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The Tibetan Book of the Dead (The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between) 17 reviews
Bantam Books, Inc., 1993
Tibet's gift to the world, presented by Robert Thurman
+ Scholarship meets practice from a professor-adept + A thoughtful read
This book is an atlas. It is a valuable friend that will do more than save your life, it will alter your destiny beyond life as well. It is an essential guidebook for every voyager through life, death and rebirth. Inside are complete instructions to recognize every "in between state" and how to use ...
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Mosquitoes: A Novel 4 reviews William Faulkner
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1996
Is what it is.
+ Drunken artists on problematic pleasure cruise + intellectual mosquitoes get their lives by sucking others id
Mosquitoes is not what one would expect of Faulkner, which should not diminish one's enjoyment of the story. It is humorous and satirical. Absent Faulkner's typical familial, historical, and cultural baggage, his characters in Mosquitoes still agonize, which makes them interesting. Let Faulkner ...
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L.A. Woman 166 reviews The Doors
Rhino / Wea, 2007
2007 Remix L.A. Woman
+ Skip the last track + The rating is for the original mixdown + this is the one
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Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) 74 reviews Allen Ginsberg
City Lights Publishers, 2001
Great book, great price
+ Ginsberg the 'greatest'?.. hmmm + Seeking Jazz or S*x or Soup + Howl, And Other Pocket Poems + Amazing
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Alice's Restaurant 28 reviews Arlo Guthrie
Warner Bros / Wea, 1990
Did you come to get what they really want at Alice's restaurant?
+ Savouring a Classic + The original Arlo. + Not proud, or tired + Arlo is bigger than a rock star
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Ulysses 395 reviews James Joyce
Vintage, 1990
Ten Reasons to Re-read Ulysses
+ Amazon Recommends I: James Joyce's Ulysses + Mount Everest for Readers
1. When you tried it in college, it was a task, a challenge, an intellectual mountain to climb, a test of your literary mettle. Perhaps if you read it apart from any course, as I did, you felt you failed.
2. In the intervening time you've read perhaps hundreds of Modernist and post-modernist ...
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Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors 80 reviews John Densmore
Delta, 1991
A drum roll for Densmore
+ Kay London
Excellent work by Densmore in this candid biography. You not only gets under the skin of the author, but also gets an excellent account of the day-to-day ups and downs of one of the greatest rock bands of all time. Densmore is as good a writer as he is a drummer. An important document that you ...
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Reflections in a Golden Eye 19 reviews Carson McCullers
Mariner Books, 2000
A Strange but Effective Story
+ Compelling drama, but oddly cold + A Desultory Battle For Consciousness In The Deep South + maybe mcculler's best + The Poetry of Menace
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The Best of the Doors 201 reviews The Doors
Rhino / Wea, 2006
Flawless classic rock art
+ Riding On The Storm ~ Activating The Libidinal Forces Within The Mystical, Musical Body + Oozing The Morrison + The Best Of The Doors right here!
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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Perennial Classics) 61 reviews Aldous Huxley
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004
Politically Incorrect, Yet Spiritually Relevant
+ An Exit through the Chemical Door in the Wall + The light of Eternity + A Classic
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Remember, Be Here Now 102 reviews Ram Dass
Hanuman Foundation, 1978
Still current
+ Cracks Through Reality + A Must Read + Ram Dass in Hawaii
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Childhood's End 287 reviews Arthur C. Clarke
Del Rey, 1987
A true classic
+ Moving Sci-Fi work + A feel-good doomsday scenario
Old fashion Sci-Fi by one of the titans of the genre, Childhood's End keeps you guessing. It's not the typical story about aliens coming to earth and dominating man you might be expecting. It delves into the deeper issues of mankind's future and place in the universe with an interesting array of ...
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Advertisements for Myself 6 reviews Norman Mailer
Harvard University Press, 2005
I read it ten times in the 1960s. Tenth time was best!
+ Fascinating book, nothing quite like it + Fantastic, grotesque, extraordinary book. + Advertisements for Myself
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The Worst of Jefferson Airplane 9 reviews Jefferson Airplane
RCA, 2006
Artistic and Ground-Breaking
+ A bunch of renegade rockers! + Good For Someone Who Wants To Get Into Jefferson Airplane + DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE 'TITLE' + Worst Of Jefferson Airplane
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Alice's Restaurant 49 reviews Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn
MGM (Video & DVD), 2001
A memory of idealism & shadows
+ Visionary about our future of their past + Grand Old Flick + Alice;s Restaurant
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The Waste Land and Other Poems 20 reviews T. S. Eliot
Harvest Books, 1955
Greatest Poet of the Century
+ Undead City + a good edition of Eliot for the casual reader
I think perhaps the wasteland has been to long interpeted as a lament, our a lecture, or even a statement about disillusioment. To me it seems to be the story of a non commital spiritualist lingering on the edge Nihilism, confused in pain and feeling empty as if no philosophy has prover ...
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The Subterraneans 41 reviews Jack Kerouac
Grove Press, 1994
A Great Work by Kerouac
+ Just A Good Little Book
The Subterraneans is a wonderfully written masterpiece. Having finished it, I can hardly bring myself to read any other author because the images are not as fresh. Kerouac paints a picture, or rather opens a window, to allow the modern reader to view what it was in the Beat generation. Written from ...
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 134 reviews Tom Wolfe
Bantam, 1999
Interesting and well-written
+ Good, better if you have read "On The Road First" + Fascinating to contemplate
Tom Wolfe takes us through part of the acid-movement of the 60's with Ken Kesey (author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") and company as they embark on their journey across America to popularize acid. Wolfe writes in a way that sort of makes you feel that you are on acid too. His writing ...
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The Great Gatsby 1123 reviews F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1999
As American as apple pie...
+ What Can I Add? + The Summer of '22 + The Great Gatsby + An intimate, touching story that deserves its praise while still being thoroughly relevant despite its age; a solid "A"
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Perception (6CD/6DVD, Boxset) 46 reviews The Doors
Rhino / Wea, 2006
DVDs have DVD-Audio 5.1 96/24
+ Great box set + Break on through........................................ + dvd audio must have + Doors never sounded as good
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