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[Harvesthetic]

Hi people,

I've noticed a grave decline in reading amongst my fellow man these days. This is a damn shame, because appreciation for books could counter the BS your television set spews out every second.

People forget to read the great works of art that make up our history of literature.
People forget that books were the only way to pass on knowledge up until eighty years ago.
Are we going to ignore/forget all of life's information before 1915?
Are we really that arrogant that only the info of the here and now counts?

Try to expand your horizon, try to get over the fact that books are deemed boring.
If you're young, try to learn to read books, and watch a little less tv.

I'm not saying tv is bad, because it can damn well educate you if you switch to the right channel, but... Ey...

Don't forget the people who wrote their pencils off for us... Their information is in no way inferior to what the Discovery Channel teaches us.

Now, here's (http://www.classicreader.com/alltitle.htm) a site on which you can read a nice collection of classic literature, for free. Print it out, learn it by heart, i don't care, but try at least. Don't forget, the iPod has a book function too in most cases.

Here's a couple of my personal favorites.



An Encounter - James Joyce (http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.343/)
Childhood - Leo Tolstoy (http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.429/)
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx (http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.2/bookid.491/)
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.1148/)
The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky (http://www.classicreader.com/alltitle.htm)

Note- This is just a selection, if you want any further suggestions on an author, or genre, just ask in this thread.

What do our fellow stoners read?

Peace, in writing, Harv

[Its a Plant]

I have noticed for a while now that most people don't read. I just like to learn about new things that interest me, so that's why I read. It's mostly Vietnam books as of now, but that will change I'm sure.

[Powder Puff]

I like the Harry Potter books!:)

[Fabolous]

I like the Harry Potter books!:)
i am with you on that... Harry Pothead all the way! :thumbsup:

[psychopixi]

Some of my books...

[Az.]

I like the Harry Potter books!:)

lmao....i was going to say the same thing....lol....when he said "what do our fellow stoners read?" i instantly thought harry potter...

tbh i always have a book that I can read if I want to.... at the moment its hitchhikers guide to the galaxy....which im reading for the first time...its good so far...

i like happry potter...steven king books....terry pratchet.....to tell you the truth ill read most books that seem interesting enough to me....i quite enjoy reading.


edit: WOO post pics of your book cases :D....brb

[Harvesthetic]

Some of my books...

:thumbsup:!

But come on guys.. Harry Potter?? :sadcrying :sadcrying :sadcrying :sadcrying

[beachguy in thongs]

I can red. I uced 2 now how 2 spel 2.

[Az.]

lol....heres my bookcase.....i do own more books but i took them out of my room cause they took up too much space.

these are the ones i read the most...

[Powder Puff]

I (my mother:p) Owns books of all sorts.. It's like the pictures you posted X 100 or more.. Not a lie just fact!:) I'm reading some of them.. :)

Reading is a nice way to seep into another world..:)


Harv, have you read any of the Harry Potter books?:)

[BaseRSX]

I read a lot! I'm about to finish "Rubicon", 50 pages left - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400078970/sr=1-1/qid=1137356810/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-0550465-7507811?%5Fencoding=UTF8
Its been great!

Next I have "See No Evil" waiting for me. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140004684X/qid=1137356868/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-0550465-7507811?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
Its the true story behind the movie "Syriana"!

[Harvesthetic]

Harv, have you read any of the Harry Potter books?:)
Yeah... The first one. I didn't like it very much, especially the commercial tidal wave it produced.
But hey, if that's gonna keep the kids reading, that's just fine :)
IMO there are a lot of different adventure stories for children that are a lot better.
(btw, the author is actually a really smart woman, she compiled things that children really like, and created a targeted series of books, that, like the tvshow Lost, are mentally addictive.)



Next I have "See No Evil" waiting for me. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/14...glance&n=283155
Its the true story behind the movie "Syriana"!
Nice! I was planning on reading it too, my uncle suggested it.

Also, the new Paul Auster books, and the new Brett Easton Ellis thrillers are great!

[Powder Puff]

True Harv, the first two books are more for the younger children and I don't like them that much either, but book 3 - 6 are AWESOME!:)

[Az.]

