The Book Thread - What You're Reading & Everything Book Related

[GET MO]

Power of Now. Ekhart Tolle. Second read. Best philosophy book ive read.

 

[bigpeter]

Snowblind, a brief career in the cocaine trade by Robert Sabbag. is a non-fiction account about a character named Zachary Swan who smuggled cocaine from Colombia into the US. I read this a long time ago and remember really enjoying it.

 

[Green Squall]

Snowblind, a brief career in the cocaine trade by Robert Sabbag. is a non-fiction account about a character named Zachary Swan who smuggled cocaine from Colombia into the US. I read this a long time ago and remember really enjoying it.

You might like the book Marching Powder by Rusty Young. Its about a British guy who was caught at the La Paz airport with 5 kilos of cocaine and his time in prison. He ended up giving illegal tours of the place to curious tourists by bribing guards.

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Reading Stash by Grant Cameron. I thought it was another book on the hippie trail, but it turned out to be a novel about a group of friends smuggling hashish out of Morocco. Pretty good so far.

 

[Green Squall]

The Horatio Hornblower Series: Lieutenant Hornblower

 

[wutwut]

the egyptian sinuhe

 

[pop_rocks]

Snowblind, a brief career in the cocaine trade by Robert Sabbag. is a non-fiction account about a character named Zachary Swan who smuggled cocaine from Colombia into the US. I read this a long time ago and remember really enjoying it.

if you enjoy this subject matter, thai stick is a good read

 

[Hermanthegerman]

the egyptian sinuhe

Wow, I read it before 40 years!

 

[theclearspot]

‘Golden Earth’ by Norman Lewis. British Travel writing from early 1950s in Burma; brilliant urbane wit set in the years of Burmas military junta, communists in the jungles. Up there with Paul Theroux.

 

[GOT_BUD?]

The War On Poor People by Andrew Yang.

 

[Green Squall]

Devolution by Max Brooks (the guy who wrote World War Z)

 

[St. Phatty]

Got Michael Connelly, "Fair Warning", just sitting there.

Bought it for Jury Duty, then managed to get that postponed for 6 months.

I doubt I will end up sitting on a jury.

 

[aridbud]

Reading BLACK LIKE ME, John Howard Griffin. Was required reading in 7th grade (amid post -WATTS riots)....interesting, thought provoking read after 50 some years.

 

[Chi13]

How to Change Your Mind; The New Science of Psychadelics.
Michael Pollan.
and
The Psychadelic Explorers Guide; Safe Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys.
James Fadiman.

There's a theme here.

 

[wutwut]

ordered The Etruscan and The Dark Angel by Mika Waltari

 

[DanTheReggaeFan]

How to Change Your Mind; The New Science of Psychadelics.
Michael Pollan.
and
The Psychadelic Explorers Guide; Safe Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys.
James Fadiman.

There's a theme here.

The psychedelic explorers guide is a great book. How's the other one so far? Worth a read?

 

[GET MO]

Reading autobiography of steve jobs. Pretty interesting so far. Didnt know acid played such a crucial roll in his work.

 

[bobfily]

I like ancient philosophy and Roman law. I recently found a cool overview of the aphorisms https://freebooksummary.com/category...ry-of-the-cave of the ancient philosophers. I became interested to learn about the duality of words and the Greek philosophers talk about it. The word death meant the cessation of bodily existence, but the Stoics believed in the soul and the eclipse of the mind.

 

[davers]

i also like to read many books in pdf format. From time to time I transform paper books into pdf with helping camera pdf scanner and extract any text from scanned documents with OCR App also can easily process pictures with color & perspective correction.

 

[Frosty Nuggets]

The Most Dangerous Superstition by Larken Rose.

 

[GET MO]

The 5am club. Kinda corny story but great value for anyone who wants to try the methods.