What Mark K. Brown read last month (reads and re-reads)
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins 11/21
Buddhist Scriptures ed. by Edward Conze 11/24
Wasp by Eric Frank Russell 11/25
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler 11/26
The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick 11/29
As usual, there is considerable overlap between what Mark reads and what I read. I've read the Conze, or a Conze edited book that is very similar. I've read Russell, Chandler and Dick, but not those particular titles. Mark is reading The Magus by John Fowles, as he mentioned in the comments recently, I may ask for a brief report when he finishes.
What I read last month:
Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Maturin.
For Emma, Ewan Morrison.
Operation Wandering Soul, Richard Powers.
A Non-Euclidean Perspective: Robert Anton Wilson’s Political Commentaries 1960-2005, Robert Anton Wilson. (Mark already read it).
Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata.
As usual, everyone else is invited to say in the comments that they have been reading.
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I'm also currently reading my way through Melmoth, although I'm doing it in a rather leisurely fashion, so it might be a while before I finish. As usual, it's not the only thing I'm in the middle of.
Thanks again for the mention. Always makes me feel like one of the big kids.
Some in the Fake Sufi community consider Another Roadside Attraction an important esoteric text. I read The Magus in my late teens or very early twenties and found it mind blowing. I'll have to read it again sometime.
Last month I read:
The Uncool: A Memoir, by Cameron Crowe - has some great insider music biz stories and is generally quite sweet.
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed - an excellent biography of a crazy genius who had a huge musical influence on people like Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead and many others with his Anthology of American Folk Music that he assembled and released in 1957. I hope to say more about this book in a blog post.
Most of A Non-Euclidean Perspective: Robert Anton Wilson’s Political Commentaries 1960-2005, by Robert Anton Wilson. I also hope to write a short review of this when done.
The Book of the Law written or channelled by Aleister Crowley. I've read this dozens of times and something new always jumps out. This time it was the line: "My joy is to see your joy."
Three short stories along with the Introduction from The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult edited and introduced by Lon Milo DuQuette:
"The House and the Brain" by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
" Casting the Runes" by Montague Rhodes James
"The Testament of Magdalen Blair" by Aleister Crowley
I also read Another Roadside Attraction last month, wanting to go through at least one new to me Tom Robbins book this year to honor his passing.
I am now close to finishing The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, which I greatly enjoy and warmly recommend.
Mark, if you are feeling like musically winking at your reading material, here is an old French album composed under the pseudonym 'Melmoth' (AKA Dashiell Hedayat, harking back to writers with both Dashiell Hammett and Sadegh Hedayat)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X1uriCN7Gxw
Tom, how did you like Melmoth?
I thought it was a good read, very atmospheric. Kind of a good Halloween read.
I am also in the process of reading and enjoying it, though I keep getting distracted by other good books. My tastes are too catholic.
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