LOST is awsome!!!
lmfao
lol

[Whos Carl]

This is my bookcase. Well X-bookcase.

[ImStonedNILikeIt]

Hi have you ever read upton sinclairs book "The Jungle" It's kind of boring but really awesome to learn about the times in the 1900's and it takes about the meat processing places...enough to make some people go vegan. :)

Well that's enough edcuation for me folks.

[RastaKaze]

I love all books. Mostly philosophy (Ever heard of "Nausia?") incluing Jungian's work, although I always enjoy a conspiracy book ;) and have to say I am absolutely fascinated by all plants: Enthegeons, Hallucinogens, etc. and their historical uses. Information is the shit! Fill your brain with it :thumbsup: :dance:

[Roadking]

If this is so, if to read a book as it should be read calls for the rarest qualities of imagination, insight, and judgment, you may perhaps conclude that literature is a very complex art and that it is unlikely that we shall be able, even after a lifetime of reading, to make any valuable contribution to its criticism. We must remain readers; we shall not put on the further glory that belongs to those rare beings who are also critics. But still we have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal into the air and become part of the atmosphere which writers breathe as they work. And influence is created which tells upon them even if it never finds its way into print. And that influence, if it were well instructed, vigorous and individual and sincere, might be of great value now when criticism is necessarily in abeyance; when books pass in review like the procession of animals in a shooting-gallery, and the critic has only one second in which to load and aim and shoot and may well be pardoned if he mistakes rabbits for tigers, eagles for barndoor fowls, or misses altogether and wastes his shot upon some peaceful cow grazing in a further fields. If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people reading for the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

- Virginia Woolf

[Harvesthetic]

I love all books. Mostly philosophy (Ever heard of "Nausia?") incluing Jungian's work, although I always enjoy a conspiracy book ;) and have to say I am absolutely fascinated by all plants: Enthegeons, Hallucinogens, etc. and their historical uses. Information is the shit! Fill your brain with it :thumbsup: :dance:

Nausia's on the list ;)
Hey if you like psychedelics, i suggest,
DMT the spirit molecule - Rick Strassman
Terence McKenna:
The Invisible Landscape
Food of the Gods
True Hallucinations
The Archaic Revival

And the Doors of Perception, the Bible, fff i'm namedropping again :)
have fun y'all

Nice way to shut me up there Roadking, my mother once read that to me when i still lived there...

[RastaKaze]

Hehe I read the Spirit Molocule I can say I'm truly thankful I came across it, it's one of the best books I've read... Oh, and I've read all of McKenna's work too LOL... Yeah I guess you could call me a psychonaut :o

[SomeGuy]

Man i love to read... HP's cool...so is Douglas Adams (HHG..and the Dirk Gently Series). I also really like Asimov. You all should check out the Foundation series, and all 6 Dune Books by Herbert..(most people only read the first 3 for some reason...) I also really like "The Da Vince Code" and "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown... anyone else really looking forward to his next book? "The Solomon Key" is the title I think.

[SomeGuy]

by the way...it shouldnt be too hard to guess the book and author of it quoted in my sig :-p

[potsmokingnome]

I honestly think, that most true to the bone weed smokers are very well educated people. Weed spreads curiousness, truly think about it the more I smoke weed the more I wanna learn about weed. granted I haven't reasearched weed much...um yeah I'm just stonned and can't make sense of my own thoughts, to type them properly...opps

[RastaKaze]

um yeah I'm just stonned and can't make sense of my own thoughts, to type them properly...opps
You just totally fucked the first part of what you were saying LOL ;)

[Harvesthetic]

Man i love to read... HP's cool...so is Douglas Adams (HHG..and the Dirk Gently Series). I also really like Asimov. You all should check out the Foundation series, and all 6 Dune Books by Herbert..(most people only read the first 3 for some reason...) I also really like "The Da Vince Code" and "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown... anyone else really looking forward to his next book? "The Solomon Key" is the title I think.
Yeah the Da Vinci Code opened an important debate :) it's a good read, and makes you want to know more and more, props to mr. Brown :thumbsup:
By the way, the movie of the DVCode with Ian McKellen, Audrey Tatou & T. Hanks, i hope they pay tribute to the book man, ruining that would be a mortal sin :)


by the way...it shouldnt be too hard to guess the book and author of it quoted in my sig :-p
No it isn't :p


