Gagarin Project 400 Report post Posted October 13, 2014 Share your favourite books and what do you like about them 1 Gagarin Project reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gagarin Project 400 Report post Posted October 19, 2014 the first writer that comes to my mind will be Richard Bach with these thee wonderful books Jonathan Livingston Seagull The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul incredible and very inspiring stories. 2 scorchio and YuriNondual reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flying Lotus 23 Report post Posted October 19, 2014 Oh yeah, i love "Jonathan Livingston Seagull", beautiful story ! 1 Judge Ming reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moderator 1 Report post Posted November 26, 2014 The Book of Mirdad ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gagarin Project 400 Report post Posted November 26, 2014 The Book of Mirdad ! i am reading it now! it is amazing! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YuriNondual 41 Report post Posted December 22, 2014 Just few from my head now:Aldous Huxley - IslandAldous Huxley - Brave new worldVictor Pelevin - TVictor Pelevin - Chapayev and void Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DJ Chien 6 Report post Posted January 14, 2015 Island, so smart a book...! The Art of Listening, by Erich Fromm. For those who are interested in the understanding of everyday human behaviors and basic mechanisms about how we form expectations in life! 1 Gagarin Project reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spinnet (One Arc Degree) 89 Report post Posted January 18, 2015 Well, I'm a science fiction addict so... 1) Blood Music, by Greg Bear 2) The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula Le Guin 3) Now Wait For Last Year, by Philip Dick these three are really great mind-benders!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ancientrealms 42 Report post Posted January 19, 2015 Well, I'm a science fiction addict so... 1) Blood Music, by Greg Bear 2) The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula Le Guin 3) Now Wait For Last Year, by Philip Dick these three are really great mind-benders!!! Dune has to be part of that list! 1 Spinnet (One Arc Degree) reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yiannis 201 Report post Posted January 19, 2015 I haven't read any books in the last few years but my faves would be Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda, The Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas by Nikos Kazantzakis, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe and The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley. I enjoyed the few parts of the Murphy's Law series I read several years ago too plus Ozzy Osbourne's I Am Ozzy, on the entertaining side of things. 1 Gagarin Project reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phase47 24 Report post Posted February 11, 2015 All of Jeff Noon's amazing books of liquid-dub prose. Iain M. Banks too for progressive sci-fi. And Haruki Murakami's books - all of them - for surreal, dreamlike narratives. All highly recommended. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thegoatboy 4 Report post Posted February 12, 2015 Some of my favourite books are by Charles Bukowski. Something in the way he writes amazes me. almost as if he is using the least amount of words he can to portray anything, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andorra 117 Report post Posted February 17, 2015 The Art of Listening, by Erich Fromm. For those who are interested in the understanding of everyday human behaviors and basic mechanisms about how we form expectations in life! I've been thinking to read Erich Fromm's 'To Have or to Be?' but for the sake of irony I don't wan't buy it and it's hard to find at library.. But I'll put 'The Art of Listening' to my list too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
floyd2.0 113 Report post Posted February 17, 2015 Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the shore (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4929.Kafka_on_the_Shore) Nick Cave: The death of Bunny Munro (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6389257-the-death-of-bunny-munro?from_search=true) Amitav Gosh: all of them! (http://www.bol.com/nl/s/boeken/zoekresultaten/Ntt/Amitav%20Ghosh/search/true/sc/books_all/index.html?Referrer=ADVNLGOO002008F-RMGLT7EKYUUZY-57122662624 JG Ballard : Crash (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70241.Crash) William S Burroughs: naked lunch (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7437.Naked_Lunch?from_search=true) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gagarin Project 400 Report post Posted November 13, 2015 this one from Steve Pavlina is also very nice http://www.stevepavlina.com/personal-development-for-smart-people/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yiannis 201 Report post Posted November 14, 2015 Iron Maiden's official biography Run to the Hills gave me fascinating insight into the amount of dedication, organisation and sheer hard work that must be put into a band's career, if it is to be successful. For about four decades. Things have changed drastically since the mid-70s obviously, but if we're talking about more than making an album on your home studio, putting it up on Bandcamp and doing the occasional gig mostly out of a laptop (nothing wrong with all that of course, just a different method of going about things), any degree of success is even more demanding - even taxing - on personal life these days. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spinnet (One Arc Degree) 89 Report post Posted November 18, 2015 Currently reading Gateway by Frederik Pohl. Old sci-fi gem (1977), I'm halfway through it and already rank it as one of my favorites! Brilliant writing! 1 Lorn reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Trala Lama 10 Report post Posted February 23, 2016 Reading some books written by Alexandra David-Néel, a Belgian-French lady that traveled into the forbidden lands of Tibet around 1920. In order to be able to make these voyages she often disguised herself as a lama. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_David-N%C3%A9el Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spinnet (One Arc Degree) 89 Report post Posted October 20, 2016 Finally going to have a go at The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin. Have been postponing this for way too long. Any thoughts on it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thanosp81 16 Report post Posted October 20, 2016 The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis 1984 - George Orwell Asimov's Chronology of the World - Isaac Asimov Der Process - Franz Kafka Julian - Gore Vidal Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick Das Schloß - Franz Kafka Mahabharata - Sri Viasa And many many more Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Judge Ming 1 Report post Posted December 2, 2016 Reading The Bhagavad Gita lately https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
floyd2.0 113 Report post Posted December 8, 2016 Discworld series by Terry Pratchett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld 1 Fuluf reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fuluf 37 Report post Posted December 29, 2016 Discworld series.... Awyiss For myself, I'm quite fond of Robin Hobb stuff. Game of Thrones is cool too. From classics I'd say The Count of Monte Cristo. Having quite fond memories of Hesse books as well. List is too damn long to name them all. Horror stories by HP Lovecraft tho, amazing. Got Doors of Perception for Christmas, should starting reading that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
un1ty 5 Report post Posted September 9, 2017 http://www.mysticknowledge.org/ 1 snowdrop reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
snowdrop 73 Report post Posted December 10, 2017 http://www.mysticknowledge.org/ What a useful database, thanks un1ty Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites