There's a decent little hardboiled detective novel called Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg that deals with a Satanic Cult. It was made into an equally decent movie in 1987 called Angel Heart, but with the setting moved from New York to New Orleans. Your best bet is to try used bookstores or order it online because this book is out of print.

Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly is a good book for mind control and can be pretty trippy at times, definitely took me more than one read to fully get everything.

For human experimentation I'd recommend Stuart B. MacBride's novel Halfhead which deals with a society that surgically mutilates and lobotomizses their convicted criminals, and then sends them out to do menial tasks in the community. It was okay for one of those pulp fiction, "read on the bus" kind of books that doesn't require a lot of thought and doesn't enrich you, but is perfectly harmless.

As for books on mass suicides... I think your best bet would be a non-fiction book on Jonestown Massacre.

Thank you!

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So far it's ****ing excellent. I like this book the best so far I think. So much unraveling!

Just bought the first three Discworld books, so I'm gonna be reading those soon. Love fantasy, love Douglass Adams, so this was a no-brainer. I gotta say, these books have some of the best covers I've ever seen.

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How far into it are you?

Lord of the rings with a touch of peter pan, sounds interesting. The covers are pretty whimsical.

These look interesting. I agree, those are some pretty badass covers.

More like Lord of the Rings mixed with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's a series that sort of lovingly parodies fantasy.

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The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Basically it's an examination of various cultures' mythic tales of heroism and finding a common theme between them all, and then exploring that theme. I got interested in the subject after watching a brief summation of the thesis a few weeks back in relation to the PSN game Journey and am curious how much of this relates to my current Skyrim character.

I just re-read Les Claypool's book, South of the Pumphouse, for the first time since around when it came out:

https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/im...KKSnuyL0gN2-yw

Kind of reads like a John Steinbeck, Cannery Row style... and Les' setting is only a short car ride north, in the east Bay Area.

Moving on to re-read one of my other favorite bass player's books...
Victor Wooten's "The Music Lesson"

https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/im...dfA01oodmgamZw

Which reads a bit more like a Carlos Castaneda written Don Juan spiritual journey type. Very excited to re-read it as a friend of mine had borrowed it 6 months ago after I finished and I finally got it back!