The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha

7 best books like The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha (Stephen T. Asma): Elric of Melniboné, Mortality, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, This is It & Other Essays on Zen & Spiritual Experience, Divorce Poison

Elric of Melniboné

Author	Michael Moorcock
ISBN	0441203981

It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody....He is Elric, Emperor of Melnibone, cursed with a keen and cynical intelligence, schooled in the art of sorcery...

Mortality

Author	Christopher Hitchens
ISBN	1455502758

On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for "Vanity Fair," he suddenly found himself...

A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

Author

E.L. Konigsburg

I especially anticipated reading this book for a couple of reasons.

1 - I love other books by this author especially From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Jennifer, Hecate, McBeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth.

2 - The book tells the story of Eleanor of Aquitaine,...

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

Author	Chanrithy Him
ISBN	0393322106

In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps,...

The Sailor on the Seas of Fate

Author	Michael Moorcock
ISBN	0586208771

Holy crap! I, Mark Lawrence, have read an entire book in 4 hours!

Admittedly I picked it up after discovering that it was only 24,000 words long, or 1/2oth of a George Martin epic.

EDIT: over the long grind of this summer holiday I've been writing a "short" story that I'm being paid to write...

This is It & Other Essays on Zen & Spiritual Experience

Author	Alan W. Watts
ISBN	0394719042

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening".


Recognizing that the experience of presence is the only experience, is also a reminder that our “I” doesn’t exist beyond this present moment...

Divorce Poison

Author	Richard A. Warshak
ISBN	0061788317

Your ex-spouse is bad-mouthing you to your children, perhaps even trying to turn them against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, you could lose your children's respect, their affection--even, in extreme cases, contact with them. Backed by twenty-five years of experience in helping...