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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Honourable mentions:
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Cryptonomicon - Neil Stephenson
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Honourable mentions:
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Cryptonomicon - Neil Stephenson
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut
As long as you don't take it to be a LITERAL do ent (ie. that the world was created 6000yrs ago, Noah actually put all the animals in the Ark, etc).
If you do, you're an idiot.
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This is another good book.
That's surprising from you Ronaldo, good choice.
And to that add 1984 and Farenheit 451.
We are currently living through an era where predictions from all three are a reality...
See, this is one of your problems, McFly. There's a lot to learn in them thar books...
Not only can you learn about people and events and places in books, you learn to use your imagination, to be patient and persistent, and you can learn to use the language, which so few people do with any kind of beauty any more...
Try reading a book, you might learn something.
Mmmm, if you like spy thrillers, it's hard to go past Le Carre.
If you like crime, don't miss The Cold Six Thousand, and anything else, by James Elroy.
currently tearing through reginald hill's dalziel and pascoe mysteries. read everything by lecarre, pd james and charles todd as well. can't get enough of british detective fiction.
if im required to read a book for a project, i just go to www.sparknotes.com
A+ the EZ way
The Alchemist
Wuthering Heights
Man, both Confederacy of Dunces and Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy.
For "junk", I go with Robert Parker's Spenser crime novels.
Can never go wrong with a Sherlock Holmes compilation.
The original Dune (although everything after goes downhill).
The Odyssey.
Crap, I'm just looking at all the things on my shelf I don't have time to read anymore.
Yeah, but did you actually LEARN anything? It is annoying that your teachers aren't smart enough to see through bull like that.
You know how far that will get you in university, where you actually have to think for yourself and analyse multiple sources? Also, by relying on the Clift notes you are simply regurgitating someone else's version of the primary source. How do you know that you agree with them or that they are right? Go to the PRIMARY SOURCE at all times or you have no credibility.
My whole point before about reading books teaching patience and persistence and imagination is obviously lost on you. Cutting corners and doing things the "EZ way" is exactly what is wrong with the world today.
If you are the future, I am very afraid for humanity...
Generation Y can bite me.
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If you like crime, try The Cold Six Thousand. The style is annoying at first, but after 50 pages or so I got to like it, and the story is riveting. Apparently it is the second in a trilogy that starts with American Tabloid, but I haven't read that.
native son...the catcher in the rye...the chocolate wars one and two hmmm...the giver...all of theses are high school reading but i find myself drawn to re-read them...perhaps its a compfort thing...or maybe a familiarity thing...but they really changed the way i saw life. the movie soilent (sp) green, im almost sure it was taken from a book, of mice and men, through the dragons eyes, forrest gump was a good read...lots of info on a nice life in that one, and who could forget EVERYBODY POOPS!...thats an instant classic....the monster series, the house that jack built... hmmm.....i could go on and on.....you get the idea.
Hmm, hard to order them, but in order of my most favorite first:
A nod to Plato's Republic, Homer's Odyssey and Illiad, and a ton of old stuff that most people won't have much patience for, but good reads none-the-less.
I don't know about the best but here are some books I really liked:
A Tale of Two Cities by ens
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Harry Potter series for some light reading
The Giver by Lois Lowry
there are so many out there and it depends what genre you like most
One of my favorites.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
I'm an idiot.
I'm a big fan of true crime books
i imagine you're very familiar with this site then?I'm a big fan of true crime books
www.crimelibrary.com
i liked catcher in the rye, but i liked his stories about the glass family a lot more - nine stories, raise the roof beam high, franny and zoe.
I had a thread like this a couple weeks ago. It had like 7 pages full of good stuff. My favorites are:
I forgot about the Illiad and the Odyssey those are two I havent read in a long time but still great
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This is another good book.
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