[geneva_sativa]

If you can find a copy and have not read it yet, Milagro Beanfield War,

really fun book, also found myself laughing out loud many times.

He takes time building it up, but once it kicks in, is really a whirlwind, you feel you are right there with them

[_tessarecting]

I can't ever stop reading I'm right up there with you DickAnubis in frequency.
My favorite so far this year: The Magus by John Fowles

Light in August by William Faulkner
Shadow country - Peter Mathiesson
^good southern US fiction

The snow leopard - Peter Mathiesson - loved this one so much I read it twice. Can't recommend it enough. The quote by Carl Jung sent shivers up my spine...head exploded and all that. The descriptions of the sherpas and porters I try to remember daily.

I love Burroughs as a writer the cut up method is fun to read and write with. Sometimes there's just no other way to describe it. I read Nova Express recently and think this one is my favorite of his. Remember I was carbon dioxide, meester william...

[Hermanthegerman]

I am a reader also, in the moment I´ve got holidays and startet yesterday "World War Z" from Max Brooks, it´s better than the movie, completly different. A quick read.
Just finished "Cartel" from Don Winslow, I like Don Winslow!
Sometimes I read philosphers, last one was Schopenhauer, don´t know the english title it was about the human ages and "stages".

Godthanks that I was born in a time where reading was noting special. (Don´t know how to say better.)

My most favored writer is Ernst Juenger, he was the highest decorated soldier in the 1st world war in Germany, wounded more than a dozend times. Friend of Albert Hoffman who invented LSD. He was 104 years as he died 1998.

My Little Juenger collection

[Hermanthegerman]

If my house is on fire, after saving the Juenger books, second i would save my Walter Kempowski "Echolot" books.

From wiki,:

In 2005 he finished his enormous oeuvre Das Echolot, a collection and collage of documents by people of any kind living in the circumstances of war. Das Echolot consists of thousands of personal documents, letters, newspaper reports, and unpublished autobiographies that had been collected by the author over a period of more than twenty years. The documents are now deposited in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. Das Echolot was partially translated into English under the title Swansong.

[sprinkl]

The only book I managed to finish in the last 10 years is Crapule De Luxe, from an ex-military officer that throws a different light on several stories. Reads like a factual thriller. Some would call it conspiracy theories, but I'm sure there's more truth in it than the official versions. I've been looking but it seems like it hasn't been translated in English yet. If you ever learn Dutch do read this one

Currently trying to get through "Ham on rye" by C. Bukowski.
Next in line is 1984 by G. Orwell.

[Jahnice]

Originally Posted by sprinkl

Currently trying to get through "Ham on rye" by C. Bukowski.
Next in line is 1984 by G. Orwell.

1984 was required reading for me and i am really glad about that.
still one of my favourite books with concepts that will haunt you when you realize that they are real.


nice book shelves Herman-dont forget to save your wife in the fire too

[Hermanthegerman]

My wifes saves me in cases of fire I am sure :-)


My favorite was not 1984, mine was 1985 from Anthony Burgess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_(..._Burgess_novel)

[kaochiu]

This one is a gem, what you call an unique book. It was written a couple hundred years ago, but it could be written in a couple hundred years ahead. The author, Jan Potocki, would be a character himself, google him up if interested.
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.
More than just a reading, a true experience.

[Zapadra]

John Fante is one of my favourite authors, along with Bukowski and Burroughs. Burroughs' Cities of the Red Night was great, as well as Wild Boys. Some of his best IMO.

[lekkerlikker]

I got all the 3 big books of buds, the 6 cannabis sativa/indica books from S.T. oner, the cannabible, Dank and the cannabis encyclopedia from Cervantes. Dank 2.0 is in the pipeline.