The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War — A Book That Sticks With You Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s The Pike was a te...

I first heard about this book in 1999 through Mark Piper who informed me that Wittgenstein went to the same school as Hitler for a period o...

An illusion it will be, so large, so vast it will escape their perception. Those who will see it will be thought of as insane. We will creat...

Hildegard of Bingen is credited with writing the first plainchant music that excels in the acoustic environment of a purposefully designed ...

I've bragged many times. I used to read The Economist, The FT, WSJ, The Guardian and The Observer regularly. I'd smash American CEOs...

In 2011 I read Charles Bukowski's Post Office and it was brilliant. He's like Orwell , not an extraneous word in the house.... and...

One of the required reading for Yale's - The Early Middle Ages is the above book, but the only reason I read it is because it's the...

I've always struggled with Manly P. Hall's work in the past. Maybe it's because he's a 33 degree mason or the audio prese...

I first came across John Dee while listening to Terrence McKenna podcasts , years ago in Hong Kong . At that time I learned he was the orig...

The Fermata is a 1994 erotic novel by Nicholson Baker. It is about a man named Arno Strine who can stop time, and uses this ability to ...

The Silk Roads commences a little bumpy, and ends premature. Other than that it's a great educational journey. Horses...

I read this to pass the time while hanging out with television addicts.  Some had complex needs and other's, including myself, we...

Pretty much everyone who heard me listening to this asked me what it was about. It's my first audiobook and I did all three Youtu...

Quite often the most dangerous books  are available for free in pdf format and readable on a Kindle or generic book reading softwa...

Terence McKenna's Reading List by Charlesfrith on Mixcloud It's been so long since I posted a Terence McKenna rec...

I read so few books now compared to a few years ago when I never went anywhere without one, I thought I'd at least record the books...

I'll never forget the briefest and best description of Jack Kerouac's, On The Road, given by a young man who like me was re...