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hey, I bet you might like Diary of a Hope Fiend - Timothy Leary or maybe Diary of a Dope Fiend - Aleister Crowley
hmm, no one's said Helter Skelter or In Cold Blood yet...
if no one objects, I'll skip right past "good" & go straight
to
great
1 either/or vols 1-2 - soren kierkegaard
2 purity of heart - soren kierkegaard
3 the denial of death - ernest becker
4 the golden bough - frazer
(also the larousse encyclopedia of mythology...aw hades, throw in edith hamilton too)
5 the book of changes, i ching - trans. richard wilhelm/ foreword by jung
6 complete works - plato
7 picasso:50 years of his art - alfred h barr
(another great one is picasso's picassos with photos by david douglas duncan)
8 the outsider - colin wilson
9 love's body - norman o. brown
10 tao te ching - lao tzu
11 fear & trembling - kierkegaard
12 the philosophy of andy warhol - warhol
13 magic & schizophrenia - geza roheim
14 psyche & symbol - c.g. jung (also man & his symbols - a posthumous work by jung scholars)
15 hell's angels - hunter s thompson
(throw in fear & loathing in las vegas too)
16 the tao of physics - fritjof capra
17 apocalypse - d.h. lawrence
18 easy riders raging bulls - p biskind
(whereas, say, Scorcese on Scorsese is good, Biskind's book is great)
19 seeds - a thomas merton compilation
20 the death of socrates - i.f. stone
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