Amsterdam Coffeeshop Directory Forums

I just finished up the book The bedroom secrets of Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh. I've become a fan of his after watching and subsequently reading Trainspotting. It has a very real life feel to it, plus a side of society people don't usually see.

Although if you're not scottish it'll take a while to get used to. Most of Irvine Welsh's books are written in Edinburgh slang and vernacular... I actually had to read it out loud like i was scottish to understand it.... kinda funny if i was sitting in a park I know....

I also read a wonderful Anthropological book called Guns Germs and Steel. It's non fiction and all about the creation of civilizations and how one culture was able to advance and prosper while others stayed left behind. Looking at everything from the types of grain they had, to the structure of the language...

it's a great find...

peace,
hippy

Please can some one give me some advice...

I went to waterstones today to order the book "emporer wears no clothes".

they said 5 days before it comes in, so i said ill wait, and try the head shop in wycombe on the weekend.

but my girlfirend pointed something out... the book is american. not a bad thing, but im really interested in the prohibition of cannabis in the UK, and the (lack of) logic behind it.

can any one please give me some good titles that deal with the issues of cannabis in politics, culture and life that focuses (in some part, if not entirely) on the UK.

and also, if the emporer wears no clothes is actually relevant to the uk, please let me know too

cheers

CHELSEA_SMOKERS_SOCIETY wrote:can any one please give me some good titles that deal with the issues of cannabis in politics, culture and life that focuses (in some part, if not entirely) on the UK.

and also, if the emporer wears no clothes is actually relevant to the uk,

in this message i have added my uk titles to puffin13's list so there might something there of interest

and twitch put the emperor wears no clothes as messages in this topic so you can take a look at it or even read the whole thing online

CHELSEA_SMOKERS_SOCIETY wrote:Please can some one give me some advice...

I went to waterstones today to order the book "emporer wears no clothes".

they said 5 days before it comes in, so i said ill wait, and try the head shop in wycombe on the weekend.

but my girlfirend pointed something out... the book is american. not a bad thing, but im really interested in the prohibition of cannabis in the UK, and the (lack of) logic behind it.

can any one please give me some good titles that deal with the issues of cannabis in politics, culture and life that focuses (in some part, if not entirely) on the UK.

and also, if the emporer wears no clothes is actually relevant to the uk, please let me know too

cheers

I can only recommend 'emperor C_S_S. It may not be relevent to the U.K exactly, but It will no doubt blow you're mind regardless.
My sister got me a copy for Christmas and I found it to be a real eye opener. Jam packed full of stuff I never knew off, and cleared up alot of stuff I thought I did.
Only downside IMO, is it is a little cluttered, i.e. in its layout, lots of seperate little windows of txt and pictures made it, for me at least, akward to read. Worthwhile though, no doubt.

Just found this: "Clapton The Autobiography" (Eric Clapton)

I literally found this on the sidewalk..hope that doesn't mean it sucks! First few pages are good....

I jus picked up "other peoples money" by Elliot Castro with Neil Forsyth in fopp for £3 its billed as "the rise and fall of Britains boldest credit card fraudster ! anyone read it or heard of the story ? looks pretty good ! get back to you all on that !

I just finished reading Derren Browns "tricks of the mind" - can you guess what I'm reading now?

I'm reading minds...woo, scary lol

Just finished reading "Killing Pablo" by Mark Bowden (same guy who wrote Black Hawk Down)

The thing I liked most about this book is the way the author throws you into the middle of a covert operation led by US Special Forces to hunt down the man described as "the billionaire godfather of international drug trafficking" ... can skip over the voring parts as it isn't an actual novel/story - more an account of the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar...

Man he was so badly shot up - his mother at first refused to believe it was him when she was bought in to identify his body... only when she saw her sons fat finger with ring on it - did she believe it was Pablo. Kinda sad actually...
______________________

Currently, I am reading "Congo Journey" by Redmond O'Hanlon, a classic of the "travel Literature" genre... Hugely funny and entertaining, gargantuan in its scope and compelling enough to have it accompany you ion the toilet (please - don't hate me for that).

Basically - the author goes out to the Congo iun search of finding the Congo Dinosaur - this book took 7 years to complete and I recommend to anyone who has a penchant for travel lit... very very very entertaing and scream out loud laughing funny....

got an urge to broaden my vocabulary.

Stephen King' Firestarter',that,s the only author i can read in English, i had pleasure to meet HIM on a couple of occasions.

Trichome_Dense wrote:
Oh btw, just finished reading "Fingerprints of the Gods" by Graham Hancock for the 5th or 6th time - It's loose fact littered with bullshit about the earth and it's historic movememnts. Starting with Earth Crust and tectonic plate shifts - moving onto people movements and the first defined civilisations - then goes into some crazy talk about some crazier shit... and ends by telling us that the modern world as we see it now, will end in the year 2012 (which is what the Mayan calender predicts in his findings) - pretty entertaining when you are buzzing before bedtime. Bedtime stories for adults?

Very interesting read TD, I've burned through it a couple of times. Alot of his theories have been debunked in documentries, but still... thought provoking stuff.

I've just finished reading The Armageddon Script: Prophecy in Action and have picked up a copy of The Dawkins Delusion, just to have a peek at what t'other side says.

Descartes - Meditations

Theres some books every human being should read, and this is one of them. If it dosnt blow your mind, ill be very surprised.

Anyone who reads Dawkins or subscribed to his Youtube videos are sound in my eyes.

Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals.

TRANCE wrote:Anyone who reads Dawkins or subscribed to his Youtube videos are sound in my eyes.

Dont like him, alot of his theory is extremely flawed. He ignores the basic human instinct for violence and asserts religion is the reason for this need, it is not, more so when he attempts to explain everything in terms of evolution. If we take on aspects because they are adaptive as Dawkin asserts, then why do we take on religion? It cant be completely bad, or perhaps all our actions are not adaptive characterists steming from Evolution.

Marx's explanation of religion seems to be a basis for some of his thinking, but of all of Marx's theories are naturalistic reductionist, everything gets boiled down to economic factors. He never entered debates regarding the existence of God. So his references to him are a little confusing.

His basic arguments are very good, i just have problems when he gets a little deeper.