Buzzing anyone? Top 5 Books to read stoned

Yup, I'm ripping off YogaofLove. So... what are the top 5 best books to read stoned?

Me:

Cat's Cradle--Kurt Vonnegut
The Phatom TollBooth--Norton Juster
The Drifters--James A Michener
The Bible--Mark and John(I think)
Invasion and Thran--King.

 

I have 2: Donaldsons Series: The chronicles of Thomas covenant. But my favourite Is a big book on astronomy with big pictures or a big ass atlas

 

I like

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Howl
Leaves of Grass
The Prophet/The Beauty of Friendship
Poor Richard's Almanac
The Odyssey
Steal This Book

 

I know it sounds kind of silly but I like to read book on quantem physics while I'm really stoned. It really makes you think about the universe and how big a role you play in creating it. I'm also really down with Kurt Vonnegut's short stories, my attention span is lowerd so short stories are better, and richard brautigan poetry.

 

when i'm high i love reading books by chuck palahniuk (the guy who wrote "fight club" although i think "choke" is better). i also enjoy anything by hubert selby jr., but "requiem for a dream is especially trippy. i hope some of you get to enjoy them too!
annie

 

Call me crazy but I like to read my books while my mind is functioning normally.

Although I did read part of On the Road while I was high and it made it a little bit more interesting.

 

I cannot read when I'm high! I'm completely unable to concentrate... but it's true that some books that I found to be a bit boring would sound more interesting if I read them high. The thing is, I'd have to know them already, or else I wouldn't remember what they're about!

 

Great selectio you got there...."The Phantom Tollbooth"..loved it..awsome book...one of my favorites...I actually own a copy...definitely a great book while stoned..."The Bible"..it's good...and "Cat's Cradle" also.....you should try "The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis...Great book...you'll love...it's really crack you up...good book to get stoned by....but nothing like "The Phantom Tollbooth"...that book definitely rocks!!....I just love it....I read it like four times....the best....and while stoned it's definitely blow you off...it'll crack you up...gives you a great intellectual trip...hehe...

Other books I reccomend to read while stoned:
- The Red Tent (don't remember author right now)
- Banana Rose ('')
- The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
- Alice in Wonderland
- It

 

yea, I'm with Penny on this one!

 

anything by alan watts or don miguel ruiz! but sometimes i like to read more complicated stuff on science (like cosmology and such) because it seems to all fit together better i guess...

 

dang! that is crazy!

my favourite book to read stoned is "Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson" - G. I. Gurdjieff

 

It's true Gil, I am a total nut!

 

Try


"Storming Heaven: LSD And The American Dream" by Jay Stevens

 

Siddatha by Herman Hesse is a great read stoned or unstoned. Love and Peace.

 

I quit doing drugs for one big reason: I couldn't concentrate. How in the hell can anyone read (especially Gurdjieff!) when they're high. I don't even read when I'm drunk. I come on here and irritate people.

 

Jim Morrison's biography, No One Gets Out Of Here Alive is by far the best book I have ever read while high. When I came home every night baked out of my mind I would start reading that book and at about 6 in the morning I would finally have to put the book down about 175 pages later. I just finished reading Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, which was a very good read and I am just beginning The Art Of Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda. Reading while baked is hit or miss though. Some nights, you are enthralled by the book and can't put it down, while other nights, reading while stoned is impossible.

 

I read alot of Harry Potter 5 stoned. I don't remember reading the parts but I somehow seem to remember the parts. Like I remember the plot and everything but I don't remember reading half of it.

 

Try reading James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" - "O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists but, (O my shining stars and body!) how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement!"(page 4, lines 11–14)

 

i got The Drifters from my school library, the first chapter was alright, with the draft dodgers, and the draft card burning, but i really lost interest after the first chapter

 

When I'm flyin' I usually attempt to read existentialist philosophies-- mainly Sartre and Kierkegaard... it usually makes grand sense when I'm high. Once I sober up I usually lose that connection. If yer lookin' for a mind trip, though, that's your key.