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aumygod
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Different books do different things for different people at different times.
Some that have really worked for me though and contain information I would dearly love the rest of the world to know would have to be the "Conversations with god, books 1, 2 and 3" by Neale Donald Walsch
At the time I stumbled across these gems I was writing reguarly in my own journal, read these and I realised I didnt need to keep writing as it was already written in these books. They helped tie together and validate alot of my thought. And no they are not about religion!
All of Michael Moores books I consider to be essential reading for anyone interested in whats really happening in the world today.
Be Here Now, By Baba Ram Dass, written in a very unique way using lots of drawings to convey concepts which cant be explained with words alone.
There are so many more I wish I could list them all. I have always found that the right book seems to find me at just the right time in my life to help expand upon or confirm idea's I am having at that time.
If its fiction your after and you havent already done so, the Hitch Hikers Guide series by the late Douglas Adams will have you pissing your pants laughing for years after you read them if its your thing!
Enjoy!
Some that have really worked for me though and contain information I would dearly love the rest of the world to know would have to be the "Conversations with god, books 1, 2 and 3" by Neale Donald Walsch
At the time I stumbled across these gems I was writing reguarly in my own journal, read these and I realised I didnt need to keep writing as it was already written in these books. They helped tie together and validate alot of my thought. And no they are not about religion!
All of Michael Moores books I consider to be essential reading for anyone interested in whats really happening in the world today.
Be Here Now, By Baba Ram Dass, written in a very unique way using lots of drawings to convey concepts which cant be explained with words alone.
There are so many more I wish I could list them all. I have always found that the right book seems to find me at just the right time in my life to help expand upon or confirm idea's I am having at that time.
If its fiction your after and you havent already done so, the Hitch Hikers Guide series by the late Douglas Adams will have you pissing your pants laughing for years after you read them if its your thing!
Enjoy!
Belisarius
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I'm reading a great book right now: Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts, by Andrew Robinson.
As one might guess, it's about the decipherment--or lack therof--of the various writing systems used by ancient civilizations. It begins with a discussion of three major (mostly) deciphered scripts: Egyptian and Maya hieroglyphs, and Linear B, the language of Mycenaean Greece. Most of the book however, is dedicated to either writing systems that have been deciphered, but whose underlying language is unknown (like Etruscan and Meroitic, the language of the Kingdom of Kush south of ancient Egypt), or to scripts that are completely undeciphered, like the Indus Valley script and proto-Elamite.
Some parts of the text may be a little technical for those who are not into language analysis--words like "logosyllabic" and "ideographic" get thrown around enough to dizzy some--but the detective story feel is gripping, and has much to teach the uninitiated in ancient languages.
Highly recommended for those interested in languages. Hell, highly recommended for *anyone*.
As one might guess, it's about the decipherment--or lack therof--of the various writing systems used by ancient civilizations. It begins with a discussion of three major (mostly) deciphered scripts: Egyptian and Maya hieroglyphs, and Linear B, the language of Mycenaean Greece. Most of the book however, is dedicated to either writing systems that have been deciphered, but whose underlying language is unknown (like Etruscan and Meroitic, the language of the Kingdom of Kush south of ancient Egypt), or to scripts that are completely undeciphered, like the Indus Valley script and proto-Elamite.
Some parts of the text may be a little technical for those who are not into language analysis--words like "logosyllabic" and "ideographic" get thrown around enough to dizzy some--but the detective story feel is gripping, and has much to teach the uninitiated in ancient languages.
Highly recommended for those interested in languages. Hell, highly recommended for *anyone*.
1) Anything by Camus, Kafka, or Hesse
2) All of Philip K. Dick's books - Clans of the Alphane Moon is awesome for anyone interested in drugs and mental illness and imo is better than even A Scanner Darkly.
3) The Noonday Demon - An Atlas of Depression - Andrew Solomon
4) No Logo - Naomi Klein and Culture Jam - by the guy that started Adbusters Halle... something i forget
5)Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace - better be prepared to spend some time with this one though
6)White Noise - Don DeLillo
7)The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson - The other books he has written get all the press. I like this one the best.
9)Pattern Recognition - William Gibson. I just read this now it is out in paperback. He gets it. Very timely.
why no 8? because it does this damnit 8)
2) All of Philip K. Dick's books - Clans of the Alphane Moon is awesome for anyone interested in drugs and mental illness and imo is better than even A Scanner Darkly.
3) The Noonday Demon - An Atlas of Depression - Andrew Solomon
4) No Logo - Naomi Klein and Culture Jam - by the guy that started Adbusters Halle... something i forget
5)Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace - better be prepared to spend some time with this one though
6)White Noise - Don DeLillo
7)The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson - The other books he has written get all the press. I like this one the best.
9)Pattern Recognition - William Gibson. I just read this now it is out in paperback. He gets it. Very timely.
why no 8? because it does this damnit 8)
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Psykonauten_dk said:
im going to sound like a nut but, I fucking LOVE bukowski. I have at least 5 books of poetry and short stories. All his (semi)autobiographical novels, and I have read many more books than that. This guy is an absolute master, his writing is so raw and blunt like a sledgehammer, it conveys so much emotion with such simple and perfect lines, and there is also an incredible beauty and sensitivity without any trace of sentimentality making it so true and touching and real. I know im gushing but this guys writing really has a place in my soul. His writing has been with me through some of the hardest times of my life and by now he seems like an old friend. Read this mans work, at the very least you will be entertained.
oh yeah i also heard philip roth and irvine welsh mentioned and i can definately reccomend either one. Especially irvine welsh for people on bluelight, his stories have lots and lots of drugs in them, the story from the same-titled book "the acid house" is pretty cool (hehe i stole that book).
Also junky by w. borroughs is a must read after you bang a bag. Other beat generation writers like Kerouac are pretty good, I liked "on the road".
Hunter s. thompson's novels "the rum diary" and, of course "fear and loathing in las vegas" are two good ones.
"communion" by whitley strieber is good. its a nonfiction book in which the author claims to have been abducted by aliens and to be in contact with them in strange ways.
John Updike - The Witches of Eastwick
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho, The Informers
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michael moore is full of shit; funny, yea; but i hate how he poses as the great revealer of the truth when he is really only a satirist and should be seen as such; and i cant stand his whiny voice
hunter s. thompson's "fear and loathing on the campaign trail"
paul fussell's "the great war and modern memory"
alistaire horne's "verdun - the price of glory"
tolstoy's "war and peace"
dostoevsky's "the gambler" (there is also a hilarious short storyabout a phoney liberal aristocrat who ruins a common man's wedding, forgot the name)
dylan thomas, "adventures in the skin trade"
JenicaStanti
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I love the Laurell K. Hamilton books. Yes I know they're vampire slayer and pixie slut books but every single book that I've read by her is alway great! They're full of death, mystery and above all else, sex.
Right now I'm reading A Caress of Twilight. So far so good.
Right now I'm reading A Caress of Twilight. So far so good.
anna!
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Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave. It's an Australian book that I read on a plane about 3 years ago and I cried for days afterwards. Absolutely sensational reading. Very moving. Quite depressing.