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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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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)

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell :thumbup:


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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)

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)

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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a brave new world - Aldous Huxley
the electric kool-aid acid test - Tom Wolfe
fear and loathing in las vegas - Hunter S. Thompson



:foreheadslap: 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)

--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)

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. :vaped:


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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)

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)

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)

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)

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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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)

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)

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)

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)

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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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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BTW, seeing as this is a thread about literature, I should probably point out that unofficial is spelt wrong :foreheadslap:.




I'm trying to make the english language more efficient....errrr eficient:snub:


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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)

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)

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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