Books that changed your life?
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- sem5
- Bluejam0
- The Warlock of Firetop Mountain... I vividly remember the cover, not so much the content.Amicus
- "You are in a room with an orc"
Fight the orc, go to page 5
Run away, go to page 30 ...etc
Bluejam - < haha brilliant - i had this book as well!fadein11
- The Incal definitely changed things for me...and i've now turned my son on to the ...exador1
- fighting fantasty books...he loves 'forest of doom' and 'city of thieves'exador1
- + incalarne
- Krassy2
- Pt 1: http://cardhouse.com…
Pt 2:
http://cardhouse.com…GM278 - ^ TLDRKrassy
- ^^ also, TTS;CR (Type Too Small; Couldn't Read)Krassy
- hahaha TLDR - it's a whole book compressed into a two page cartoon. hahahaGM278
- Pt 1: http://cardhouse.com…
- face_melter3
The book I have probably read the most over the past 25+ years or so and the one that has had the greatest effect on my outlook on life. The Post Office, as with life, is a machine so large it can't be seen and exists purely to break and slowly grind people into sand. And it is your duty, as a human being, to fuck with it in as many exciting and inventive ways as possible. The novel that taught me, more than any other, that no matter what happens, it doesn't matter - any of it - and no fucking bastard can tell you otherwise. The Earth will still turn and the sun will still rise.
A book about insects, fucking, wild rent boys, the absolute and pure benefits of a serious *serious* drug dependency, the pursuit of artistic endeavour, international politics, and more fucking. A book that makes no sense yet perfect sense at the same time. It throws so much incredible imagery at you on every page it is, for me, without equal in terms of a reading experience.
- scarabin9
- Well I am just shocked. (sarcasm) :PGM278
- Was going to post be here nowjaylarson
- another book I've been seeing everywhere constantly (reticular activating, likely) is the second one down. ...good?notype
- Be here now is a classic. Nice.sea_sea
- i love that book; probably given out six copies to friends so far. cheap, too http://tinyurl.com/y…scarabin
- can't see your tinyurl.notype
- +1 T.A.Z.oey
- Satanic bible. Of course. Lol
Wouldn't expect anything else.pango - it's just a link to "be here now" on amazon. $11. link won't even fit here hahascarabin
- Thanks for the copy!pinkfloyd
- That Temporary Autonomous Zone book is very interesting and prescient...unfortun... the author Peter Wilson turned out to be a pedo :/yuekit
- no? a pedo?oey
- Yeah search Hakim Bey or Peter Lamborn Wilson (his real name).yuekit
- Love be here now. Special book ..set
- that's nice set, be gone nowpinkfloyd
- Be Here Now ordered thanks. Went under my radar. Is it anything like "Zen and the art of..." ?fadein11
- I had read lots about him over the years but incredibly I never stumbled on that issue at all neither did i ever checked for him in wikipedia...LOL!oey
- i have more books from him, I actually recommended TAZ to a friend...fuck! I guess I didn't understand that part...oey
- it really feels awkward right now...I really like his books.oey
- if you judged every man's works by his kinks there'd not be much "valid" stuff left, i imagine. none of his writings support pedophilia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯scarabin
- (at least not in that book)scarabin
- exactly scar I know. also not in the pirate utopias for example.oey
- just came in the mail. sshoot, it's not AT ALL what I thought it was. Did I get the right version? these pages in the middle? https://i2.wp.com/bn…notype
- ^ http://bnzr.vot.pl/w…notype
- Lol yup.sea_sea
- mugwart0
Hard to follow on from some of these, dont want to look like I'm mimicking scarab but here were some key books that helped shape me, for better or worse.
Loved these two so much I carried them when I would hitchhike places. Nothing more tripping then reading Heart of Darkness on top of a Vietnamese mountain top:
Discovered this as a child and it really help establish the fact I was not a normal kid from Watford!
Read loads up on the occult as a child as well, trying to work out what my fore-fathers were into. Not sure if I like Crowley or not to put in here.