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mushfan01
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Good Books
#8258336 - 04/09/08 01:05 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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What are some of your favorite books? Personally i enjoy books that are drug realated or tie into the great meaning of life. Ive been looking for a good book that fits my tastes. Any ideas?
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razmablues
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brave new world, doors of perception, fear and loathing, clockwork orange, catcher in the rye, siddhartha, the night thoreau spent in jail, 100 years in solitude...
there's more but i think thats enough to get you headed in a direction
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Cameron
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I recently read Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and I thought it was pretty damn good. It's a semi-autobiographical novel about growing up in poverty stricken Ireland in the earlier half of the twentieth century. There isn't much for drug content (except that his father is a raging alcoholic), but it may lend some insight into the 'meaning' of it all and help you appreciate the things you've got now (assuming you're not living in poverty stricken Ireland...).
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'catch 22' and 'on the road' are pretty awesome.
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mushfan01
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Re: Good Books [Re: druqs]
#8258373 - 04/09/08 01:18 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I appricate the help guys. Ill be sure to go to the libary or barnes and nobel in the next week.
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Cameron
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Check out used bookstores before you throw away your money at Barnes & Noble!
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cheshirect666
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Not quite what your asking for but Night by Elie Wiessel (hope i spelled that right) Is one of the all time greatest books i have read. Actually read it multiple times
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson Slaughter House by Kurt Vonnegut Junkie by William S. Burroughs Michowel
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Siddartha by Hermann Hesse A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1968 Strangely B. Stranger: Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (My license plate reads "Dr Nut"!)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck Leah: Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg - Carolyn Cassady The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov (Paul Schmidt trans.) Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco 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
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs The Informers by Bret Easton-Ellis Books Of Blood vol. 1-3 by Clive Barker A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (tie)
Little, Big by John Crowley The best American magic-realist novel ever Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Deceptive simplicity Texasville by Larry McMurtry Pure pleasure; the most fun I've ever had reading a book All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews
Last Resort by Scott Sommer A 25 year old loser goes home to his family's decaying seaside house; fun and true Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison Would be perfect book with the addition of The Deathbird and a few other Ellison classics Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Richard: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac Apocalypse by D.H. Lawrence Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Ask the Dust by John Fante Road to Los Angeles by John Fante Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Sense of Beauty by George Santayana Ulysses by James Joyce Christina C:
Ahhhh Ti Jean...in my eyes you're best Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins Zany and great The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
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 SMUT (aka Trashy Romances) by certain authors Always have to have a no brainer here and there The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw Living in Downeast Maine...Fishing is a part of life Little: Complete Fiction by Bruno Schulz
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 Kerouac´s highest high. 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. London Fields by Martin Amis
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 Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey Ulysses/Finnegans Wake (as a 2 Vol. entry) by James Joyce The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot The Elements of Style by Richard Strunk Jean-Marie S.: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac Ask the Dust by John Fante 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 Michael: 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 Demian by Herman Hesse Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
All My Friends Are Going To be Strangers by Larry McMurtry
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingwaay Ask The Dust by John Fante Sixty-Seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac White Trash Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs It Catches My Heart In Its Hands by Charles Bukowski
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac Junky by William S. Burroughs More Junk...Junk Sick..Junk.... Factotum by Charles Bukowski & yes, by the sweat of your brow.... Down & Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow take a rapid ride on the jazz train to.....
Be a writer...The Gamble for a Lifetime... -10. (Let's Break The Rules) (Books by some new ones....) Rope Burns by F.X. Toole...Get this book. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich...Get this book. Doghouse Flowers by Steve Earle
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick. Using his own drug experience in the 60s. Dick builds a sci-fi novel that will capture you from the begining. London Fields by Martin Amis. Amis goes deeper than what Wolfe and Ellis went in Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho. The Psychedelic Prayers by Tim Leary.
Burning Chrome by William Gibson.
Bobok by Dostoevsky. Dark tale about a drunk and the voice that he hears in the cemetery. Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami.
Jim Camp: 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
Journey To The End Of The Night by Celine 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
Allison M.: The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac Maggie Cassady by Jack Kerouac Demian by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus The Beach by Alex Garland
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Stizzle
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Anything by Charles Bukowski
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rexmundi
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Re: Good Books [Re: Stizzle]
#8260109 - 04/09/08 02:30 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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anything by Kurt Vonnegut. I'd read his grocery list if I could find it.
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Re: Good Books [Re: rexmundi]
#8260120 - 04/09/08 02:32 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Good Books [Re: 5150]
#8260124 - 04/09/08 02:33 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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jesus christ 5150.
ive read some good shit.
A brave new world, and a brave new world revisited were real good.
this one by john steinbeck was cool too, "tortilla flat"
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publicenemy1
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Be Here Now by Ram Dass The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson LSD, My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann Phaedo by Plato On the shortness of Life by Seneca Confessions of a Dope Dealer by Sheldon Norberg Scar Tissue by Anthony Keidis Bhagavad-Gita
I'm picking up Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey, The Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson, The Emperor wears no clothes by Jack Herrer and The Art of Living by Epictetus this weekend.
