 Book Meme fer **** 's sake...
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Dec. 18th, 2007 @ 05:46 am 
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Ok, here you go Betz... if I've put YouTube nonsense why not a meme? (he said, then jumped into the pits of the web...)
Here is The Book Meme:
1. One book that changed my life. Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, by HP Lovecraft & Others (the original version, not the mutilated re-issue Arkham House did a few years ago). By the way, I read it in Francisco Torres Oliver's wonderful translation for Bruguera, Relatos de los Mitos de Cthulhu.
2. One book I've read more than once. Hm. Just one? Maybe Joseph S. Pulver's Nightmare's Disciple. A journey through the Cthulhu Mythos stock full of fan-service with cool characters. Or Robert Anton Wilson's Masks of the Illuminati.
3. One book I'd want on a desert island. Stephen King's The Stand (or, if the island is a long-submerged cummuli of Cyclopean rocks in the South Pacific, I'll take the Necronomicon).
4. One book that made me laugh. Magdalena, Vida y Milagros de una Aprendiz de Bruja, by Alicia Sanmiguel Peralta; that, Where Were You Last Pluterday? and Wilson & Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
5. One book that made me cry. Not an easy one. Way back as a kid, Jim Owsley's final issue of Power Man and Iron Fist -Daniel Rand's frustrating death was quite the shocker back when Marvel characters did stay dead. But that's a comic book, I'd say at least a graphic novel would qualify as book. No, I know - Ray Bradbury's From the Dust Returned -the Family, ole Uncle Reinar, the Ghastly Gentleman, and oh the sweet and wicked Cecy the April witch!
6. One book I wish had been written. Sorry, I've got three - T.E.D. Klein's aborted sequel to The Ceremonies (was it titled Night Town?), HP Lovecraft's unwritten magnum opus on the curse of a quasi-lycanthropic bloodline and Stephen King's novel about how David Torrance and Charlie McGee grow up, get married and move into 'Salem's Lot.
7. One book I wish had never been written. Hmm. Ben Raab's run on Excalibur -wait, I said no monthly comics... I know - the book by that bitch who originally made up the indigo children nonsense.
8. One book I'm currently reading. Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now. A Rosicrucian (Lectorium, not AMORC) friend recommended it like the best book ever; I'm just about forty pages into it and I'm quite torn between some sensible arguments Tolle presents and the infuriating "read this with your heart and change your life into glitter" language.Up to this point, Tolle reads a lot like Robin Artisson possessed by Og Mandino. Still, it's an amusing irony that a book which my friend says sums up so well many views of his Lectorium Rosicrucianum seems to fit quite well with a lot of concepts I've found in the witchcraft/pagan fields which he and his RC friends usually consider "dialectic" and counter-initiatory. Pretty basic stuff, but from what David says, it should get interesting a little further. If I can get past the self-help idiocy tone, that is...
9. One book I've been meaning to read. Nigel Jackson's The Pillars of Tubal Cain. Yeah, I know, I know, I should have read it already...
10. One book I'd like to write. A book that, through fiction and poetry, communicated profound stepstones for the Crooked Path; the only kind of book that coul.d aspire to do that. It would be somewhat like Arthur Machen's "The White People", T.E.D. Klein's The Ceremonies, Aleister Crowley's The Book of Lies, Robert Anton Wilson's Masks of the Illuminati, Andrew Chumbley's Azoetia, Charles G. Leland's Aradia, Thomas Ligotti's and Ray Bradbury's and HP Lovecraft's whatever... I'm trying; some of my first sorry attempts are filling up web space in my Grimorio de Black John.
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I was just browsing through From The Dust Returned in the bookstore today. I'm happy that 50 years later, Bradbury went back and gave Cecy a happy ending.
Which is pretty remarkable, that - that everyone likes Cecy. Even after she possesses a fisherman's wife and forces her to drown in quicksand.
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