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Pt.
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Posted : Oct 30, 2007 18:31
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TAS
Toxic Anger Syndrome
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Posted : Nov 2, 2007 02:40
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*christine*
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Posted : Nov 7, 2007 12:30
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makus
Overdream
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Posted : Nov 9, 2007 15:47
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Orson Scott Card and his saga about Ender.
awesome literture. blows the mind.
<Enders Game>
<Speaker for the Dead>
<Xenocide>
these are first three books of 8.
 
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Magox
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Posted : Nov 10, 2007 11:59
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On 2007-11-07 12:30, *christine* wrote:
Goa Freaks, by Cleo Odzer- Interesting look at the Goa scene in the 70's.
The Electric Kool-aide Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe- 'Nough said.
Vurt & Pollen by Jeff Noon- Psychedelic Sci-fi Trips
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Indeed!!
Goa Freaks is pretty twisted...
"On the path of spirituality, one ventures to vanquish one’s own faults rather than to judge others" |
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Outolintu
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Posted : Nov 11, 2007 12:04
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some have been already mentioned but what the heck:
-douglas adams: the hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy (a trilogy in 5 parts)
-aldous huxley: brave new world
and/or
-yevgeny zamyatin: we
and/or
-george orwell: 1984
-bernard werber: the ants
-noam chomsky: media control
-frank herbert: dune
-henry thoreau: walking
-henry thoreau: walden
-hermann hesse: siddharta
-max frisch: homo faber
-flann o'brien: the third policeman
-joachim-ernst berendt: the third ear
-joachim-ernst berendt: nada brahma
-the kalevala
-fritjof capra: the tao of physics
-r.l. stevenson: treasure island
-the tibetan book of the dead
-kahlil gibran: the prophet
-eichendorff: aus dem leben eines taugenichts
-conan doyle: the adventures of sherlock holmes
-hannu mäkelä: herra huu muuttaa
-zen c,omics 1 and 2 
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DETOX
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Posted : Nov 13, 2007 23:16
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Wouldnt it be nice instead of just passing on a huge list of books that noone will ever bother checking out to give us just a couple of a recommendations along with a 5-10 lines synopsis?
I mean i tried to follow this thread but the list is endless and dont have a clue what to check or whether to check it at all (apart the books i already know ofcourse).
This topic needs a reshape immediately.
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gaspard
Yab Yum
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Posted : Nov 14, 2007 09:13
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If you re seeking for a witty, clever, psychedelic, adventure, romance, esoteric and all round excellent read i highly recommend Tom Robbins (other thread all about him in this section).
Try "Half asleep in frog pajamas" or "Another roadside attraction" to start with and i guarantee you ll read all his books within a couple of years!
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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Outolintu
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Posted : Nov 14, 2007 13:20
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wouldn't it be nice if the people who are searching for new books to read would pull themselves together and f.e. google some books offered in long lists to find comments or synopsis and then choose the ones which have the most appeal?
detox needs a reshape immediately!
i can help you this much:
-check book tips of members who you feel connected to
-use your intuition
-while searching for certain books on the net you'll bound to find other interesting books you would have perhaps never stumbled upon otherwise
i believe in you and keep listening to ambient! 
"no one ever sweats on a plug-in" -moby |
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DETOX
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Posted : Nov 14, 2007 17:55
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Outolintu do you think that i dont know how to use the internet and google in order to search something?
That was not the point of my post.
In my humble opinion when people suggest a book they should offer us couple of info about it and a small synopsis.
If someone loves a book and wants really to recommended to other people and hope that they will pay attention to it and read it then he has to provide apart from the title and its author some extra lines concerning the main theme of the book,its synopsis and maybe couple of its characters.
For me thats the proper way of recommending stuff to other people.
Dont think of this place as a forum,think that you are in a real life situation and a friend asks you for a book recommendation.Would you provide him with a small synopsis and some extra info on the book you will suggest him?Ofcourse you will otherwise he wont pay attention at all to the book that you will suggest him.Why dont you do the same here instead of providing us with endless lists of authors and titles?
I cant believe that someone really loved a book and he is supposed to suggest it somewhere and he justs hands out the title and its author along with the words killer and amazing next to it like it is a mobile phone or a pc game or i dont know what else.
Books are much more important and they deserve a different treatment with more respect.
Oh and please dont pass on here matters and anger from other topics,i cant believe that you are still offended about a joke i made in the main section and already said in public that this was a joke.I think you need some ambient too mate.
Will provide couple of books in the next hour just to set the good example the way i see it.
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Outolintu
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Posted : Nov 15, 2007 10:11
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detox, relax.
i just gave another point of view on the situation. and i thought you had a sense of humour? well, the previous post was a taste of my humour
can't wait to read a book recommendation of yours!
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DETOX
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Posted : Nov 18, 2007 07:39
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Here is my recommendation as promised.
The book is named L'Etranger (The Stranger) by the french nobel prize winner Albert Camus.
It was first publicated in 1942 in France and is probably the finest work of Albert Camus and one of the most famous novels around the world.
Although my french teacher had suggested me this book since the time i was studying to learn the language something like 10 years ago it was just last September that i bought it and read it in just two days because once i started with it i just couldnt stop it,its not a very lenghty book after all with an average of 120 pages depending on what publication you will buy,the greek publication i got is 132 pages long (including a nice biography on the writer) while the french one is around 121,the Penguin Classics publication in the english language is 117 pages according to wikipedia.
