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Started by Placid Dingo, December 05, 2010, 06:40:56 AM

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100 books for a list.

ONLY 100 REQUIRED

But the warning was not heeded, and as we stepped into the cave, the moon turned red and the howling began.

171 have stepped into this terrible place.

Only 100 will leave alive.

Will Darwin be the most able to adapt? Will Bradbury be set upon by the firemen? Will the Bible dodge the willing blade of Abraham? Will the Principia die for your sins? Will Joyce be censored? Will Garfield truly become minus garfield? Will Dawkins selfish Genes be passed on? Will Atticus save the mockingbird? Will Rand fight off the evil moochers? Will the Prince be loved, or feared? Will Vonnegut release the Ice 9? ALL TO BE REVEALED: LET THE BLOODBATH COMMENCE!!

The Constitution Of the United States
1. The Tao Teh Ching
The Epic of Gilgamesh.
2 Beowulf.
3 The Koran (Translation of;)
4 The Bible. Significance is obvious, but i note that it gets frustrating to read at points.
5. Evasion - Anonymous
6. Flatland - Edward A Abbot. {Presently ressurected}
7. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Watership Down - Richard Adams
8. The house of spirits -  Isabel Allende
9. Über Das Altern - Jean Amery.
10. The Skinner - Neil Asher
11. The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
12. Giles Goat Boy - John Barth
13. Killing Aurora - Helen Barnes.
14. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury {Ressurected for further debate}
15. Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury.
16. The Ascent of Man - Bronowski
17. World War Z - Max Brooks
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks.
A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson.
18. The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
19. A Clockwork Orange (uncut UK edition) - Anthony Burgess
20. The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus.
127 (wrong order fix later). The Stranger - Albert Camus
21. The Rebel - Albert Camus.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle Great book, but probably doesn't belong on the final cut.
22. Alice In Wonderland/Alice through the Looking glass
Poker Without Cards - Howard Campbell.
23. Don Quixote - Cervantes
24. Cyteen by CJ Cherryh
25. Shogun - James Clavel
I am America and so can you - Stephen Colbert.
26. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans - Ann Coulter
27. The Divine Comedy - Dante
28. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
29. Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze and Guattari
30. A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze and Guattari.
31. Mao II - Don Delillo
32. Breaking the Spell - Daniel Dennett
33. Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs - Mark Dery
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K Dick
34. We Can Remember it for you Wholesale - Philip k Dick
35. Ubik - Phillip K Dick.
36. Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
37. Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
38. Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
39. Distress - Greg Egan.
40. A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories - Will Eisner
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
41. Surely you're joking Mr. Feynmann - Richard Feynman
42. The Golden Bough-  Sir James Frazer
43. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
44. Sandman- Neil Gaiman
45. Neuromancer - W. Gibson
46. Pattern Recognition - W. Gibson
47. Chaos - James Gleick
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. The 48 Laws of Power- Robert Greene.
The Magicians - by Lev Grossman
50. Rules for Writers - Diana Hacker
51. The Raw Shark Texts- Steven Hall
52. The Secret Teachings of all Ages Manly.P.Hall
53. American Fascism - Christ Hedges
54. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange land by Robert Heinlein
55. Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
Dune - Frank Herbert
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
56. Siddatha - Herman Hesse
57. Condensed Chaos- Phil Hine
58. The Illiad/The Odyssey - Homer.
59. Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
60. Goedel, Escher, Bach - Douglass Hofstadter
The Wise Book of Baloney - Baron Von Hoopla
61. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
62. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
63. Sock - Penn Jilette
Ulysses - James Joyce
64.  Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
65. The Trial - Kafka
Amerika - Kafka
66. The art of demotivation - E.L. Kersten
67. The Seducer's Diary - Kierkegaard
The Jungle Books - Kipling
68. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
69. The Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
70. Billion Dollar Bunko/How to Cheat at Everything - Simon Lovell
71. The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli
72. Principia Discordia - Mal2 and Omarr Ravenhurst Oh how we love to kill our idols.
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
73. The Incunabula and Ong's Hat Papers - Joseph Matheny et al.
74. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
75. Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation - by Mark Millar
Watchmen - Alan Moore
76. Promethea - Alan Moore
77. V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
78. The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
Book of Five Rings - Musashi
79. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
80. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
81. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
82. A Game of Universe by Eric S. Nylund
83. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
1984 - George Orwell
84. Animal Farm - George Orwell
85. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
86. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
87. Common Sense - Thomas Payne
88. Rights of Man - Thomas Payne.
89. The Gormenghast trilogy - Marvyn Peake
90. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
91. The Republic - Plato.
92. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
93. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
94. Apocalypse: The Musical - Robert Rankin.
95. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
96. The hermetic museum - alchemy & mysticism - Alexander Roob
97. Software - Rudy Rucker
Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
The Dark Elf Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore
98. No Exit - Sarte
99. Being and Nothingness - Sartre
100. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
101. The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer
102. Deus X - Norman Spinrad
103. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
104. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
105. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
106. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
107. A Modest Proposal - Johnathan Swift
108. Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
109. Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
110. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Hells Angels- Hunter S Thompson
111. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail- HST
Walden - Thoreau
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
112. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
113. Cannibalism in the Cars - Mark Twain (short story)
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
114. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
115. The Art of Memetics - Unruh and Wilson
116. Het allerslechtste van Spekkie Big - M. van der Holst
Hellblazer - Various
117. Candide - Voltaire.
118. Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
119. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
120. Cat's Cradle - K. Vonnegut
Garfield Minus Garfield - Dan Walsh/Jim Davis I ADORE this, and it's clever, but hardly classic.
121. Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh.
122. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, R. A. Wilson
123. The Historical Illuminatus - R.A.W {Haven't read it, but does this deserve to be here?)
Otherland Series - Tad Williams.
124. The Night In Question by Tobias Wolfe
125. Soldier in the Mist - Gene Wolfe
126. Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn

