Books people REALLY should read
Chess Squares
11-09-2004, 18:19
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Treasure Island
anything with "Mark Twain" on it
Oliver Twist
White Fang
Animal Farm
1984
Moby Dick
anything by Arthur Conan Doyle that doesnt have to do with his belief in fairies, and especially the Sherlock Holmes Series (req: The Last Adventure (or whatever), Hound of the Baskervilles, Sign of the Four, the Redheaded League.)
The Jungle Books
Robinson Crusoe
Patriot Games (and probably anything with Tom Clancy on it)
anything else i missed?
CRACKPIE
11-09-2004, 18:21
Don quijote De la mancha, first and foremost
What about Nieztche?
CRACKPIE
11-09-2004, 18:22
and soooooooooooooooooooooooo not tom clancy, Im sorry, the man makes interesting books, but is an awful writer.
Reltaran
11-09-2004, 18:23
+ Lord of the Flies
mostly good list, but Tom Clancy? Come on! Why don't you just go ahead and put John Grisham in there while you're at it!
CRACKPIE
11-09-2004, 18:24
+ Lord of the Flies
mostly good list, but Tom Clancy? Come on! Why don't you just go ahead and put John Grisham in there while you're at it!
tru and true
CRACKPIE
11-09-2004, 18:25
a few more
Stupid white men
Dude, wheres my country
Anything by Anne Coulter ( just to balance out the Moore)
Ray Bradbury (especially Fahrenheit 451)
Brave New World
Lord of the Flies
Suffice to say, I was born and bred on distopian novels.
I used to love the Wrinkle in Time series, but now that I look back and read them, they all, really, really suck. (Far too sappy and cliche).
Chronicles of Narnia
Maus
Here's a good rule of thumb: if it's successful, it's good. Unless it's Angels and Demons - I didn't even read The Da Vinci Code after something that bad!
I agree with the list.
Chess Squares
11-09-2004, 18:29
a few more
Stupid white men
Dude, wheres my country
Anything by Anne Coulter ( just to balance out the Moore)
i wouldnt read ann coulter if my eyes were held open and the book held in front of them for 24 hoursa day
and fine i havnt read much by tom clancy, but Patriot Games is a good book by him
ann coulter does not balance out michael moore because michael moore is not a completely stupid asshole. ann coulter has never in her life related a fact to anyone, she jsut sits around making up bullshit about people, she should not be famous, all she is is a glorified republican dipshit lemming who will say whatever the fuck she thinks sounds clever and pro-republican
Oops. I didn't see you already had Lord of the Flies.
And put me down for someone who has never read Tom Clancy but has a negative opinion about him.
I read the first 67 Goosebumps books when they came out. They were soo addicting.
Suicidal Librarians
11-09-2004, 18:29
I want to read Lord of the Flies, it sounds really good. Anyway, books by J.R.R. Tolkien are good, they actually have some pretty good messages, and they must be good because my brother, who hates reading, is working on The Two Towers right now.
Reltaran
11-09-2004, 18:31
+ Demonic Males (not literature)
Bereavia
11-09-2004, 18:34
The Art of War- Sun Tzu
The Da Vinci Code-Dan Brown
The Elements of Moral Philosophy- James Rachels
The Joy of Sex-Alex Comfort
Disco Bloodbath (I highly recommend it if you get your hot little hands on this; it's a rare book to find) by James St James
Enodscopia
11-09-2004, 18:34
Something we agree on Chess Squares I have read most of them.
I want to read Lord of the Flies, it sounds really good. Anyway, books by J.R.R. Tolkien are good, they actually have some pretty good messages, and they must be good because my brother, who hates reading, is working on The Two Towers right now.
Well... I'd say you have to read The Hobbit, but most people I know agree that the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was looooong, and really quite boring.
Which reminds me. Dickens!
A Tale of Two Cities
Reltaran
11-09-2004, 18:37
Flatworld -interesting, but kind of slow...
Ender's Game
My two cents but here goes:
The Trail and Death of Socrates (Plato)
No Exit (Satre)
Brave New World (Huxley)
The Commedia..or at least The Inferno (Dante)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey)
The Clown (Boll..sorry there should be an umloud over that o in Boll)
The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich (Shrirer)
Survival in Auchwitz (Primo Levy)
The Last Temptation of Christ (Nikos Kazantzakis)
Steal This Book (Hoffman?)
That's just off the top of my head..
I'm sure I'll think of more...
Oh yeah..anything by Philip K. Dick..especially Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Chess Squares
11-09-2004, 18:59
oh yeah
the Black Stallion is decent, especially in a boring english class, i maanged to finish Black Stallian 2 before end of the semester
and the Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare
Flatworld -interesting, but kind of slow...
Ender's Game
Don't you mean Flatland?
Reltaran
11-09-2004, 19:07
Damn! Obviously, it's been a while since I've read it...
"Brave New World (Huxley)"
YES!
It really did take a while for that story (Flatland) to get interesting.
I liked Brave New World.
I'm trying to find time to read BNW Revisited. (Or whatever it's called)
Oh wow. Speaking of "Brave new world"
We forgot all of Shakespeare.
Sir Peter the sage
11-09-2004, 19:28
"The Prince" by Machiavelli.
"The Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith
"We" (the author's name escapes me at the moment but this book INSPIRED 1984 and Brave New World along with every dystopian novel afterward. Better than both, if you liked those two, read this).
"Crime and Punishment" Dostoevsky
"Call of the Wild" Jack London
"The Time Machine" H.G. Wells
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" Jules Verne
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
For all those Clancy bashers out there. Maybe his writing isn't on par with Milton (o ya, add Paradise Lost) or Dickens. But he wouldn't be selling so many books if people didn't like them. Just because you read some of the classics doesn't mean you can't enjoy a paperback.
Suicidal Librarians
11-09-2004, 19:31
She Said Yes by Misty Bernall is a good book. I would certainly recommend that.
Sir Peter the sage
11-09-2004, 19:33
Forgot to include Canterbury Tales. Reading some of the stories, you'll realized just how old, and hilarious dirty humor is.
the power and the glory by graham greene
across the nightingale floor by lian hearn
his dark material trilogy by philip pullman
copleston's nine volume a gistory of philosophy
one flew over the cuckoo's nest by ken kesey
just a few of the top of my head
Reltaran
11-09-2004, 20:38
Oh wow. Speaking of "Brave new world"
We forgot all of Shakespeare.
No, I didn't forget. Shakespeare is meant to be performed; if all one does is read it, one misses the whole point. Unless you're talking about his sonnets, which suck.
Wivstock
11-09-2004, 21:12
Well... I'd say you have to read The Hobbit, but most people I know agree that the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was looooong, and really quite boring.
Which reminds me. Dickens!
A Tale of Two Cities
You say the LOTR trilogy was long and quite boring, and then say Dickens? IMO, Dickens is long and quite boring. oh alright, I've only read half of one of his books (David Copperfield)... the story was quite engaging but the language takes getting your head around a little bit.
Anyway. Books to read.
Don't think this has been mentioned yet, so The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the entire trilogy in five parts) is a must.
'The Time Machine' by H.G. Wells and 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' are both very good sci-fi :)
And according to my girlfriend anything by Jane Austen is pretty much required reading.
Also Jekyll and Hyde is a good piece of classic literature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stuff is good too :)