Yeah sadly a lot of books from the former soviet union are still circulating with horrible translations (if any). I can't really give a recommendation either be

Yeah sadly a lot of books from the former soviet union are still circulating with horrible translations (if any). I can't really give a recommendation either because I read it in german. And truth to what you say about the glass bead game, the first 200 pages are a torture, but I still cherish it even for the metaphor alone. Do you know of any book that does a better job bringing that across? That'd be very interesting. + Edit to my post: Meant to put Finnegan's wake to Joyce, not Ulysses! (even thought that's a pretty decent mindbender in itself) + Some I forgot: - C G Jung - The Red Book (get the readers edition) - Nobody mentioned McKenna! 'True Hallucinations' for example. Skip everything to do with I Ching and Timewave. - Illuminatus! trilogy was only mentioned once for some reason (but then horrible to read) - Toffler - Third Wave - Gibson - Neuromancer - Hesse - Demian - P K Dick - Electric Sheep - J A West - Serpent in the sky - R A Wilson - Prometheus Rising and some awesomely trippy, mindbending 'children's books': - Preußler - Krabat - Lindgreen - Brothers Lionheart - Ende - Momo