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Doors Of Perception- Aldous Huxley, haven't read it all but what I have is truly enlightening.
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well someone beat me to it.

id say all his works pretty much are inspired by psychedellic drugs to a degree, but that one especially.

whenever people ask me what its liek to trip for the first time, i always tell them to remember that, "...once the doors of perception have been opened, they can never be truely closed..."
 
true hallucinations is such an awesome tale.
I can hardly fucking believe no one has said "breaking open the head" by daniel pinchbeck. although its for the purely psychedelicly inclined, I thought it was one of the most amazing writings on contemporary hallucinogenic shamanism.
 
Spliffs A Celebration Of Cannabis Culture by Nick Jones

all about weed and tell you how to roll diffrent types of joints
 
s0nic said:
So far I have only read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and songs of the doomed. Which book by HST do you recommend I read next? I'm looking for something that has lots of drug use in it. Should I read the great shark hunt?
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have just finished his last book (kingdom of fear) and would recommend it to anyone
 
s0nic said:
So far I have only read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and songs of the doomed. Which book by HST do you recommend I read next? I'm looking for something that has lots of drug use in it. Should I read the great shark hunt?
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I would recommend "Kingdom Of Fear" first because you get an overview of his life (not surprising seeing that it is an autobiography) and it really gives you a sense of Hunter's mindset and makes the rest of his work more enjoyable. After I'd recommend "The Great Shark Hunt", but don't feel you have to read it all, there is so much (it is a collection of his articles)and not all of it worth the effort, but definitely check out "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved", "Freak Power in the Rockies", "The Great Shark Hunt" and "Jimmy Carter and The Great Leap of Faith" and others.
 
I think I might jump right to the great shark hunt because songs of the doomed sort of already gave me an overview of his life. The book spans from1950-1990 and pretty much covers his life story. It's not really an in-depth auto biography, it's just a collection of writings. More than half of these writings are stories about his life.

I'm thinking his auto-biography might be boring because I already know quite a lot about him.

Thanks.
 
eltoro said:
I would recommend "Kingdom Of Fear" first because you get an overview of his life (not surprising seeing that it is an autobiography) and it really gives you a sense of Hunter's mindset and makes the rest of his work more enjoyable. After I'd recommend "The Great Shark Hunt", but don't feel you have to read it all, there is so much (it is a collection of his articles)and not all of it worth the effort, but definitely check out "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved", "Freak Power in the Rockies", "The Great Shark Hunt" and "Jimmy Carter and The Great Leap of Faith" and others.
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Although I can't remember if its in there, his article "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan" is badass.
 
There's also "DMT: The Spirit Molecule"
and "Psychedelics Encyclopedia" it's a great refrerence book.
I find the best book for mushrooms are "Psilocybin mushrooms of the world"
 
best books (drug related of course)
SMACK- MELVIN BURgeSS
GO ASK ALICE- ANONYMOUS
PURE SUNSHINE- cant think of author...about acid
JAY'S JOURNAL (not really drug related..but makes u think)
REEFER MADNESS
BEAUTY QUEEN
and of course FEAR AND LOATHING
 
DrUgMeSaNe said:
best books (drug related of course)
GO ASK ALICE- ANONYMOUS
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I saw the movie "go ask alice" back in high school. I didn't really like it because it seemed like a bunch of anti-drug propaganda to me. You can't OD on acid. I don't know, maybe the book is better.
 
I saw the movie "go ask alice" back in high school. I didn't really like it because it seemed like a bunch of anti-drug propaganda to me. You can't OD on acid. I don't know, maybe the book is better.
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Although I never saw the movie, it couldn't possibly be any worse than the book. I actually read it twice just to make sure it was really that bad, and I wasn't just missing something. I found it insulting.
 
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas De Quincey
Classic

Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
She whines a little too much for you to feel sorry for her, but a good read nonetheless.

The Man With The Golden Arm - Nelson Algrens
Pretty long, but worth your patience

From Chocolate to Morphine - Winifred Rosen, Andrew T. Weil
Unbiased facts about common drugs.
 
Elizabeth Wurtzel also has a book about coke/speed addiction which is just freaking terrible. Blah blah blah. Course I read it cover to cover.

Man With the Golden Arm I don't think of as a druggy book, but maybe it's just too good and about too many thngs other than drugs. The film is excllent as well. I'd recommend Algren's short stories. They're less about drugs/booze, than the victims of poverty and police.

If you can get get it, Jackrabbit Parole by Stephen Reid is an amazing very funny book, kind of a cross between Algren and other hard boiled writers and the punk novel.

I'm pretty sure that Go Ask Alice was a hoax.

Anais Nin, the great diarist, has some intersting comments on LSD from the late 50s.

And while not a drug novel, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was inspired by his some of his experiences with psychedelics that were provided and paid for by university researchers. There are a couple of sequences that seem to really capture the tripping mind. Better than his explicitly drugged stuff.
 
DrUgMeSaNe said:
best books (drug related of course)
SMACK- MELVIN BURgeSS
GO ASK ALICE- ANONYMOUS
PURE SUNSHINE- cant think of author...about acid
JAY'S JOURNAL (not really drug related..but makes u think)
REEFER MADNESS
BEAUTY QUEEN
and of course FEAR AND LOATHING
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Pretty much all of those books, sans "Fear and Loathing", are anti-drug.


Here is a better list (unless you like reading anti-drug propaganda):

1) Junky - William S. Burroughs
2) Invisible Monsters - Chuck Pahalnuik
3) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter s. Thompson
4) The Acid House - Irvine Welsh
5) Breaking Open the Head - Daniel Pinchbeck
 
Recently I read A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. Great book about how he overcame alcoholism and crack addiction.
 
Originally posted by DrUgMeSaNe
best books (drug related of course)
SMACK- MELVIN BURgeSS
GO ASK ALICE- ANONYMOUS
PURE SUNSHINE- cant think of author...about acid
JAY'S JOURNAL (not really drug related..but makes u think)
REEFER MADNESS
BEAUTY QUEEN
and of course FEAR AND LOATHING


Please dont clutter this thread with lists. Lists are boring and this thread is a great read with suggestions.

Try to write a sentence or two about the book/s :)
 
syd said:
Although I never saw the movie, it couldn't possibly be any worse than the book. I actually read it twice just to make sure it was really that bad, and I wasn't just missing something. I found it insulting.
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I agree, this book was terrible. It started off slow it ended depressing and non-descriptive as to why it ended that way. Awful book.
 
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