What Literature Influenced You?
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Topic: What Literature Influenced You?
Posted By: Haragei
Subject: What Literature Influenced You?
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 08:20
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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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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 08:44
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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" -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 08:59
| English litterature, counter culture, esoterism and many others genres. |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 09:29
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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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Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 09:38
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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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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:20
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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? -------------  |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:20
Whoops,sorry,saw you have On the Road in your post. ------------- |
TheProgtologist wrote:Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:24
TWO WRITERS AND A BOOK:
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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:44
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Andrzej Sapkowski Frank Herbert Fiodor Dostojewski Michail Bulchakov ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 14:20
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Frank Herbert Dune is the greatest sci-fi book ever written,and the book that got me into sci-fi. ------------- |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 14:55
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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Posted By: Haragei
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 15:42
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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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Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 15:45
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H & E Well, you did ask! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 16:37
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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 |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 20:06
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The Gadfly by E.L. Voynich probably had the biggest influence on me than any other book... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Scrambled_Eggs
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 20:32
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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. ------------- And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime. I never said I was frightened of dying. |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 03:48
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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. |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 13:09
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hmmm some of the books that influenced me....
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Posted By: Kohllapse
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 13:19
The Bible 
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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 15:48
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  ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Kohllapse
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 16:03
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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 16:12
Of Jesus... And your own music ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 16:47
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nice to see someone named Bulgakov; "The Master and Margerita" is one of the greatest satires ever. "Dune" is overrated, in my opinion; when it comes to SF: give me Stanislaw Lem. I also love James Joyce, Lawrence Sterne and Jonathan Swift (Irish on my mother's side). and, since I am a woman, I also love the works of the Bronte sisters, Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 16:52
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Stanislaw Lem is awsome but I`ve read better books. Bulhakow has also other great books, Dostojewski as well ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Starette
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 19:13
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Quite a mix actually: from Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) to Homers' Iliad. ------------- 50 tonne angel falls to the earth... |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 20:19
I am currently reading Dune and it is awesome so far. I just wish i had more time for recreational reading. I am also a big fan of Arthur C. Clarke, Chuck Palahniuk, and Tolkien. I also must mention one of the craziest books I have ever read, House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. This book is an insane sort of sci-fi story that works on about 3 levels of concentric narrative, and becomes so convoluded at times that you literally have to turn the book upside down to read it. Has anyone else read this book? ------------- http://www.myspace.com/altaic" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/altaic ALTAIC "Oceans Down You'll Lie" coming soon |
Posted By: Throgh
Date Posted: September 26 2005 at 03:29
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Henry Kuttner (stories about Hogben's Family - I can't remember title)
Stainslaw Lem Kurt Vonnegut Franz Kafka Strugacki bros Bulkhakow Michail Tibor Dery William Wharton Jules Verne George Wells Joseph Heller (paragraph 22) Bhagavad Gita enough for now ------------- don't worry be happy |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: September 26 2005 at 04:05
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as for completely insane books, go for the "Codex Seraphinianius" by Luigi Serafini: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: September 26 2005 at 05:16
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^ Thanks for the tip, Jean As for me... I can't think of any books that haven't influenced me to a certain degree (except the ones I was supposed to study from ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: September 26 2005 at 05:25
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william blake's writing & illustrations colin wilson- outsider hindu mythology robert svoboda- aghora series j.d.salinger-catcher in the rye |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 26 2005 at 05:46
YES.That book reminds me of a bad acid trip I had when I was a teenager. ------------- |
Posted By: Tholomyes
Date Posted: September 27 2005 at 21:43
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-Franz Kafka -Charles Bukowski -G. García Márquez -Fiodor Dostoievski -Adolfo Bioy Cáceres -Arthur Rimbaud. -Julio Cortázar |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 18:51
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all sorts at different stages of my life - from wilbur smith adventures
when I was 10 and things like King Solomon's Mines and Treasure Island
to ray Bradubury in my later teens (what a beautiful writer) and
Tolkien and Stephen King and after that just all sorts really from
potboiling nonsense to the tougher stuff. At the moment I'm loving Haruki Murakami - what a wonderful writer though juts glancing at my nightstand seems I'm reading a lot of non-fiction travel history books at the moment - like Anthony Sattin's 'The Gates of Africa' (great read), Giles Milton's 'White Gold', 'The Travels of Marco Polo' and Lesley Adkins 'Empires of the Plains'. Weird how you go through these phases  Went for a quick diversion with the Harry Potter though and now ploughing through Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Norrell and Mr Strange thing - seems alright if a little studied and laboured. |
Posted By: Xanadu
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 09:19
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Classical sci-fi by Asimov and A.C.C (both already mention i think). Historical literature like Frans.G.Bengtsson's "Röde Orm" ("the longships") and various books by Olov Svedelid. Horror by Poe and one of my absolute favourites H.P Lovecraft (Call of Cthulhu, Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath etc.) Currently reading Milton's "Paradise Lost" ...heavy and facinating reading indeed...still enjoyable though. ------------- "Oh, yes, sitting-the great leveler. From the mightiest pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn't enjoy a good sit?" |