LIST UPDATED: If it has no number, it's OFF.

BOOKS LMNO Wants to keep
The Constitution Of the United States
The Koran (Translation of;)
The Bible.
Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury.
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans - Ann Coulter
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Principia Discordia - Mal2 and Omarr Ravenhurst Oh how we love to kill our idols.
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
Common Sense - Thomas Payne
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail- HST
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Illuminatus! Trilogy, R. A. Wilson
Haven't paid rent since 2014 with ONE WEIRD TRICK.

Juana

#1
I'm only axing ones I've read and that don't belong here.
Quote from: Placid Dingo on December 05, 2010, 06:40:56 AM
1.The Constitution Of the United States
2. The Tao Teh Ching
3. The Epic of Gilgamesh.
4. Beowulf.
5. The Koran (Translation of;)
6. The Bible.
7. Evasion - Anonymous
8. Flatland - Edward A Abbot.
9. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
10. Watership Down - Richard Adams
11. The house of spirits -  Isabel Allende
12. Über Das Altern - Jean Amery.
13. The Skinner - Neil Asher
14. The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
15. Giles Goat Boy - John Barth
16. Killing Aurora - Helen Barnes.
17. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
18. Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury. Keep this one!
19. The Ascent of Man - Bronowski
20. World War Z - Max Brooks
21. The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks.
22. A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson.
23. The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
24. A Clockwork Orange (uncut UK edition) - Anthony Burgess
25. The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger - Albert Camus
26. The Rebel - Albert Camus.
27. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
28. Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. Poker Without Cards - Howard Campbell.
31. Don Quixote - Cervantes
32. Cyteen by CJ Cherryh
33. Shogun - James Clavel
34. I am America and so can you - Stephen Colbert.
35. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
36. If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans - Ann Coulter
37. Inferno - Dante
38. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin
39. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
40. Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze and Guattari
41. A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze and Guattari.
42. Mao II - Don Delillo
43. Breaking the Spell - Daniel Dennett
44. Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs - Mark Dery
45. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K Dick
46. We Can Remember it for you Wholesale - Philip k Dick
47. Ubik - Phillip K Dick.
48. Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
49. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
50. Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco  laaaame
51. Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
52. Distress - Greg Egan.
53. A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories - Will Eisner
54. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
55. Surely you're joking Mr. Feynmann - Richard Feynman
56. The Golden Bough-  Sir James Frazer
57. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
58. Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman Good book, though
59. Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman
60. Sandman- Neil Gaiman
61. Neuromancer - W. Gibson
62. Pattern Recognition - W. Gibson
63. Chaos - James Gleick
64. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
65. The 48 Laws of Power- Robert Greene.
66. The Magicians - by Lev Grossman - maybe. SO much better than Catcher in the Rye, but I don't know that it belongs on the list either, as much as I love the book
67. Rules for Writers - Diana Hacker
68. The Raw Shark Texts- Steven Hall
69. The Secret Teachings of all Ages Manly.P.Hall
70. American Fascism - Chris Hedges
71. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
72. Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
73. Stranger in a Strange land by Robert Heinlein
74. Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
75. Dune - Frank Herbert
76. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
77. Siddatha - Herman Hesse
78. Condensed Chaos- Phil Hine
79 The Illiad - Homer
80. The Odyssey - Homer.
81. Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
82. Goedel, Escher, Bach - Douglass Hofstadter
83. The Wise Book of Baloney - Baron Von Hoopla
84. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
85. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
86. Sock - Penn Jilette
87. Ulysses - James Joyce
88.  Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung
89. The Metamorphosis - Kafka
90. The Trial - Kafka
91. Amerika - Kafka
92. The art of demotivation - E.L. Kersten
93. The Seducer's Diary - Kierkegaard
94. The Jungle Books - Kipling
95. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
96. The Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
97. The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
98. Billion Dollar Bunko/How to Cheat at Everything - Simon Lovell
99. The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli
100. Principia Discordia - Mal2 and Omarr Ravenhurst
101. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
102. The Incunabula and Ong's Hat Papers - Joseph Matheny et al.
103. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
104.Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation - by Mark Millar
105. Watchmen - Alan Moore
106. Promethea - Alan Moore
107. V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
108. The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
109. Book of Five Rings - Musashi
110. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
111. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
112. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
113. A Game of Universe by Eric S. Nylund
114. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
115. 1984 - George Orwell
116. Animal Farm - George Orwell
117. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
118. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
119. Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
120. Common Sense - Thomas Payne (Is this actually meant to be 'The American Crisis, which Payne wrote AS 'Common Sense'?)
121. Rights of Man - Thomas Payne.
122. The Gormenghast trilogy - Marvyn Peake
123. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
124. The Republic - Plato.
125. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
126. Mort - Terry Pratchett I love the Death series - this one just isn't stellar enough to be on the list, imo.
127. Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
128. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
129. Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
130. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
131. Apocalypse: The Musical - Robert Rankin.
132. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
133. The hermetic museum - alchemy & mysticism - Alexander Roob
134. Software - Rudy Rucker
135. Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger. Fuck this book in the ear.
136. The Dark Elf Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore
137. No Exit - Sarte
138. Being and Nothingness - Sartre
139. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
140. The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer
141. Deus X - Norman Spinrad
142. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
143. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
144. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
145. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
146. A Modest Proposal - Johnathan Swift
147. Fooled by Randomness/Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
148. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
149. Hells Angels- Hunter S Thompson
150. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail- HST
151. Walden - Thoreau
152. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
153. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
154. Cannibalism in the Cars - Mark Twain (short story)
155. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
156. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
157. The Art of Memetics - Unruh and Wilson
158. Het allerslechtste van Spekkie Big - M. van der Holst
159. Hellblazer - Various
160. Candide - Voltaire.
161. Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
162. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
163. Cat's Cradle - K. Vonnegut
164. Garfield Minus Garfield - Dan Walsh/Jim Davis
165. Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh.
166. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, R. A. Wilson
167. The Historical Illuminatus - R.A.W
168. Otherland Series - Tad Williams.
169. The Night In Question by Tobias Wolfe
170. Soldier in the Mist - Gene Wolfe
171. Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn I don't know if I advise keeping this one - I like Zinn and it made me think, but it's high on the windbag factor
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

