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Post by Walker, Texas Ranger on Mar 25, 2009 14:22:33 GMT -5
1. Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
3. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig
4. 1984 by George Orwell
5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
6. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
7. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter L. Miller, Jr.
8. The Stand by Stephen King
9. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
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Post by daworm on Mar 26, 2009 15:28:42 GMT -5
Oddly enough, even though I'm an atheist, I'd have to put the Bible into my ten book list. Not entirely sure any of the rest would make my list either, but these lists are always quite subjective.
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Post by el Gusano on Mar 26, 2009 15:31:20 GMT -5
I know a few atheist teachers who want to use the Bible in their classes to help teach reading. But they can't.
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Post by daworm on Mar 26, 2009 15:46:58 GMT -5
Depends on the location. Some areas have "Bible as History" and "Bible as Literature" type classes. Local choice and all, not necessarily a bad thing.
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Post by mightejoe on Mar 26, 2009 15:48:24 GMT -5
In no particular order:
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Don Quioxte - Cervantes
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
U.S.A. (the entire trilogy) - John Dos Passos
Reveries of a Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ulysses - James Joyce
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Violent Bear It Away - Flannery O'Connor
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
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Post by daworm on Mar 26, 2009 16:22:43 GMT -5
Hehe, I've got two of those down, and tried two others before boredom nearly strangled me. Although I did get an incentive to try Ulysses once more. Several of the pubs mentioned are still in existence today, so it could be used as a travel guide. The wordiest travel guide ever, perhaps, but still...
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Post by Tookie on Mar 28, 2009 14:33:09 GMT -5
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don't Stop the Carnival - Herman Wouk
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Catcher in The Rye - J. D. Salinger
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Roots - Alex Haley
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
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Post by mikeydokey on Mar 29, 2009 11:57:43 GMT -5
Number 1: Holy Bible KJV Number 2:  |
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Post by snarkalicious on Mar 31, 2009 11:26:26 GMT -5
I would add:
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Post by cadillacdude1975 on Mar 31, 2009 11:34:30 GMT -5
MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, A Tale of Two Cities and Moby Dick are just a few left off the list.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Mar 31, 2009 12:53:05 GMT -5
The Holy Bible
Where the Red Fern Grows
Common Sense
Atlas Shrugged
The Canterbury Tales
Ender's Game
American Gods
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Violent Bear It Away
The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
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Post by justme on Apr 2, 2009 16:35:44 GMT -5
All Quiet on the Western Front To Kill a Mockingbird Winds of War War and Remembrance I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Animal Farm Centennial Princess These are the ones right off the top of my head. To be honest, I have a lot of trouble limiting to 10, since I'll read the back of a ketchup bottle if that's the only thing around.  |
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Post by daworm on Apr 2, 2009 16:47:51 GMT -5
I'm with you on the ketchup bottle.
My list would take weeks of thought to do it justice, so here's a few off the top of my head that I have read that might be on it...
The Lord of the Rings (count as one book)
The Bible
Fahrenheit 451
Huckleberry Finn
Grimm's Fairy Tales (before they were "modernized")
Flowers For Algernon
And one I wish I hadn't read:
Infinite Jest
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Post by snarkalicious on Apr 2, 2009 22:48:33 GMT -5
Alas Babylon
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Post by Walker, Texas Ranger on Apr 3, 2009 17:34:49 GMT -5
Excellent book.
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Post by justme on Apr 5, 2009 16:02:06 GMT -5
The Scarlett Letter
Skipping Christmas
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Post by justme on Apr 5, 2009 16:04:53 GMT -5
Also, agreed on
Flowers for Algernon
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and
Roots
Wait, that's more than 10, isn't it. Oh well!
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Post by Thorne on Apr 5, 2009 22:59:00 GMT -5
Only 10?? Are you insane??
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Post by Walker, Texas Ranger on Apr 6, 2009 5:31:04 GMT -5
It was for a Top 10 list. Yes, but what does that have to do with reading?
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Post by justme on Apr 6, 2009 15:08:48 GMT -5
Quote:Are you insane?? Yes, but what does that have to do with reading? Might influence your choice of reading material.  |
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 6, 2009 15:29:05 GMT -5
I would say "Basic Economics", but that should be while you're young, not before you die, after you've wasted most of your life.
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Post by Walker, Texas Ranger on Apr 6, 2009 22:01:25 GMT -5
Or rather my choice of reading material may have influenced my mental status.
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Post by justme on Apr 7, 2009 6:37:18 GMT -5
Chicken - Egg
Egg - Chicken
Meanwhile, I have another for my 10+ list. Would you believe I woke up in the middle of the night, and this is what crossed my mind?
A Painted House
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Post by justme on Apr 7, 2009 8:09:45 GMT -5
Can't resist another - I can read, but obviously can't count  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee |
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