I honestly think, that most true to the bone weed smokers are very well educated people. Weed spreads curiousness, truly think about it the more I smoke weed the more I wanna learn about weed. granted I haven't reasearched weed much...um yeah I'm just stonned and can't make sense of my own thoughts, to type them properly...opps
I suggest good book, that is best read stoned, plus it's free, plus it's online :)

The Emperor Wears No Clothes (http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html)

Quote from this book:

The word "canvas" is the Dutch pronunciation (twice removed, from French and Latin) of the Greek word "Kannabis."*
Lol we have a government broadcasting station called Canvas :p

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

Dean Koontz fan here, and i read a lot on the internet... forums... lol

[SomeGuy]

I honestly think, that most true to the bone weed smokers are very well educated people. Weed spreads curiousness, truly think about it the more I smoke weed the more I wanna learn about weed. granted I haven't reasearched weed much...um yeah I'm just stonned and can't make sense of my own thoughts, to type them properly...opps

I dont want to catagorize but weed smokes are really broken down into a few groups...

1:Hates life/wants to get away/dosnt care
or

2.Has become intelligent enough to realize the lies pushed on us about weed and uses it for creativity (it makes my guitar so much more amazing and i am more creative) and socially for fun and experimentation with a diferent mental state...

yeah yeah yeah.... I know there are more...and those could be better defined...maybe into a book even...

but the gist of the people on this website would fit into that number 2 catagory

[Ganj]

Hi people,

I've noticed a grave decline in reading amongst my fellow man these days. This is a damn shame, because appreciation for books could counter the BS your television set spews out every second.

People forget to read the great works of art that make up our history of literature.
People forget that books were the only way to pass on knowledge up until eighty years ago.
Are we going to ignore/forget all of life's information before 1915?
Are we really that arrogant that only the info of the here and now counts?

Try to expand your horizon, try to get over the fact that books are deemed boring.
If you're young, try to learn to read books, and watch a little less tv.

I'm not saying tv is bad, because it can damn well educate you if you switch to the right channel, but... Ey...

Don't forget the people who wrote their pencils off for us... Their information is in no way inferior to what the Discovery Channel teaches us.

Now, here's (http://www.classicreader.com/alltitle.htm)a site on which you can read a nice collection of classic literature, for free. Print it out, learn it by heart, i don't care, but try at least. Don't forget, the iPod has a book function too in most cases.

Here's a couple of my personal favorites.



An Encounter - James Joyce (http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.343/)
Childhood - Leo Tolstoy (http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.429/)
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx (http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.2/bookid.491/)
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.1148/)
The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky (http://www.classicreader.com/alltitle.htm)

Note- This is just a selection, if you want any further suggestions on an author, or genre, just ask in this thread.

What do our fellow stoners read?

Peace, in writing, Harv
reading interests me greatly, but i'm poisoned by instant satisfaction...shoot me. i appreciate your efforts to be an inspiration to all us non-readers. i'll do my damndest, sir. i'm gonna start with frankenstien, by mary shelley. i'll get back to this thread when i'm done.

[LittLeWinG]

one book all of you stoners must read is the da vinci's code. alot of you probably have read this book...since it was on top of the charts for a while but meh. im just sayin its an amizing book. Blew my mind

[Roadking]