Don Coyote

I vote "21. The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks" gets the axe.

Phox

Like HC. I will only ax ones that I have read. With a certain exception.
Quote from: Placid Dingo on December 05, 2010, 06:40:56 AM
100 books for a list.

ONLY 100 REQUIRED

But the warning was not heeded, and as we stepped into the cave, the moon turned red and the howling began.

171 have stepped into this terrible place.

Only 100 will leave alive.

Will Darwin be the most able to adapt? Will Bradbury be set upon by the firemen? Will the Bible dodge the willing blade of Abraham? Will the Principia die for your sins? Will Joyce be censored? Will Garfield truly become minus garfield? Will Dawkins selfish Genes be passed on? Will Atticus save the mockingbird? Will Rand fight off the evil moochers? Will the Prince be loved, or feared? Will Vonnegut release the Ice 9? ALL TO BE REVEALED: LET THE BLOODBATH COMMENCE!!

1.The Constitution Of the United States
2. The Tao Teh Ching
3. The Epic of Gilgamesh.
4. Beowulf.
5. The Koran (Translation of;)
6. The Bible.
7. Evasion - Anonymous
8. Flatland - Edward A Abbot.
9. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
10. Watership Down - Richard Adams
11. The house of spirits -  Isabel Allende
12. Über Das Altern - Jean Amery.
13. The Skinner - Neil Asher
14. The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
15. Giles Goat Boy - John Barth
16. Killing Aurora - Helen Barnes.
17. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury As BB pointed out, too much suck in the series for it to be on the list as a collective.
18. Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury.
19. The Ascent of Man - Bronowski
20. World War Z - Max Brooks
21. The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks.
22. A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson.
23. The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
24. A Clockwork Orange (uncut UK edition) - Anthony Burgess
25. The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger - Albert Camus
26. The Rebel - Albert Camus.
27. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
28. Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. Poker Without Cards - Howard Campbell.
31. Don Quixote - Cervantes
32. Cyteen by CJ Cherryh
33. Shogun - James Clavel
34. I am America and so can you - Stephen Colbert.
35. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
36. If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans - Ann Coulter I hope that this was suggested as either ironic or as a good example of a troll attempt. Didn't read it, but read her previous book. It sucked. This one probably wasn't any better.
37. Inferno - Dante Add in the rest of the Comedy, please.
38. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin
39. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins Fuck that.
40. Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze and Guattari
41. A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze and Guattari.
42. Mao II - Don Delillo
43. Breaking the Spell - Daniel Dennett
44. Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs - Mark Dery
45. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K Dick
46. We Can Remember it for you Wholesale - Philip k Dick
47. Ubik - Phillip K Dick.
48. Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
49. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
50. Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
51. Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
52. Distress - Greg Egan.
53. A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories - Will Eisner
54. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
55. Surely you're joking Mr. Feynmann - Richard Feynman
56. The Golden Bough-  Sir James Frazer
57. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
58. Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman
59. Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman Normally, I like Gaiman. This book was less than stellar.
60. Sandman- Neil Gaiman
61. Neuromancer - W. Gibson
62. Pattern Recognition - W. Gibson
63. Chaos - James Gleick
64. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
65. The 48 Laws of Power- Robert Greene.
66. The Magicians - by Lev Grossman
67. Rules for Writers - Diana Hacker
68. The Raw Shark Texts- Steven Hall
69. The Secret Teachings of all Ages Manly.P.Hall
70. American Fascism - Christ Hedges
71. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
72. Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
73. Stranger in a Strange land by Robert Heinlein
74. Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
75. Dune - Frank Herbert
76. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
77. Siddatha - Herman Hesse
78. Condensed Chaos- Phil Hine
79 The Illiad - Homer
80. The Odyssey - Homer.
81. Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
82. Goedel, Escher, Bach - Douglass Hofstadter
83. The Wise Book of Baloney - Baron Von Hoopla
84. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
85. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
86. Sock - Penn Jilette
87. Ulysses - James Joyce
