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I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions?
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Any suggestions? I kinda want one about drugs/drug addiction but I am open to anything. What are some of your favorite books?

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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: atmosphere5]
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Anything by Shakespeare

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Anything by Dostoevsky

Journey to the End of the Night by Celine

Goethe's Faust

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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: atmosphere5]
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I'm not sure, but you might want to check out Charles Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises or Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater.

As for books unrelated to drugs, I'm not sure either, but you can't go wrong with Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. One of the best books of all time.


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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: ivi]
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Have you read "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" i forget who its by, but i read it in like 2 days, couldnt put it down. Another good book is "A million Little Pieces"

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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: RipvanBongBowl]
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o man. i enjoy reading about all manner of things related to drugs. can you be a little more specific about what you like?
there are some great free ones right here at the shroomery you can check out. Stanislav Grof is always a good read.
i like reading psychedelic studies too. i can certainly recommend some good ones, but that might be too in depth for some.

if your looking for something more along the lines of fiction, go find yourself a copy of Go Ask Alice. its actually not fiction, but a true story, but it is a short read that all people i know who have read it loved.


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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: zombi]
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Breaking Open The Head By Daniel Pinchbeck. :thumbup:


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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: atmosphere5]
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Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

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The novel is the story of a traveling carnival run by Aloysius "Al" Binewski and his wife "Crystal" Lil. When the business begins to fail, the couple devise an idea to breed their own freak show, using various drugs and radioactive material to alter the genes of their children. Who emerges are Arturo ("Arty"), a boy with flippers for hands and feet; Electra ("Elly") and Iphigenia ("Iphy"), the Siamese Twins; Olympia ("Oly"), the hunchback albino dwarf; and Fortunato ("Chick"), the normal-looking telekinetic baby of the family, as well as a number of stillborns kept preserved in jars in a special wing of the freak show.




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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: zombi]
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zombi said:
Go Ask Alice. its actually not fiction, but a true story



Yeah, so is Reefer Madness.


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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: ivi]
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ivi said:
zombi said:
Go Ask Alice. its actually not fiction, but a true story



Yeah, so is Reefer Madness.



touche. ok it is said to be a true story. it certainly is more plausible than reefer madness. though now that i think about it, the book does perpetuate the demonization of psychedelics and ignores the potential benefits. huh.

i haven't read it in many years so i haven't really thought of it that way. it is still a captivating story though.


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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: atmosphere5]
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Uncle John's Bathroom Readers  :tp:

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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: DannyGlick]
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if youre into a drug related book check out Prozac Nation if you havent already.

its a little heavy on the angst-y teenage girl tone but overall its a decent read.


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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: frith]
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Edited by deranger (03/06/10 06:07 PM)

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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: deranger]
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PKD's A Scanner Darkly

or

The Hasheesh Eater by Fitz Hugh Ludlow

You may be interested in Drugstore Cowboy, by James Fogles. The subject and story are interesting, but I thought that the actual writing was of poor quality (not terrible, just not worthy of any literary accolades). It's a quick and easy read, and I did enjoy the story, but in my opinion Fogle had difficulty with character development and constructing dialogue.


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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: atmosphere5]
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The contortionist's handbook


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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: Wasteland]
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Catastrophobia by Barbara Hand Clow.


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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: RipvanBongBowl]
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RipvanBongBowl said:
"A million Little Pieces"



Pretty good book.


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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: kirilan]
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If you haven't yet "fear and loathing in las vegas" by hunter s thompson. Drug abuse doesn't get better than that.

