What are you reading right now?

LoathsomePete · 07-24-2012, 02:39 PM

There's a decent little hardboiled detective novel called Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg that deals with a Satanic Cult. It was made into an equally decent movie in 1987 called Angel Heart, but with the setting moved from New York to New Orleans. Your best bet is to try used bookstores or order it online because this book is out of print.

Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly is a good book for mind control and can be pretty trippy at times, definitely took me more than one read to fully get everything.

For human experimentation I'd recommend Stuart B. MacBride's novel Halfhead which deals with a society that surgically mutilates and lobotomizses their convicted criminals, and then sends them out to do menial tasks in the community. It was okay for one of those pulp fiction, "read on the bus" kind of books that doesn't require a lot of thought and doesn't enrich you, but is perfectly harmless.

As for books on mass suicides... I think your best bet would be a non-fiction book on Jonestown Massacre.

bob. · 07-31-2012, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Anybody have book recommendations about mass suicides, mind control, human experiments, or cults?

Don't look at me like that, and thanks!

AS IT IS

this is by far the greatest book written about The Process....written by a founding member and actually goes all the way through its eventual demise....also has a great chapter by Genesis P-Orridge talking about his own cult problems with Thee Temple Of Psychic Youth

SO BE IT

sixxxxxx · 08-07-2012, 12:51 PM

Eat love pray

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 07-24-2012, 02:34 PM

^ this

Paedantic Basterd · 07-24-2012, 03:16 PM

Thank you!

FETCHER. · 07-26-2012, 09:04 AM

So far it's ****ing excellent. I like this book the best so far I think. So much unraveling!

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 07-26-2012, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by FETCHING.

So far it's ****ing excellent. I like this book the best so far I think. So much unraveling!

How far into it are you?

The Batlord · 07-26-2012, 10:17 AM

Just bought the first three Discworld books, so I'm gonna be reading those soon. Love fantasy, love Douglass Adams, so this was a no-brainer. I gotta say, these books have some of the best covers I've ever seen.

FRED HALE SR. · 07-26-2012, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Just bought the first three Discworld books, so I'm gonna be reading those soon. Love fantasy, love Douglass Adams, so this was a no-brainer. I gotta say, these books have some of the best covers I've ever seen.

Lord of the rings with a touch of peter pan, sounds interesting. The covers are pretty whimsical.

The Batlord · 07-26-2012, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.

Lord of the rings with a touch of peter pan, sounds interesting.

More like Lord of the Rings mixed with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's a series that sort of lovingly parodies fantasy.

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