Hier in Thamel, Kathmandu läuft man keine 10 Schritte, ohne eine dieser Fragen:
- You want something?
- Smoke?
- Hash?
- Marijuana?
Oder einfach “Shhhh…”
You want something?
Um ehrlich zu sein experimentiere ich bereits seit dem Beginn dieser Reise mit den gefährlichsten bewusstseinsverändernden Substanzen der Welt: Büchern.
Von meinem ganzen Leseleben kann ich mich nur noch an ca. 100 Bücher erinnern. Viel mehr waren es auch nicht. Das muss sich ändern und wir Reisende haben viel Gelegenheit zu lesen.
Bücher: bewusstseinsverändernde Substanzen
Man sollte nicht alles glauben, was man liest. Wir Menschen tun das aber unweigerlich. Verstehen ist Glauben. Descartes hat sich geirrt und Spinoza hatte recht.
Man sollte also aufpassen, was man liest. Ich habe mir für die Weltreise eine Liste mit 200 Büchern ausgesucht, die Favorite Books von Reddit. In der Liste finden sich fast alle meine Lieblingsbücher. Abgestimmt haben außerdem v.a. Nerds, also Gleichgesinnte (-;
Hier ist die gesamte Liste mit meinen Anmerkungen
- blau: vor Weltreise gelesen
- orange: auf Weltreise gelesen
- rot: am lesen
- ausgegraut: für mich unlesbar
| # | Titel | Autor |
| 1 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| 2 | 1984 | George Orwell |
| 3 | Dune | Frank Herbert |
| 4 | Slaughterhouse 5 | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 5 | Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card |
| 6 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| 7 | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
| 8 | The Bible | Various |
| 9 | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson |
| 10 | Harry Potter Series | J. K. Rowling |
| 11 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 12 | Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! | Richard P. Feynman |
| 13 | To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| 14 | The Foundation Saga | Isaac Asimov |
| 15 | Neuromancer | William Gibson |
| 16 | Calvin and Hobbes | Bill Watterson |
| 17 | Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond |
| 18 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| 19 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig |
| 20 | Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse |
| 21 | The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins |
| 22 | Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid | Douglas Hofstadter |
| 23 | Tao Te Ching | Lao Tse |
| 24 | House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielwelski |
| 25 | The Giver | Lois Lowry |
| 26 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| 27 | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| 28 | A People’s History of the United States | Howard Zinn |
| 29 | The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| 30 | Ishmael | Daniel Quinn |
| 31 | A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking |
| 32 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 33 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| 34 | His Dark Materials Trilogy | Philip Pullman |
| 35 | The Stranger | Albert Camus |
| 36 | Various | Dr. Seuss |
| 37 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy |
| 38 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| 39 | The Monster At The End Of This Book | Jon Stone and Michael Smollin |
| 40 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson |
| 41 | A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson |
| 42 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep | Phillip K. Dick |
| 43 | A Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| 44 | The Art of War | Sun Tzu |
| 45 | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie |
| 46 | Flowers For Algernon | Daniel Keyes |
| 47 | The Hyperion Cantos | Dan Simmons |
| 48 | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole |
| 49 | The Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights | Various |
| 50 | Cat’s Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 51 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller, Jr |
| 52 | Odyssey | Homer |
| 53 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| 54 | A Song of Ice and Fire | George R. R. Martin |
| 55 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 56 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| 57 | Ringworld | Larry Niven |
| 58 | A Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin |
| 59 | The Art of Deception | Kevin Mitnick |
| 60 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint Exupéry |
| 61 | Freakonomics | Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt |
| 62 | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 63 | The Omnivore’s Dilemma | Michael Pollan |
| 64 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| 65 | The Forever War | Joe Haldeman |
| 66 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| 67 | Lies My Teacher Told Me | James Loewen |
| 68 | Notes From Underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| 69 | Everybody Poops | Tarō Gomi |
| 70 | On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| 71 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X with Alex Haley |
| 72 | John Dies at the End | David Wong |
| 73 | The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx |
| 74 | Contact | Carl Sagan |
| 75 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| 76 | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| 77 | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| 78 | The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson |
| 79 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| 80 | The Stand | Stephen King |
| 81 | The Dharma Bums | Jack Kerouac |
| 82 | The Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| 83 | Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| 84 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera |
| 85 | Why People Believe Weird Things | Michael Shermer |
| 86 | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media | Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky |
| 87 | Asimov’s Guide to the Bible | Isaac Asimov |
| 88 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| 89 | Collapse | Jared Diamond |
| 90 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallave |
| 91 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| 92 | Chaos | James Gleick |
| 93 | American Gods | Neil Gaiman |