88.  Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung
89. The Metamorphosis - Kafka
90. The Trial - Kafka
91. Amerika - Kafka
92. The art of demotivation - E.L. Kersten
93. The Seducer's Diary - Kierkegaard
94. The Jungle Books - Kipling
95. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
96. The Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
97. The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
98. Billion Dollar Bunko/How to Cheat at Everything - Simon Lovell
99. The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli
100. Principia Discordia - Mal2 and Omarr Ravenhurst
101. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
102. The Incunabula and Ong's Hat Papers - Joseph Matheny et al.
103. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
104.Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation - by Mark Millar
105. Watchmen - Alan Moore No.
106. Promethea - Alan Moore
107. V for Vendetta - Alan Moore While it's an interesting read, it hardly qualifies as in the top 100.
108. The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
109. Book of Five Rings - Musashi
110. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
111. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
112. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
113. A Game of Universe by Eric S. Nylund
114. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
115. 1984 - George Orwell
116. Animal Farm - George Orwell
117. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
118. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
119. Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
120. Common Sense - Thomas Payne {Is this actually meant to be 'The American Crisis, which Payne wrote AS 'Common Sense'?)
121. Rights of Man - Thomas Payne.
122. The Gormenghast trilogy - Marvyn Peake
123. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
124. The Republic - Plato.
125. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
126. Mort - Terry Pratchett
127. Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
128. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
129. Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
130. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand Seriously? WTF?
131. Apocalypse: The Musical - Robert Rankin.
132. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
133. The hermetic museum - alchemy & mysticism - Alexander Roob
134. Software - Rudy Rucker
135. Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger. Fuck this book.
136. The Dark Elf Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore I really wanted to like this trilogy. It failed me.
137. No Exit - Sarte
138. Being and Nothingness - Sartre
139. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
140. The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer
141. Deus X - Norman Spinrad
142. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
143. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
144. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
145. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
146. A Modest Proposal - Johnathan Swift
147. Fooled by Randomness/Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
148. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
149. Hells Angels- Hunter S Thompson
150. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail- HST
151. Walden - Thoreau
152. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
153. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
154. Cannibalism in the Cars - Mark Twain (short story)
155. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
156. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
157. The Art of Memetics - Unruh and Wilson
158. Het allerslechtste van Spekkie Big - M. van der Holst
159. Hellblazer - Various
160. Candide - Voltaire.
161. Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
162. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
163. Cat's Cradle - K. Vonnegut
164. Garfield Minus Garfield - Dan Walsh/Jim Davis
165. Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh.
166. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, R. A. Wilson
167. The Historical Illuminatus - R.A.W
168. Otherland Series - Tad Williams.
169. The Night In Question by Tobias Wolfe
170. Soldier in the Mist - Gene Wolfe
171. Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn

MMIX

#4
Three Dicks and no Dickens - I like this list already . . .   :wink:














But what is it a list of?

ETA aaah its the 100 best kill list  :oops:
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently" David Graeber

Placid Dingo

HAWHAW! The books are slowly picked off!

14 sacrificed for the greater good! But more still follow!

SPEAK NOW if you wish to redeem any! I have bolded the fallen and struck through my own suggestions for those to be yet cast into the pit.

Quote from: Placid Dingo on December 05, 2010, 06:40:56 AM
100 books for a list.

ONLY 100 REQUIRED

But the warning was not heeded, and as we stepped into the cave, the moon turned red and the howling began.

171 have stepped into this terrible place.

Only 100 will leave alive.

