Books to read while high.

[wayoftheleaf]

Iv'e found that I can read any book stoned. But some books in particular leap out when you are you high. I suggest:

The Wheel of Time Series

The Dark Tower Series


I read both of those over and over again when I am stoned. Anyone else have any suggestions on books to read while high? Or any online books to read high with links?

[rebgirl420]

Im a big Anne Rice fan myself. I actually wrote to her when I had cancer and she had her personal assistent call me and she sent me a hand written letter and a book with her autograph in it.

Oh and I just finished up The Zombie Survival Guide. But I likereading about random topics like real life reads like Lochness monster stuff or ghost stuff.

[wayoftheleaf]

FanFiction.Net - Unleash Your Imagination (http://www.fanfiction.net) has some good stuff on it.

[rebgirl420]

Ever read "Until We have Faces"? Its based on mythology. Amazing book. Its bye C.S. Lewis

[wayoftheleaf]

Hmm no I havn't i'll check it out. I really like to read robert Frost when i'm high. he wrote some amazing poetry.

[rebgirl420]

Poetry was never my thing. It just reminds me of a bunch of pretencious crap. Well not all of it but theres always those emo kids writing poetry who always want you to read it. It just pisses me off.

[wayoftheleaf]

lol emo kids annoy me almost as much as straight edgers.

There are so many of them in my school.

[BUZz UK]

Poetry was never my thing. It just reminds me of a bunch of pretencious crap.

lmao, cultured...

[wayoftheleaf]

meh, it isn't for everyone. poetry is near lost on this generation i believe though. Reading in general seems to be.

[stinkyattic]

Anything by Douglas Adams or Tom Robbins

[Purple Banana]

This may sound odd, but children's books- especially with great illustrations. I'm thinking Stephen Kellogg, Eric Carle, Linda Bronson...

Some of these books are beautifully detailed, and it's really a great pleasure to read them.

[wholapola]

I heard Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill is pretty good.

[stinkyattic]

Banana, I hear you about illustration.
I LOVE reading old Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, and Doonesbury comics stoned right before bed.

[delusionsofNORMALity]

though the escapism of any fantasy is great when high, i especially like to reread the early books from zelazny's amber series. for poetry, try a bit of byron.

[couch-potato]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I cannot comprehend how much ass this novel kicks. Neither can you. It is futile to even try.

IT WAS ON A dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless... thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

I just finished the book last night, and I am 110% satisfied. It was like being in a blunt session with Roger Waters, Jerry Garcia, and Jimi Hendrix. Only good things can come from reading this book. Buy it. Now.

[nightlight]

Anything by Douglas Adams or Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins all the way. espeically still life with woodpecker. i find alan watts ends up making a whole bunch more sense when i read it stoned.

[wayoftheleaf]

I wanna reread the hatchet novels by gary paulson stoned. i read them when I was younger and really liked em.

[Jizzle Blizzle420]

Iv'e found that I can read any book stoned. But some books in particular leap out when you are you high. I suggest:

The Wheel of Time Series

The Dark Tower Series


I read both of those over and over again when I am stoned. Anyone else have any suggestions on books to read while high? Or any online books to read high with links?

The Dark Tower Series changed me life lol.

[partyguy420]

try midnight train... i havent read it while stoned... but i read it in jail... its about a guy who gose to jail for like life because he was smugeling hashish threw turkey(apperently its a major offence in turkey, like some people get killed for having like 3 grams of weed... befor you say america has shity drug laws... try the turkey laws...)

[BizzleLuvin]

"The Doors Of Perception" and "Heaven and Hell" By Aldous Huxley.


the doors of perception is an excellent book...


i like to read marx and engels socialist theory while high, my anthro textbook is actually a good one too. also the cronicles of narnia and nancy drew series....books of my childhood revisited

[onequestion]

"The Doors Of Perception" and "Heaven and Hell" By Aldous Huxley.

I am actually reading A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley right now, it actually reminds me of the wanting seed by anthony burgess. I have never read an actual book high. Should I give it a go with a brave new world? I never thought that weed and books would mix so I never tried it and i dont wanna waste my high as im short on weed right now. I do love to read comic books while im high though. The watchmen was awesome while I was high, the artwork was awesome and the philosophical shit got my high brain going.

And rebgirl, how is the zombie survival guide, I recently found the last copy at barnes and nobles and hid it in the accounting section where nobody will touch it. Im thinking about picking that up.

[higher4hockey]

stinky~ calvin and hobbes rules all.


try 'running with scissors' by augusten burroughs

[zzBrianzz]

am I wrong in saying that all music is a form of poetry? It's just a way of expressing emotion. I never recognized that until I heard some poet sing one of his poems in one of my english classes. Same thing. Think about it. The reason nobody likes it anymore (poetry) is that we have to fucking analyze that shit in school and break it down like a shitty book. By itself though, there's some interesting stuff out there...well...I mean, there was some great stuff out there.

[ghosty]

Anything by Chuck Palahniuk, harry potter books, graffitti world collected by nicholas ganz, do androids dream of electric sheep? (aka blade runner), the medusa file by craig roberts, south of the pumphouse by les claypool... etc..

