[kj] OT:What book are you reading??

[Javier Garcia]

Right now I'm reading Alejandro Jodorowsky's: "La Danza de la Realidad" ("The Dance of Reality"), which is an autobiography of this amazing artist.
It's quite entertaining, the man talks about his life, weird dreams, magic and his own vision of the world. Don't know if it's available in english (but if i remember well your spanish isn't bad ;>)
There's also this wonderful book named "El Corazón de Piedra Verde" ("The Green Stone Heart") by Salvador de Madariaga. 
It's about aztecs and the spanish colonization of Mexico and South America, it's like an historic novel (amazingly entertaining) with a lot of true facts mixed with magic and a lot of dark/weird/mystic topics, most of it it's true. The author, Salvador de Madariaga, was a well known-serious historian. It's really very good. You can also try "Aztec" by Gary Jennings which is also a novel about Prehispanic Mexico, quite entertainig, with magic and mystical subjects too.

Before finish I'll say that one of my all time favorite books is "The Book of the Jungle", if you haven't try it give it a chance, it's a simple but very, very wise book.

Cheers!

Javier
Mexico City


----- Original Message -----
From: "nicholas fitzpatrick" <gasw30 at hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:47:00 +0000
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: [kj] OT:What book are you reading??

> I'm just looking for some inspiration about books. I'm reading Bonfire of 
> the Vanities at the moment (very, arrrgh... 80s). What are you reading? Do I 
> get my head kicked in for sounding educated?
> 
> Anybody recommend any sci-fi or fantasy? Not my usual genre but thought I 
> might try it out. But not Tolkien.
> I'm into detective stuff, gothic horror, historical, and when it comes to 
> high brow literature, I prefer the south american magial realism variety.
> 
> Anybody reading this Killing Joke novel by Harrowitz (name???). I looked for 
> it the other day but couldn't find it.
> 
> Feel free to recommend non-fiction too.
> 
> cheers
> Nick Satan Beast 666
> 
> 
> PS: thanks for informing me about the 93 thing. I've really got into it, as 
> you can see from my new name.
> 
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