All that lives is independent of the Church. The power of the State is based upon tradition, upon science, upon popular suffrage, upon brute force, upon everything except upon the Church. Wars, the relation of State with State, are governed by principles of nationality, of the balance of power, but not by the Church. The institutions established by the State frankly ignore the Church, The idea that the Church can, in these times, serve as a basis for justice or the conservation of property, is simply absurd. Science not only does not sustain the doctrine of the Church, but is, in its development, entirely hostile to the Church. Art, formerly entirely devoted to the service of the Church, has wholly forsaken the Church. It is little to say that human life is now entirely emancipated from the Church; it has now, with regard to the Church, only contempt when the Church does not interfere with human affairs, and hatred when the Church seeks to re-assert its ancient privileges. The Church is still permitted a formal existence simply because men dread to shatter the chalice that once contained the water of life. In this way only can we account, in our age, for the existence of Catholicism, of Orthodoxy, and of the different Protestant churches.
All these churches...Catholic, Orthodox, Prostestant...are like so many sentinels still keeping careful watch before the prison doors, although the prisoners have long been at liberty before their eyes, and even threaten their existence. All that actually constitutes life, that is, the activity of humanity towards progress and its own welfare, socialism, communism, the new politico-economical theories, utilitarianism, the liberty and equality of all social classes, and of men and women, all the moral principles of humanity, the sanctity of work, reason, science, art,...all these that lend an impusle to the world's progress in hostility to the Church are only fragments of the doctrine which the Church has professed, and so carefully endeavored to conceal. In these times, the life of the world is entirely independent of the doctrine of the Church. The Church is left so far behind, that men no longer hear the voices of those who preach its doctrines. This is easily to be understood because the Church still clings to an organization of the world's life, which has been forsaken, and is rapidly falling to destruction.

- Leo Tolstoy

[ScarlettCrush]

I am reading Courtesans, a catalog of their virtues and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
I love anything about courtesans or famous mistress's

[SensiRide]

I love reading! It's a great way to escape from this world for a bit and absorb yourself in someone elses world. Readers have the best imaginations!

I think it improves your spelling as well and extends your vocabulary. I done real well at English in school because I always had my head buried in a book and found it eas to write essays and stuff (but I was shite at maths :()
Books are always waaaaay better than films. I think Memoirs of a Geisha is an excellent book but I dont want to see the movie because I don't think it will be (and heard it isn't) anwhere near as good as the book.

My favourite book EVER is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - I would recommend that everyone read it at least once, its amazing - I've read it countless times and don't get bored of it.
Lord of the Flies is good as well.

[Harvesthetic]

I love reading! It's a great way to escape from this world for a bit and absorb yourself in someone elses world. Readers have the best imaginations!

I think it improves your spelling as well and extends your vocabulary. I done real well at English in school because I always had my head buried in a book and found it eas to write essays and stuff (but I was shite at maths :()
Books are always waaaaay better than films. I think Memoirs of a Geisha is an excellent book but I dont want to see the movie because I don't think it will be (and heard it isn't) anwhere near as good as the book.

My favourite book EVER is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - I would recommend that everyone read it at least once, its amazing - I've read it countless times and don't get bored of it.
Lord of the Flies is good as well.
:eek: you listed two of my top five books there. Lolita is great..
I prefer to read in English since it does improve my spelling.
Nicely put into words there about reading, it does heighten the imagination, which i think is a problem, especially with young kids these days, like Ganj put it very accurately, they are poisoned by instant satisfaction.
Hell, they don't even accept the fact that Kill Bill was split in half, lacking immediate mental orgasm.
Memoirs of a Geisha is one of those exceptions where the movie does pay respect to the book. My female friends loved the movie, and the one that read the book, liked it too.

[slayergirl]

loved 'crime and punishment '...how man's mind is his worst enemy...
somerset maughm.."of human bondage"
anything by james elroy--""la confidential", "killer on the road"

[Harvesthetic]

loved 'crime and punishment '...how man's mind is his worst enemy...
somerset maughm.."of human bondage"
anything by james elroy--""la confidential", "killer on the road"
If you like James Elroy check out Elmore Leonard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmore_Leonard). (if you don't know him yet)

[RastaKaze]

Nicely put into words there about reading, it does heighten the imagination, which i think is a problem, especially with young kids these days, like Ganj put it very accurately, they are poisoned by instant satisfaction.


Yes, todays youth... *sigh* don't even get me started :(

[BabyFacedAbortion]

I loved "A million little pieces" by James Fry.

Kind of made me mad that it was all bullshit, but still a good book.

