6 must-read nonfiction books like Blissed Out by Simon Reynolds

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Blissed Out

By: Simon Reynolds

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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If you liked the nonfiction plot in Blissed Out by Simon Reynolds , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) by William Gibson

1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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2. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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3. The Revolution of Everyday Life

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Raoul Vaneigem

3.79

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
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4. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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5. VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)

By: Philip K. Dick

3.44

Format: 220 pages,

VALISis the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The … read more

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6. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

By: Anthony Bourdain

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary tra… read more

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7. Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more

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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

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8. Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil

By: Mike Mignola

4.21

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A murder in a New York wax museum and a missing corpse lead Hellboy and the Bureau for Paranormal R… read more

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"Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts!"

-Mike Mignola, Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil

9. No Country for Old Men

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more

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10. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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11. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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12. Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present

By: J.R. Moores

3.92

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From Black Sabbath to Big Black, a ride through the evolution, diversity, and influence of genre-de… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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13. Come My Fanatics: A Journey into the World of Electric Wizard

By: Dan Franklin

4.18

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

For over 25 years, Electric Wizard have been gathering the masses around them as one of the largest… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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14. Blissed Out

By: Simon Reynolds

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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  • music
  • nonfiction

15 must-read nonfiction books like Come My Fanatics: A Journey into the World of Electric Wizard by Dan Franklin

Transform Your Habits

I Am Ozzy

Ozzy Osbourne , Chris Ayres

4.11

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Cal Flyn

4.20

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