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Originally Posted by hate paper doll
The Fountainhead
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this makes me sad
i just don;t see how you can have someone like Herbert Selby Jr and that tart Ayn Rand in the same list
although i will be honest....i have never read The Fountainhead....but i did read Atlas Shrugged....and i will say that she was a very good writer
but to counter the Objectivism....
first and foremost please read
The Illuminatus! Trilogy.....not only is this book a backlash to neo conservative ideals....but it has talking dolphins....and a giant naked woman....and an army of dead Nazi's....and EVERYBODY in it is on more drugs than those cats at Woodstock!
plus it really is a wonderful satire while also being a wonderful book about why life should only be for the living
also
Journey to the Center of Night and
Death on the Installment Plan
Céline is truly a personal hero of mine.....don't like the way i write....blame him
existential nihilism explained perfectly
reading his books is like having a drunk, bitter old man yell at you inside your head
a quote to get you going
“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
The Sheltering Sky
if you like any underground music from the 70s-present...you should probably give a nod to Paul Bowles
everything i've ever read by him is full of amazing lucid landscapes coupled with the one thing we as humans all share...existential despair
i can honestly say that The Sheltering Sky is one of my all time favorite books ...and i try to give a copy of it to everyone who is interested
The Book of the Law
Thelema is not for everyone.....but i think everyone should know about it....and understand what it is....the Book of the Law and maybe The Book of Lies will give you a full understanding of just what Gnosticism is
Howl
Ginsberg really knew his sh
it and i't amazing how every f
ucking word in this book is as relevant as it was when City Lights first printed it....or maybe it's sad
The Function of the Orgasm
Reich would be another hero of mine....
the man was seriously onto something when the American government arrested him and all copies of his books burned in 1956....simply for trying to heal the Earth and everything on it
this book really is the basis for all of his work
i also suggest
The Mass Psychology of Fascism....as it really is as relevant as it is when he wrote it....
funny....one of the first books on Hitler's to burn list was The Mass Psychology of Fascism and the last major book burning conducted by the United States government was anything he ever wrote
ever heard the song by Kate Bush called Cloudbusting?
that song is about Reich's arrest told from the point of view of his son Peter