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Literature everyone should read?

philip larkin
louis macneice

shakespeare and chaucer (just as a matter of course!)

Nabokov - i worship at the altar of vladimir nabokov and his lolita:D

would definately disagree with whoever said irvine welsh
 
I'm surprised no blue lighters have mentioned:

Aldous Huxley's Heaven and Hell

Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception

Alexander Shulgin's PIHKAL and also TIHKAL

Jonathan Ott's Promeium (foreword to Pharmacotheon)

Andrew Weil's From Chocolate to Morphine

Nearly forgot William S. Burroghs' Naked Lunch and

Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Another rarer but life changing book for me was the Oxford studies in Metaphysics. It is a collection of essays written by the top people in the field today... beautiful (must understand complex calculus to truly enjoy).

Mike
 
because things like tihkal and pihkal do not really constitute an entertaining read unless you can kinda, join in the experience; and literature that relies on its readers craving a hit is pretty dull
damn, i'm gona get flamed for that.
 
I believe it all depends on the reader as far as what is boring. I have a strong interest in pharmacology and chemistry so therefore Shulgin's books were an interesting read regardless of the scientific nature. I suppose I was erroneous in stating it was something "everyone" should read. Thanks,
Mike
 
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
Tom Wolfe - Electric Kool-Aid acid test
Aldous Huxley - Doors of Perception

NH if you dig the ol' T.S check out a book by a guy called Kinky Friedman called The love song of J Edgar Hoover. The only link really is the title...but a good read.

As far as poetry goes for me its
Allen Ginsberg - Howl
Charles Baudelaire - The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen
plus some others...
 
"The Code of the Woosters" - P G Wodehouse

(imo the finest writer of English the past century produced and one of the finest English craftsmen ever)

That book is just one selection among many.
Most of the Jeeves and Wooster novels and short stories are fantastic.
I would also recommend most of the Blandings Castle series of novels and short stories, as well as The Golf Stories.

(I could also go on about Ukridge, Mr Mulliner, Psmith etc but best stop)
 
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