One of my readers requested that I post my newly compiled list of books to look for and purchase or seek out from the library. So here it is.
New recommendations are welcome.
Tool's Recommended Reading List
- Behold the Protong! by Stanislav Szukaslsi
- Love and Sleep and AEGYPT by John Crowley
- And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
- Squeak the Mouse by Massimo Mattioli
- Nothing In This Book Is True ... by Bob Frissell
- Earth by David Brin
- Art and Physics by Leonard Shlain
- Diary Of A Genius by Salvador Dali
- Interior Design with Feng Shui by Sarah Rossbach
- Archaic Revival by Terence McKenn
- The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav
- The Mayan Prophecies
- The Legacy of the Beast ...
- The Age Of Reason by Thomas Paine
- Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baignet, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln
- What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
- Fourth Way by P. D. Ouspensky
- Four Treatises Of Theophratus Von Hohenheim Called Paracelus by Paracelus
- The Origin Of Satan by Elaine Pagels
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Black Spring by Henry Miller
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- Hellboy: The Lost Army by Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden
- High Priest by Timothy Leary
Books Recommended By FriendsOther Books I Want To Get
- Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
- Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller
- Going Deeper by Jean-Claude Koven
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- 1984 by George Orwell
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- On The Road by Jack Kerouac
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Casey
- Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salmon Rushdie
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
- Poetry by Charles Bukowski (any)
- Zen Mind Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
- Simulacra And Simulations by Jean Baudrillard
- Transparency Of Evil by Jean Baudrillard
- Fatal Strategies by Jean Baudrillard
- Seduction by Jean Baudrillard
- To have Or To Be by Erich Fromm
- Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm
- The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
- The Meaning Of it All by Richard Feynman
- Surely You re Joking Mr Feynman by Richard Feynman
- The Minds I by Douglas Hofstadter
- Godel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Metaphysics Of Love by (and anything from) Arthur Schopenhauer
- How the Universe Got its Spots by Janna Levin
- The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
- Our Cosmic Habitat by Martin Rees
- Before the Beginning by Martin Rees
- Asimov on Physics by Isaac Asimov
- Asimov on Numbers by Isaac Asimov
- The Doors Of Perception by Aldous Huxley
- The Infernal Desire Machine by Angela Carter
- Anything By The Marquis De Sade
7 comments:
I'll mention the ones I've read.
List One
3. Excellent
12. Pretty good
16. Guilty pleasure
20. Good topic, a little dry
21. Dense
List Two
7. Very good
10. Excellent
17. Excellent but wordy
18. Very good, typical Feynman
19. Same as previous
20. Not his best but interesting
21. The best book ever?
Haven't read any of the others, but this gives me some ideas now. Thanks for sharing.
Some more ideas, all recommended: "How the Universe Got its Spots" by Janna Levin; "The Road to Reality" by Roger Penrose (difficult reading but good where I understood it); "Our Cosmic Habitat" and "Before the Beginning" by Martin Rees; "Asimov on Physics" and "Asimov on Numbers" by Isaac Asimov, obviously. Lots more too but that should tide you over for awhile =)
Hey Meta...
Thanks for the comments and recommendations. Your recommendations have been added to my list.
If you own any of these I would be interested in purchasing them for a reasonable price or working out an exchange. Just an idea.
BTW..are you a Tool fan?
Can't say I'm a Tool fan. I respect their fanbase though and I just need to get around to listening to them. Intelligent people seem to like them.
A smattering of my musical interests would be Nick Drake, Smiths, Dead Can Dance, Pink Floyd, Swans, Nick Cave, Stina Nordenstam, Bjork, Nirvana.
Yes, I own all the books I mentioned and would not be willing to sell them, but would happily loan them to you whenever you like. I'm a sort of book collector, you see.
Glad I found your blog. Very refreshing to know I'm not the only one who thinks so abstractly! Cheers. -Meta
You definitley should give Tool more of a chance. Even if their sound isn't your thing, it is very appealing intellectually, philosophically and metaphysically as well.
I like Nirvana, Pink Floyd is ok, Bjork is plain weird and I can't say I recognize any of the others.
I am a collector of sorts as well (although a part of me feels a bit claustrophobic and tied down if I too many 'things') so I can understand not wanting to sell.
I will see if I can find the titles you mentioned at a second-hand bookstore or at the library first. If that fails perhaps an exchange would be suitable. My titles are all posted, although I didn't mention the ones I haven't read yet.
Ah. These are some books I love:
Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
Well those are the only ones I can think of right now. Maybe include Antoine Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince and George Orwell's Animal Farm too.
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