[Turkish Gold]

Mr. Nice is a great read, very entertaining book.

[Forest20]

I know i sound any an act like a kid but a well written book is Kingdom Come -- Elliot S. Maggin (based on a story by Mark Waid, Alex Ross)
it about what happens to our favorite DC super heros in the future it makes a mirror image of how even the great fall.

[lesterlong]

just starting "into the wild" by jon krakuer

i've read "into thin air" and it was great

[Harry Gypsna]

any1 read nething by Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read, australian crime figure, known as a "toe cutter" for the methods used to torture drug dealers in2 tellin him where their money is. all his books are gr8, hes very funny, intelligent man, with surprisingly, a soft heart for the right person, when he describes some of the situations he been in, it hilarious, to see him talking about a fight in which ppl died, as if it is a marx bros movie, good books, shame hes doin life

[Wild Finn]

Jerry Cotton :I

[BridesNightie]

He aint doing life dude, he's doing talk shows. Or at least he was a couple of years back.
I think he still hangs out in his old haunts in Melbourne, Victoria.
The problem with living the life is that if it doesn't kill you there's not much else that lives up to it afterwards.

You might like Robert G Barrett too uk1 - another aussie jingoist, though I think he's more of a detective-type, based in Sydney I think. Pretty funny none the less.

cheers, bn

Hello all readers and readers

When I am stoned, I like to read. And because I like to smoke good stuff, I like to read good stuff, right? So, I guess it shouldn't be wrong to share experiences and recomendations for some good reading stuff for stoner.

I dont know how this theard will evole, but i guess we should write at least the title of the book Now seriusly, Title, Author, what is going on in the book, few words, maybe a quote from it? This doesnt mean that only english books are alowed to be written about. There are translations, right?

So let me start with current reading, that was shown (and maybe reccomended) to me by Growdoc.

The man you all know: Mr. Nice: An Autobiography

Editorial Reviews

Book Description
During the mid-'80s Howard Marks had forty-three aliases and eighty-nine phone lines, and he owned twenty-five companies trading throughout the world. Bars, recording studios, offshore banks -- all were money-laundering vehicles serving the core business: dope dealing. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuana and had contact with organizations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA, and the Mafia. Following a worldwide operation by the DEA, he was busted and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. With pages of photographs, and told with humor, charm, and candor, Mr Nice is his own extraordinary story. Mr Nice has been one of the biggest-selling memoirs in Britain in recent memory, topping both the Sunday Times hardcover and paperback best-seller lists. Also translated into eight languages, this edition offers American readers the first-ever opportunity to read this riveting book. "Frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal." -- GQ "Only the Welsh could have produced ... Howard Marks.... In or out of handcuffs, he is always welcome in my home." -- Robert Sabbag, author of Snowblind "A folk legend ... Howard Marks has huge charisma. He sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone." -- Daily Mail (London) "Marks weaves a fascinating story spiced with brilliant detail, far stronger than fiction."



https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846

Curently at page 47/466.
Firstly it talks about him getting out of jail on April 95. In the next chapter it talks about his young life and fist contact to cannabis:


He had recently returned from his voyages of discovery and was about to visit, presumably illegally, his friends at Oxford. I was invited to meet him. Denys had brought with him some marijuana in the form of kif from Morocco. Up to that point I had heard the odd whisper of drugs being taken at the university and was aware that marijuana was popular with British West Indian communities, jaz entusiasts, American beatniks, and the modern intellectual wawe of Angry Young Men. I had no idea of marijuana's effects, however, and, with a great deal of entusiastic intereset, I accepted the joint that Denys offerd me and took my first few puffs. The effects were suprisingly mild but quite long-lasting. After just a couple of minutes, I started having a sensation askin to butterflys in the stomatch but without the customary feeling of trepidation. This led to a desire to laug followed by my interpreting most of the conversations as amusing enough to me to do so...



So, what sould be my next read?

What a great idea for a thread! I'm always wandering the book store for hours on end looking for just the right book, no longer shall this be. So anyway it looks like i'll be heading up to B&N fairly shortly to pick up the autobiography of Mr.Nice, This sounds very interesting and I'll let you know what I think when i'm done.

Now to you Agnes and any other IC'ers out there reading this now, I recommend the book, Into The Wild
by Jon Krakauer.


https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...16156?v=glance

It's a fairly quick read but one that will fascinate you even years after reading thru it. Here is a description.....

"After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive, apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, Va., who self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to nature. Krakauer, a contributing editor to Outside and Men's Journal, retraces McCandless's ill-fated antagonism toward his father, Walt, an eminent aerospace engineer. Krakauer also draws parallels to his own reckless youthful exploit in 1977 when he climbed Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia border, partly as a symbolic act of rebellion against his autocratic father. In a moving narrative, Krakauer probes the mystery of McCandless's death, which he attributes to logistical blunders and to accidental poisoning from eating toxic seed pods."

I've read it twice, I mean the man who is focused upon in this book did exactly what I have envisioned doing my whole life, only I lack the self-motivation to do so.

The no. 1 ladies detective agency. by Alexander McCall Smith.
Its actually a series of 6 books and each one is simply delightful, funny, and charming.
Its about a black Botswanaian Lady of traditional build who opens the first ladies detective agency in Botswana.


From Publishers Weekly on amazon.com
The African-born author of more than 50 books, from children's stories (The Perfect Hamburger) to scholarly works (Forensic Aspects of Sleep), turns his talents to detection in this artful, pleasing novel about Mma (aka Precious) Ramotswe, Botswana's one and only lady private detective. A series of vignettes linked to the establishment and growth of Mma Ramotswe's "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" serve not only to entertain but to explore conditions in Botswana in a way that is both penetrating and light thanks to Smith's deft touch. Mma Ramotswe's cases come slowly and hesitantly at first: women who suspect their husbands are cheating on them; a father worried that his daughter is sneaking off to see a boy; a missing child who may have been killed by witchdoctors to make medicine; a doctor who sometimes seems highly competent and sometimes seems to know almost nothing about medicine. The desultory pace is fine, since she has only a detective manual, the frequently cited example of Agatha Christie and her instincts to guide her. Mma Ramotswe's love of Africa, her wisdom and humor, shine through these pages as she shines her own light on the problems that vex her clients. Images of this large woman driving her tiny white van or sharing a cup of bush tea with a friend or client while working a case linger pleasantly. General audiences will welcome this little gem of a book just as much if not more than mystery readers.

[GMT]

Great thread Agnes, I have the book Mr Nice, but the tapes are better with Marx telling the tale himself.
My recommendation is : Letters from Lexington - Reflections on propaganda by Noam Chomsky. It is basically a collection of short articles that he published in the LOOT magazine (Lies of our time). Most conspiracy theorists are familiar with Chomsky's work, he lives in the USA and works as a university lecturer. This is not an easy read, but is a small book filled with information that it takes an old genius a lot of indepth study to piece together. To be honest I still haven't finished it myslef, rather depressing, but for those hard core readers, it's the biz.

Or for a far more enjoyable read, the funniest book I have ever read was by Neil Gayman and Terry Pratchet, I think it was called Good Omens. About the end of the world. Hilarious stoner reading material that will hurt your stomach.