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I then learned that another musical idol of mine, Kate Bush, has a song (and music video) about this book as well: "Cloudbusting". A Book of Dreams, the inspiration behind Kate Bush s 1985 hit song Cloudbusting , and widely regarded as a classic of writing about childhood, is at last available in paperback again. I struggle at times to understand how cultures of beliefs that seem irrational to me are so persistent, but this story about a boy needing to keep living in the world of meaning his father created for him makes it so sympathetic; it’s about believing in his family and the relationship as much as any given philosophical or political ideal. I thank Peter Reich for being extremely vulnerable about his experiences through this memoir, and reminding us what makes fathers special. I did psychology A-level before it was all glowing brains and no-one was making much of a pretence to know anything definitive about the mind, and we covered a whole bunch of theories that I'm guessing don't get a lot of class time today.

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. This famous book, the inspiration behind Kate Bush's 1985 hit song 'Cloudbusting', is the extraordinary account of life as friend, confidant and child of the brilliant but persecuted Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich.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.

I still dream of Orgonon, I wake up crying, you're making rain and you're just in reach when you and sleep escape me. In a tapestry of dream-like memories Peter Reich relates his experience of something which, when he wrote this book in 1973, he was still struggling to comprehend. The first third of the book has some very interesting bits in it aside from the previously mentioned. Already regarded as a modern classic, A Book of Dreams is not only a beautifully written narrative of a remarkable friendship and collaboration, but a loving son's heartfelt tribute to a loving father.Relationships between a son and his father has always puzzled me, and as my life has taken turns itself, it has gotten only more confusing and metaphorical. And the long term psychological impacts that mental illness and delusions can have on those closest to the sufferer. His sister does not seem to have written anything about their father or his work or how it affected her. It reminded me of Richard Brautigan and similar authors from the 1970s: chronology and point of view lurch all over the place, reality and fantasy merge and are hard to disentangle. 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".

The short memoir is a series of memories from Peter’s secluded childhood at Orgonon, a sprawling property in the New England where Peter spent his days roaming the countryside and serving as a soldier in his father’s war against the aliens.Reich did prior to writing this, but it reminds me of the creative writing that some of my creative writing students do when they put out something that is so magnificent and do not realize how beautiful it really is because they do not normally create with words. 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 book is short, slim, and important, written by a man whose careers spanned journalism and child daycare according to the jacket.

Reich also believed that human energy (orgasmic energy, in particular) could help control the weather. As Peter grew up, joined the army, saw more of the world, he began to understand how singular his experience was at Orgonon. This book really stuck out as original in my mind in the way it fuses together different scenes and characters with a narrative and descriptive flow identical to some of the dreams I've had.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. A Book of Dreams, the inspiration behind Kate Bush's 1985 hit song 'Cloudbusting', and widely regarded as a classic of writing about childhood, is at last available in paperback again. And it's very unusual, beautiful book, written by this man through the eyes of himself when he was a child, looking at his father, and the relationship between them. Jos eräs lempibiisini Kate Bushilta, Cloudbusting, ei perustuisi tähän kirjaan, en olisi varmaan koskaan lukenut tätä. 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.

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