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Cannaboid
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Buying new books.
#278634 - 09/10/09 10:34 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well I am gonna buy some books to keep me busy, I like reading.
Anyone got any good books they want to recommend to me?
Books I am looking at so far are these.
@Fight Club @American Psycho @Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream @A Clockwork Orange @1984
Yeah most of them are movies, but I like seeing the movie first so when I read I can picture who looks like what and etc. You dont have to recommend a book that has been a movie though.
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Cannaboid]
#278638 - 09/10/09 10:43 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Jack Kerouac: Dharma Bums and also On The Road if you haven't read it Cormac McCarthy's: The Road is a great book and the movie is gonna be released soon. David Sedaris: When You Are Engulfed in Flames is a great collection of his humorous essays Bulgakov's: Master and Margarita I LOVED IT! and if you're interested in that, you should read Goethe's Faust (usually you have to buy volume 1 and 2 as separate books) Finally read the first 3 or 4 of the Ender's series, the first is called Ender's Game, the second and third are called Speaker For the Dead and Xenocide respectively. Speaker for the Dead is the best book I've read in a while. The author is Orson Scott Card.
WHEW! What a list!
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Cannaboid]
#278648 - 09/10/09 10:53 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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i just received a copy of Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock in the mail today, and currently waiting on A Dweller of Two Planets by Phylos the Tibetan. Both books were recommended to me by some old hippie when i was hitching around, and the criteria is pretty intriguing.
Chuck Klosterman is a good writer. As is Chuck Palanhiuk, and pretty much all their work is a good read.
Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest CrimethInc - Evasion
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81renaissance
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Krakauer is good, I like Into the WIld, but that other one is better...um <googling>...Into Thin Air. That one is CRAZY! Basically Krakauer went on an ascent of Everest and was part of one of the biggest tragedies on the mountain in recent history. It is riveting, and takes on new dimensions because 1)its true and 2)he was there.
Also, if you want an old hippie staple, check out Be Here Now by Ram Dass, kinda cool IMO.
double edit: There is a really good non-fiction book out there called "Blink" and its all about trusting your first impressions and how even though we are trained to analyze everything, usually your "snap judgement" is correct. I thought it was gonna be a boring scientific read, but it was SO interesting.
edit: you know, I get so tired of the "what's the strongest weed?" questions, but I never tire of giving and getting book recommendations. Maybe when the Growery gets through it's adolescence, we could have a Literature forum. That'll show all the people who think that people who smoke weed are stupid!
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BlueBerry_Swisher said:I want French fries. No, I want a penis French. Thank you. I'm so excited. I can not contain myself. Now I eat chocolate. It is so good. I'm trying to rub it all over myself. And then lick. Now I need a hot shower. The end.
Edited by 81renaissance (09/10/09 11:01 PM)
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Cannaboid]
#278656 - 09/10/09 11:02 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm surprised no one's mentioned The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Brave New World. and Siddhartha.
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Cannaboid]
#278660 - 09/10/09 11:05 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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The Forgiving Air by Richard C.J. Somerville
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81renaissance
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Corrie]
#278662 - 09/10/09 11:07 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Brave New World is good...actually, Huxley in general is good, I read Siddhartha in high school, but I don't think I was particularly impressed.
I'm gonna throw this out there for anyone who hasn't read it, and yes, I know it is a kid's book, but one of my favorites to this day is Antoine de St. Exupery's "The Little Prince". It is a must read.
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Quote:
81renaissance said: Krakauer is good, I like Into the WIld, but that other one is better...um <googling>...Into Thin Air. That one is CRAZY! Basically Krakauer went on an ascent of Everest and was part of one of the biggest tragedies on the mountain in recent history. It is riveting, and takes on new dimensions because 1)its true and 2)he was there.
Also, if you want an old hippie staple, check out Be Here Now by Ram Dass, kinda cool IMO.
I've heard of that before and always wanted to check it out. Maybe i'll just add both to my list
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you know, I get so tired of the "what's the strongest weed?" questions, but I never tire of giving and getting book recommendations. Maybe when the Growery gets through it's adolescence, we could have a Literature forum. That'll show all the people who think that people who smoke weed are stupid!
I remember there being an article on the shroomery news about potheads = stupidity (or something of that nature). But it basically discredited most allegations of them being lazy and not smart. When on the flip-side they're mostly educated on other wordly cultures, have some understanding of how the courts/politics work and so forth...
There's just too much stuff to look through to find a link though
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Cannaboid]
#278667 - 09/10/09 11:09 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
also another good one
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Cannaboid]
#278678 - 09/10/09 11:27 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
Pale Blue dot- Carl Sagan
The World As I See It- Albert Einstein
What are you into?
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81renaissance
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: b0b gnarley]
#278680 - 09/10/09 11:34 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
b0b gnarley said:
What are you into?
Hahaha...good question that none of us bothered to ask before we started our lists.
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BlueBerry_Swisher said:I want French fries. No, I want a penis French. Thank you. I'm so excited. I can not contain myself. Now I eat chocolate. It is so good. I'm trying to rub it all over myself. And then lick. Now I need a hot shower. The end.
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Magash
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: b0b gnarley]
#278682 - 09/10/09 11:52 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Some educational reading.
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yellownotepad
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read a lot of the stuff mentioned so far. my all time favorite book to date:
Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood
read it.
