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 ...
  
  











  



  
Mosquitoes: A Novel4 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 ...
  
  











  



  
L.A. Woman166 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
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
Alice's Restaurant28 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
  
  











  



  
Ulysses395 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 ...
  
  











  



  
Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors80 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 ...
  
  











  



  
Reflections in a Golden Eye19 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
  
  











  



  
The Best of the Doors201 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!
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
Remember, Be Here Now102 reviews
Ram Dass

Hanuman Foundation, 1978

Still current

+ Cracks Through Reality
+ A Must Read
+ Ram Dass in Hawaii
  
  











  



  
Childhood's End287 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 ...
  
  











  



  
Advertisements for Myself6 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
  
  











  



  
The Worst of Jefferson Airplane9 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
  
  











  



  
Alice's Restaurant49 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
  
  











  



  
The Waste Land and Other Poems20 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 ...
  
  











  



  
The Subterraneans41 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 ...
  
  











  



  
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test134 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 ...
  
  











  



  
The Great Gatsby1123 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"
  
  











  



  
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