/lit/ - Literature

I've snagged Castaneda's first five books on the cheap, currently reading Journey to Ixtlan. What's your opinion on them?

Aside from all the speculation on the actual "truth" of what is contained in the narrative, I found them to be an incredibly interesting series of thoughts and images about (one kind of) Western epistemology and its limits, as well as a well-written chronicle of first contact between two truly alien mental/representational worlds.
There's also an interesting, unspoken commentary on the validity and worth of rituals, oral traditions and supernatural iconography in the contemporary world as a kind of alternative cartography that might just still work for its users.

>>8197616
>>8197616

Never underestimate the power of dope!
No, seriously: A great read when you're feeling down.

Also: Maxim Gorky – My Universities