i am currently trying to read... schopenhauer. ok i am mad about books again. please recommend me something that has touched you deeply.
i used to like these most if any
tropic of capricorn and henry miller's works in general
notes from underground and dostoevsky's work in general
the idiot { " (esp. as translated by david magarshack)}
philip k. dick's works in general
the poetry of emmy hennings (wife of hugo ball, member of the cabaret voltaire)
the blue of noon and georges bataille's fiction in general
samuel beckett's work in general
nausea by jean-paul sartre
lazarus laughed by eugene o'neill
the great god brown by eugene o'neill
the tao te ching by lao tsu
hunger by knut hamsun
the less macho poetry of charles bukowski
the poetry of robinson jeffers
the romantic poetry of john donne
the poetry of t.s. eliot
the red badge of courage and poetry of stephen crane
stranger in a strange land by robert heinlein
thirst for annihilation by nick land
nietzsche-vital demon
walden by henry david thoreau
j.d. salinger's works in general
journey to the end of the night by celine
on the road by jack kerouac
fun other stuff:
facts & falacies
game over:
they all laughed...from light bulbs to lasers: the fascinating
stories behind the great inventions that have changed our lives
the psychedelics encyclopedia books i've read recently:
3 stigmata of palmer eldritch
ubik
out of the flames
amenities of book collecting
this book-collecting game
huntington's library of libraries
to have and to hold
adventures of a treasure hunter
your money or your life
a gentle madness
a degree of mastery
keep the aspidistra flying by george orwell
down and out in paris and london by orwell
coming up for air by orwell
slightly chipped by the goldstones
84 charing cross road
used & rare by the goldstones
brave new world. i'm currently reading books that most people would have read in high school i guess.
the bell jar by sylvia plath (i wish humans could save each other)
citizen welles by frank brady
the hacker crackdown by bruce sterling
vivien leigh by anne edwards (god i love vivien)
a dreadful man: george sanders by brian aherne (he was a sad fool, sanders)
microserfs by douglas coupland (his style is sort of nice, not too much substance)
insanely great
Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing by Randall E. Stross
the road ahead (some crap from bill gates. it's just dull and lacks real insight)
notice a trend in the books i read?
all these things right now feel cold and intellectual when i need something viscerally emotional and human right now