ride on the jazz train to.....
Be a writer...The Gamble for a Lifetime... -10. (Let's Break The Rules) (Books by some new ones....) Rope Burns by F.X. Toole...Get this book. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich...Get this book. Doghouse Flowers by Steve Earle
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick. Using his own drug experience in the 60s. Dick builds a sci-fi novel that will capture you from the begining. London Fields by Martin Amis. Amis goes deeper than what Wolfe and Ellis went in Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho. The Psychedelic Prayers by Tim Leary.
Burning Chrome by William Gibson.
Bobok by Dostoevsky. Dark tale about a drunk and the voice that he hears in the cemetery. Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami.
Jim Camp: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
Journey To The End Of The Night by Celine Death On The Installment Plan by Celine Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell Journey to the End of the Night by Celine
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
Allison M.: The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac Maggie Cassady by Jack Kerouac Demian by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus The Beach by Alex Garland
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danlennon3
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Re: recommend me a book [Re: Chief Broom]
#9567609 - 01/07/09 09:23 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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no drug books,60's,or Timothy Leary.As much as I love these subjects, I am looking for something else.Already read a lot about these topics
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Re: recommend me a book [Re: Amber_Glow]
#9567611 - 01/07/09 09:23 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Alec_Baldwin
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Re: recommend me a book [Re: danlennon3]
#9567622 - 01/07/09 09:25 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Okay just type in On The Road on Amazon and you'll get all the reco's you'll get on here which is basically a few Kerouac's, Kesey, Huxley, Constenada, Dick, and like three others.
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Postulio
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Re: recommend me a book [Re: Crasher]
#9567625 - 01/07/09 09:25 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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If you want to learn how fucked up Jehovahs Wiriness's are :P
Crisis of Conscience.
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Re: recommend me a book [Re: Crasher]
#9567628 - 01/07/09 09:25 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Screwtape Letters
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Re: recommend me a book [Re: blewmeanie]
#9571464 - 01/08/09 02:52 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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I highly recommend The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. He melds a lot of elements from Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, and many other powerful characters in history into a comprehensive guide of various forms of power that people use. Each chapter starts with
I'm only up to chapter seven, but this book is gloriously helpful to me. I see the tactics various people in my life use, sometimes for malicious sort of reasons and it helps me prevent such things. For some people these "laws of power" are obvious, but for me a lot of them have been a real eye opener.
One of the best things about the book is Robert Greene's history lessons, even though sometimes it seems he puts his own little spin on a few of the stories.
I highly recommend it, the ebook is online if you want to check it out before buying it.
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A former college football player, banished from organized football after a carnal episode with his coach's wife, is hiking through the wet wilderness of Olympic National Park. He comes upon a murdered Catholic monk with a letter of introduction. Stealing the monk's clothes and assuming his identity, he continues on the path until he arrives at what was to be the monk's destination: a completely unknown monastary that serves as a training ground for the Vatican hit squad. Passing himself off as the murdered monk, he soon finds himself transferred to duty at the Vatican where, after some time, he is able to use the confusion created by a rather severe earthquake to sneak his way into the lowest, off-limits section of the Vatican catacombs. Who's body he finds, and what happens after that? Read the book.
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http://www.amazon.com/Teachings-Don-Juan-Yaqui-Knowledge/dp/0520256387/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231451665&sr=1-2
The Don Juan series. Possibly the most controversial book related to psychedelics EVER. The author swore his experiences were real, but theres some strong evidence against it. Either way the knowledge and enjoyment in these books are real.
Basically an Anthropologist goes to Mexico to study Peyote, and seeks out a shaman. THe shaman takes him under his wing as his apprentice. He travels to other worlds using Datura, Peyote, and Magic Mushroom. Its a great read check up the first book listed above. I consider it a Fiction Novel and very interesting.
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Seth Speaks! It'll change your whole perspective on things!
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Ego Death
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Re: recommend me a book [Re: danlennon3]
#9571529 - 01/08/09 03:06 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anything by R.A.Wilson.
The other books I read are on magic. I mean magic tricks like mentalism etc I love that stuff. 13 steps to mentalism by corinda is what I'm reading at the mo, its an oldie but theres many a little known secret still being used by magicians today.
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Re: recommend me a book [Re: Ego Death]
#9571584 - 01/08/09 03:17 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sybil
True story of a women with 16 different multiple personalities.
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andrewss
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Probably everything by Dostoevsky.
Nietzsche's The Gay Science is awesome perhaps my favorite philosophy book...
Sartre's Nausea was good
There is so much out there to read. If you like war history books like Band of Brothers is great.
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