I have been nominated by Vykinta Kligyte to do the ten book challenge. In your status list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. They dont have to be the right books or great works of literature. Then tag ten friends and me so I can see your list. Im not gonna tag anyone, but feel free to accept if the thought of your ten books kinds gets your nipples hard. Here we go, in no order, off the top of my head: Still Life with Woodpecker Tom Robbins- This was the first book to show me that people wrote books that I would actually like to read (and books that I would like to write). Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art Lewis Hyde- Everything comes down to appetite. Its the first desire, the first pull to excess, and the only real need, despite what Maslow says. The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things George Kubler- This is where I started to get a sense of getting a sense of things. It all starts with a start. The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing James Elkins- Perception changes reality, not the other way around. Series: Cosmic Trigger Robert Anton Wilson- Freemasons, Discordianism, Sufism, the Illuminati, Futurology, Zen Buddhism, Dennis and Terence McKenna, Jack Parsons, the occult practices of Aleister Crowley and G.I. Gurdjieff, Yoga . . . what more could you want? Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace- the only author on this list I knew/the first person I knew to kill themselves. Such a beautiful and complicated man, same as his stories. Dune Series Frank Herbet- Imagine if Star Wars never happened and, instead of the pseudo-religious paradigm of Good versus Evil, the entirety of the sci-fi genre focused on ecological philosophy. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah Richard Bach- just like JLS, but, you know . . . its Jesus in a bi-plane (it was between this and Siddhartha for this list). The Alchemist Paulo Coelho- wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” Gobs Grief Chris Adrian- My favourite living author. Check it: Civil War era historical fiction about a dude that dates Walt Whitman, has recurring dreams about fingering the bullet wounds in Abe Lincolns skull, and toils away at a time machine made of photo-negatives of battlefield causalities that will eradicate death and bring back all the lost soldiers, including his 12 year-old brother! read anything by this man!!!!
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 17:39:45 +0000
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