He was given responsibility in this cosmic war by operating the cloudbuster, a machine that could control the weather. Having been a Kate Bush fan for decades, I was drawn into reading this from knowing she used the book as inspiration for the song lyrics Cloudbusting (bloody love that song! In some ways this book reminds me of The Glass Castle in that much of it is in the voice and point of view of a young child relating the imaginative way they coped with a father who lived outside of the norm. In A Book of Dreams Peter Reich tells us what it was like to have a father who stood defiantly against the status quo, who did strange experiments, who shared with him his deepest hopes and fears, and who was taken from him when he was only 12. Painful and true, this book sweeps the reader through visual and complex images that turn from wakefulness to sleep, and back through to the other side of reality.

Peter Reich regales us with tales from his childhood spent largely with his doctor/psychologist/scientist/inventor/eccentric father Wilhelm Reich. If you haven't gathered already from some of these lyrics, this is a very unusual book about a very unusual childhood. The difference, of course, is that Jeannette Walls' father was an alcoholic and Peter Reich's father was a famous psychiatrist being harassed for his unorthodox discoveries. Anyway, I'm still keen to learn more about Reich, because his ideas were interesting, and while clearly a lot of what he ended up believing was nonsense, there's apparently something in some of what he did, and there was something weird going on with the FDA smashing his orgone accumulators and him dying in prison and all.Whilst the story is unusual and quite unique, the writing on a second go-around feels a little detached and removed. Peter's poetic way of writing makes this experience all the more enjoyable, and I can absolutely see why both Patti Smith and Kate Bush were so moved by this book, and I'd highly recommend it to both fans and non-fans of these wonderful musicians. But this book isn't that, it's understandably too close to what happened and I guess I'm after something straighter and more detached.

I think I could've just continued to enjoy the magic of the baroque-pop Kate Bush song it inspired without having read the book itself. Unbeknownst to him, some of the accumulators where moved to New York, and, as a result, he was put on trial for contempt of court. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. As Peter grew up, joined the army, saw more of the world, he began to understand how singular his experience was at Orgonon. Like many, I picked this up because I’m a big Kate Bush fan and was excited to read a story about a father son relationship, rain machines and other magical things.

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When I found out it inspired the song and also the music video for CLOUDBUSTING by Kate Bush I had to read this book.News from Nowhere will not obtain personal information from other organisations, and will not share, pass on or sell personal information that we hold about individuals to anyone else. Reich's writing is a stream-of-consciousness foray into the world of his childhood, rife with personal struggles and momentous events that shaped his identity. g. Jesus and Giordano Bruno – and a willingness to surrender one’s freedom to the most neurotic – e.

The story is a strange and winding tale of a boy who idolizes a man believing in UFO's, changing the weather, controlling life energy in the body and releasing tension in body therapy. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate.I was not entirely sure what to expect when I picked this up and paid the most money I have ever paid for any used book - but I did know that there was something special about it because of the sheer amount of other works of art that used this text as an inspiration. And in the end, the book gave me the same unfinished and sad feeling as the song: that Peter can never fully get past the yearning for the magical ideals he lived in childhood, or let go of his need for the closeness he had for his father, both of which are irretrievably gone. Seems to lay bear the dangers of taking advantage (even if unknowingly) of a supple mind like that of a child's.