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Re: Good Books [Re: thoughts]
#8260381 - 04/09/08 04:07 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I recommend Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums wholeheartedly. Also, I've been reading this book called The Art of Worldly Wisdom. It is a collection of 300 aphorisms and makes great toilet reading. The good thing is, the aphorisms are very concise and on-point, but can be catalysts for further thought on the subject. So you can read two or three when you're on the throne and won't feel obligated to keep reading, since each aphorism is independent of the others. A must for everyone who poops.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Worldly-Wisdom-Baltasar-Gracian/dp/0385421311
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Quote:
cheshirect666 said: Not quite what your asking for but Night by Elie Wiessel (hope i spelled that right) Is one of the all time greatest books i have read. Actually read it multiple times
One of the few books I was forced to read in school that I really enjoyed.
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AlteredAgain
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Unified Reality Theory: The Evolution of Existence into Experience by Steven Kaufman
I highly recommend.
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is one of my favorites. Read it for the 3rd time recently while like 3 unread books sat on my shelf.
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HuHEN
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Be here now is such a sweet life changing book.
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Re: Good Books [Re: HuHEN]
#8261484 - 04/09/08 07:54 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anytime anyone asks for book recos it's always the same 5 fuckin books
Fear and Loathing Steal this Book Cuckoo's Nest Random Vonnegut Randon Kerouac.
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appleorange
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Is a novel written by the late French Nihilist Antoine De Saint-Exupery. In it he explores man as a metaphysical concept that tries to consummate his relationship with god through symbols as an ontological argument for sin.
If that isn't deep enough for you, I don't know what the fuck is.
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The Otherland series by Tad Williams is pretty good. Just finished it up a month ago...it's reallly long.
It's a sci-fi story set in the near future, but he references lots of different drugs in the books, especially mushrooms. Apparently he got a lot of the ideas in there from his own trips. Great read if you're into cyberpunk stuff and aren't intimidated by something longer than the Bible haha...
http://www.amazon.com/Otherland-Vol-Sea-Silver-Light/dp/0756400309/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207792924&sr=8-3
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Brugman
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Re: Good Books [Re: 5150]
#8261724 - 04/09/08 08:42 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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WTF is that list? LOL it repeats itself quite a bit.
All my faves have been listed, save a few I don't think are worth sharing. They're personal!
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81Renaissance
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Re: Good Books [Re: Brugman]
#8261996 - 04/09/08 09:24 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Little Prince is my favorite book of all time. Definitely check out Paulo Cuhuelo's The Alchemist (I so didn't spell his last name right)
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thedefone
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Personal favorites are:
Confederacy of Dunces - Written by, John Kennedy Toole. How is this not mentioned yet? Fucking awesome book. Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck anyone? The Long Walk - Written by, Slavomir Rawicz. Without a doubt, the greatest survivor story ever told. Amazing.
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KetamineKatalyst
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Good drug related or somewhat drug related books, in no particular order:
Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby Any Terence McKenna Liber Null & Psychonaut by Peter J. Carroll (magick related) Pihkal & Tihkal by Alexander and Ann(sp) Shulgin Stanislov Grof (mostly he writes about psychotherapy and that realm, mostly psychedelic therapy) Nothing in this Book is True but it's Exactly the Way Things Are by Bob Frissel (this book is a fuckin triiiip, i highly recommend it) following the Bob Frissel book, check out Drunvala Melchizedek books.
Shit, I'm havin a hard time thinking right now, and I haven't gotten stoned all day...sheeez.
Btw, for some killer book recommendations, go the Music, Art and Literature forum here on the shroomery and go to the topic 'What book are you currently reading'. Usually it's on the first few pages of MAL. I've read the entire thread and wrote down sooo many good book titles. I've already read a few damn good books that someone else recommended.
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Just started a new one the other day:
"The Phenomenon of Man" by Teilhard De Chardin
- its an intresting book of philosophy of life and the omega point by a well known french dude-
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5150
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Re: Good Books [Re: Brugman]
#8264449 - 04/10/08 01:42 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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ya i just copy and paste it everytime someone asks for books
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cheshirect666
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Quote:
yeahthatguy said:
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cheshirect666 said: Not quite what your asking for but Night by Elie Wiessel (hope i spelled that right) Is one of the all time greatest books i have read. Actually read it multiple times
One of the few books I was forced to read in school that I really enjoyed.
yeah same here i was told we were going to have to read it so i looked at it and went "Hey this looks like a good book." I then read it twice before we actually had to fuckin great book
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We need a book exchange here on the shroomery. Mycotopia has one, and it kicks ass.
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- "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho. If you guys are into spirituality, you will LOVE AND WORSHIP this book. Serious.
- "Harry Potter" by J.K Rowling. Although lots of people find it childish, it is a very dark and violent heptalogy. Those 7 books got lots and lots of appeal, and when you really dive into the storyline, you won't want the book to finish.
- "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. Read that in secondary five (12th grade for you United-Statians) and loved it. I want some soma.
- "Dom Juan" by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin dit Molière. Classic litterature, although it's a play, it can relate to any epoch and is overall a masterpiece in mankind's litterature. If you wanna inflict yourself a headache, read it in french.
Annnnnnnnnd.......
- "The Alphabet of Manliness" by Maddox. Need I say more?
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Re: Good Books [Re: Snape]
#8268478 - 04/11/08 08:16 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i will second catcher in the rye since its my favorite book. Too bad i can't find it cuz id probably read it again.
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Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut Bluebeard - Kur Vonnegut One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey Zen Mind Beginner's Mind - Suzuki Empire State - Colin Bateman
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The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse
It's a masterpiece.
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