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    Posted: September 23 2005 at 08:20

Just talking about this in another thread.  Some of the books include the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Fear and Loathing in Las vegas, Cat's Cradle, On the Road. 

So what are your recommendations for counterculture and/or off the beaten path literature that influenced your taste in music or vice versa???  Rashomon? Gardening for Dummies?? THE BIBLE??!!!
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"Rashomon" was definitely a movie that influenced me; my all time favorite. I did not read the story it is based on though.
books that influenced me: James Joyce's "Ulysses" and Lawrence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"


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English litterature, counter culture, esoterism and many others genres.
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essentialy from mythologies, "creation" books (Rig Veda, Bardo Thodol, Bagavad Gita...), books about cosmo "biological" religions (the manifestations of the hierophanies at different steps of the nature and the universe)

...and off course from philosophy

all these tastes are directly in relation with the music I like.

 



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for counter culture, I advise you to get in touch with Timothy Leary funny book "chaos and cyberculture"
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My heaviest reading and my passion is sci-fi and fantasy and anything dealing with ancient cultures/civilization(Egypt,Rome,Greece,etc.)

As far as counter culture goes,ever heard of Jack Kerouac?


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Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

My heaviest reading and my passion is sci-fi and fantasy and anything dealing with ancient cultures/civilization(Egypt,Rome,Greece,etc.)

As far as counter culture goes,ever heard of Jack Kerouac?

Whoops,sorry,saw you have On the Road in your post.


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TWO WRITERS AND A BOOK:
  1.    GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
  2.    FRANZ KAFKA
  3.    ULYSSES BY JAMES JOYCE
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Andrzej Sapkowski
Frank Herbert
Fiodor Dostojewski
Michail Bulchakov
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Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Andrzej Sapkowski
Frank Herbert
Fiodor Dostojewski
Michail Bulchakov

Frank Herbert

Dune is the greatest sci-fi book ever written,and the book that got me into sci-fi.


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Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Andrzej Sapkowski
Frank Herbert
Fiodor Dostojewski
Michail Bulchakov

Frank Herbert

Dune is the greatest sci-fi book ever written,and the book that got me into sci-fi.



I love the Idiot by Dostoievski and Bulgakov's works...

Dune is like Harry Potter...Too much ruines everything...The first is great,but the sequels are boring...
 
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I liked the first three Dune books, but couldn't get past God Emperor of Dune. 

I also enjoy all classic science fiction.  Arthur C Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury, Zelazny, Philip K Dick, Larry Niven, Stanislaw Lem. 

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H & E

Well, you did ask!

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Im surprised noone has mentioned Allen Ginsberg, well he is more poetry  than novels I guess, but its truely amazing stuff. Also On The Road and a book called Be Here Now

by Baba Ram Dass



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The Gadfly by E.L. Voynich probably had the biggest influence on me than any other book...
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Many authors 'ave influenced me, but none more than Niccolò Machiavelli. His works, such as "Il Principe" and "Dell'arte della guerra," 'ave really 'elped me shape my political and societal views.
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Some authors, whose works I enjoyed: Aleksis Kivi, Eino Leino, Franz Kafka, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Chandler, Norman Mailer, Ian M. Banks and Philip K. Dick.

I haven't read novels for some time, I'm just unable to concentrate them.  I have done books about history, science and arts, as they can be readed in a more short-tempered way.
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hmmm some of the books that influenced me....

  1. 1984 - George Orwell
  2. The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
  3. Dune - Frank Herbert
  4. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
  5. The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. LeGuin
  6. John Adams - McCullough
  7. What's the Matter With Kansas? - Thomas Friedman

to name a few

as T. Jefferson said, "I cannot live without my books".
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Originally posted by Kohllapse Kohllapse wrote:

The Bible


Let me see... You have "One" as your avatar and the book that influenced you is the Bible...
NEAL, get outta here this is a fan forum
 
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