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shortchanged

shortchanged

Houston, TX
January 2003

OCT 12, 2005 09:08 PM

since i lost all my books in hurricane katrina, i feel i need to start a new collection. so what are some books that everyone should read? here's a few of my recommendations.









Al

Al

SUICIDEGIRL

Christmas Island

OCT 12, 2005 09:10 PM

Testiment of Youth

Cryptonomicon

The Warlord Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell

Gates of Fire

bluevalentine

bluevalentine

San Antonio, TX
December 2003

OCT 12, 2005 09:11 PM

East of Eden by Steinbeck

MarginWalker2002

MarginWalker2002

San Diego, CA
April 2004

OCT 12, 2005 09:12 PM

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Childhood Friend of Jesus

Snow Crash

Watership Down

Stranger in a Strange Land

Dune

pharcyde

pharcyde

Canada
September 2003

OCT 12, 2005 09:17 PM

the divine comedy by dante
paradise lost by milton
the silmarillion by tolkien
the iliad by homer

Serendipity

Serendipity

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

OCT 12, 2005 09:18 PM

The Ginger Man-JP Donleavy


Also, I just finished The Kite Runner. I could barely put it down.

shortchanged

shortchanged

Houston, TX
January 2003

OCT 12, 2005 09:19 PM

Al said:
Testiment of Youth

Cryptonomicon



i should've added those to mine *grr*

almost forgot about this one


penates

penates

Madison, WI
December 2003

OCT 12, 2005 09:20 PM

Hellfire by Nick Tosches (seriously one of the best books ever written, even though it's a biography of Jerry Lee Lewis. Read that shit, I promise you it's worth it.)

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (Haha, just kidding! No one's actually read Infinite Jest.)

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James "Irish" Joyce

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

The Illuminatus! Trilogy by some hippies

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Campbell

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

Oracle

Oracle

Courtenay, BC
September 2003

OCT 12, 2005 09:21 PM

is there a book group? if not there definately should be.

Drama

Drama

Columbus, OH
January 2003

OCT 12, 2005 09:23 PM

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

How To Make Love Like A Porn Star by Jenna Jameson

Goomba's Guide To Life by Steve Schairippa

Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

OCT 12, 2005 09:25 PM

But if you're over 16 -- which, presumably, hopefully, everyone reading this is -- and you haven't read Catcher in the Rye yet, don't bother, or else you will want to choke Houlden Caulfield, not sympathize with him.

Darke

Darke

Columbia, MO
June 2005

OCT 12, 2005 09:31 PM

Meditations (or To Myself) by Marcus Aurelius

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

The Perfumed Garden by Sir Richard Burton

DrTchock

DrTchock

Montreal, QC
October 2005

OCT 12, 2005 09:31 PM

Not for everyone

The Rum Diaries - H.S. Thompson
What's Eating gilbert Grape -Peter Hedges
The Beach - Alex Garland
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Favourite Game - Leonard Cohen
All involve young men undergoing some transformation.

[Edited on Oct 13, 2005 by Scissorfingers]

shortchanged

shortchanged

Houston, TX
January 2003

OCT 12, 2005 09:31 PM

Keith said:
But if you're over 16 -- which, presumably, hopefully, everyone reading this is -- and you haven't read Catcher in the Rye yet, don't bother, or else you will want to choke Houlden Caulfield, not sympathize with him.



agreed, i'm simply stating that everyone should read these sometime in their life, not necessarily now.

nick612

nick612

Tempe, AZ
October 2005

OCT 12, 2005 09:32 PM

Keith said:
But if you're over 16 -- which, presumably, hopefully, everyone reading this is -- and you haven't read Catcher in the Rye yet, don't bother, or else you will want to choke Houlden Caulfield, not sympathize with him.



haha, so true...

kafka - metamorphosis and other stories
neitzche - beyond good and evil
kesey - one flew over the cuckoos nest
dostoevsky - notes from underground

Al

Al

SUICIDEGIRL

Christmas Island

OCT 12, 2005 09:35 PM

Pharcyde said:
the divine comedy by dante
paradise lost by milton
the silmarillion by tolkien
the iliad by homer


For all but The Silmarillion, I would recommend reading these with someone, if not in a big group of people. They can be quite difficult.

StrongBhoy

StrongBhoy

Perrysburg, OH
October 2005

OCT 12, 2005 09:39 PM

The Harry Potter series of course....

but for the more serious folks out there I'd recommend the following.

The Book of Five Rings
Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai
The Art of War

Three classics for a good collection.

Also, don't forget these. biggrin

The Story of Ferdinand the Bull
Corduroy
Mr. Popper's Penguins
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Curious George
Go Dog Go
Goodnight Moon

[Edited on Oct 12, 2005 by StrongBhoy]

Arete

Arete

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

OCT 12, 2005 09:40 PM

sexing the cherry- Jeanette Winterson

nervous conditions- Tsi Tsi Dangarembga

the republic of plato- Plato

apology- plato

feminism is for everybody- bell hooks

Intention- Gertrude Elizabeth Anscombe

annie john- jamaica kincaid

meditations on first philosophy- Rene Descartes

simulations- Jean Baudrillard

a critique of postcolonial reason- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

sir gawain & the green knight- unknown

The Discarded Image- CS Lewis

Billy Budd- Herman Melville



okay, so that's a lot....but they all have their own reasons for being included on this list.

Arete

Arete

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

OCT 12, 2005 09:42 PM

oh! also:

the odyssey- Homer

Blueberries

Blueberries

I'm lost
September 2005

OCT 12, 2005 09:53 PM

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Virgin Blue and Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

anything by Jane Austen

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis---this is the story of Cupid and Psyche (also his Space Trilogy)

The Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart

Jack Kerouac

Edgar Allen Poe

also, LOTR series and the Hobbit by Tolkien

The Metamorphoses by Ovid

(edited because I made a mistake)


[Edited on Oct 13, 2005 by Avivah]

Chitin

Chitin

New York, NY
December 2004

OCT 12, 2005 09:58 PM

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

BraveArt

BraveArt

Los Angeles, CA
February 2004

OCT 12, 2005 10:23 PM

trying not to post any repeats....

Complete works of W. Shakespeare
1984 - George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Immense Journey - Loren Eiseley
Dark Tower series - Stephen King
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

Alukh

Alukh

SUICIDEGIRL

Oregon, USA

OCT 12, 2005 10:35 PM

Keith said:
But if you're over 16 -- which, presumably, hopefully, everyone reading this is -- and you haven't read Catcher in the Rye yet, don't bother, or else you will want to choke Houlden Caulfield, not sympathize with him.



I hated that book even in high school.

InLikeFlynn

InLikeFlynn

Portland, OR
December 2004

OCT 12, 2005 10:52 PM

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster.

best to read it early, though. Louis Sachar's Wayside series, too, and Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott.

edit: Alice in Wonderland.

[Edited on Oct 12, 2005 by InLikeFlynn]

Someguysteve

Someguysteve

USA
September 2005

OCT 12, 2005 10:59 PM

1984 is a must
Culture of Fear
No Logo
The Contortionist's Handbook

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