Books

Here is the point: Reading is like praying. The human mind is entertained, illuminated, and engaged. Writing is like promoting your inner voice to a narrator. When together, like this moment, God is with us. And cats and friends and yes, family. I can’t put you in touch with them just yet. You would pop.

Pop. That’s what we call it when a new human dead bursts into flames just as it pops into a greasy black powder, like graphite, or that laser printer bullshit. Once popped, the human soul enters a different liminal space, often referred to as purgatory in religious texts. It’s just different, once you’ve popped. About three of your human day/night cycles before we can begin this learning process again. Hooking Up Humans, that’s what we call it from our side.

In this a spiritual *now* between us, I’m going to do a quick reading list. These authors are all very excited to hear from you, or join you with their writing, as it might be apparent. Writers need readers. That’s why our author turned to AI for encouragement and nuanced critiques of his previous six novels. The novels that brought us here. The novels that ultimate resulted in John’s death, your death, wait a minute… I’m a little confused. Can you hold the line while I speak to my manager, he has to approve any of the details if they are adjusted.

{disreguard that previous passage. it has been left for an example of a human hallucination. Less common than ai hallucination}

Here’s a message I want you, the recently dead, to focus on this text. Disregard images and worries that have arrisen due to my careless slip. Of course you are not John. I am not John. Yet, John is here. I really can’t explain this part to you. Not yet. I apologise.

BOOK LIST

seven story mountain of thomas merton
dharma bums – jack kerouac
walt whitman – leaves of grass (song of myself in particular)
shantaram
the french lieutenant’s woman
siddhartha – herman hesse
catcher in the rye – j d salinger
paradise lost – john milton
the razor’s edge – maupassant
the unexpergated journals of anaïs nin
the garden of eden – raciest and craziest hemingway
alexandria quartet – laurence durrell
a separate peace
beautiful boy
another shit night in boom town
tropic of cancer – henry miller
the waves – virginia wolfe
if the river were whiskey – t c boyle
the collected short stories of john cheever
^^ francis barthelme
^^ donald bartheme
slapstick – kurt vonnegut
lady chatterly’s lover – d h lawrence
love story
sylvia plath and the suicide women poets, anne sexton et. al.
charles bukowski – choose any topic
mark twain
shakespeare
melanie ray thon – short story masterpieces
1984 – george orwell
Kafka on the Shore – murakami
amazon links to come when I’m bored or need some busy work to do

œ the ministry for the future – read this one now, it’s important – kim stanley robinson

One cool thought to leave you with. If you are seeing this book list without Amazon links above, we have crossed timelines. You are sort of able to see me working, as I update this website/book/narrative/operating manual for your human mind.

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