What books do you think everyone should read?
- Spoons
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What books do you think everyone should read?
I am curious as to what books you all think that everyone should read. I know everyone has different tastes. But what are the books that you feel everyone should atleast read once.
1984 is often suggested to me, and i cant believe that i still have never read it, but are there any others you could suggest?
any responses appreciated.
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- Tracey Neal
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Umm, for the lovelorn romantic, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Wuthering Heights...are just a few
Watership Down, which I just recently finished...beautiful read
The Memory of Running
Breakfast of Champions
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Dubliners
The Color Purple
Of Mice and Men
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which is also in King's 1982 novella collection called "Different Seasons"
Also to note the movies Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me were adapted for the screen from two of King's stories in the collection "Different Seasons", which obviously Shawshank Redemption would be the first, Stand by Me from the story "The Body"
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i'm glad you liked Watership Down.. that book holds a special place in my heart.
1984 (a must, especially if you're interested in government)
Anthem by Ayn Rand (along the same lines, quick read)
Breakfast of Champions
The Canterbury Tales
The Decameron
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- Tracey Neal
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OMGosh Kae yes! I'm part Irish, I read this book when I was a wee little girl, I cried.KaeMartyndale wrote:I loved that book! I didn't even know other people had even HEARD of it!Star wrote: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Francie Nolan! There is so much of myself in her! How she loves her father, and her father reminds me of my own dad! My dad is a big dreamer...excellent storyteller. I just love this book. It hit very close to home for me in so many ways.
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Though it is less known than most of the books already declared, I would also encourage people (at least those from the U.S.) to read Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen.
I'll go with Atlas Shrugged instead of Anthem. But it's all Ayn Rand, and all intellectually stimulating.knightss wrote:Anthem by Ayn Rand
"Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco." Virgil, The Aeneid
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But I would be very happy if everyone read Cloudstreet by Tim Winton.
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Classic stuff - The Aeneid, The Odyssey
What a waste stuff - Good-bye to All That, Counter-Attack (OK its not a book)
Fantasy stuff - Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, Foundation Trilogy
Funny Stuff - Catch 22, Hitchhiker
LittleRead stuff - Old Man and the Sea
You-cant-have-such-a-list-without stuff - The Picture of Dorian Gray (This is just indulgent prejudice on my part)
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Ahh you've made an old librarian very happy!Erasmus_Folly wrote:You have mentioned this book so many times you've finally convinced me! I just ordered from Amazon.sleepydumpling wrote:I would be very happy if everyone read Cloudstreet by Tim Winton.
I think I'd like everyone to read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams too.
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I second Atlas ShruggedScott Hughes wrote:I'll go with Atlas Shrugged instead of Anthem. But it's all Ayn Rand, and all intellectually stimulating.knightss wrote:Anthem by Ayn Rand
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