Will Darwin be the most able to adapt? Will Bradbury be set upon by the firemen? Will the Bible dodge the willing blade of Abraham? Will the Principia die for your sins? Will Joyce be censored? Will Garfield truly become minus garfield? Will Dawkins selfish Genes be passed on? Will Atticus save the mockingbird? Will Rand fight off the evil moochers? Will the Prince be loved, or feared? Will Vonnegut release the Ice 9? ALL TO BE REVEALED: LET THE BLOODBATH COMMENCE!!

1. The Constitution Of the United States
2. The Tao Teh Ching
3. The Epic of Gilgamesh.
4. Beowulf.
5. The Koran (Translation of;)
6. The Bible.
7. Evasion - Anonymous
8. Flatland - Edward A Abbot. Clever but not brilliant.
9. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
10. Watership Down - Richard Adams
11. The house of spirits -  Isabel Allende
12. Über Das Altern - Jean Amery.
13. The Skinner - Neil Asher
14. The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
15. Giles Goat Boy - John Barth
16. Killing Aurora - Helen Barnes.
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
17. Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury.
18. The Ascent of Man - Bronowski
19. World War Z - Max Brooks
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks.
2o. A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson.
21. The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
22. A Clockwork Orange (uncut UK edition) - Anthony Burgess
23. The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger - Albert Camus
24. The Rebel - Albert Camus.
25. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle Great book, but probably doesn't belong on the final cut.
26. Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
27. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Poker Without Cards - Howard Campbell.
28. Don Quixote - Cervantes
29. Cyteen by CJ Cherryh
3o. Shogun - James Clavel
31. I am America and so can you - Stephen Colbert.
32. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans - Ann Coulter
33. The Divine Comedy - Dante
34. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
35. Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze and Guattari
36. A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze and Guattari.
37. Mao II - Don Delillo
38. Breaking the Spell - Daniel Dennett
39. Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs - Mark Dery
4o. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K Dick
41. We Can Remember it for you Wholesale - Philip k Dick
42. Ubik - Phillip K Dick.
43. Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
44. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
45. Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
46. Distress - Greg Egan.
47. A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories - Will Eisner
48. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis -Tempted to kill it-... and temptation won
49. Surely you're joking Mr. Feynmann - Richard Feynman
5o. The Golden Bough-  Sir James Frazer
51. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman
51. Sandman- Neil Gaiman
52. Neuromancer - W. Gibson
53. Pattern Recognition - W. Gibson
54. Chaos - James Gleick
55. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
56. The 48 Laws of Power- Robert Greene.
The Magicians - by Lev Grossman
57. Rules for Writers - Diana Hacker
58. The Raw Shark Texts- Steven Hall
59. The Secret Teachings of all Ages Manly.P.Hall
6o. American Fascism - Christ Hedges
61. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
62. Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
63. Stranger in a Strange land by Robert Heinlein
64. Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
65. Dune - Frank Herbert
66. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
67. Siddatha - Herman Hesse
68. Condensed Chaos- Phil Hine
69. The Illiad - Homer tempted, but i show mercy as Kai recently spoke highly of it
7o. The Odyssey - Homer.
71. Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
72. Goedel, Escher, Bach - Douglass Hofstadter
73. The Wise Book of Baloney - Baron Von Hoopla
74. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
75. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
76. Sock - Penn Jilette
77. Ulysses - James Joyce
78.  Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung
79. The Metamorphosis - Kafka
80. The Trial - Kafka
81. Amerika - Kafka
82. The art of demotivation - E.L. Kersten
83. The Seducer's Diary - Kierkegaard
84. The Jungle Books - Kipling
85. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
86. The Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
87. The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis I feel kind bad about this one
88. Billion Dollar Bunko/How to Cheat at Everything - Simon Lovell
89. The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli
9o. Principia Discordia - Mal2 and Omarr Ravenhurst
91. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
92. The Incunabula and Ong's Hat Papers - Joseph Matheny et al.
93. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
94.Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation - by Mark Millar
Watchmen - Alan Moore
95. Promethea - Alan Moore
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
96. The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
97. Book of Five Rings - Musashi
98. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
99. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
1oo. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
1o1. A Game of Universe by Eric S. Nylund
1o2. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
1o3. 1984 - George Orwell
1o4. Animal Farm - George Orwell
1o5. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
1o5. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
1o7. Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk I fucking HATE this book. There's two BRILLIANT short stories in here, then a stack of Chuck going, 'look at me, I'm outraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagous!
108. Common Sense - Thomas Payne {Is this actually meant to be 'The American Crisis, which Payne wrote AS 'Common Sense'?) Hmm, I wonder what to write today's pamplet about... oh I know! How the British are cockspanks!
1o9. Rights of Man - Thomas Payne.
11o. The Gormenghast trilogy - Marvyn Peake
111. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
112. The Republic - Plato.
113. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
Mort - Terry Pratchett
114. Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett Unlike the other Pratchett, this one was only picked for being the first, rather than quality.
115. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
116. Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
117. Apocalypse: The Musical - Robert Rankin.
118. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
119. The hermetic museum - alchemy & mysticism - Alexander Roob
12o. Software - Rudy Rucker
Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
The Dark Elf Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore
121. No Exit - Sarte
122. Being and Nothingness - Sartre
123. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak I hate to do it but...
124. The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer
125. Deus X - Norman Spinrad
126. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
127. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
128. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
129. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
13o. A Modest Proposal - Johnathan Swift
131. Fooled by Randomness/Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
132. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
133. Hells Angels- Hunter S Thompson
134. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail- HST
135. Walden - Thoreau
136. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
137. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
138. Cannibalism in the Cars - Mark Twain (short story)
139. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
14o. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
141. The Art of Memetics - Unruh and Wilson
142. Het allerslechtste van Spekkie Big - M. van der Holst
143. Hellblazer - Various
144. Candide - Voltaire.
145. Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
146. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
147. Cat's Cradle - K. Vonnegut
148. Garfield Minus Garfield - Dan Walsh/Jim Davis
149. Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh.
15o. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, R. A. Wilson
151. The Historical Illuminatus - R.A.W
152. Otherland Series - Tad Williams.
153. The Night In Question by Tobias Wolfe
154. Soldier in the Mist - Gene Wolfe
155. Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn

