On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:06 PM, socialismorbarbarism < socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Bennett <bennett.mab at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I read "Steal This Book" in high school in the early '70s, but I only
> knew
> > one other student who also read it - and he stole it from me. On the
> other
> > hand, just about everyone was reading, or had read, "The Lord of The
> > Rings". If the Harry Potter and Meyer series had been around then I'd
> > venture to say that they would have been just as popular as they are
> now...
>
> I heard the prototypical late-60s/early 70s (white, male) college dorm
> reading list in a song/shaggy-dog story, the identity of which is left
> as a trivia question:
>
> "A leather-bound five-year collection of Playboy magazine, featuring
> the entire Playboy philosophy by Hugh M. Hefner (schmuck);
> A copy of The Whole Earth Catalog;
> Siddhartha by Herman Hesse;
> The Trilogy [sic] of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien;
> All four volumes of the teachings of Don Juan (and the fifth in
> manuscript!);
> The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (autographed!);
> Some Spiderman and Fantastic Four comic books (featuring Dr. Doom!);
> Some Zap comic books with the pages stuck together..."
>
> with the Don Juan referred to here being, of course, Castaneda's:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda
>
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