i reallized i've read illuminatus 4 times in a row and nothing in between, i need to get off this raw trip, so what are some other books that are head-trippy in the saw way illuminatus is (excluding other raw books)?
well, duh, Douglas Adams
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hehe already read all of the hitchhiker's books, he write anything else good?
dirk gently's holistic detective agency 8)
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Oh how could I forget PKD? My God, "Valis" is the mindfuck to end all mindfucks.
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yeah it is.
too bad the author believed every word of it.
Yeah, well, it's true so who cares? :)
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers is pretty fun in a time-travelling, spell-casting, body-swapping way though not quite as out there as Dick or Wilson.
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Valis is "true"?!?!?
look it was an alright read... in all of it's forms ( the author became obbsesed with this one considerinf he thought that the laser beam had transmitted the information into his head) but I think that that was described better in "radio free albermuth". but that may just be me.
It's not that interesting of a mind fuck... it's a great read of a genius authors decent into madness ( well valis, and the other books of it's ilk) but any mindfuck that ends with the author committing suicide over it just doesn't seem like a good mindfuck to me.
Brezny... the cross drive oracle..
I don't know that thing the guy from the world entertainment war wrote.
Quoteany mindfuck that ends with the author committing suicide over it just doesn't seem like a good mindfuck to me.
#1. PKD based "Valis" on his own experiences tripping on something, I forget what. He saw the phosphenes and all the weird shit.
#2. He did not commit suicide, he had a series of strokes followed by a massive heart attack.
Dr Seuss. Total mind fuck. No, seriously. When you go from drawing anti-nazi cartoons to cat in a hat? Mindfuck.
Quote from: Slartibartfasti reallized i've read illuminatus 4 times in a row and nothing in between, i need to get off this raw trip, so what are some other books that are head-trippy in the saw way illuminatus is (excluding other raw books)?
Serioulsy, you need to go read something completely different. Or go to the light, the bright yellow one, the one they call...the sun...Your brain and your mind need a fucking break. If you must read, I agree with Dr Suess, only read it out loud, to a child. Seriously :wink:
Go towards the light. There is no illuminati conspiracy. Go towards the light.
okay until i can go to a bookstore i'm gonna read some non-mindfucky books for variety. and dr suess :)
I didn't like Valis. I hate it when an author I like, late in life, starts
putting out really, really, really talky, self-indulgent novels that an
editor won't throw back because of the "name" of the author.
Heinlein's last stuff was crap, too. And a bunch of others. Bah!
They should take up macrame instead of putting out crap. Give
me the early, clear thinking and deviously clever PKD anyday.
How about Terry Pratchett?
Rankin. Armageddon, the Musical.
D/N/T.
Kurt Vonnegut! At least Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle are truly weird books.
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And Breakfast of Champions is a great one too.
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
Alfred Korzybski
Wilhelm Riech
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Quote from: Slartibartfasti reallized i've read illuminatus 4 times in a row and nothing in between, i need to get off this raw trip, so what are some other books that are head-trippy in the saw way illuminatus is (excluding other raw books)?
See if you can find some old Mad Magazines. The newer ones are more hit and miss.
Wilhelm Reich?
Korzybski?
I think they wee talking about philosophical fiction, not research papers or textbooks.
Then again, I have read more than a few Reich books, myself.
Ooh! I got it! a Reich book that is fan-fucking-tastic! Listen, Little Man! It's incredible. It's one of those books peole keep stealing from me & not giving back.
argh my borders was understocked- they were out of pkd, korzybski, and no reich books were even in the inventory. i got some alan watts instead, i'll get some other stuff on amazon once i get some more cash.
Anything by Bukowski is great, but "Women" and "Tales of Ordinary Madness" are particularly great...
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I gopt my aunts collection after she passed on....
wait a minute there be discordians here about somwhere...
she died.
It was like a low rattle in her chest when she bit it... and the gasp after gasp in which she struggled to breath.
gurgle gurgle.
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NOVA EXPRESS -
and if theprmisgeytsold - see NAKED LUNCH -
or you can read finnegans wake -
or Lewis Carrol -
Or pick up yr ld enlsh lit ho
sorry I got hyppopotomized
snuggle up wiht some opium and the dictionary and just open random pages (or the encyclopedia)
sorry
I hear that Holy Bible is pretty head-trippy. Makes Philip K. Dick look like a Sunday school teacher.
When I was censoring the Bible in the hotel room, I should've thought to put "Bad trip, John?" on a page of Revelations. Thought of it on the car ride home. I did black out all mention of God's name on the first page of Genesis, and drew and Illuminati pyrimid somewhere in there. Other stuff I can't remember too.