[BabyFacedAbortion]

frey*

[Blowboy]

yeah instant satisfaction is one of those luxury-problems, I can really get upset when I see an example of it.
During the week, I live alone in pretty small room, and I don't have a tv here. I'm actually glad about that, don't mis it for a second. It gives me time to read:)
I like reading a lot, almost every time in english.
The last few months I've reading a bunch of Aldous Huxely, what went down in that man's mind is truely exceptional.
He was married to a belgian woman that lived a block away from me, so it's very probable he used to walk where I walk nowadays:D

[Blowboy]

And "Lord of the Flies" moved me more than I expected it to do.

[scobbie]

catcher in the rye is one of my favourits and ive just finished the da vinci code witch supprised me as a very good read. I make sure my kids spend at least twelve hours a week reading at the beggining it was tough trying to get them to read books now they are avid readers my 7 year old reads from a book every night before bed and hardly uses her play station now so harvethetic you are bang on all kids should spend some time reading as it broadens their horizon and helps there education ten fold and ive read all the books you have on your list and many more there is nothing better than a cou[ple of joints a cup of coffee and a good book its my way to escape the pain of my illness when i have a good book i get lost in it as with the davinci code good read

[beachguy in thongs]

We read "Lord of the Flies" in high school, I think we watched the movie, after. I liked the book better.

[SensiRide]

Books are always better. Movies are just condensed, simplified versions. The only movie I have thought was better than the book is Goodfellas ( I read the 2 books - Wiseguy & Gangstas & Goodfellas)

[beachguy in thongs]

Of course, but "The Green Mile" was exactly like the book. Three minor differences. Probably, the best movie made from a book.

[Smpthy4TheDevil]

i love to read. lately it's been aldous huxley and george orwell.

books made into movies generally irk me -- the book is almost always way better than the movie.

[Zinnia]

At least one bookcase in every room, three in my office.
History
True Crime
SciFi/Fantasy
Stephen King
Historical Fiction
Kama Sutra, Tantra, anything rated X LOL :thumbsup:
James Clavell's Shogun is cool.
The Jungle would have made me a veg-if I wasn't one when I read it.

[s2headhunter]

yea i love reading..its peacfull.....increases my vocabulary, and it opens up my mind and makes me feel better sometimes

[Cooler Then Jesus]

i just finished off "The Zombie Survival Guide" today, definaley a reccomendation for ANY stoner who aspires to go zombie hunting, or just a ghoul loving 14 year old like myself.

[SensiRide]

i just finished off "The Zombie Survival Guide" today, definaley a reccomendation for ANY stoner who aspires to go zombie hunting, or just a ghoul loving 14 year old like myself.

What a cute avatar!!
Another few of my favourite books are Trainspotting, Ecstasy & Glue by Irvine Welsh. I would imagine they would be very hard for a non-Scottish person to read though as its mostly written in very broad Scots dialect, but they are the only novels that can make me laugh out loud over & over again.

[Harvesthetic]

allright! nice to see a lot of comments,
Blowboy, that's so cool that you lived near Huxley's home. You could literally walk in his footsteps. BFA if you liked Frey, read 1984 or confessions of a dangerous mind, two books that you can keep reading and dissecting, with enormous social relevance.
SensiRide again puts it in words i wish i wrote lol.
Movies are just condensed, simplified versions of books. Spot on.

Beachguy, the Green Mile was indeed very well adapted.
Sensi, you should really read "Porno" by Irvine Welsch. It's great you can recognize it by the blow-up doll on the cover.
Zinnia, that's a relief to hear, you seem to be a bookwurm too :p nice. Those are the genres i read most too, but i read everything :). My all time favorite genre is crimi/thrillers from the highest shelf in the bookshop. Carefully composed stories that leave you speechless, like Elmore Leonard, LIVE inside my head. Nothing is more fun than getting lost in a book, and for example missing your destination on the train because the chapter you were reading was just too exciting.
Drugs don't do that trick for me. Reading and forgetting the real world around you is a more intense dissociative trip than Ketamine.


there is nothing better than a cou[ple of joints a cup of coffee and a good book its my way to escape the pain of my illness when i have a good book i get lost in it as with the davinci code good read
That's exactly what i'm going to do for the next three hours :D going to get lost in:

[SensiRide]

Sensi, you should really read "Porno" by Irvine Welsch. It's great you can recognize it by the blow-up doll on the cover.


