Hey could anyone reccomend any good books that will pick me up? Make me feel great about life and myself? I've been feeling kinda down lately... so any ideas? Thank you!
Many times I have read, loved, and recommended: Another Roadside Attraction Jitterbug Perfume Skinny Legs And All and, well, just about everything by Tom Robbins. His work is wimsical, funny, thoughtful, colorful, sexy, mystically bouyant and, dare I say it, deep. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac is a joy, a celebration of the conscious life. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Just A Couple Of Days by Tony Vigorino. What if the next stage of our evolution were to happen right now? Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila by Robert M. Pirsig. What is quality? What is the metaphysics of quality? I can honestly say that these two books have altered my reality (clarified my vision?) as thoroughly as any reality-altering experience I have been through. When all else fails, and nothing seems to make you happy or give you a new perspective, you can always turn to the spiritual classics - the Bhagavad Gita, The Dhammapada, the Tao Te Ching, The Upanishads, The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, The Teachings of the Buddha and The Bible. Please let me know if this helps or hinders. Peace and Love
well i find that any book with jim morrisons poetry helps me there such deep words and really make you apperciate life so try wilderness with jim morrison i own it its great well hope it helps
I just finished reading The Dharma Bums and Im still buzzing from it! Kerouacs frequent use of flowing descriptive language, almopst poetic ., really got me up an awake, then the two stories of the mountains, of ray and Japhys sunset prayers on the matterhor, then Rays solo months on top of the world at Desolation peak were enough to make me head for the hills..........
I'd say several Kerouac books like the Dharma Bums or On the Road. I think Cassady's character, Dean, in On the Road can be quite inspiring at times because of his enthusiasm and love of life.
you might want to try, if you haven't already, Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block or Girl Goddess #9...they'd be in the Young Adult section of your bookstore, but oh, do they rock...i've read both of them so many times...I was in New York when the World Trade Center fell and my apartment was three blocks away, so as you can imagine, I was pretty depressed for a while...I used to lay in bed every night and read these books, over and over...they're beautiful and sad and uplifting and magic...
