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PsyFire
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Posted : Aug 5, 2003 05:28
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I'm not sure if this qualifies but Asimov had some pretty trippy stuff in the "Foundation" series. His ideas were so great that all the space movies and shows that ever came out were influenced by them.....but he was a real writer as opposed to the later hollywood/commercial crap |
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Demi
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Posted : Aug 5, 2003 06:12
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Azimov's influence is well known, though hollywood has nothing to do with literature(not more than a movie script!), though sometimes there appear good movies, but thats in another thread...
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Apocalypse Now
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Posted : Aug 5, 2003 06:13
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Two super trippy books I would recommend would be:
Tom Wolfe- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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Ken Kesey- One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Demi
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Posted : Aug 5, 2003 06:20
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2 tell the truth i tried 2 start reading Acid test but failed to continue even after 100 pages. lots of things seemed to me dissappointing about the characters, or i'd say i didnt like the narration itself. I assume, it might have been a poor translation. I will try it in the original as soon as i get it. It must be different.
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Apocalypse Now
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Posted : Aug 5, 2003 06:30
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I do remember the beginning being a bit slow but it picked up real quick and I just flew through the book in a matter of a couple of days.
It's obvious that the original is going to be better, it's kind of like recording a song with a cassette off the radio, it might give you temporary satisfaction but it just isn't the same thing as the real version.
Have you read the Cuckoo's nest?
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PsyFire
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Posted : Aug 7, 2003 05:44
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Cuckoo's nest
I think Ken Kasey's Cuckoo's nest is a masterpeice.
I don't know if to categorize it as "Trippy" but it definitely delivers some powerful reading material.
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le_lotus_604
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Posted : Aug 7, 2003 08:06
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On 2003-08-05 05:28, PsyFire wrote:
I'm not sure if this qualifies but Asimov had some pretty trippy stuff in the "Foundation" series. |
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me too  but defining psychedelic is another thread... I'm sure there is one
but Foundation is for sure a master piece. the best and complex definition of Gaia I ever hear and that can influence your soul
and... fff even the Robotic Laws feets inside ... genious !
about Viktor Pelevin, thanks ppl, that's something I wanted to read ... and forgot  |
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Rastelo225
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Posted : Aug 13, 2003 00:47
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Carlos Castaneda
Lewis Carrol (awesome psychedelics)
Aldous Huxley
Paulo Coelho (here from Brazil, very good magical stuff)
I can´t believe no one has mentioned
Edgar Allan Poe - dark but very trippy atmosphere in his tales |
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DiMiTry
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Posted : Aug 13, 2003 10:50
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Everybody should read "Stone Junction" by Jim Dodge. Amazing book, and completely unknown. Read it.
and now for...
"I can't belive no one has mentioned..."
Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Ubik, Valis, Flow my tears the policeman said, Man in the high castle, etc etc etc etc etc)
Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash)
Aleister Crowley - Diary of a Drug Fiend is one of the best drug books every written, 50 years before Burroughs
Allen Ginsberg
Rainer Maria Rilke
Antonin Artaud - one of the first Europeans to experiment with Peyote (and electroshock therapy  )
Arthur Rimbaud - Season in Hell and Illuminations
Charles Baudelaire (On Hashish)
Carl Jung
Dada and Surrealist poetry
Any Russian poet from the early 20th century, especially
Mayakovsky - the early work, before 1917
Blok
Pasternak - my sister life
Bely - his Symphonies are amazing, also 'Petersburg'
I could go on....
sorry.. i was a lit major in college.
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psyman
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Posted : Aug 13, 2003 16:45
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in my opinion the book "dune" is the most psychadelic by far it has anything, human nature, politics, drugs, new mind blowing ideas and the most important the jurney to a man subcontiontsness |
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Demi
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Posted : Aug 14, 2003 06:16
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hi psyman! how is israeli mafia? *)
about Dune
I couldnt finish the story. It looked like i d better watch a movie, then cover so many pages...
Mayakovskiy i really did enjoy in the school! Such a strict-word-blaster. He was a psychedelic person for sure. Exact describing the things around in his own style. Great person, indeed. You are right about - "before 1917". But then after the revolution, when he realized all the bullshit - they banned him and his works.
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its nice to see topic growing. its nice 2 find understanding far from my MotherLand 
keep it up guys
     
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Candy
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Posted : Jan 23, 2004 09:40
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And I can't believe nobody mentionned this:
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - by Douglas Adams
Majority is never right!
"Without music, life is meaningless."
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Kaz
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Posted : Jan 23, 2004 12:37
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ZeRo
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Posted : Jan 23, 2004 16:11
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hey dima. . .happy someone finally mentioned stephenson. I think his books are visionary masterpieces.
Favorites are snow crash and the diamond age.
so many psychedelic writers who just broke the boundaries. comes to mind now definitely biely's st. petersburg, actually just started reading it for a russian lit after 1870 class. mayakovskys shit is definitely out there as well.
i also love ursula k le guin- the earthsea cycle, the dispossessed, the left hand of darkness. some amazing shit.
other favorites
T.S. eliot
KAFKA!!!!!!!
some trippy shit
ein chadash tachat hashemesh. there is nothing new under the sun. --kohelet. |
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GhregOnEarth
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Posted : Jan 23, 2004 18:59
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The Invisibles - Grant Morrison
(Graphic Novel series that is superbly mind-bending. In Grant's own words this was his way of dealing with an alien abduction he experienced while on a hash binge in katmandu)
Permutation City - Greg Egan
(It's the future and everyone on earth can run copies of themselves inside networks of super servers spread across the solar system....think William Gibson on DMT)
Illuminatus Trilogy and Cosmic Trigger - Robert Anton Wilson
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