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Healthy Escapism; what are you reading?

Ixchellian

Ixchellian

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Nothing overtly religious or political.... so please don't start quoting from the bible, L.R. Hubbard, or Marx. :)

The title & author/writers, a short blurb about it's content, and a short critique is fine. And please don't challenge someone's choice of readings, or a book/authors' merit if yeh don't agree.

I go first! =D

Fiction & non-fiction
Alistair Reynolds - The Prefect
my favorite sci-fi space-opera writer... he's from the UK and is a phd. physicist and astronomy professor. he uses established and theoretical high-physics to excellent effect, makes them understandable, and illustrates a very possible future

Lothar-Günther Buchheim - Das Boot
over 40,000 men went to sea in German U-boats during WW2. 30,000 never came back. The author was a Kriegsmarine Leutnant, and was a service-reporter. He volunteered to go on a patrol with U-96 in 1941. Excellent illustration of the boredom, pride, stress, and terror that all submarine crews faced.
 
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I am rereading Legend of Altazar.

http://www.nvisible.com/SB/Altazarsam.html

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sample babblings...

I remember reading this book when I was maybe 14, I used to cut the grass for some lady that owned a metaphysical book store and would just throw books at me. Many a nights I laid in bed feeling high off lsd 6 hours into it ripping bongs, getting loaded and wishing I could just disappear into times like those. Truthfully I still do wish, maybe one day...

peace.
seedless
 
I was reading all of Bukowski's work throughout the first half of this year. Right now I'm looking for a new author's work to obsess over.
 
I'm in the middle of two books, although it has probably been a few weeks since I've picked them up. Thanks for the reminder ;)

-Over the Influence - The harm reduction guide for managing drugs and alcohol - Patt Denning, Jeannie Little, Adina Glickman

-Inner Paths to Outer Space - Rick Strassman, Slawek Wojtowicz, Luis Eduardo Luna, Ede Freska

I would highly recommend "Over the Influence" to every single person here, it has really changed the way I look at drug use. A very compassionate book for drug users.

Inner Paths to Outer Space is more far out there....about psychedelics, shamanism, etc. If that's your thing I would also recommend this one :) Rick Strassman did some interesting research on DMT which is described in the book.
 
Ixchellian said:
Ginsberg, Burroughs, Blake, Plath, Henry Rollins, or Jello Biafra?
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Jello Biafra? If his writing is as good as his work in the Dead Kennedys, I'll definitely have to check it out.

I tried to read Naked Lunch by Burroughs a while back but couldn't really keep up. Maybe it's the ADHD, or maybe it was the whiskey, but that book just went way over my head.
 
Just finished this: funniest thing I've ever read!

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And now a horror story. Amazing book:

Cocaine Nation- Tom Feiling

(Removed Cover. Just b/c it is on a book doesn't mean you can post photos of drugs (or things resembling them in TDS)
 
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i read a lot but cant really remember wot i've read cause of the haze i live in
great way to pass the time though and its all i do 24/7 when trying to quit...
wot about kerouac read all his stuff years ago def worth a look
 
blahman8000 said:
Jello Biafra? If his writing is as good as his work in the Dead Kennedys, I'll definitely have to check it out.

I tried to read Naked Lunch by Burroughs a while back but couldn't really keep up. Maybe it's the ADHD, or maybe it was the whiskey, but that book just went way over my head.
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For an introduction to Burroughs, I usually recommend Junky or something like Tornado Alley. Or even his spoken-word albums "Call Me Burroughs", "Dead City Radio", and "Spare-Ass Annie".
Naked Lunch was the first thing I read of his, and you're right it is quite an endeavour. I just didn't try reading it in a linear fashion. It was a little easier for me maybe because I was already familiar with cut-up; Skinny Puppy being my favorite band for years before, and I was experimenting with cut-up and stream-of-consciousness before reading Burroughs.

Jello Biafra's writing and spoken-word is really good. It was a bit too political for my tastes, but I highly enjoy his method. "Die for Oil" is a favorite spoken-word by him for me.

Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" is a classic too, if yeh haven't read it yet.
 
not to be a dick or anything, but; if ya'll wanna post covers, can we at least make them small thumbnails or in nsfw tags? and besides, never judge a book.....
thanks :)
 
Ixchellian said:
<mrburns>Exxxxcelllent!</mrburns>
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I'll probably need to re-read it then lol, because it is 1,000 + pages long.

If I recalled it from memory I might be really bad at remembering a lot of it, so I think I will re-read it.

I could easily do 10,000 words on it, so if I do that, I'll probably need a post in its own right.

That would be a lot of fun actually, I think this thread has inspired me to re-read Atlas Shrugged!
 
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