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Originally Posted by atari 2600
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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
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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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You really like Kierkegaard. I have The Sickness Unto Death; haven't gotten around to reading it and not really looking forward to it (after scanning the first couple of pages).
Nice list, though. I'll keep some of those in mind next time I'm in a bookstore.