| 94 | Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 95 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime | Mark Haddon |
| 96 | You Can Choose to Be Happy | Tom G. Stevens |
| 97 | The Geography of Nowhere | James Howard Kunstler |
| 98 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque |
| 99 | Candide | Voltaire |
| 100 | Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| 101 – 200 | ||
| 101 | The Girl Next Door | Jack Ketchum |
| 102 | In Defense of Food | Michael Pollan |
| 103 | The Dark Tower | Stephen King |
| 104 | Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk |
| 105 | The Greatest Show on Earth | Richard Dawkins |
| 106 | The Making of a Radical | Scott Nearing |
| 107 | The Turner Diaries | Andrew MacDonald |
| 108 | The Scar | China Mieville |
| 109 | Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse |
| 110 | Going Rogue | Sarah Palin |
| 111 | 120 Days of Sodom | Marquis De Sade |
| 112 | Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C Clarke |
| 113 | Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood |
| 114 | Beyond Good and Evil | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 115 | Gravity’s Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon |
| 116 | Naked Lunch | William Burroughs |
| 117 | Childhood’s End | Arthur C Clarke |
| 118 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| 119 | The Book of Ler | MA Foster |
| 120 | The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark | Carl Sagan |
| 121 | Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo |
| 122 | Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson |
| 123 | Watership Down | Richard Adams |
| 124 | Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 125 | Civilization and Capitalism | Fernand Braudel |
| 126 | Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs | Chuck Klosterman |
| 127 | A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge |
| 128 | The Saga of Seven Suns | Kevin J Anderson |
| 129 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 130 | American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis |
| 131 | The Mote in God’s Eye | Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle |
| 132 | The Chomsky Reader | Noam Chomsky |
| 133 | The Panda’s Thumb | Stephen Jay Gould |
| 134 | Flatland | Edwin Abbot |
| 135 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| 136 | The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins |
| 137 | The Classical Style | Charles Rosen |
| 138 | Here Be Dragons | Sharon Kay Penman |
| 139 | An American Life | Ronald Reagan |
| 140 | Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space | Carl Sagan |
| 141 | The Little Schemer | Friedman & Felleisen |
| 142 | Life in the Woods | Henry David Thoreau |
| 143 | Black Lamb, Grey Falcon | Rebecca West |
| 144 | Thus Spake Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 145 | Sandman | Neil Gaiman |
| 146 | The Game | Neil Strauss |
| 147 | Good Omens | Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman |
| 148 | Mere Christianity | CS Lewis |
| 149 | Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| 150 | The Collapse of Complex Societies | Joseph Tainter |
| 151 | Cthulhu Mythos | H. P. Lovecraft |
| 152 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester |
| 153 | The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett |
| 154 | The Prince of Nothing | R. Scott Bakker |
| 155 | Perdido Street Station | China Mieville |
| 156 | Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl |
| 157 | The Wasteland | TS Elliot |
| 158 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| 159 | Pi to 5 million places | [kick books] |
| 160 | The Blank Slate | Steven Pinker |
| 161 | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 162 | Guts | Chuck Palahniuk |
| 163 | fear and trembling | Søren Kierkegaard |
| 164 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey |
| 165 | Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami |
| 166 | Ulysses | James Joyce |
| 167 | Macbeth | Shakespeare |
| 168 | Basic Economics | Thomas Sowell |
| 169 | Atheism: The Case Against God | George H. Smith |
| 170 | The Handmaids Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| 171 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| 172 | Sophie’s World | Jostein Gaarder |
| 173 | Women | Charles Bukowski |
| 174 | Red Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| 175 | We Need To Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver |
| 176 | How We Die | Sherwin B. Nuland |
| 177 | Philosophical Investigations | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| 178 | The singularity is near | Ray Kurzweil |
| 179 | The Day of the Trifids | John Wyndham |
| 180 | The Long Walk | Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) |
| 181 | Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy |
| 182 | The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are | Alan Watts |
| 183 | The Wheel of Time | Robert Jordan |
| 184 | The Elegant Universe | Brian Green |
| 185 | A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
| 186 | Book of the New Sun | Gene Wolfe |
| 187 | King Lear | Shakespeare |
| 188 | The Power of Myth | Joseph Campbell |
| 189 | The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica | Apollonius of Rhodes |
| 190 | The Baroque Cycle | Neal Stephenson |
| 191 | Nichomachean ethics | Aristotle |
| 192 | Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandlla |
| 193 | Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell |
| 194 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| 195 | The Chrysalids | John Wyndham |
| 196 | The Occult | Colin Wilson |
| 197 | Cosmos | Carl Sagan |
| 198 | The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand |
| 199 | Hamlet | Shakespeare |
| 200 | The Hero with a Thousand Faces | Joseph Campbell |
Außerdem habe ich auf der Weltreise diese Neuerscheinungen und deutschen Klassiker gelesen:
- The 4-Hour Body von Tim Ferriss
- A Dance With Dragons von George R.R. Martin
- Spin von Robert Charles Wilson
- Die Judenbuche von Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
- Einige Kurzgeschichten von Franz Kafka
Lesen ist eigentlich mein Hauptaugenmerk auf dieser Reise.
Für Lesetipps bin ich dankbar, besonders von deutschen Autoren.
Kathmandu 44600, Nepal 
“Shhhh…” funktioniert wohl international, kannste in kreuzberg auch laufend hoehren.
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