[onequestion]

Blade runner is one of my favorite films. Is the book good? Is it different?

[ghosty]

yeah the book is good, read it before i saw the film actually... if i recall there are a few differences

[Quinn The Eskimo]

Oh dude the Dark Tower series has changed the way I think a lot. It is by far stephen kings best work.

[rebgirl420]

^ I have to disagree, The Stand has to be my fave King book

[cobracommander1079]

Trust me, look into any book by Charles Bukowski. The man was a drunk, a gambler, a womanizier, a disgruntled mail-man etc.(not that I'm advocating these things). But it does make for some great reading !!! Do a google search on him

[onequestion]

My favorite stephen king is the shining, but then again i have a major boner for Kubrick films and have never read dark tower.

[yoda]

the harry potter series!

dan brown's da vinci code(reading angels and demons now)

[MyMARYJANE]

fear and loathing in las vegas :hippy:

[onequestion]

How could dark tower change the way you think? ISnt it supposed to be like lord of the rings meets good the bad and the ugly?

[pixel]

none, i cant read books high... but sober Vonnegut is mind boggling and so is Isaac Asimov, both are great writers... or as suggested the new stuff its more mild and good to read buzzed like harry potter, angels and demons and davinci code

btw dan brown is making a new book called The Solomon Key about The Freemasons... I can't wait to read it

[suhl]

^ I have to disagree, The Stand has to be my fave King book

we have a winnah! stand beats dark tower any day of the week, even sundays. i love dark tower, but the post accident dt books just werent up to snuff. although i can see lliking dark tower better. storywise they were about on par i think, but i loved just about every character in the stand and hated all but the main character in dark tower.

kings best piece of pure writing is the gunslinger, his best book is the stand, and my favorite book he has written is eyes of the dragon.

dark tower and stand fans check out eyes of the dragon. it is a really easy read to be finished in a few days and it has flagg, probably the best character king every made.

and guy who said how could the dark tower change the way you think, if you hadnt read it, dont ask, because even though it didnt change how i think, you have no frame of reference and people arent going to be able to explain that to you.

[Quinn The Eskimo]

^ I have to disagree, The Stand has to be my fave King book

The stand is great, but the Dark Tower was esentially what all of his books were leading up to. He incorporated a lot of characters from his other books and used them to create his "lord of the rings", a series to rule them all lol. I haven't finished the stand yet, but I really like it so far.

[Quinn The Eskimo]

How could dark tower change the way you think? ISnt it supposed to be like lord of the rings meets good the bad and the ugly?

Well one of the ways it can change how you think is on the subject of reaching your goals and its consequences. One of the things the Dark Tower series taught me was that when you give up what you love to reach your goals, reaching your goals isn't as great as what you sacrificed. It made me realize that I would never sell out my humanity to reach my goals. :thumbsup:

[Jizzle Blizzle420]

^ I have to disagree, The Stand has to be my fave King book

The stand was a great book. Have you read the Dark Tower series?

[suhl]

dark tower was good, but if y ou have read man yother epics you might not have such a fond opinion of it. lets get several things straight. also, if you havent read the books stop reading this post now. either i dont want to spoil it for you or if you dont want to read the books you are wasting your time. first of all, the last three(post getting hit by car) books were where the flaws really began. although i will say i liked five quite a lot and seven up until the cop out bad ending. 1. the callah speak thing got really old. it was fine in five, but carrying it through another 1500 pages was overkill. this leads me to the broader problem with the last three. he wrote them all three as one big book then split them up. consequently if y ou ask me he only really wrote 2 last books split them into three. book 6 was nothing more than a bridge, an awful book if read by itself(and believe me i wouldnt say that about any of the other books). really i just didnt like how obvious it was that all three of the last books were written at the same time. in most epics this wouldnt be a complaint of mine as of course it is one long story, but the thing about all the other dark tower books was they had an avg of something like 7-8 years between them, so the writing was different in all but the story remained in line and strong. writing the last three all at once killed that. 2. king should not have written himself into the book. spin it how you want, it was a stupid mistake. 3. there was way too much build up to the crimson king for how anticlimactic and stupid the final battle was. he was a lunatic sitting on a balcony with harry potter quidditch weapons? king i expect better from you. 4. if you were going to make the second ending so bad and pointless, you shouldnt have made it at all. im sorry but having it be a cycle was utter crap. i personally didnt see a big problem with the just ending it with him walking up to the tower. at least there i could interpret what i wanted for an ending rather than just not get one at all..

however, the series was great overall, although personally as epics go i think song of ice and fire by george rr martin kills it, though the first not so good book of that series has finally happened.

the thing i love about the dark tower is how it connects to all his other books. my other problem with the newer ones is these connections began to get WAY too deliberate and that made them less special to me.

here is the order of best to worst dark tower books

1
3
4
7
5
2
6

[rebgirl420]

The stand is great, but the Dark Tower was esentially what all of his books were leading up to. He incorporated a lot of characters from his other books and used them to create his "lord of the rings", a series to rule them all lol. I haven't finished the stand yet, but I really like it so far.