OK! So, 55 more to go! 48 if nobody objects to my selections.

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Objecting to removing "Flatland". If this is a "100 best books of PD" selection, Flatland should be in there for the sheer mindfuck of otherdimensional thinking, and a few other hidden trapdoors.

Eh and I dunno, the hungry caterpillar is AWESOME yeah.




(Also wasn't PWC written by Ben Mack?)
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Where The Wild Things Are was my childhood!  :argh!:

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I would vote "Dune" and "Lord of the Flies" off the list. Both of them are horrible. So is "Lord of the Rings", although I liked where Tolkien was going, just now how he did it.
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Lord of the Flies is awesome, though I totally agree on Dune. Dune sucks.
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Phox

Lord of the Flies must stay!  :argh!:


I've never read all of Dune, but I liked what I did read, and I loved the film.

Jasper

Quote from: Placid Dingo on December 05, 2010, 01:22:56 PM
1. The Constitution Of the United States
2. The Tao Teh Ching
3. The Epic of Gilgamesh.
4. Beowulf.
5. The Koran (Translation of;)
6. The Bible.

7. Evasion - Anonymous
8. Flatland - Edward A Abbot. Clever but not brilliant.
9. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
10. Watership Down - Richard Adams
11. The house of spirits -  Isabel Allende
12. Über Das Altern - Jean Amery.
13. The Skinner - Neil Asher
14. The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
15. Giles Goat Boy - John Barth
16. Killing Aurora - Helen Barnes.
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
17. Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury.
18. The Ascent of Man - Bronowski
19. World War Z - Max Brooks
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks.
2o. A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson.
21. The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
22. A Clockwork Orange (uncut UK edition) - Anthony Burgess
23. The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger - Albert Camus
24. The Rebel - Albert Camus.
25. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle Great book, but probably doesn't belong on the final cut.
26. Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
27. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Poker Without Cards - Howard Campbell.
28. Don Quixote - Cervantes
29. Cyteen by CJ Cherryh
3o. Shogun - James Clavel
31. I am America and so can you - Stephen Colbert.
32. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans - Ann Coulter
33. The Divine Comedy - Dante
34. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
35. Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze and Guattari
36. A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze and Guattari.
37. Mao II - Don Delillo
38. Breaking the Spell - Daniel Dennett
39. Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs - Mark Dery
4o. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K Dick
41. We Can Remember it for you Wholesale - Philip k Dick
42. Ubik - Phillip K Dick.
43. Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
44. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
45. Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
46. Distress - Greg Egan.
47. A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories - Will Eisner
48. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis -Tempted to kill it-... and temptation won
49. Surely you're joking Mr. Feynmann - Richard Feynman
5o. The Golden Bough-  Sir James Frazer
51. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman
51. Sandman- Neil Gaiman
52. Neuromancer - W. Gibson
53. Pattern Recognition - W. Gibson
54. Chaos - James Gleick
55. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
56. The 48 Laws of Power- Robert Greene.
The Magicians - by Lev Grossman
57. Rules for Writers - Diana Hacker
58. The Raw Shark Texts- Steven Hall
59. The Secret Teachings of all Ages Manly.P.Hall
6o. American Fascism - Christ Hedges
61. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
62. Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
63. Stranger in a Strange land by Robert Heinlein
64. Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
65. Dune - Frank Herbert
66. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
67. Siddatha - Herman Hesse

