The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. 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. I would recommend this to readers looking for something a little different; an auto-biographical mishmash of dreams and memories with the added elements of weather machines and UFOs. 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.

That doesn't make this a bad book, and I'm glad it inspired one of the most sublime songs (and videos) ever. 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. While Freud viewed sexuality as something to be controlled and repressed, Reich viewed sexuality as something to be practiced freely, even coining the phrase "the sexual revolution". 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.

g. Jesus and Giordano Bruno – and a willingness to surrender one’s freedom to the most neurotic – e. The writing was at times really amazing, I would give this book a rating of five, except that the part where he becomes an aimless hip twenty something in the 60s kind of detracts.

Was this the response of a government apparatus trying to protect its citizen's against a shonky medical treatment or was it a social manifestation of something deeper? In the span of owning this book since this summer and adding it to this list, I have read it three times prior to deciding to put it down for a while.I did like this book if not solely for the dream-like flow at its start but also for its good use of imagery and the science fiction framed but ultimately fantastical element of "cloudbusting". Images of nature, energy, aliens, war, kindness, compassion, intimacy, struggle, fear, and discovery all seem to fade and sweep back and forth throughout this amazing book, and I came out of it a better person.

The writing is tender and emotional; you can tell Peter may have had a hard time understanding and processing his childhood once he reached adulthood and reflected on what happened. Peter, who was only 13 at the time of Wilhelm's death, was now left to mourn the tragic loss of his father while at the same time being forced to face the idea that the life he had always known was not in line with reality.He got into ever more serious trouble with the government, and holed himself up in a lab with a gatehouse, where his son could keep watch and raise the alarm in the event of a raid by the police.