Ive never read them but my Dad has them. When I was younger he got me into King. But now that you explain it it sounds awsome.

[Breukelen advocaat]

Trust me, look into any book by Charles Bukowski. The man was a drunk, a gambler, a womanizier, a disgruntled mail-man etc.(not that I'm advocating these things). But it does make for some great reading !!! Do a google search on him

Yeah, Bukowski was great. Post Office, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, etc., are very funny, and often even sensitive. A friend of mine went to one of his readings, and Bukowski drank a six pack while doing it - without even bothering to unattach the beer cans from the plastic that held them together. As you probably know, there are several films based on his writings. I always felt that the best actor to play him would have been Lee Marvin, himself being a heavy driniker and all-round tough customer.

[trippy bong smoke]

the harry potter series!

dan brown's da vinci code(reading angels and demons now)

YES! I loved both the da Vinci code AND Angels and Demons, but A&D was my favorite of the two. I don't know why exactly; I can't quite put my finger on it... but I just like A&D better.

Anyway, lol... I LOVE Dean Koontz books, since I love thriller/suspense books, Stephen King, Laurel K Hamilton, Anne Rice, the Harry Potter books,"Behind the Paint" (ICP book<3), James Patterson... :) the list goes on... I LOVE reading and some people make fun, but I don't care. Reading is good for ya :)

[partyguy420]

the harry potter series!

dan brown's da vinci code(reading angels and demons now)

i heard angels and demons isnt as good... but i read da vinci code when i was in the slamer... and was going to read angels and demons but my homie didnt read it fast enough... and i got out like the day he finished reading it...

[SomeGuy]

Wow...that a good list..how about
All the Sherlock Holmes Book
Dune Series
Pendergast Detective Series

[chaliceburn]

"Ringworld" series By Niven, The Integral Trees was some trippy shit.

Bernard Shaw, I've been meaning to read some more of him, his wit seems amazingly modern.

All time favorite - a novella, The Death Of Doctor Island, by Gene Wolfe, not to be confused with the Island of Doctor Death or the other two similar titles found in the compilation of four that its in, with the big skull on the cover. Angst ridden teens would love the empathy you gain for the odd protagonist and his hatred of the cruelty of the world so beautifully expressed.

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a clean bong is a sign of a sound mind

[Maggz]

Goosebumps

[cobracommander1079]

Keith Richards (Rolling Stones, well known drug-user) just signed a deal for over $7million for the rights to publish his autobiography. His #1 objective when negotiating with publishing companies was to beat Eric Claptons $5 million dollar autobiography book deal. Looks like Kieth got over 2 million more!! Congradulations Mr. Richards!! I think a nice donation 2 NORML (or a different reform group) is in order,-cosidering there might be 1 or 2 drug oriented stories in your auto/bio. Regardless this book is a MUST READ (even though it's not even out yet)!!

[Jim M]

On the road - Jack Kerouac
Fantastic book, read it over and over while i'm smokin...
Ne thing by George Orwell too (1984 being my favourite anyone who hasnt read it really should...) Brilliant

[4twentE]

fear and loathing in las vegas :hippy:

Or anything else by Hunter Thompson. I just finished Kingdom of Fear.

[Snake2389]

you should check out Napalm & Silly Putty by George Carlin, good book, just finished it.

[Quinn The Eskimo]

Ive never read them but my Dad has them. When I was younger he got me into King. But now that you explain it it sounds awsome.

It is very awesome lol

[Reefer Rogue]

The Bible.

[TheHighestCrew]

A trippy book that I read while stoned was Dead Air. I forget the author but its based on a true story of this weird ass cult. I like mostly mystery..a little fiction.

[SmokiNomad]

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

[Austoka]

"If on a winter's night a traveler" published in 1979 by Italo Calvino

Very good book to read when stoned, or not stoned.

has anyone else had a chance to read it ?

[Spoken Word]

Charles Bukowski and John Fante have a certian direct language that's a pleasure to read when stoned...Fante comes from a propaganda-filled time, so he's somewhat ignorant when it comes to weed. John Fante's character Bandini- his muse/love smokes pot in Ask The Dust.........
But Charles Bukowski's alter-ego Henry Chinaski smokes pot all the time.....

they're both really good reads, I think.

[Kai as a kite]

you should check out Napalm & Silly Putty by George Carlin, good book, just finished it.

Interesting, didn't think I'd find that on here. Anything written by George Carlin tends to be good. I like how I can hear him doing his stand-up in my head just by reading his books.

I'd like to take this time to honor the teachers of my public schooling, who mandated that I read the following books that I ended up liking:
-1984 (George Orwell)
-Anthem (Ayn Rand)
-Heart of Dankness (Joseph Conrad)

I just tried googling the first book I'd ever read, but couldn't remember the title. Something about an ugly panda that doesn't quite fit in with society for some reason. I guess it's like The Ugly Duckling, but slightly altered so Asian kids like me could relate to it. Also, someone told me about a book that was written by some psychedelic enthusiast in a few days. After he finished writing it, he re-arranged the pages in a different order, and that's how it was published. Does that sound familar to anyone?