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Recommend 3 Books
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So, I've never been much of bookworm... I usually end up starting a bunch all at once and then never getting around to finishing them.  I prefer magazines and essays as they're easier to digest and reflect upon IMO.

However, I've found that there are many books people constantly reference that I wish I had read but have never gotten around to... so I'm going to make a list of 20 or so books I want to read or listen to by the end of this year.

So far the list includes Brave New World - Aldous Huxley and 1984 - George Orwell.  I feel like I've read them from hearing so much about them, but it's embarassing admitting I haven't.

So in this thread, recommend 3 books (or more if you like) you feel are absolute must-read-before-you-die books.  Thanks ahead of time for your suggestions :smile:


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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: kake]
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Dr. Rick Strasman
Behold, A Pale Horse
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: kake]
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The Hobbit

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

White Oleander


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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: DNKYD]
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DNKYD said:
DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Dr. Rick Strasman
Behold, A Pale Horse
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk


haha, you've listed 2 (DMT and Survivor) examples of books I've started but not finished.

Chuck Palahniuk is awesome though, I think I'm going to actually try and finish that one.


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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: kake]
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stranger in a strange land, robert a heinlein

on the road, jack kerouac

a brief history of time, stephen hawking


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Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R. Tolkien

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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: Dreamer987]
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Depending on what kind of books you like.

First off; I second, DMT: The Spirit Molecule.


The Wheel of Time series (11 of them. So if you get into them, expect your life to go out the window)

I just read Sphere, that was pretty good, short read.

McKenna books are pretty interesting, if you're looking for psychedelic shit, also Carlos Castenada



I dunno, I got a lot on my bookshelf


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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: Dreamer987]
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The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

The Human Devolution - Michael Cremo

The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot


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Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy - Ambrose Bierce

Medical science has confirmed what the male world has known intuitively for millenia: that scratching your ass is a great aid to complex thinking.

Its God's responsibility to forgive the terrorist organizations such as Jaish, Lashkar etc.
Its our responsibility to arrange the meeting between them and god."
- Indian Armed Forces

"Hey Monkey!! Get Funky" - Tarzan and Jane

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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: kake]
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(another vote for Rick Strassman - DMT: The Spirit Molecule)

H.P. Lovecraft - The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

H.G. Wells - The Time Machine

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451


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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: Wysefool]
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Dune

I, Robot

Ender's Game


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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: Gastronomicus]
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mikhail bulgakov - master & margarita


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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: kake]
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the art of war

food of the gods

the alchemist

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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: kake]
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The Hyperion Series
The Endymion Series
Anything by George Carlin


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Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have neither.
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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: kake]
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Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut (Or anything by him, honestly)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. Dick
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (The edition WITH the final chapter)

And I gotta second the votes for Heinlen, P.K. Dick, and Ender's Game.

There's some class on the Shroomery after all. :igor:

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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: slackophage]
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Rule of the Bone - Russel Banks (Ebay)

In Russell Banks's bleak and compelling novel, Chappie is a punky teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in a trailer park. He falls in with a group of bikers and thieves, finally settling down in an abandoned schoolbus with a girl he rescues from a pedophile. There he changes his name to Bone and, eventually, meets an illegal alien known as I-Man, a pot-dealing Rastafarian. Together they embark on an adventure that takes them to Jamaica and a world of magic, violence, and redemption. In RULE OF THE BONE, Banks continues to explore his own fascination with Jamaica and its culture that he explored so thoroughly in his previous novel, THE BOOK OF JAMAICA (1980).


Cosmic Banditos - A.C. Weisbecker (ebay)

Thousands of fans agree-Cosmic Banditos has been out of print for way too long. So here it is, back by popular demand: A.C. Weisbecker's rollicking novel of high times and hard times-in which he hilariously chronicles the adventures of a group of pot-smoking, number-crunching banditos-in-hiding.  Jose, the leader of a small band of banditos, and Mr. Quark, a down-on-his-luck drug smuggler hiding out from the authorities in Colombia, become interested in subatomic physics.

Ethics for the new millenium - The Dalai Lama (ebay)

In a modern society characterized by insensitivity to violence, ambivalence to the suffering of others, and a high-octane profit motive, is talk of ethics anything more than a temporary salve for our collective conscience? The Dalai Lama thinks so. In his Ethics for the New Millennium, the exiled leader of the Tibetan people shows how the basic concerns of all people--happiness based in contentment, appeasement of suffering, forging meaningful relationships--can act as the foundation for a universal ethics.

His medicine isn't always easy to swallow, however, for it demands of the reader more than memorizing precepts or positing hypothetical dilemmas. The Nobel Peace laureate invites us to recognize certain basic facts of existence, such as the interdependence of all things, and from these to recalibrate our hearts and minds, to approach all of our actions in their light. Nothing short of an inner revolution will do. Basic work is required in nurturing our innate tendencies to compassion, tolerance, and generosity. And at the same time, "we need to think, think, think ... like a scientist," reasoning out the best ways to act from a principle of universal responsibility. Like a merging of the care and compassion of Jesus, the cool rationality of the Stoics, the moral program of Ben Franklin, and the psychology of William James, Ethics for the New Millennium is a plea for basic goodness, a blueprint for world peace.


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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: Noviseer]
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The dictionary. :hehehe:

Some good ones up already. Palahniuk is a very interesting author & Heinlein writes awesome science fiction.

Classics: The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, Candide by Voltaire, The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy, Atlas Shrugged by Rand. These are some of the more commonly read.

Philosophy: Simulacra and Simulation by Boudrillard, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche

Biology/conservation: A Sand County Almanac by Leopold

Biology/History: Collapse by Jared Diamond

This may seem a little gay but I enjoy Anne Rice novels.


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Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but God has died, and those sinners died with him. To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to esteem the entrails of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: Ubermensch]
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Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut

The Joyous Cosmology - Alan Watts

Haunted - Chuck Palahnuik


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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 3 Books [Re: kake]
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A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

Idoru - William Gibson

Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks


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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: kake]
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Plainclothes Naked
I, Fatty
Perv - A Love Story

All by Jerry Stahl

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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: Oracle Of Delphi]
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Wow a couple awesome books mentioned! odin, I hadn't thought of the art of war in a long time! I think its time I find my copy again :wink:

And both Idoru and the Zombie Survival Guide are great!

But where would we be without his first novel! I really recommend it for anyone into the genre, or just into William Gibson, Neuromancer is the book that started it all!

On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins

Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clark


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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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Re: Recommend 3 Books [Re: trendal]
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The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, by Drunvalo Melchizedek


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