Re: o.t. READING

[Rev Fever <revfever@ubergadget.com>]

My current, rotating bed pile that I also switch between from at  
whim, as well:

Jamie James- The Music of the Spheres

Stephen Buhner- Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers

Sandor Ellix katz- Wild Fermentation (learn to make yer own  
sauerkraut and kimchi,and MORE!)

(edited by Sam Steiner)- Spirit Woman, The Diaries and Paintings of  
Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nunez

Chris Hedges- American Fascists, The Christian Right and the War On  
America

Vera Stravinsky & Robert Craft- Stravinsky,In Pictures and Documents

Amadea Morningstar, with Urmila Desai-The Ayurvedic Cookbook

Brooke Allen- Moral Minority, Our Skeptical Founding Fathers

Nancy Wilson Ross- The World of Zen

Marc Almond (ex-Soft Cell)- In Search of the Pleasure Palace

Pat Hackett- The Andy Warhol Diaries

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Some fantastic biographies / autobiographies I have previously read,  
include:

Rasputin,The Holy Devil (1928, Rene Fulop-Miller)

Orson Wells (Barbara Leaming)

Anais Nin (Dierdre Bair)

Wm. Burroughs, Literary Outlaw (Ted Morgan)

Ken Russell-A British Picture

Rimbaud- (PIerre Petitfils)

The Guilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon (Daniel Farson)

Wizard. The Life and Times of Nikolas Tesla. Biography of a Genius  
(Marc J. Seiffer)

Pasolini, A Biography (Enzo Sicilano)

Miles, The Autobiography (Miles Davis with Quincey Troupe)

Love Is Colder Than Death. (biography of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, by  
Robert Katz)

Genet (Edmund White)

This is only a partial list, of course. The full list is LONG....

-Rev. Fever

On Aug 22, 2007, at 11:27 AM, rabbirabbifive wrote:

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> Dostoevsky, Crime & Punishment (3rd or 4th reread)
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> Boethius, Consolations of Philosophy
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> Freddy Silva, Secrets in the Fields
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> John De Vito, The Devil's Apocrypha
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> Thomas McEvilley, The Shape of Ancient Thought
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> Plato, Ion (in greek class, very slowly)
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> All these except the last are piled next to my bed, and
> I switch between them at whim.
>
> -rabbi (not a real rabbi)