The book tells the story of a man named Mersault whose mother just died (thats the first chapter in the book) and it describes us his somehow lonely life,boring work,relationship with his girlfriend and neighbourhs and eventually his crime,trial and punishment,everything narrated through the protagonist himself.
This is an excellent reading which although it seems simple in the first place it has many deeper meanings and deals with a lot of concepts in our life such as a person's alienation from society and even his own familly,the role of emotions in our life and how plain and sad our life can be without them,the concept of death,the relationship between humans and religion and whether God is in charge of our destiny or if it is actually us that shape it,the theory of crime and punishment and how justice is being applied and many more.
You will need less than a week to finish this little gem but the questions after finishing with it will be many and the answers even more depending your personal beliefs and how much attention you payed to the book and the connections you made between the chapters and the various incidents within it.
Like i said before this is not a complicated book but sometimes even the simpliest events can be translated in many and even contrantictory ways depending how the reader understands things and how he connects the pieces of the puzzle together.
What was Mersault's crime after all and by whom and why is he punished in the end?
Read and reach your own conclusions
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Devils_Dandruff
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Posted : Nov 18, 2007 10:14
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I'm looking for a book - Pleasure seekers...... Can anyone one be kind enough to help me with the name of the author and the publishing house? the book is all about LSD, its effects and it explains alot of things related to it.....
Thanks in advance...
PS - I'm not looking for the pleasure seekers written by - Melanie George
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Outolintu
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Posted : Nov 19, 2007 19:38
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On 2007-11-18 10:14, Devils_Dandruff wrote:
I'm looking for a book - Pleasure seekers...... |
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by googleing with words:
pleasure seekers book lsd
i stumbled upon this one:
The Pleasure Seekers: The Drug Crisis, Youth and Society.
Fort, Joel. (1969).
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
ISBN: None
Description: First edition, [vii] + 255 pages.
Contents: 11 chapters, appendix: Comparison Chart of Major Substances Used for Mind Alteration, bibliography, index.
Excerpt(s): A nationally acclaimed physician specializing in public health, social psychiatry, and drug abuse, Dr. Joel Fort describes the uses and abuses of mind-altering drugs and evaluates their effects on individuals and society. He attacks the "mythology" of the destructive qualities of today's illegal drugs, maintaining that even the chromosome-altering effects of LSD are equaled by aspirin and caffeine, and finds the condemnation of a small range of drugs dangerously hypocritical while the enthusiastic use of alcohol, nicotine, and numerous other substances is socially approved. Dr. Fort's book is an informative analysis of today's drug crisis, youth and society. (back cover)
With very little to do since the dope-fiend menace was quiescent for the moment, and with the F. B. I. getting all of the attention among federal enforcement agencies due to Hoover's public relations skills, marijuana must have seemed ideal as a vehicle for a quick rise from obscurity. It was used mainly by outcasts of society carrying no political muscle (clout in 1969 argot), some intellectuals, jazz musicians, Negroes, and Mexican Americans, who had first introduced it to the U.S. around 1910 in the Southwest. In a manner that became the model for future drug hearings and laws, Anslinger and company issued press releases describing marijuana as the cause of crime, violence, assassination, insanity, and other evils. Newspaper stories headlining the Bureau's press statements were then submitted to Congressional committees as "evidence," supplemented by frightening anecdotes in Anslinger's direct testimony stressing mental deterioration, release of inhibitions of an antisocial nature, rape, and other lurid tales. Another Treasury Department official began his testimony by stating that "marijuana is being used extensively by high school children in cigarettes with deadly effect" and gave as evidence that of an editorial from a Washington newspaper supposedly quoting the American Medical Association. A Doctor Woodward, present as legislative counsel for the A. M. A., pointed out that the statement in question was actually one made by Mr. Anslinger which had only been quoted in the A. M. A. Journal. No medical, scientific, or sociological testimony was sought or heard by the committee and no alternative ways for dealing with the "problem" were discussed and Doctor Woodward courageously criticized the Congressmen for proposing a law which would interfere with future medical use of cannabis and pointed out that no real evidence had been presented to substantiate the charges. ... Totally ignoring the content of this testimony, the members of the committee attacked the doctor's character, qualifications, experience, and relationship to the A. M. A., all of which were impeccable. (pages 69-70)
from:
http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/pleasure_seekers.html
i think finding a copy of it will be very hard...
"no one ever sweats on a plug-in" -moby |
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Outolintu
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Posted : Nov 19, 2007 19:45
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nice job, detox!
inspired by your effort i took the time and copypasted a synopsis from the net for one of the books i recommended. it's better than nothing, wont you agree? 
flann o'brien: the third policeman:
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist/philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just down the road), and de Selby's view that the earth is not round but "sausage-shaped." With the help of his newly found soul named "Joe," he grapples with the riddles and contradictions that three eccentric policeman present to him.
The last of O'Brien's novels to be published, The Third Policeman joins O'Brien's other fiction (At Swim-Two-Birds, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Best of Myles, The Dalkey Archive) to ensure his place, along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as one of Ireland's great comic geniuses.
"no one ever sweats on a plug-in" -moby |
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