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MatsutakeSnuff
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Re: books that changed your life [Re: 3hunna]
#27525486 - 10/31/21 03:58 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins - I started to focus and smell everything
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Foot
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Re: books that changed your life [Re: 3hunna]
#27525500 - 10/31/21 04:10 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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1984 - George Orwell
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seldom seen
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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Foot]
#27540296 - 11/12/21 09:19 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Desert Solitaire- Edward Abbey.
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Brian Jones
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MatsutakeSnuff said: Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins - I started to focus and smell everything
I remember really getting into his "Another Roadside Attraction" in the 70's. I can't remember it except one guy called himself Marx Marvelous because that would offend the most conservatives.
-------------------- "The Rolling Stones will break up over Brian Jones' dead body" John Lennon
I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either.
Simulacrum
The truth which conceals that there is none
Edited by Brian Jones (11/17/21 07:34 AM)
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laughingdog
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Re: books that changed your life [Re: Brian Jones]
#27544107 - 11/15/21 11:06 AM (3 years, 30 days ago) |
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Zen flesh, Zen Bones - Paul Repps
Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Jay Haley (Author)
Many by Milton H. Erickson, himself
Organic Gardening, magazine Psychedelic Review, journal
Psychedelic Prayers , Tim Leary
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Robin Dunbar (Author)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (Author)
influential authors H.G. Wells - short stories & science Fiction Huxley - Brave New World Jules Verne, science fiction Harlan Ellison, science fiction
Franz Kafka , In the Penal Colony
Marvin Harris, anthropology Robin Dunbar, anthropology
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DividedQuantum
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Re: books that changed your life [Re: laughingdog]
#27544223 - 11/15/21 12:21 PM (3 years, 30 days ago) |
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nice list ^^
Here's mine:
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
VALIS by Philip K. Dick
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
The Game of Life or Info-Psychology by Timothy Leary
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm
Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Dune by Frank Herbert
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography by Aleister Crowley
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
This Is It by Alan Watts
Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris
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loladoreen
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The prince of tides!!!!!
I tell people how good it is and people compare it to the movie. The books is on my list of favorite books.
I am so excited to see someone else loves it!!!
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Shinobi6
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Re: books that changed your life [Re: loladoreen]
#28163613 - 01/29/23 10:43 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
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loladoreen
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Marianne Williamson " A womans worth"
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