I've read it. I own all his books including Filth, Marabou Stork Nightmares & The Acid House.
Ecstasy & Trainspotting are the best though. Did you know Irvine Welsh used to be a smack addict? Doing really well for himself now though, he is one person I would love to meet.

[bonsaiguy]

Reading Is Fundamental.
I'm a sci fi geek but it has to be good sci fi, not those crappy star trek or star wars book. Some of my fav authors are:
Douglas Adams
Edgar Allen Poe
Robert Anton Wilson
Isaac Assimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Carlos Castenada
Anne McCaffrey (before she went nuts writing sequels)

Mr Frey is a disgrace to good journalism and Oprah should, (and probably will) emasculate the bum. I haven't read his book but if it is full of lies as has been pointed out by the Smoking Gun and several others, it begs the question of whether or not he even wrote the thing or hired a ghost writer.

[Harvesthetic]

I've read it. I own all his books including Filth, Marabou Stork Nightmares & The Acid House.
Ecstasy & Trainspotting are the best though. Did you know Irvine Welsh used to be a smack addict? Doing really well for himself now though, he is one person I would love to meet.
Funny, i own 'em too. Those are really keepers aren't they?
Yeah i knew he was an addict (abusing horse, speed pcps and all those Dublin Designer Drugs), i've read the BBC transcripts from the little interviews he gave, and in some of those he gives a crystal clear image of his own life, not unlike the main character in trainspotting. just ameliorised and blew up a bit. Dirrty Scotslife.
I love that great style. Pissed off Scotsmen can curse and spew profanities like no other people. The rich accent in the books is quite hard for some people. When i read trainspotting i was twelve years old and since my maternal language is dutch, the scottish english was something to get used to.
You'd be surprised what the people at BBC do if you just ask kindly :). When i was working for my final project at school i wrote 'em, and received TONS of information about Orson Welles Ã*nd the full permission to integrate it in my film :).

[Harvesthetic]

Reading Is Fundamental.
I'm a sci fi geek but it has to be good sci fi, not those crappy star trek or star wars book. Some of my fav authors are:
Douglas Adams
Edgar Allen Poe
Robert Anton Wilson
Isaac Assimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Carlos Castenada
Anne McCaffrey (before she went nuts writing sequels)

Mr Frey is a disgrace to good journalism and Oprah should, (and probably will) emasculate the bum. I haven't read his book but if it is full of lies as has been pointed out by the Smoking Gun and several others, it begs the question of whether or not he even wrote the thing or hired a ghost writer.
nice list! I don't know Anne McCaffrey, but i'm sure as hell gonna search her now.
The Journey to Ixtlan is a great book. But that's another Frey-case. Allegedly, Castenada didn't meet Don Juan, and derived his book from a lot of other books. That doesn't bother me. It's imagination. Unless someone really claims to have written a true story, the truthful ambiguity doesn't matter.

[bonsaiguy]

nice list! I don't know Anne McCaffrey, but i'm sure as hell gonna search her now.
The Journey to Ixtlan is a great book. But that's another Frey-case. Allegedly, Castenada didn't meet Don Juan, and derived his book from a lot of other books. That doesn't bother me. It's imagination. Unless someone really claims to have written a true story, the truthful ambiguity doesn't matter.

I've heard those allegations as well but I don't know if they were ever validated. In his case, if you've grasped the meaning of Castenada's books, it really doesn't matter if it's literally true or not. There is another author who also claims to have met Juan Matus, Ken Eagle Feather. Good author and sort of brings Don Juan's teachings in to a less "cryptic" light. There are also a couple of other books that were said to be written by a couple of the female sorcery apprentices...Tasha Abelar is one. Sort of a rehash of Carlos and not nearly as engaging but interesting none the less.

McCaffrey (MacCaffrey?) wrote a series called the Dragonriders of Pern. I'm not a big fan of fantasy however the first 3 or 4 were pretty good.

I used to belong to the Science Fiction Book Club. Have several boxes of hard cover books in my garage. (no space in the house for them...yet)

I'm sort of a binge reader. I'll read 3 or 4 or 6 books in a month, sometimes two or three at once, and then not pick up a book for a couple months.