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Ken Kesey is great, I have only read "one flew over the cuckoos nest". I have also read "The electric kool aid acid tests" That was before my first trip, i was very into the whole Merry Pranksters history, and alot of the folks like Neil Cassidy, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and other "Beatnicks" ill be honest, alot of their writing is hard for me to get into, but the history of what they did and their voyage "On the Bus" was a cultural revolution. And definetly affected cannabis in the US. Whether it was bad or good for the plant, im not sure. I can say that Ken Kesey probably would have written another great novel if he hadnt been chased by the government, and then been forced to fake his own suicide to get out of jail, becuse of this lovely plant.
Right about that darlin...Can't explain it...just didn't work for me at the time. Of course, it took me 3 attempts to finally get through Tolkien's "Silmarillion" and now I feel as if it is as good, if not better, that the LOTR.Yeah, my husband just did not enjoy the Kesey book...
I call it candy. No nutritional value, nothing for my brain to chew on. It needs stuff to chew on. That's why I generally prefer non-fiction.As for the Star Wars books, i cant hate, ive read the twilight books, as well as all of the Hunger Games. Sometimes you need some of that Literary Crack as i call it, very addicting, easy to read story, better for you than tv. I used to read alot of Forgotten Realms books, giant Fantasy book publisher, really good stories.
I agree with you there sea maiden . I like to read something that has the possibility of maybe learning something from but im also a sucker for star wars and the like . I'm still a bit of a kid at heart I suppose.I call it candy. No nutritional value, nothing for my brain to chew on. It needs stuff to chew on. That's why I generally prefer non-fiction.
dark rivers of the heart was a good one. I thought the odd series was ok.I like james Patterson. The only book of his I didn't like was Sunday at tiffany's. I'm currently reading Daniel silva's portrait of a spy(fictional book about a mossad assassin).Dean Koontz is the man, some serious dark ass shit comes from that dudes mind. I read one book called "night terrors" or something, ill find the name. But i really like his writing.
I also have one of the Game of Thrones books, i havent started it yet, sometimes watching the show first ruins my imagination for the book, so i dont get into the story as much.
Koontz, right? Read that many, many years ago...very dark, freaky....and good.dark rivers of the heart was a good one.
Sounds like the Sci Fi book to beat all Sci Fi books . Thanks for that.Well, speaking of "candy", for those of you who like your sci-fi then I must recommend Edward E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" and "Skylark" series. Smith wrote these series back in the thirties and George Lucas even credits this guy for influencing him with regards to "Star Wars". Smith did in fact write the first "Space Opera" when he wrote the Lensmen series. The quintessential "Good vs. Evil" where the protagonist (Lensman Kimball Kinnison) is the proverbial "Knight in shining armor" and the Boskonian space pirates are simply...evil. The narrative is awesome, but not too "cerebral". His description of the space battles are amazing with superdreadnaughts locking on tractor beams (yes, he coined the term tractor beam that Star Trek uses) and blasting the ships defensive screens into the ultraviolet until they go down....totally badass. Taking entire planets and installing Bergenholm engines (faster than light, inertialess engines for space travel) on them to send them through wormholes as weapons.
And yes...The "good guy" ends up getting the girl. :)
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