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Recommend Your Favorite Books

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benzyme said:
hyperspace ~ michio kaku
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yes true, thats a very nice one.. Have you read it recently? it has been a few years since I did.. How outdated do you think it is nowadays?


warrensaged said:
check out:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
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yes! I very much liked this one

the thing is, one has to get used to the writting style first.. It is written in a way that seems to express how tripping is.. So there are loads of very far associations, crazy expressions, going back and forward, etc.. but once you get used to it, specially if you like to read about the 60´s and psychedelic scene, its very nice


btw, another one I forgot to mention:


Mr Nice... The story of howard marks, a cannabis/hash smuggler.. Very very good stuff too, loads of smuggling schemes, money laundry, connections, etc.. interesting stuff hehe
 
endlessness said:
benzyme said:
hyperspace ~ michio kaku
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yes true, thats a very nice one.. Have you read it recently? it has been a few years since I did.. How outdated do you think it is nowadays?
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aside from a couple new parallel universes, can't be too outdated. the guy still refers to theories in it on the Art Bell show, and Nat Geo/Disc
 
the thing is, one has to get used to the writting style [Tom Wolfe] first..
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Yeah, you are right about that!

Just like "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac for me.
I own it & I've tried to read that fucker probably six times!!
I like what I've read, it just bores the shit out of me the way this guy tells a story!! I can't get through more than a couple of chapters and after that I feel like I read the goddamn encyclopedia!!
:twisted: Yeah, I hate that fuckin' book!:lol:

Another good one I just remembered is:
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
One of the greatest books I've ever read!!!!! (like 4 times now, I think)
Its about an ancient king who figures out that if you decide not to die, you don't have to!!
He ends up running from death for centuries. From living in small hunting villages before history, to a perfume artst in modern day Louisiana. Very unique story!!

I want to read it again now, after thinking about it!!
Unfortunately, I only own lame books.
If I read one that I really love, I usually give it away to someone I think would really enjoy it as well.
So I have to go get a new copy when ever I want to read something a second time.

WS
 
Joseph Campbell- The Hero with a thousand faces.

This is a great book i have not made it all the way through, but if anyone has read this book you would know. Campbell does a great job with telling the myths through out history and , tying them with stories told through the world and how they all correlate to each other, but has a different label.
 
Sam Harris' "The End of Faith" and "The Moral Landscape" are great and important books.
Victor J. Stengers "God: The Failed Hypothesis", "The Fallacy of Fine Tuning" and "Quantum Gods" should also be read.

"The End of Faith" shows how retarded and dangerous religions are in a rigorous and intelligent way, and also has a nice chapter about eastern mysticism (not critique here, but an interesting discussion). "The Moral Landscape" argues for a morality based in reason and science, and shows how science actually has something to say on morality. In all of Victor J. Stengers books ridiculous beliefs are argued against with solid argumentation in science, and he debunks creationism, quantum new age nonsense, and other nonsensical beliefs and modern myths. Furthermore, he shows how science can actually show how improbable a traditional God is. I think some of these books are very appropriate reading for many on the nexus.

I really recommend these books, and these authors are serious people. Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and have also studied philosophy and lots of eastern mysticism, while Stenger is a physicist.
 
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatle
Breaking Open The Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
by Daniel Pinchbeck

The Secret Life of Plants
Secrets of the Soil
by Thompkins & Bird
 
Brave New World
Rum Diary
Thikal/Phikal
Coming of age in the milky way
Declaration of independents
Doors of Perception & H/H
Scar Tissue (Anthony Kiedis biography)
Walden & Civil Disobedience
My Side of the Mountain
Heart of Darkness
LOTR Series (including the hobbit and silmarillion)
Food of the Gods
Lord of the Flies
Rascal

And i just got Aldous Huxley's Island for Christmas and am totally psyched to read it.
 
The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching By Terence McKenna and Dennis McKenna
The Tibetan Yogis Of Dream and Sleep By Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
The Secret Life Of Plants By Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
The Tibetan Book Of The Dead By Chogyam Trungpa
Permaculture A Designers Manual By Bill Mollison
Gifts Of Unknown Things By Lyall Watson
Food Of The Gods By Terence McKenna
Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer
Theatrum Chemicum


Much Peace and Happiness
 
The Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (duh)
Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
Touching The Void - Joe Simpson
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
The Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Oh the Places You'll Go - Dr. Seuss
I could go on...
 
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