Friday, March 05, 2004

posted by: copernicus on 3/05/2004 11:05:00 AM
This post was inspired by a complete stranger who raided her Mom's bookshelves and came away with some real prizes.

Here's my recommended reading list (at least what I can think of off the top of my head, and in the order that I think of them):

William S. Burroughs:
-Naked Lunch
-Tornado Alley
-My Education
-Junky

Jack Kerouac:
-On The Road

The Collected Poems of Alan Ginsburg

Hunter S. Thompson:
-Hell's Angels
-Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
-Generation of Swine
-The Curse of Lono

Carl Sagan:
-Contact

Stephen Hawking:
-A Brief History of Time

Albert Einstein:
-Relativity

Joseph Heller:
-Catch 22

Terrence McKenna:
-Archaic Revival

Robert K.G. Temple:
-The Sirius Mystery

Robert Anton Wilson:
-Cosmic Trigger: Volumes 1, 2 and 3
-The New Inquisition
-Quantum Psychology
-Prometheus Rising
-The Illuminatus Trilogy
-The Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy

The Neitzche Reader

Plato:
-The Republic

Albert Camus:
-The Rebel

Dr. Seuss:
-Oh, The Places You'll Go

Aldous Huxley:
-Brave New World

George Orwell:
-1984
-Animal Farm

Ray Bradbury:
-Farenheit 451

J.D. Salinger:
-The Catcher in the Rye

Samuel Beckett:
-Waiting For Godot

James Joyce:
-Ulysses

Robert M. Pirsig:
-Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Jim Harrison:
-Wolf
-Revenge
-Legends of the Fall
-The Man Who Gave Up His Name

Salman Rushdie:
-The Satanic Verses

James W. Loewen:
-Lies My Teacher Told Me

Howard Zinn:
-Declarations of Independance
-A People's History of the United States

Noam Chomsky:
-Manufacturing Consent

Christopher S. Hyatt:
-The Tree of Lies

Timothy Leary:
-What Does Wo-Man Want?

Thomas Pynchon:
-Gravity's Rainbow

That's all I can think of for the moment. So many books and films have had an impact on my perception that it's hard to keep an accurate record. Maybe I should make a list of Recommended Films next.