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The 100 Greatest Books, according to PD.com

Started by Requia ☣, February 28, 2009, 10:26:04 AM

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Iason Ouabache

Quote from: Iason Ouabache on June 02, 2008, 06:08:27 AM
Also, three words:  Leo Ex Machina. :p

Yes, in retrospect the Chronicles of Narnia are overly simplistic Christian allegories but they were my first foray into fantasy lit so they'll always have a place in my heart.  I'm sure it was a gateway drug for a lot of nerds over the last 60 years. They were the Harry Potter of their time.
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Honey

Does anyone like Jonathan Swift?  Gulliver's Travels & some of his essays?
Fuck the status quo!

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure & the intelligent are full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell

Faust

Quote from: Honey on March 03, 2009, 11:36:29 AM
Does anyone like Jonathan Swift?  Gulliver's Travels & some of his essays?
I found the writing in Gullivers travels very stoic which kinda killed the pace for me, liked it otherwise, I haven't read any of his essays yet.
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Cain


Faust

Quote from: Cain on March 03, 2009, 11:51:52 AM
A Modest Proposal is kinda great.
"A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public"

oh my...
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Honey

I agree the writing is a little tough to get through, dry & a tad boring, but his satire on the times?  I also like that you can read it (or interpret it) on a bunch of different levels.  

A Modest Proposal was 1 of his essays I was thinking about.
Fuck the status quo!

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure & the intelligent are full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell

Requia ☣

Quote from: Iason Ouabache on March 02, 2009, 11:02:56 PM
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein

Seconded, the others I haven't read.  (Except the Narnia stuff, which I don't remember).
Inflatable dolls are not recognized flotation devices.

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AFK

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Requia ☣

#24

Common Sense Seconded
The Prince I'm sure someone will second it, I never read it


Oh, and The Constitution  This
Inflatable dolls are not recognized flotation devices.

rong

guinness book of world records

so and so's atlas of the world
"a real smart feller, he felt smart"

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Watership Down was my first favorite book, and I still have a massive soft spot for it.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


zen_magick

I'll throw out one of my favorites:  James Clavell Shogun / the entire Asian Saga kicksass
                               
Blow my Mind or Blow Me!

Requia ☣

Inflatable dolls are not recognized flotation devices.

rong

Quote from: rong on March 03, 2009, 04:55:28 PM
guinness book of world records

so and so's atlas of the world

Webster's Dictionary
"a real smart feller, he felt smart"