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TheDude
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Revelation]
#4847839 - 10/24/05 09:36 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've gotta recommend Ishmael too, great book.
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XUL
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dblaney]
#4847847 - 10/24/05 09:40 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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Necronomicon!!!! hahahaha
The first chapter pulled me in, then after that it was a bunch of mumbo jumbo
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dblaney]
#4847852 - 10/24/05 09:40 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is a very small, quick read (82 pages). Its a story about a two dimensional world that leads one to question the foundations of 3-dimensional existence... This book is very unique. If you don't want to buy it, you can always get it off of project gutenberg.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A. Abbott
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SoloGamer
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Silence- Shusaku Endo
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daimyo
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dblaney]
#4847910 - 10/24/05 09:59 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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From Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert...
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phi1618
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Quote:
Finnegan's Wake
What are you, some kind of masochist?
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phi1618
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dblaney]
#4847927 - 10/24/05 10:07 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco is a damn good novel.
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Guerrilla0726
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: phi1618]
#4961168 - 11/20/05 06:43 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is great that we can all shout out our favorite books...... but a short description would be nice! I'd love to research them all but I have oh so little time!
What is some good psychedelic literature?
It doesn't necessarily need to be about psychedelic drugs, but as long as the topics and concepts in the books are philisophical and such. idk how to exactly explain it. Maybe what I should check out Fantasy books in BarnesandNobles.
Any literature/novel that has something to say/show about life, or just a story of characters in an altered reality. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for example, is really the only one I've read, and i LOVED it.
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Some amazing book recommendations. Finnegans Wake and Foucault's Pendulum!! Two awesome books right there.
I'll recommend:
The Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson Just a Couple of Days - Tony Vigorito (read the amazon reviews) Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes
McKennaDMT
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hawksapprentice
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Has anybody said
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
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theorganicdomino
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Tripping - Edited by Charles Hayes
Great anthology of trip reports - mushrooms, LSD, Salvia even nutmeg!
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Rainier
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Guerrilla0726 said: This is great that we can all shout out our favorite books...... but a short description would be nice! I'd love to research them all but I have oh so little time!
What is some good psychedelic literature?
It doesn't necessarily need to be about psychedelic drugs, but as long as the topics and concepts in the books are philisophical and such. idk how to exactly explain it. Maybe what I should check out Fantasy books in BarnesandNobles.
Any literature/novel that has something to say/show about life, or just a story of characters in an altered reality. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for example, is really the only one I've read, and i LOVED it.
Island-by Aldous Huxley (which some other people mentioned) might interest you. It's about an ideal society that flourishes on this island and how they got to be that way. Lot's of philosophical stuff about the nature of society and humanity. The people on the island use shrooms religiously and there's a really intense segment of the book with the main character doing them.
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#4963452 - 11/21/05 10:29 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Have none of you hippies read this?
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lemon_lw
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dblaney]
#4963465 - 11/21/05 10:33 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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odd thomas-dean koontz definatly a great story
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Phluck
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dblaney]
#4963561 - 11/21/05 10:58 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Frankly, I think a lot of new age spiritual writing is absolute self aggrandizing crap. It's essentially over the top fiction, which the author believes in and insists is filled with mystical important truth. Like, Be Here Now, for example, was filled with a bunch of rambling nonsense that sounded like someone who was so high that practically anything sounds deep. He'll ramble on about really simple concepts and put them into grandiose language and obtuse metaphors. It really seems like the whole book is crying out "LOOK HOW ENLIGHTENED AND SMART I AM! I'VE GOT IT ALL FIGURED OUT! I'M MORALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY SUPERIOR TO ALL OF WESTERN SOCIETY!"
Douglas Coupland is a good author. He's fairly well known in Canada, but I'm not sure how popular he is south of the border. Generation X and Microserfs are both good reads.
I find it odd how someone called "American Psycho" mindless. It's not just a slasher book, it's definitely intended to be a satirical look at a segment of society, to the point even of being slightly heavy handed. I liked Less Than Zero a bit better though.
If you want something simple, but entertaining, Elmore Leonard is good. He wrote Get Shorty, and Be Cool... which was a much better book than it was a movie.
And of course, everyone reads Chuck Palahniuk and Kurt Vonnegut, so if you want to sound cool you have to read their stuff... and they really are good authors.
Margaret Atwood is a good author as well... some of her books I couldn't really get into, but I thought The Edible Woman was great, and Wilderness Tips, which is a collection of novellas is pretty damn good too.
Ernest Hemmingway is good, of course. I really liked Green Hills of Africa and Farewell to Arms. They're easy to read, engaging, and just plain good storytelling.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime is a book written from the point of view of a young autistic boy. It's a really neat way to approach a book, and it definitely teaches you what autism is all about. A good story, I recommend it. It's by Mark Haddon.
McSweeney's is an awesome literary magazine. Pick up a copy. They also post short pieces on the internet. http://mcsweeneys.net/ Really funny stuff. Sometimes some big names write things for them... like Jack Handy or Fred Armisen. Dave Eggers, who wrote A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the founder.
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Cherk
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Phluck]
#4963578 - 11/21/05 11:04 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Tao Te Ching
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HELLA_TIGHT
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Cherk]
#4963589 - 11/21/05 11:06 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Personally, I think The Art of War is more practical.
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#4963599 - 11/21/05 11:09 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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I haven't read that one but I'll have to check it out
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Cherk
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#4963627 - 11/21/05 11:19 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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I just found an online version of the Art of War
http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar.htm
and I must say I don't find it to practical for my life
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Solutarch
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dblaney]
#4963628 - 11/21/05 11:19 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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1) The Yellow Pages - comes in handy trying to find businesses. 2) Thomas Guide map books - great for navigating unfamiliar territory. 3) Ebonics to English, English to Ebonics translation Dictionary - just in case you have trouble reading the Thomas Guide. 4) Chilton's or Haynes Auto Manual for whatever vehicle you drive - need I say more?
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