The Vaporist's Bookshelf - recommended reading while vaked.

[jeffp]

Garcia: A Signpost To New Space, By Jerry Garcia, Charles Reich, Jann Wenner.
I've read this book a few times over the years, I highly recommend it.
You can read it for free here, but it's nice to cozy up on the sofa with the paperback edition in my opinion:

http://books.google.com/books?id=zH...&resnum=7&ved=0CBwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false


Remember, Be Here Now, by Ram Dass

Also revelatory - these two books were major influences on me.

 

[lwien]

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Fuck, that came out too big.

And then..........A Separate Reality

 

[Frickr]

i raelly enjoyed the odd thomas series from dean koontz. if you guys can, pick the first book up, its just odd thomas, and i guarentee you'll be hooked. everything from elvis to ghosts to exploading cows.

 

[momofthegoons]

jeff, I just love your threads. Another good one.

Anything by Carl Hiaasen. He has a great, warped sense of humor and writes about the most colorful characters.

 

[Lo]

I too love Carl Hiaasen's books!! Love that warped sense of humore

 

[hopandstop]

Anything by Vonnegut. Classic.

 

[jeffp]

This book is on the top of my shelf. You must read this or anything by Buk...

 

[caseball2051]

howard marks - mr nice

 

[SkeletonLips]

Stopping by to say that Bukowski is a badass, and Post Office is one of my favorite books of his. Vonnegut is also one of my favorites. A new mention to the thread would have to be Chuck Palahniuk, as his novels are just crazy as fuck. I have 'em all, and have read each one at least twice. I am a voracious reader, and my book shelf is stuffed with all kinds of books. Great thread.

 

[DevoTheStrange]

I can't vape and read all the time. If the stuff is too heavy, I find myself reading the same page over and over. I like to read simple and light stuff when vaked. Stuff my mind can process easy and move on to the next page.
I tend to read Horror novels when vaked... most recent read The Strain, by Guillermo Del Toro (director of Pan's Labyrinth) and Chuck Hogan. Its Guillermo's own take on vampires, treating it as if it is a viral outbreak. Really good fast read, cant wait for second book.
I also love reading anything by Clive Barker while vaked.

 

[jeffp]

This is an important book - written in 1946, I think, before any of this stuff became popular or trendy. A heavy and demanding read but I was transfixed by it once I got into it.

 

[jeffp]

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Fuck, that came out too big.

And then..........A Separate Reality

yeah. I thought "tales of power" was his best.

and this...

 

[momofthegoons]

So jeff, if you read Autobiography, did you also read:

"Science of Breath" or

"Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy"

both by Yogi Ramacharaka?



or how about"The Mysticism of Sound" by Inayat Khan

 

[jeffp]

Hey "mom" I did read "The Mysticism of Sound" - the Sufi perspective is interesting, I have to admit.
I have not read any of the other two books you've mentioned.

I'll tell you one thing - as I've gotten older I need glasses to read and they're never quite right. An improvement but always a slight dullness or distortion off to the side, etc.
One of the things on my list of things to do is find a really good optometrist for a very accurate exam and maybe not buy my next pair of reading glasses at Walgreen's.

 

[hopandstop]

Jasper Fforde has some nice twists on children's tales.

 

[jeffp]

Fforde's books look very interesting, thanks.
This is my favorite children's author, Daniel Pinkwater.
Totally witty, bizarre and dada.

 

[sour]

A new mention to the thread would have to be Chuck Palahniuk, as his novels are just crazy as fuck. I have 'em all, and have read each one at least twice.

YES! Chuck Palahniuk! My favorites from him are "Survivor", "Choke" and "Fight Club". Read at least one of those and you will be hooked I promise. He's one of my favorite authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis and Neil Gaiman.

 

[SkeletonLips]

A new mention to the thread would have to be Chuck Palahniuk, as his novels are just crazy as fuck. I have 'em all, and have read each one at least twice.

YES! Chuck Palahniuk! My favorites from him are "Survivor", "Choke" and "Fight Club". Read at least one of those and you will be hooked I promise. He's one of my favorite authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis and Neil Gaiman.

