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Arthur D. Hlavaty ([personal profile] supergee) wrote2014-08-29 06:17 am

Everybody's doing it

Ten books that made a lasting impression on me
Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land
Shea & Wilson: Illuminatus
David Cole Gordon: Self-Love / Overcoming the Fear of Death
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
Alan Watts: The Book
Martin Gardner: Fads and Fallacies
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed
Philip K. Dick: Eye in the Sky and others
G. Spencer Brown: Laws of Form (though I haven't managed to finish it)
James Joyce: Ulysses

ETA: And of course The Crying of Lot 49. These top 10 things never work.
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[personal profile] lavendertook 2014-08-30 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
This is an interesting list.

I may have to look for Overcoming the Fear of Death--I'm having a hard time finding more than one review of it, but I definitely need help getting over my cautiousness and anxiety due to experience with the fragility of life. If his thoughts on this might help give me perspective on that, then I should read it.