68. Condensed Chaos- Phil Hine
69. The Illiad - Homer tempted, but i show mercy as Kai recently spoke highly of it
7o. The Odyssey - Homer.
71. Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
72. Goedel, Escher, Bach - Douglass Hofstadter
73. The Wise Book of Baloney - Baron Von Hoopla
74. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
75. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
76. Sock - Penn Jilette
77. Ulysses - James Joyce
78.  Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung
79. The Metamorphosis - Kafka
80. The Trial - Kafka

81. Amerika - Kafka
82. The art of demotivation - E.L. Kersten
83. The Seducer's Diary - Kierkegaard
84. The Jungle Books - Kipling
85. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
86. The Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
87. The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis I feel kind bad about this one
88. Billion Dollar Bunko/How to Cheat at Everything - Simon Lovell
89. The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli
9o. Principia Discordia - Mal2 and Omarr Ravenhurst
91. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
92. The Incunabula and Ong's Hat Papers - Joseph Matheny et al.
93. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
94.Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation - by Mark Millar
Watchmen - Alan Moore
95. Promethea - Alan Moore
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
96. The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
97. Book of Five Rings - Musashi
98. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
99. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
1oo. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
1o1. A Game of Universe by Eric S. Nylund
1o2. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
1o3. 1984 - George Orwell
1o4. Animal Farm - George Orwell

1o5. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
1o5. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
1o7. Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk I fucking HATE this book. There's two BRILLIANT short stories in here, then a stack of Chuck going, 'look at me, I'm outraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagous!
108. Common Sense - Thomas Payne {Is this actually meant to be 'The American Crisis, which Payne wrote AS 'Common Sense'?) Hmm, I wonder what to write today's pamplet about... oh I know! How the British are cockspanks!
1o9. Rights of Man - Thomas Payne.
11o. The Gormenghast trilogy - Marvyn Peake
111. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
112. The Republic - Plato.
113. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
Mort - Terry Pratchett
114. Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett Unlike the other Pratchett, this one was only picked for being the first, rather than quality.
115. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
116. Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
117. Apocalypse: The Musical - Robert Rankin.
118. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
119. The hermetic museum - alchemy & mysticism - Alexander Roob
12o. Software - Rudy Rucker
Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
The Dark Elf Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore
121. No Exit - Sarte
122. Being and Nothingness - Sartre
123. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak I hate to do it but...
124. The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer
125. Deus X - Norman Spinrad
126. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
127. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
128. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
129. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
13o. A Modest Proposal - Johnathan Swift
131. Fooled by Randomness/Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
132. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
133. Hells Angels- Hunter S Thompson
134. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail- HST
135. Walden - Thoreau
136. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
137. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
138. Cannibalism in the Cars - Mark Twain (short story)
139. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
14o. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
141. The Art of Memetics - Unruh and Wilson
142. Het allerslechtste van Spekkie Big - M. van der Holst
143. Hellblazer - Various
144. Candide - Voltaire.
145. Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
146. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
147. Cat's Cradle - K. Vonnegut
148. Garfield Minus Garfield - Dan Walsh/Jim Davis
149. Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh.
15o. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, R. A. Wilson
151. The Historical Illuminatus - R.A.W
152. Otherland Series - Tad Williams.
153. The Night In Question by Tobias Wolfe
154. Soldier in the Mist - Gene Wolfe
155. Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn

I have shown precious little mercy.

I slashed any book I feel already makes every single book list.  Everyone knows the koran and bible are important books.  Everyone knows 1984 had an important message already.  Etc.


Suu

Quote from: Hover Cat on December 05, 2010, 08:58:43 PM
Lord of the Flies is awesome, though I totally agree on Dune. Dune sucks.

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Quote from: Placid Dingo on December 05, 2010, 06:40:56 AM
100 books for a list.

ONLY 100 REQUIRED

But the warning was not heeded, and as we stepped into the cave, the moon turned red and the howling began.

171 have stepped into this terrible place.

Only 100 will leave alive.

Will Darwin be the most able to adapt? Will Bradbury be set upon by the firemen? Will the Bible dodge the willing blade of Abraham? Will the Principia die for your sins? Will Joyce be censored? Will Garfield truly become minus garfield? Will Dawkins selfish Genes be passed on? Will Atticus save the mockingbird? Will Rand fight off the evil moochers? Will the Prince be loved, or feared? Will Vonnegut release the Ice 9? ALL TO BE REVEALED: LET THE BLOODBATH COMMENCE!!