I've only read American Psycho from Ellis. I've read American Gods, Anansi Boys, and Good Omens by Gaiman (plus Pratchett on that last one). Which books of theirs would you suggest I pick up? I got a kick out of both those authors.
DevotheStrange, what Clive Barker full length novels would you recommend? I've read all his short story collections. Books of Blood were my favorite.
Any of you all read any Richard Brautigan? He is one of my favorite writers/poets. Of course I love all the other Beat writers and poets. Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg. They are all great to read "under the influence". Shoot, Burroughs will make you feel like you're on something when you are just sober.
Another writer I've gotten into lately is Cormac McCarthy. I've read around 5 of his books so far. Really good stuff with an eye for detail. Almost westerns that are gritty and real feeling. Quick in pace.

 

[Plotinus]

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[momofthegoons]

Skel, you might enjoy Weaveworld by Clive Barker. It was one of my favorites of his work.

 

[StickyShisha2]

 

[jeffp]

A new mention to the thread would have to be Chuck Palahniuk, as his novels are just crazy as fuck. I have 'em all, and have read each one at least twice.

YES! Chuck Palahniuk! My favorites from him are "Survivor", "Choke" and "Fight Club". Read at least one of those and you will be hooked I promise. He's one of my favorite authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis and Neil Gaiman.

I've only read American Psycho from Ellis. I've read American Gods, Anansi Boys, and Good Omens by Gaiman (plus Pratchett on that last one). Which books of theirs would you suggest I pick up? I got a kick out of both those authors.
DevotheStrange, what Clive Barker full length novels would you recommend? I've read all his short story collections. Books of Blood were my favorite.
Any of you all read any Richard Brautigan? He is one of my favorite writers/poets. Of course I love all the other Beat writers and poets. Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg. They are all great to read "under the influence". Shoot, Burroughs will make you feel like you're on something when you are just sober.
Another writer I've gotten into lately is Cormac McCarthy. I've read around 5 of his books so far. Really good stuff with an eye for detail. Almost westerns that are gritty and real feeling. Quick in pace.

I liked Brautigan's "Trout Fishing In America."
I'll check out McCarthy - thanks for the heads up.
For a good baked in the bathroom read, check out

 

[GreenLeaf]

Cookie Mueller's "Walking Through Clear Water In a pool painted black" was an excellent read.

It's a shame Ms. Mueller died of AIDS, I wish they'd had treatments then besides nothing or the horrible AZT on its own.

Reading John Waters' film scripts/essays are funny too!

I can see where parts of Larry Kramer's very dated book "Faggots" would be hilarious and there are parts of Andrew Holleran's "Dancer from the Dance" that would be funny too while high.

I recently read Cyril Collard's titled "Savage Nights" or Les Nuits Fauves and while it was rather dated it was entertaining.

I've never read David Sedaris while high but many people seem to like him even if he can be fluffy and he's satire. There's also something missed by not hearing his voice on CD or in front of an audience.

I enjoy reading novels and short stories by Marco Vassi, John Preston, Anais Nin, William S. Burroughs, H.P. Lovecraft, Irvine Welsh, Poppy Z. Brite, and Larry Townsend while under the influence.

 

[quomist]

I normally read sci fi books. I'm currently reading Dune, but that one is totally a sober read. I just finished Speaker for the Dead which was a great read, sober or vaked.

I did get a recommendation from a friend to dive into another book from Carlos Castaneda. I'll put him on my list for next to read.

 

[Purple-Days]

This is about reading, I promise. And I'll get to a book or two in a minute.

Jeff, and any of the older set, who are needing reading glasses... having been through surgical lens replacement in both eyes, I had a choice, great distance vision and use glasses for reading OR great reading and use glasses for distance. My choice and they put the correct lenses in. But I couldn't have both. So for many reasons I choose to have great distance vision and use readers for close up. Final results, 20/20 at distance. Need glasses to read.

Doctor's advice on readers? First he told me to use a lower power than I thought I needed, it still provided clarity, but the lower power provides more depth of field and feels better for extended reading or close work. Second, Go Cheap, yep... he had an optical lab attached to the practice and said go cheap, well sorta. Not cheap, but reasonable. Aspheric lenses give better edge to edge consistency.

Here is a link to some reasonable reading glasses. https://www.readingglassesshopper.com/

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Books, The Anarchists Cookbook was an interesting read in the early '70s. Changed since then.