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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Revelation]
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I've gotta recommend Ishmael too, great book.


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dblaney]
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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]
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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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: absolute zero]
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Silence- Shusaku Endo


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dblaney]
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From Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert...


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"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

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Re: Recommend some books [Re: kilgore_trout]
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Quote:
Finnegan's Wake



What are you, some kind of masochist?

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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dblaney]
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Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco is a damn good novel.

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Re: Recommend some books [Re: phi1618]
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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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Guerrilla0726]
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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 :mushroom2: :mushroom2: :mushroom2: :mushroom2:


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
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Has anybody said

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey


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"I celebrate the Earth, my home, my mother, my grave, and as long as men are Man they must, if they would preserve the integrated being, do the same---[and preserve]--this rank casual hungry smelly sweaty lusting transitory body, my oozy pulpy liquid-bag-swollen body, bones, blood, hair glands, my bejeweled sex; I love and celebrate it all.  never to let men forget that they are animals as much as gods---that is one thing I shall say."

  Edward Abbey

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Re: Recommend some books [Re: hawksapprentice]
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Tripping - Edited by Charles Hayes

Great anthology of trip reports - mushrooms, LSD, Salvia even nutmeg!


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"You've got to get hold of the thread of marching time, pull the fuck thing down, get on the end of it and pang yourself to the infinitude of absolute mind"
Ken Campbell - Furtive Nudist

"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced" - Aart van der Leeuw

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Re: Recommend some books [Re: theorganicdomino]
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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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"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand"

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Re: Recommend some books [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
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HELLA_TIGHT said:
The Book - Alan Watts


Have none of you hippies read this?


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dblaney]
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odd thomas-dean koontz definatly a great story


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In the belly of the Leviathan, one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.-Dean Koontz

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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dblaney]
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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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"I have no valid complaint against hustlers. No rational bitch. But the act of selling is repulsive to me. I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes." -Hunter S Thompson
http://phluck.is-after.us

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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Phluck]
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Tao Te Ching


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I have considered such matters.

SIKE

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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Cherk]
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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]
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I haven't read that one but I'll have to check it out :smile:


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
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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 :tongue:


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dblaney]
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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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