At 01:09 PM 6/24/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Diet For a New America-
I've seen this before and considered picking it up. I didn't. Maybe
I will.
Three recommendations;
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Title: Slaughterhouse-Five (or The Children's Crusade)
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Genre: Fiction
I'm not entirely sure commentary is even needed for this one, as it's
become a near-classic. Vonnegut describes his experiences in World War II,
culminating with the bombing of Dresden, Germany, in third-person with a
sci-fi twist involving his admission into a human zoo on the planet of
Tralfamadore, where they have a very different outlook on the concept of
time. It's just really damned good. Probably my favorite book ever.
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Title: The Teachings of Don Juan; A Yaqui Way Of Knowledge
By: Carlos Castaneda
Genre: Philosophy/Anthropology/New Age
Although it's in the non-fiction section of bookstores and libraries,
it's so extraordinary that you can't really tell if Castaneda is lying or
not. This book details Castaneda's magical training through the use of
natural hallucinogenic plants (namely peyote and mescaline) under the
tutelage of a Yaqui Indian sorceror named Don Juan down near Sonora,
Mexico. I cannot stress how fantastic this book is, as long as you're into
the subject matter.
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Title(s): Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragons of Spring Dawning
By: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Genre: Fantasy
This is actually the Chronicles trilogy in the TSR/D&D Dragonlance
line of fantasy novels. In retrospect, the books are somewhat amateurish
and sometimes cliched, but for a good year in my early teens, I never
stopped reading it. It was also the first novels to ever come out of the
D&D gaming machine. Of course, you have to be into fantasy in the first
place to even like it -- if you are and you haven't read this trilogy, it's
Grade A Material, guaranteed. Once in a while I'll still re-read
chapters. This series also includes one of my favorite literary characters
of all time, Raistlin Majere. Yes, I am a dork at heart.
- Matt
