3001st book!

[filthydave]

this kinda follows on from the "don't know who i am thread" and as its kinda goin towards recommended books thought this might be a cool thread to start

here in the uk the street magazine The Big Issue used to do a column called 3001st book!
apparently the average person reads about 3000 books in their lifetime and they asked celebrities to recommend their 3001st - the one everyone should read at somepoint in their lives!

mine's siddartha by herman hesse

[pille'ocheoni]

great book............my grandmother gave that book,with also third eye.changed my life..............herman did many books with sai baba who has been a great influence in my too.good one dave.

[invisibleplanet]

good call, dave!

I can recommend the book "Psychic Energy - It's Source and Transformation ", by M Esther Harding ( a student of Jung's and a great student of the human condition) The alchemical process of the transformation of human consciousness from it's 'animal' state, to what we consider 'human' is well documented here. u may read excerpts if u click this link (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691017905/ref=lib_rd_ss_TT01/102-5381221-8109707?v=glance&vi=reader&img=4#reader-link)

U may be surprised just how affordable and readable this book is.

[filthydave]

@pille'ocheoni - it changed my life to!
was that the third eye by lobsang rampa?
good book although i heard that his wife came out and told everyone that he was really a postman! - must have been a dream!
steppenwolf's another by hesse that's well worth a read!
in fact most things by hesse actually, he's definately my favorite author

@'planet - to my shame i've not read any jung tho i've picked up the gist through popular culture and readin other philosophy stuff that cites him as a reference
very much into the idea of the collective unconcious - we're all carving stuff from the same block it's why things naturally reference themselves to one another - either that or its blatant plagarism
i'll have a more in depth read of that link later on when i've got more time

[pille'ocheoni]

yeah.you got it.there are so many more to list.one book that i read once a year, around this time is autobiography of a yogi. ive read it 20 some times.i cant help it.it 's so good.im a sucker for india stuff.my first guru and kundalini teacher was an american that spent 30 years in india and studied etc......so im kind of partial to that way of thought.good ook,it so fun and gets your right in that place:)pille'

[marcel]

Don DeLillo 'white noise'

[grobelaar]

Hmmm, was busy looking for something else, and I saw this which I must have missed.

I seem to be stuck in a rut at the moment - don't seem to be able to finish any books - dunno my life's quite busy at the moment - but its frustrating that I just seem to drift off and end up putting the book down and forgetting about it...

Anyone got any remedies, other than a replacement attention span gland - or a year of unemployment (I don;t 'spose anyone fancies putting up a sponging, book reading bum for a year do they?)?

[TEC-HO]

the lucifer principle by howard bloom
(a scientific expedition into the forces of history)
an excellent book just not enough time to read it

[emef]

how can you recommend it to others if you havent read it yourself ??

[TEC-HO]

i've read most of it so i can recommend most of it then.

[emef]

fair enough:)

[marcel]

also thery recommendable: ellis' 'american psycho'

this book brought me back to reading itself. it reminded me how intense books can be. its for me for books what neils 'bedrooms and cities' was for techno for me.

btw has neils glamorama ep on tresor anything to do with ellis' glamourama book?

[zombie ritual]

marcel, you've stolen my recommendation before I could do it!Well then, here are a few:
I can't recall the exact title, but there is a Don de Lillo book called "Underground" (of which I have only the german translation)or something like that. A very good book with a non-linear narrative structure. Anyone who's seen "Short cuts" (the movie) will know what I mean. And then it's absolutely necessary to mention Philipp K. Dick (since I suppose there must be some scifi-fans here), because he's essential in this genre. Here I recommend "Do androids dream of electric sheep".

One of my all time faves: Samuel Beckett: Molloy. Of course I think you can read almost everything by Beckett, because apart from all the stimulation it gives your mind, it's still also full of simply brilliant humour.

[marcel]

hey zombie, "sorry", hehe. what recommendation did you mean? white noise or american psycho?
what you mean is "underworld". im going to read it beginning next year, heard its quite good. but hell its very much to read
but not as fat as a william gaddis...

[phaedrus]

my recommendation would be "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" by Pirsig. Brilliant philosophic novel. I read it at a relatively early age, and it really influenced my thinking.

[jerm]

"you are that" by Gangaji-I feel there are no words for the truth that this book relays

for some good science I recommend;
"Chaos;The New Science"
I'm pretty sure that's the entire title and I dont quite remeber the author. It delves into how chaos is really underlying non-linear equations that form all life. Hard to follow at times but it can definitely change one's perspective on things.

[Lady E]

this is really hard. there are too many books i think everyone should read at some point.

im sorry i cant recommend one. but i think having a working knowledge of the Bible is pretty important, and if you can do so the other texts of the major world religions.

[MUX]

well... coming from such a catholic country. i can still only see the bible just as a good book, that u can realte any problem to one of it's texts. and that's it. period.

the books that a read last were 'Sarah' & 'The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things' by Jt Leroy . anybody else read them?

[filthydave]

i read zen... a few years ago and quite enjoyed it i particularly liked his idea that you can't describe quality because it's instinctive
you can say something has value because thats measurable to something else but quality is just something that exudes from a thing, undefinable by words - i like that

who's this Don DeLillo?
i kinda recognise the name but i don't know anything about him
whats his stuff like?

i'm reading animal farm at the moment, finally!
although i've been delayed half way through by other things taking up my time, arse!

michael marshall smith is one to check out. 'spares' and 'only forward' are brilliantly dark and twisted affairs and i've just been lent 'one of us' another in the same vein apparently

can't say i've heard of Jt Leroy, am i missing somethin?

[MUX]

well, it's autobiographal story of sexual mixed up and his Mum, who was a lounge lizard whore

and it's written the way one would think it.. not write it

[marcel]

@filthydave: de lillo is one of the most respected us-authors today besides pynchon and the other one ive forgotten.
'white noise' is about death and the human fear of death. its full with ideas, so much. unbelievable
and its kinda funny sometimes although the theme is the death

[filthydave]

think i might try and dig some of his stuff out
just the subject for winter me thinks