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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Cepheus]
#10359705 - 05/18/09 04:50 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Cepheus said: PiHKAL TiHKAL
I've finished PiHKAL and I'm half way through TiHKAL. Both are incredible books and both have influenced my own thoughts quite a bit. I definitely recommend them.
i thought those books were just descriptions of the different phens and stuff. is there more to them than that?
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: JT]
#10359747 - 05/18/09 04:56 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: StrandedVoyager]
#10359886 - 05/18/09 05:18 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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stereotypical yes, but On The Road by Jack Kerouac should be on the list. most of everything else i though of is already listed, but ill try to come up with more.
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Dude96]
#10359916 - 05/18/09 05:26 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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a brave new world - Aldous Huxley the electric kool-aid acid test - Tom Wolfe fear and loathing in las vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Lorek]
#10359935 - 05/18/09 05:30 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Lorek said: a brave new world - Aldous Huxley the electric kool-aid acid test - Tom Wolfe fear and loathing in las vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
so obvious how could i forget lol.
also, im not finished with it so i can't really call it a MUST read yet, but im in the middle of an interesting book called--
Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan. -- its speculation on the evolution of human intelligence.
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: blewmeanie]
#10359973 - 05/18/09 05:37 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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--The Active Side of Infinity and Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda --Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Dude96]
#10360035 - 05/18/09 05:45 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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This is exactly the kind of thread I was looking for today. I haven't read many books lately, but starting to get back into it. I used to love to read then kinda stopped. The two most recent ones I have read though has been FOTG, excellent book, and The Psychedelic Experience which I highly recommend as well. I am thinking about picking up True Hallucinations next, then maybe even High Priest or something. I might even read the Harry Potter books just for the hell of it. Oh and because my brother has them already.
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Seeker_22]
#10360286 - 05/18/09 06:15 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Obviously this could be one hell of a long list but I'll toss a few out off the top of my head, in no order. (I endorse many of the previous recommendations too.)
Chaos: The making of a new science - James Gleick God's Laughter - Gerhard Staughn Einstein's Theory of Relativity - Max Born Hyperspace - Michio Kaku
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: antiPock]
#10360412 - 05/18/09 06:34 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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This thread came as a nice surprise!
I was on Amazon earlier, looking through the endless amount of books in hope of finding some thing worth reading. Hopefully, this thread should help me make a decision.
Filth by Irvine Welsh looks brilliant!
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: gENERIX]
#10360644 - 05/18/09 07:12 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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A Night Of Serious Drinking
Rene Daumal is criminally under appreciated.
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: d33p]
#10360737 - 05/18/09 07:32 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Steppenwolf by Hesse (surprised this wasnt on here yet)
The Gay Science by Nietzsche
Nausea by Sartre
The Way of Zen by Watts (was a very good intro to eastern thought for me if anyone is looking for something like that I thought it was quite good)
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: psilyguy]
#10360899 - 05/18/09 08:02 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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psilyguy said:
also, im not finished with it so i can't really call it a MUST read yet, but im in the middle of an interesting book called--
Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan. -- its speculation on the evolution of human intelligence.
The gift for making science personally significant to the reader, the poetic ability to explain the complex, and the way he made lofty ideas digestible without overly simplifying them is rare to find. You can't go wrong with this guy (and if it adds any appeal, he did some cannabis and LSD and thought they were freakin' great, though he was a very very infrequent user.)
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: blewmeanie] 1
#10360916 - 05/18/09 08:05 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
It's the book that Bladerunner was based on and is much more awesome than the movie (which is awesome too but different)
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: blewmeanie]
#10361017 - 05/18/09 08:23 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n Roll The History of Jazz The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings Bukowski's novels.
I need to read more.
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: jewunit]
#10361161 - 05/18/09 08:49 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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are you experienced by William Sutcliffe
Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Catfish and Mandala
The Sacred Willow
The Girl in the Picture
marching powder
Vietnam in the Absence of War
Laos
Mai Pen Rai
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester- first novel to win the Hugo award
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Necroscope: The Lost Years by Brian Lumley
Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters by Bradford Matsen
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
Watership Down by Richard Adams.
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Highliners: The Classic Novel about the Commercial Fishermen of Alaska by William McCloskey
LIGHTNING ON THE SUN by ROBERT BINGHAM
Alaska Blues: A Season of Fishing the Inside Passage
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
Snow Crash-Neal Stephenson
Lost on Planet China: One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation by J. Maarten Troost
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Off the Rails in Phnom Penh
The Scribe by David Young.
is The Lotus Kingdom by Alastair Shearer
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
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.
God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre Richard Grant
American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg - Carolyn Cassady The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov (Paul Schmidt trans.)
Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs The Informers by Bret Easton-Ellis
Little, Big by John Crowley
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews
Last Resort by Scott Sommer
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
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac Apocalypse by D.H. Lawrence Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Road to Los Angeles by John Fante Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Sense of Beauty by George Santayana
Zany and great The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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
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 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.
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
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot The Elements of Style by Richard Strunk Jean-Marie S.:
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
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
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
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingwaay
Sixty-Seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs It Catches My Heart In Its Hands by Charles Bukowski
The Outsider by Albert Camus
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
DMT the spirit molecule - Strassman
in search of the pink headed duck
pacos story
the deerslayer
Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
metamorphasis
the turner diaries
in trouble again
lunar park
swan song
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
Rule of the Bone
Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons From The Tokyo Riot Police
Marabou Stork Nightmares Junky by William S. Burroughs
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.
The Psychedelic Prayers by Tim Leary.
Burning Chrome by William Gibson.
Bobok by Dostoevsky.
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami.
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
The Drunken Tourist by Hadrian Santana
THE TECHNO PAGAN OCTOPUS MESSIAH''By Ian Winn
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac Maggie Cassady by Jack Kerouac Demian by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Working on the Edge: Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's HighSeas by Spike Walker
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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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: 5150]
#10361177 - 05/18/09 08:53 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is very good but there are probably dozens of better books which have already been mentioned.
I strongly endorse Be Here Now and Chaos: Making A New Science, which were already mentioned.
Honestly I've read far too few books -- this thread looks to contain more than enough suggestions to get me started remedying that.
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: 5150]
#10361185 - 05/18/09 08:55 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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5150 said: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
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Re: The Pub's Unofficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Cepheus]
#10361451 - 05/18/09 09:47 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Cepheus said: BTW, seeing as this is a thread about literature, I should probably point out that unofficial is spelt wrong .
I'm trying to make the english language more efficient....errrr eficient
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Dude96]
#10361505 - 05/18/09 09:57 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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this is cool.
I really wish we could bookmark threads.
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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: showme]
#10361539 - 05/18/09 10:03 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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At the bottom of the page on the left you can toggle favorite thread on or off. Then it will be in the Home part of your account.
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