Any toker readers out there?

[RW_Tucker]

I like to think I consume as much pulpy paper as I do canny cannabis.

Right now I'm actually eating up digital bytes and bits, listening to an audiobook of Kraken, by China Mieville. Killer, wacked out kind of story, set in modern London, full of bizarre cults, underground sorcery, and dead gods. Also recently finished Moby Dick, I was stoned through about 60% of it.

Anyone else a reader?

• What's your favorite genre to read blazed?
• Do you find it difficult to do heavy reading when blazed?
• Do you ever write anything when blazed?

Also want to insert a plug for my own book series, High Water. Think Bruce Lee meets Pineapple Express. Part 1 is short and scrappy, and can be found here or here.

 

[StrongBeef]

I love to read, however I only read educational books. If I want a good murder mystery or sci-fi I turn on the TV. If I want to learn something, books it is. I enjoy reading stoned, but retain more if sober. Good luck on your book, sounds great.

 

[RW_Tucker]

I love to read, however I only read educational books. If I want a good murder mystery or sci-fi I turn on the TV. If I want to learn something, books it is. I enjoy reading stoned, but retain more if sober. Good luck on your book, sounds great.

Nonfiction kind of guy, sure. Some of the best things I've read stoned have been entirely nonfictional.

My favorite are survival guides, anything dealing with off-the-grid survival.

 

[StrongBeef]

Total sucker for survival guide books. That and plant science.

 

[fulltimehuman]

Hi All!

I love reading. Reading is Fundamental after all.

I like to read mostly non-fiction.
Although I do love William Burroughs. Some of that is non-fictional?

I loved a book about the english letters and why each letter is used in the way it is called 'the mother tongue-english and how it got that way.'

I love reading about true history of issues that are presented very differently in media and school curriculums. Although 'true' is always
a loaded term haha.

I'm also into alternative health and metaphysical-ish issues.A fetching read in this area was 'The RAW TRUTH about Milk.- William Campbell Douglass II MD. Really interesting stuff out there! To me, being someone who had to hoof it to the public library or a book store to get information to assimilate, the interwebs are like the libraries of Alexandria. Its just so wide open to learn and enjoy thru reading.

Many books I read these days are pdf downloads. Sadly its hard to carry a book around, or maybe just inconvenient. I can't believe I said that but....

So I read when I can, sometimes have three or four books going concurrently. Although that has tapered off as I have three kids between five and one so I read their faces trying to figure out what mess they will get in next also?

I also do cover design for books and people who write books. lots of books. Ever read "Ways of Seeing"? This was an eye and mind opener I bought for a quarter from Books Books Books.lol
Ways Of Seeing

and to answer you question I like to read TAPEOP magazine Blazed.
Can't read worth a damn if I'm 'heavily' Blazed. Maybe a page or two but the mind images get in the way.
I write all sorts of stuff while blazed. While I'm not a novelist, I use the songwriting format to hang my words..... on a peg....to be read.

 

[RW_Tucker]

Hi All!
I love reading. Reading is Fundamental after all.

FUNdamental!

I loved a book about the english letters and why each letter is used in the way it is called 'the mother tongue-english and how it got that way.'

I love this idea. I read a book once called "A History of Reading in the West", which was about the different ways that people read. For instance, back in Roman times, reading was often done in public and in groups. It follows the development of the codex, the technology of the bound book with many pages, versus the invention of the scroll, which was much harder to reference and cross reference.

Wonder if they updated it for modern times with e-readers. I feel like scholarly reading requires the codex. I can't study with an ereader, it just doesn't work.

Thanks for posting!

 

[stoned-trout]

everything I read is pretty much while stoned...but I am always stoned so...I used to read westerns a lot ..now I mostly read educational outdoor stuff...animals,hiking camping fishing, hunting, prepping, survival ect..

 

[StrongBeef]

Did I mention I read playboy also, only for the articles of course.

 

[RW_Tucker]

everything I read is pretty much while stoned...but I am always stoned so...I used to read westerns a lot ..now I mostly read educational outdoor stuff...animals,hiking camping fishing, hunting, prepping, survival ect..