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Fazed
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Richard Dawkins- The God Delusion Ken Kesey- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Hunter S. Thompson- The Great Shark Hunt Hunter S. Thompson- The Rum Diaries Howard Marks- Mr Nice Simon Sebag Montefiore- Young Stalin Noam Chomsky- Perilous Power Geroge Orwell- 1984 Kazuo Ishiguro- Never Let Me Go Jack Kerouac- On The Road
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Magash]
#278920 - 09/11/09 06:23 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Some required reading.
fixed!
1. The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants a. By Christian Rätsch 2. Teonanácatl: Sacred Mushroom of Visions a. Edited by Ralph Metzner, Ph.D 3. Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, 3rd Edition a. By Paul Stamets 4. The Mushroom Cultivator a. By Paul Stamets and J.S. Chilton. 5. Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: A Guide to Identification a. By Paul Stamets 6. The Fifth Kingdom a. By Bryce Kendrick 7. Mushrooms Demystified : A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi a. by David Arora 8. Sacred Mushrooms and The Law a. by Richard Glen Boire 9. Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It : A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs a. by James P. Gray 10. Controlled Substances : A Chemical and Legal Guide to the Federal Drugs Laws a. by Alexander T. Shulgin, John Thornton (Designer), James B. Bakalar (Designer) 11. The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience : The Classic Guide to the Effects of Lsd on the Human Psyche a. by Robert, Ph.D. Masters, Jean, Ph.D. Houston 12. A Brief History of Drugs: From the Stone Age to the Stoned Age a. by Antonio Escohotado, Kenneth A. Symington (Translator) 13. Ultimate Journey a. by Robert A. Monroe 14. Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story a. by Alexander T. Shulgin 15. Tibetan Book of the Dead 16. The Electric Kool – Aid Acid Tests a. Tom Wolfe
Sacred Mushrooms and The Law by Richard Glen Boire
Mushroom Wisdom: How Shamans Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness by Martin W. Ball
Plants of the Gods : Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Christian Ratsch
Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, & Biologicals by Maryadele J. O'Neil (Editor), Maryadele J. Oneil (Editor), Ann Smith, Merck
Ecstasy : The Complete Guide : A Comprehensive Look at the Risks and Benefits of MDMA by Julie Holland M.D.
Your Brain Is God by Timothy Leary
A Primer of Drug Action: A Concise, Non-Technical Guide to the Actions, Uses, and Side Effects of Psychoactive Drugs by Robert M. Julien
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances by Richard Rudgley
Ayahuasca: Human Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature by Ralph Metzner (Editor), Jace Calloway (Editor), Charles S. Grob (Editor)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
Peyote: And Other Psychoactive Cacti by Adam Gottlieb, Larry Todd (Illustrator), Derek Westlund (Editor)
Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History of an Era by Timothy Leary(Francis), William S. Burroughs
Essential Substances: A Cultural History of Intoxicants in Society by Richard Rudgley
Growing the Hallucinogens: How to Cultivate and Harvest Legal Psychoactive Plants by Hudson Grubber
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond by Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail by Hunter S. Thompson
Hallucinogenic Plants by Richard Evans Schultes
Treasures from the Kingdom of Fungi : Photographs of Mushrooms and Other Fungi from Around the World by Taylor F. Lockwood
Those are the books on my to read list. There may be some overlap. I just copied n pasted.
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The God Delusion is a decent book too. As you guys can see I am into nonfiction. I rarely read any fiction books. I read The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey in college. That was actually an interesting book toward the end. id classify it as fiction. err biblical prophecy. I'd also recommend a couple of S Hawking books. The Universe in a Nutshell and A Brief History of Time. I have also heard that Black Holes and Baby Universes is also a great read.
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81renaissance said:
Also, if you want an old hippie staple, check out Be Here Now by Ram Dass, kinda cool IMO.
I've heard of that before and always wanted to check it out. Maybe i'll just add both to my list
I actually read it last night after seeing this thread
definetly would be a life changing book if you read it tripping, I was just baked and I found it all quite interesting though
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Thanks for contributing, thought there would only be a few posts.
Into the Wild is one of my favorites actually, that's around what I am into.
So thanks for the books, looking at the ones on Fazeds list right now b/c they seem the most interesting to me. I'll be sure to look at everyones though, haha.
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Cannaboid]
#279091 - 09/12/09 02:09 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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have you read much by Hunter S. Thompson?
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Fazed]
#279095 - 09/12/09 02:28 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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obv you know about palanuik or whatever his name is cuz you want to read fight club. so check some of his other shit out
perks of being a wallflower (very short, but HIGHLY recomended)
and my personal favoirte author - irvine welsh. he wrote trainspotting. READ the book 'maribou stork nightmares' or 'filth'
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I think y'all need to look up the definition for pedophile.
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still beLIEve said: obv you know about palanuik or whatever his name is cuz you want to read fight club. so check some of his other shit out
perks of being a wallflower (very short, but HIGHLY recomended)
and my personal favoirte author - irvine welsh. he wrote trainspotting. READ the book 'maribou stork nightmares' or 'filth'
yeah dude chuck palahniuk is the shit. i was gonna say fight club is a good read but fuck that you should check out Snuff, first book i read in a long time and finished it in a few days because i couldn't stop reading it.
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: tsollost]
#279194 - 09/12/09 09:09 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Nope Fazed, only thing I have read by him is Rum.
Will do tsol and SB, those sound like tight books, looked a little into them.
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