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Ulysses
by James Joyce
My Favorite Book! I hated reading in school, but in the Navy, in 1961, I discovered this book and it changed my life. The last time I counted, I had read it 17 times.
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Seamarks
by St.-John Perse
La poésie et la langue française vont ensemble.
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How to Read a Chinese Poem
by Edward C. Chang
Translations don't work for the important ancient Chinese poetry. What a new dimension is added with a better understanding of the structure of Chinese poetry.
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O Lost
by Thomas Wolfe
First came James Joyce, and he spawned Thomas Wolfe, my favorite American writer by far, and since I discovered his books in 1961. O Lost is the real version of "Look Homeward Angel" - A great book!
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The Big Red Book
by Rumi
Rumi and Hafiz. What can one say?
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A Woman Clothed in the Sun
Edited by John J. Delaney
This is the book that opened my eyes to the apparitions of Mary.
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The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac
First came James Joyce, followed by Thomas Wolfe, and then the mantle was pased to this great writer - Jack Kerouac of the "Beat Generation."
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Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
This is the book I am reading now. However, you don't read it. It's a huge study.
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Poems of the Masters
Translated by Red Pine
Translations of Chinese poetry by Red Pine.
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A Man Who Walked with God
by Smith Wigglesworth
This is where we can find out that the pentacostal movement starting in 1905 is real, even though it had been almost completely polluted, like everything else.
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The Lost Boy
by Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe at his best.
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The Bhagavad Gita
Translated by Eknath Easwaran
This is my spirtual guidebook No. 1
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Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah
by John P. Anderson
Insights into the Wake. Insights into life.
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Mythic Worlds, Modern Words
by Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell's great introduction to Joyce's great masterworks.
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The Upanishads
by Eknath Easwaran
This is my Spiritual Guide No. 2.
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Myths of Light
by Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell book on Hinduism.
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Sämtliche Gedichte
by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Goethe was one of the greatest literary minds of the 19th century. His poetry is like music.
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The Hound of Darkness
by Thomas Wolfe
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A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, Tome 1 : Du Côté de Chez Swann
by Marcel Proust
Proust is amazing. I have been hoping to read the entire work and haven't yet.
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The Party at Jack's
by Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe's writings before the Max Perkins chopped everything up at Shirmer's.
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The Ramayana
by Ramesh Menon
A great Epic.
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The Starwick Episodes
by Thomas Wolfe
Great Thomas Wolfe.
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Tales of the Dervishes
by Indries Shah
Stories of the Sufis.
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Zen Flesh Zen Bones
by x
The essence of Zen.
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The New Testament (Red Letter Edition)
King James Version
The essence of the teaching of Jesus is in the four gospels and the book of acts.
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Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
by Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell's insights into the "Wake."
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The Apparitions of Garabandal
by F. Sanchez-Ventura y Pascual
The apparitions of Mary at Garbandal
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Mahabharata
Translated by Kamala Subramaniam
The world's greatest epic.
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