Any Western recommendations? Finished Blood Meridian recently and, uhhh, I think I'm looking for something a little more traditional. That was a slog.

 

[stoned-trout]

zane grey... take your pick he wrote like 80 books....I read about all of em...and no I cant remember a fav one...my memory is shit

 

[RW_Tucker]

Did I mention I read playboy also, only for the articles of course.

"read" hahaha

Thanks for the recc, Trout!

 

[stoned-trout]

I used to get lost in zane greys writing ..the way he described stuff you felt like you were there sometimes...yeehaw

 

[RW_Tucker]

I used to get lost in zane greys writing ..the way he described stuff you felt like you were there sometimes...yeehaw

Amazon has 49 Zane Grey books for $3.99, hot damn.

http://www.amazon.com/Zane-Grey-Ultimate-Collection-Westerns-ebook/dp/B00LW8F9UK/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

 

[growsjoe1]

Big time reader here. Very cool to have a book on amazon Tucker. Welcome to Icmag.

I mostly read Sci Fi and dare I say it...fantasy novels. THC, kung fo, and zombies and a review of it being a page turner is enough for me to give it a go

One book I've read recently is "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins and it blew my socks off. It touches on some of my favorite topics: mysticism, transhumanism, the afterlife, spirituality, evolution, consciousness, mythology, and on and on and on. It's so full of optimism and wit that I highly recommend it.

Hard to beat a good book on these cold nights sitting by the fire, hitting a few and relaxin.

Wish you the best in your pursuits.

peace joe

 

[RW_Tucker]

One book I've read recently is "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins and it blew my socks off. It touches on some of my favorite topics: mysticism, transhumanism, the afterlife, spirituality, evolution, consciousness, mythology, and on and on and on.

Thanks so much joe. You're very generous! I've written down Jitterbug.

If you've never read Shantaram, I think you might be the kind of person that likes it. It not only hits on all the things you described, but it's also a page turner, and has some unforgettable characters. Set in Mumbai, there's tons of charras, so plenty of people smoking hash the entire time. But it's really a slice of life of an expat involved with the underground, so you get to feel India, down to the very roots of it.

A good friend recommended it to me. We'd reconnected for the first time in years, and he was like, "Dude, I knew you for years and I know you'll love this one." It's epic like one of those Russian novels, but at the same time it's really down to earth.

Gonna build a fire tonight and catch up on my own reading!

 

[stoned-trout]

Louis L amour too.....I like when writers get it right ..your there almost as much as a movie..but all in your mind

 

[BudToker]

Cannery Row + OG18 =

I love reading while stoned. I do catch myself having to re-read a paragraph from time to time due to my imagination wandering off. Several weeks ago I blazed through Steinbeck's Cannery Row in one sitting while heavily stoned on OG-18. It was short, about 200 pages or so and I loved it. Now anytime I hit that specific strain I am thrown back into the setting and feel of that novel. It is an amazing sensation and I hope it lasts. If the feeling fades I will read it again under the same conditions.

- BT

 

[Max Headroom]

i always read at least one book. 99% non-fiction. i also have this "library of alexandria" feeling with the internet. soooo much interesting stuff!

at the moment i am reading "Martin Bormann - Nazi in Exile" by Paul Manning (1981)
did you know the swiss numbered account system was set up to prevent the Gestapo from getting to jewish accounts? or that the planes and guns that defended israel against the first attack from egypt were bought from a nazi organization (ODESSA)?
i love finding strange and ironic historical tidbits like this. ;-)

i also wanted to plug the book thread here on the forum
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=78343

 

[RW_Tucker]

I am not sure what strain I prefer for reading: probably sativa. I like indicas or hybrids for chilling.

For writing, pretty much anything that lets me blow off steam!

Thanks Max! Will check it out.

 

[BudToker]

Yes probably sativas for most readers however I prefer an indca or hybrid strain when I read.

My sativas are "electric" and although I do read occasionally under their influence, I can't enjoy the reading material as much. I get the urge to stop reading so that I can perform an experiment in the garden or some other creative spur of the moment project.

- BT