All-time favorite books?

[Goober]

This is definitely mine. I will probably never find a book this good again.

[Principle]

[Selski]

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart.

[Novice]

I don't have just one all-time favorie. But I do have several that I love for different reasons:

The Last of The Mohicans -- Nathanial Hawthorne
The Alchemist  -- Paulo Coelho
The Tao Te Ching -- Lao Tze
The Bhagavad Gita According to Ghandi
Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermens, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense

[Stookie]

Ender's Game -- Orson Scott Card
Walden -- Henry David Thoreau
Friday -- Robert Heinlein
Flow My Tears the Policeman Said -- Philip K. willy (as well as other willy books)
Tao Te Ching

[Kallas]

Magician -- Raymond E. Feist... and pretty much every other book written by him.

[Skippy]

The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving

A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction - J. D. Salinger

In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash - Jean Shepherd

Tales of the Brothers Gibb: The Ultimate Biography of the Bee Gees - Melinda Bilyeu, Hector Cook and Andrew Mon Hughes

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E. L. Konigsburg

As for astral projection books, so far, Journeys Out of the Body by Robert Monroe is the only one I've started reading, but I really like it.

I got a book out of the library called Go, by John Clellon Holmes. It looks like it will be a good read.

[Selski]

Ooooh, I didn't realise it said "books" - that means I can have more than one!

OK, here goes.

And the butt saw the Angel - Nick Cave
Winter Doves - Somebody Cook
Asylum - Patrick McGrath
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
Illusions - Richard Bach
Daniel's Dream - Peter Michael Rosenberg
Out of Body Experiences and What to Expect - Robert Peterson

Sarah

[Selski]

As for astral projection books, so far, Journeys Out of the Body by Robert Monroe is the only one I've started reading, but I really like it.

Hi Skippy

A really down to earth ( ) book about astral projection is by Robert Peterson.  Monroe is great and I rate him highly, however I read Peterson first and it was brilliant and made me realise I wasn't totally bonkers.  The good news is that his book is free online.  Here it is.

http://www.robertpeterson.org/obebook.html

It's one of those books that I could read in a day... 

I hope you enjoy.

Sarah

[Goober]

Has anyone ever read "A Brief History of Time." by Stephen Hawking? I might start, if it is interesting.. never read anything by him.

[Skippy]

http://www.robertpeterson.org/obebook.html

Thanks, Selski! 

Robert Bruce, Robert Peterson, Robert Monroe...astral projection attracts a lot of Roberts, doesn't it?

[Kodemaster]

The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke ==> a must read for everyone.

[DH]

William Buhlman's books on AP have helped me a lot.  If you want your mind stretched a bit try some of Story Waters stuff on his web site below.  He has a lot of free reading posted.

http://www.limitlessness.com/index.cfm

DH

[GANAMOHA]

[MisterJingo]

Has anyone ever read "A Brief History of Time." by Stephen Hawking? I might start, if it is interesting.. never read anything by him.

I read it a long time ago, and it's interesting, although there are better books out there on these subjects imo.

Favorite books would have to be (in no particular order):

The eletric kool aid acid test - Tom Wolfe
Fear and loathing - Hunter S
oryx and crake -  margaret Atwood
Most of the culture series by Iain M Banks (highly recommended)
Belgariad/mallorian/elenium/tamuli - David Eddings
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn - Tad Williams

[Stookie]

Selski-

Is "And the butt saw the Angel - Nick Cave" the same Nick Cave,the musician? I know he did the movie "The Proposition", which is really, really, really good & makes me interested in a book.

[Selski]

Is "And the butt saw the Angel - Nick Cave" the same Nick Cave,the musician?

Hi Stookie

Yes, the same Nick from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. 

It's a rather dark and disturbing book - I wouldn't like to be in Nick Cave's head! 

Apparently, he did a stage play of the book, with puppets, which sounds intriguing.  I think it was only shown in Australia, but I do have the CD of the play. 

I'm hit and miss with his music (I think "the boatman's call" is wondeful, but some of his other stuff leaves me cold).

I'd highly recommend And the butt... if you know Nick Cave, you'll have some idea of the sort of book he might write.

I've not seen The Proposition - I'll keep an eye out for it. 

Sarah