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This is a haunting mystery, a story of loss and regret, of life and introspection, both witty and gristly. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle serves caution to anyone who reads it, be wary of change but do not run from it and do not hide from it. You too can quit your job, make spaghetti for breakfast if you want to. Accepting that you both fully control and do not at all control your own life are important revelations. Only through self reflection you will find the truth in yourself and the world around you, and it is the only way to change. This story has many parts, and the characters are illusory, they are hallucinations, they are clever tricks in your mind and shadows of themselves. The mute have no need to speak. The confused only ask questions and the wind up bird always breaks the silence. Never overlook the simple answer, no matter how much you think it's truth would break you.

The 24 divisions of "Bob" take the reader through his adventure into "chapel perilous" to the furthest reaches of mind and space. Through careful examination and re-evaluation, he drops breadcrumbs leading the way though some of the most awe-inspiring and heartbreaking reality tunnels of his time here. He talks about his communication with Sirius, Timothy Leary, the 23 enigma, Illuminati conspiracies, Aleister Crowley, 8 circuit consciousness, synchronicity, and dogs that vanish in green puffs of smoke. Cosmic Trigger is a trip to say the least. Highly recommended.

Reading the morning of the magicians is like waking into a dream. The reality it presents takes everything that is generally accepted as fact and promptly smashes it into a thousand pieces with a cool scientific or pseudo-scientific logic that left me baffled and mumbling to myself. Best, or worst, of all it makes the kind of sense that the fertile paranoid mind just latches on to. Pauwels illustrates an alternate world history that feels more cohesive, if you are willing to accept a couple leaps in logic. Any student of the occult, mysticism, or right wing political science, should read this book.

This is a very personal and chilling novel. The sobering manner that this book was written is startling. It reads like a deathbed confession and is just as interesting and important. William Cooper's (sometimes dark) humor and grave ungency makes for a great read for anyone, paraniod or otherwise.

A collection letters from satan to the angels about the peculiarities of man, hilariously blunt and witty. This rewrote everything I thought I knew about ole' sam clemens. I discovered this browsing the blue room, after taking a 13 year hiatus from reading his work, I can't praise this enough. You've always wanted to read this, you probably didn't know it, but it's the honest-to-god truth.

I think someone said it was the lord of the rings for paranoids. That's more or less accurate. It's something you have to just read and figure out for yourself. I don't know if you'll like it. It's about drugs and us history and world history,and alternate world histories. JFK, drugs, sex, anarchists, antichrists, and the occult and there are puns. It intentionally confusing and contradictory. They even rip on ayn rand. I could write a similar length novel just describing the characters and their connections. Why a pentagon? Why the bad trip? It can naturally assumed that both of these authors were on drugs when they wrote it, I'm not saying that as a positive thing, although, it does make it funnier to read. It's a fiction, in which there are talking dolphins. Which, in the context of the book and based on what douglas adams thinks about dolphins, it may not be so fictional. (Is the thought of a unicorn a real thought?) I found this book very helpful. You'll probably find this review was not as helpful. It's a good book, but it's no great expectactions, but then again, I don't even know what it's about.

Borges' writing is superb, and this collection is no exception.His genius, his perception and his ancient intelligence bleed out of every word. Libraries, the infinite labyrinths. Labyrinths, the infinite libraries. and so it goes. Labyrinths is a record time that happened between time, under a veil of obscurity and whispered secrets. "Before there was a man for every three hexagons. Suicide and pulmonary diseases have destroyed that proportion, A memory of unspeakable melancholy: at times I have traveled for many nights through corridors and along polished stairways without finding a single librarian."

This is an excellent collection of writing by 'the last of the beats'. I'm reading copy of trout fishing in america I got the library, but I would love this collection. It's nice to have everything in one place, you know. In Watermelon Sugar is an outstanding read, so simplistic in style but incredibly powerful, like all of his writing. Things arn't what they used to be. See you at the forgotten works?

I wish I never started researching all this craziness. The things I have read...will someday encompass this book as well.