1.The Constitution Of the United States
2. The Tao Teh Ching
3. The Epic of Gilgamesh.
4. Beowulf.
5. The Koran (Translation of;)
6. The Bible.
7. Evasion - Anonymous
8. Flatland - Edward A Abbot.
9. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
10. Watership Down - Richard Adams
11. The house of spirits -  Isabel Allende
12. Über Das Altern - Jean Amery.
13. The Skinner - Neil Asher
14. The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
15. Giles Goat Boy - John Barth
16. Killing Aurora - Helen Barnes.
17. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
18. Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury.
19. The Ascent of Man - Bronowski
20. World War Z - Max Brooks
21. The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks.
22. A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson.
23. The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
24. A Clockwork Orange (uncut UK edition) - Anthony Burgess
25. The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger - Albert Camus
26. The Rebel - Albert Camus.
27. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
28. Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. Poker Without Cards - Howard Campbell.
31. Don Quixote - Cervantes
32. Cyteen by CJ Cherryh
33. Shogun - James Clavel
34. I am America and so can you - Stephen Colbert.
35. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
36. If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans - Ann Coulter
37. Inferno - Dante
38. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin
39. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
40. Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze and Guattari
41. A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze and Guattari.
42. Mao II - Don Delillo
43. Breaking the Spell - Daniel Dennett
44. Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs - Mark Dery
45. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K Dick
46. We Can Remember it for you Wholesale - Philip k Dick
47. Ubik - Phillip K Dick.
48. Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
49. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
50. Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
51. Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
52. Distress - Greg Egan.
53. A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories - Will Eisner
54. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
55. Surely you're joking Mr. Feynmann - Richard Feynman
56. The Golden Bough-  Sir James Frazer
57. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
58. Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman
59. Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman
60. Sandman- Neil Gaiman
61. Neuromancer - W. Gibson
62. Pattern Recognition - W. Gibson
63. Chaos - James Gleick
64. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
65. The 48 Laws of Power- Robert Greene.
66. The Magicians - by Lev Grossman
67. Rules for Writers - Diana Hacker
68. The Raw Shark Texts- Steven Hall
69. The Secret Teachings of all Ages Manly.P.Hall
70. American Fascism - Christ Hedges
71. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
72. Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
73. Stranger in a Strange land by Robert Heinlein
74. Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
75. Dune - Frank Herbert
76. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
77. Siddatha - Herman Hesse
78. Condensed Chaos- Phil Hine
79 The Illiad - Homer
80. The Odyssey - Homer.
81. Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
82. Goedel, Escher, Bach - Douglass Hofstadter
83. The Wise Book of Baloney - Baron Von Hoopla
84. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
85. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
86. Sock - Penn Jilette
87. Ulysses - James Joyce
88.  Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung
89. The Metamorphosis - Kafka
90. The Trial - Kafka
91. Amerika - Kafka
92. The art of demotivation - E.L. Kersten
93. The Seducer's Diary - Kierkegaard
94. The Jungle Books - Kipling
95. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
96. The Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
97. The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
98. Billion Dollar Bunko/How to Cheat at Everything - Simon Lovell
99. The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli
100. Principia Discordia - Mal2 and Omarr Ravenhurst
101. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
102. The Incunabula and Ong's Hat Papers - Joseph Matheny et al.
103. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
104.Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation - by Mark Millar
105. Watchmen - Alan Moore
106. Promethea - Alan Moore
107. V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
108. The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
109. Book of Five Rings - Musashi
110. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
111. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
112. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
113. A Game of Universe by Eric S. Nylund
114. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
115. 1984 - George Orwell
116. Animal Farm - George Orwell
117. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
118. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
119. Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
120. Common Sense - Thomas Payne {Is this actually meant to be 'The American Crisis, which Payne wrote AS 'Common Sense'?)
121. Rights of Man - Thomas Payne.
122. The Gormenghast trilogy - Marvyn Peake
123. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
124. The Republic - Plato.
125. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
126. Mort - Terry Pratchett
127. Colour of Magic - Terry PratchettWe really don't need 5 pratchett books.
128. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
129. Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
130. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand I am far too amused at the idea of having Atlas Shrugged and The Communist Manifesto on the same list.
131. Apocalypse: The Musical - Robert Rankin.
132. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
133. The hermetic museum - alchemy & mysticism - Alexander Roob
134. Software - Rudy Rucker
135. Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
136. The Dark Elf Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore Can I vote this one down twice?
137. No Exit - Sarte
138. Being and Nothingness - Sartre
139. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
140. The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer
141. Deus X - Norman Spinrad
142. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
143. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
144. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
145. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
146. A Modest Proposal - Johnathan Swift
147. Fooled by Randomness/Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
148. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
149. Hells Angels- Hunter S Thompson
150. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail- HST
151. Walden - Thoreau
152. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
153. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
154. Cannibalism in the Cars - Mark Twain (short story)
155. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
156. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
157. The Art of Memetics - Unruh and Wilson
158. Het allerslechtste van Spekkie Big - M. van der Holst
159. Hellblazer - Various Some of it is really good, the whole thing less so.
160. Candide - Voltaire.
161. Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
162. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
163. Cat's Cradle - K. Vonnegut
164. Garfield Minus Garfield - Dan Walsh/Jim Davis
165. Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh.
166. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, R. A. Wilson
167. The Historical Illuminatus - R.A.W
168. Otherland Series - Tad Williams.
169. The Night In Question by Tobias Wolfe
170. Soldier in the Mist - Gene Wolfe
171. Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn

Sigmatic: most of those I get, but whats wrong with The Prince?
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Jasper

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