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Well read Heads. Is that like Right said Fred? Nooooo! Anyway, Gunter Grass is getting some press currently - I really dug 'The Tin Drum'. I'll have to check out the 'Celestine Prophecy'.

Django wrote:Well read Heads. Is that like Right said Fred? Nooooo! Anyway, Gunter Grass is getting some press currently - I really dug 'The Tin Drum'. I'll have to check out the 'Celestine Prophecy'.

Celestine Prophecy is must read-- perhaps not so coincidentaly, I finished it reading on Aug. 9, 1995.

Others that warrant a mention:

Anything by Carlos Castenada (sp?)

1984 (George Orwell)

The Monkey Wrench Gang (Edward Abby)

On the more religious/spiritual side: The Bhagavad-Gita

and for the up-and-coming Tolkienheads- The Silmarillion

just finished the new tolkien book children of hurin, really great book there if you can stomach tolkien, also reading searching for the sound by phil, which is really amazing, phil is genius in every sense of the word

I really love how in Fear & Loathing some pages seem to have
blood or something spilled on them. It really helps set a mood.



It's ink.

The Monkey Wrench Gang by E. Abbey
This should be read all, as should all of his novels and essays

Dylan Chronicles..... By B.Dylan. The inside the mind of freind we all have.

Mysterious Stranger by M. Twain Came out after he died. Short read, premises the book that life is just a dream

Finnegan's Wake... by J.Joyce. Still have not finished it, been reading at it for about ten to fifteen years. Mind boggling

A list of some of my recent favorite reads

The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Life Of Pi
The Curious Incident About The Dog In The Nighttime
Running With Scissors
Dry
Middlesex
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Catch 22

One of my alltime favs is a western 4part series by Larry McMurtry. The books are Lonesome Dove, Streets Of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk and Comanche Moon. Excellent books. Especially the first.

Dharma bums or On the Road

The Mayan Factor

Be Here Now

Conversations with God I, II, or III

BlobWeird wrote:A list of some of my recent favorite reads

The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Life Of Pi
The Curious Incident About The Dog In The Nighttime
Running With Scissors
Dry
Middlesex
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Catch 22

One of my alltime favs is a western 4part series by Larry McMurtry. The books are Lonesome Dove, Streets Of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk and Comanche Moon. Excellent books. Especially the first.

catch 22 is one of the funniest books i've ever read, in a dark humor sort of way. highly recomended to anyone who can read or laugh

If you want more on neal cassasy besides "On the Road"...Try Kerouac's masterpiece..Visions Of Cody.As much of a fan i am of Kerouac I believe Kesey's Sometimes A Great Notion IS the great american novel.Another great read Demon Box a series of short stories and essays also by Kesey. greattopic but there's just so many If you are interested in the beats...Try the first book about them it's called GO! by John Clellon Holmes. Published 7 years before On the Road.

Over the course of the summer ive read quite a bit. I read, then re-read The Dharma Bums which will always be in a perpetual state of being read. Sometimes a Great Notion was fucking fantastic, im reading Naked Lunch which is also fucking great.countless Buddhist books, sutras . The point of this is, thanks RUKIND for making me a literary McPerson.

gratephulphish123 wrote: catch 22 is one of the funniest books i've ever read, in a dark humor sort of way. highly recomended to anyone who can read or laugh

Yeah it really was hilarious. Had a great story too. Gotta love the millions of Catch 22's strewn throughout. I love the part where they go to see the Colonel but he is in so they cant. They can wait till he leaves to go in. Classic

You also may want to check out Neal Cassady's only published work...The First Third.

I've yet to make it out of the "Rock N' Roll" section of any bookstore.
Tons of great reads for Musicians and Historians both.

Catcher in the Rye - read it every 10 years and it's a different book each time.

Any Hunter S. Thompson (Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing, Gonzo)

Can I post a movie? Almost Famous works for me in this context.