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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: atmosphere5]
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This collection of books includes a variety of genres and authors. It features works such as "The Thought Gang" by Tibor Fischer, "Throwim Way Leg" by Tim Flannery, and "Voyage to the End of the Room" by Tibor Fischer. Other notable titles include "Killing Pablo," "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs," "Tweak," "Leaving Dirty Jersey," "In Search of Captain Zero," "The Western Limit of the World," "2182 kHz," "Arctic Dreams," "Out Stealing Horses," "Rum Diaries," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Catfish and Mandala," "The Sacred Willow," "The Girl in the Picture," "Marching Powder," "4,000 Days," "Vietnam in the Absence of War," "Laos," "The Damage Done," and "Mai Pen Rai." The collection also includes memoirs like "Cryptonomicon," "The Fruit Palace," "Among the Thugs," and "Riding the Iron Rooster."

are you experienced by William Sutcliffe

The THOUGHT GANG
by Tibor Fischer

Throwim Way Leg
By TIM FLANNERY



Voyage to the End of the Room: A Novel
by Tibor Fischer

The Collector Collector:
by Tibor Fischer

Cosmic Banditos by A. C. Weisbecker

Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn

The Dogs of Winter by Kem Nunn

Tijuana Straits: A Novel by Kem Nunn

Caught Inside  by Daniel Duane

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

Lush Life: A Novel by Richard Price

Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman

Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer

Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
by David Sheff

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greate... by Mark Bowden

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Ma... by Chuck Klosterman

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
by Nic Sheff

Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir by James Salant

In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road by Allan Weisbecker

The Western Limit of the World:
by David Masiel

2182 kHz by David Masiel

Arctic Dreams
by Barry Lopez

Out Stealing Horses:
by Per Petterson


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


4,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison
by Warren Fellows


Vietnam in the Absence of War

Laos

The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
by Warren Fellows

Mai Pen Rai

Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

The Fruit Palace: An Odyssey Through Colombia's Cocaine Underworld
by Charles Nicholl

Among the Thugs by Bill Buford

Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
Paul Theroux


Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

The Gringo Trail
by Mark Mann

Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade by Robert Sabbag

Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem

The Demolished Man
by Alfred Bester-

Ringworld
by Larry Niven

Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
by Roberto Saviano

If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship... by Tim O'Brien

Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack C... by Gary Webb

A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo

Kindness of Strangers,The, Penniless Across America - Mike McIntyre


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

Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone

Close Quarters: A Novel by Larry Heinemann


Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Ch... by Ben Mezrich

Watership Down by Richard Adams.

Savages by Joe Kane

Smokescreen: A True Adventure by Robert Sabbag

Dog Soldiers
by Robert Stone

Deliverance by James Dickey

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

Paris Trout  by Pete Dexter


The Elementary Particles
by Michel Houellebecq

The 13th Valley by John M. Del Vecchio

Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Min... by Daniel Tammet

The Dark Fields
by Alan Glynn

Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone

Platform by Michel Houellebecq

Short Timers by Gustav Hasford

Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-America... by Mark Bowden

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

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

The Scribe by David Young.

is The Lotus Kingdom by Alastair Shearer

365 Days by Ronald J. Glasser

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 Naked and the Dead:  by Norman Mailer

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.

On Point by Roger Hayes

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

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway


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

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


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

The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot
The Elements of Style by Richard Strunk

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


Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin


Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingwaay



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

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

in search of the pink headed duck

pacos story


Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon

Infected: A Novel by Scott Sigler

On the Beach by Nevil Shute


the deerslayer

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon


Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman

The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka

Eternity Road by Jack Mcdevitt


the turner diaries

in trouble again

lunar park

swan song

American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman


Tristessa by Jack Kerouac

Rule of the Bone

Native Son  by Richard Wright

The Terror: A Novel by Dan Simmons

The Psychedelic Prayers

Marabou Stork Nightmares

Junky by William S. Burroughs

Factotum by Charles Bukowski

Down & Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow

The Gambler / Bobok / A Nasty Story
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky



Rope Burns by F.X. Toole

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich


Doghouse Flowers by Steve Earle

A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick.

Fathers and Sons  by Ivan Turgenev

Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japa... by Haruki Murakami

Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter by Shoko Tendo



The Psychedelic Prayers by Tim Leary.

Burning Chrome by William Gibson.



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



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

On Writing by Stephen King

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

Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes L... by Dan Millman

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

The Beach by Alex Garland


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Re: I am looking for a book to read. any suggestions? [Re: atmosphere5]
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Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley.


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