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Best E books?

MBAwakeX

MBAwakeX

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I love to read and have read many drug related books in the past (Naked Lunch, Less than Zero, Junkie, Requiem for a Dream) but I have never really come across a specifically E inspired novel. MOst of the shit I see is candy-coated crap that doesnt get deep. Anyone know of any good e books?
 
check out Douglass Rushkoff's novel The Ecstasy Club. It's not specifically about E but it's an extremely interesting story that would definitely be worth a read. And don't worry about any candy coated crap, this book goes deep.
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wow, craziness, no one here really talks about ecstacy club, which i thought was kind of strange, but that is what i would reccomend you....it is a wonderful book, but also read electric kool-aid acid test...the ecstacy club is really good, but almost a ripoff of acid test...so read e-club first...
so you can fully enjoy it....
be well-
shafie
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Naked Lunch. Boy. What a trip. William Burroughs still frightens me. I had to read that book about four times before I could wrap my head around it. Anyone else ever listened to his "cut-ups"? The idea is that you take audiotape, cut it up, then splice it together randomly. This came from doing the same thing with newspaper articles, and it would sometimes seem to make predictions about the future. I think the quote is something like "if you cut into the present, the future can leak through." I found the cut-ups to be profoundly disturbing. Something very schizophrenic about them. I did a painting inspired by "Naked Lunch" when I was in college. I think I may post the text of it in this forum. Might be interesting.
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The CD I was thinking of is called "Breakthrough in Grey Room," although in doing a search for that, I found that there's more recordings than just that: more cut-ups can be found on "Nothing Here Now But the Recordings", on Industrial Records, and other spoken pieces on "Dead City Radio" and "Call Me Burroughs". The William S. Burroughs Files is an excellent site for Burroughs material.
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[This message has been edited by stardragon (edited 06 April 2001).]
 
The best E related book ive ever read is 'Ecstasy' by Irvine Welsh the guy who wrote Trainspotting. Its 3 different stories with very different characters in each who are all part of the E culture in some way or other. Its worth buying simply for the last story though, which is simply absorbing, a true chemical love story. It may be a bit hard to read for some people though cos all the characters are based in Scotland and their is a lot of Scottish dialect in it which may be undecipherable to many. Check it out.
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