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OfflineCannaboid
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Buying new books.
    #278634 - 09/10/09 10:34 PM (14 years, 6 months ago)

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. :super:


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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Cannaboid]
    #278638 - 09/10/09 10:43 PM (14 years, 6 months ago)

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 (14 years, 6 months ago)

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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Re: Buying new books. [Re: mel_lonta_tauda]
    #278651 - 09/10/09 10:59 PM (14 years, 6 months ago)

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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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Cannaboid]
    #278656 - 09/10/09 11:02 PM (14 years, 6 months ago)

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 (14 years, 6 months ago)

The Forgiving Air by Richard C.J. Somerville


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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Corrie]
    #278662 - 09/10/09 11:07 PM (14 years, 6 months ago)

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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Re: Buying new books. [Re: 81renaissance]
    #278663 - 09/10/09 11:07 PM (14 years, 6 months ago)

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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.




I've heard of that before and always wanted to check it out.  Maybe i'll just add both to my list :strokebeard:

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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 :frown:

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Re: Buying new books. [Re: Cannaboid]
    #278667 - 09/10/09 11:09 PM (14 years, 6 months ago)

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 (14 years, 6 months ago)

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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Re: Buying new books. [Re: b0b gnarley]
    #278680 - 09/10/09 11:34 PM (14 years, 6 months ago)

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b0b gnarley said:


What are you into?


:bongload:




Hahaha...good question that none of us bothered to ask before we started our lists.
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Re: Buying new books. [Re: b0b gnarley]
    #278682 - 09/10/09 11:52 PM (14 years, 6 months ago)



Some educational reading.


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Re: Buying new books. [Re: 81renaissance]
    #278683 - 09/10/09 11:52 PM (14 years, 6 months ago)

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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Re: Buying new books. [Re: yellownotepad]
    #278770 - 09/11/09 08:40 AM (14 years, 6 months ago)

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 (14 years, 6 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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Re: Buying new books. [Re: FurrowedBrow]
    #278924 - 09/11/09 06:31 PM (14 years, 6 months ago)

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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Re: Buying new books. [Re: mel_lonta_tauda]
    #278986 - 09/11/09 09:26 PM (14 years, 6 months ago)

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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 :strokebeard:






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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Re: Buying new books. [Re: NobodyImportant]
    #279079 - 09/12/09 12:24 AM (14 years, 6 months ago)

Thanks for contributing, thought there would only be a few posts. :awesome:

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.:shrug: 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 (14 years, 6 months ago)

:super: 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 (14 years, 6 months ago)

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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See, that term pedo gets thrown around a lot.
Is a 16 year old guy having sex w/a 16 year old girl a pedophile?
If not, then how is a 30 year old considered a pedophile for doing the same thing?
I think y'all need to look up the definition for pedophile.

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