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nobackspacebutton · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:49 am Post subject: Good Books

If you were to recommend a book for someone to read, what would it be?

I'd say The Scarlet Letter. That was definately one of the favorites I read in HS. It showed Christian hypocrisy at its best...and is great for analyzing symbols.
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Kasdeja · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:51 am Post subject:

Metamorphasis by Franz Kafka
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AutoPilate · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:54 am Post subject:

The Trial by same
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kageyuki · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:02 pm Post subject:

"A River Runs Through It" by George MacClean

(at least I think that was the author's name. I know the title's right though. It's been a while since I read that book.)

EDIT: I was way off on the author.. it's Norman Maclean

wintermute · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:02 pm Post subject:

The Silmarion, J.R.R. Tolkien

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Kasdeja · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject:

Pretty much anything Franz Kafka.
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AutoPilate · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:20 pm Post subject:

Foucault's Pendulum and Five Moral Pieces, Umberto Eco
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Augustine confessions

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The Merant of Venice - Shakespear

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

AutoPilate · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:53 pm Post subject:

Although Stephen King had it pulled from the shelves after the whole Columbine thing (don't know if any of you even remember that little incident), Rage, which he originally published under his Richard Bachman pseudonym, was pretty good, not to mention prophetic. It's probably next to impossible to locate now.
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wintermute · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject:

It should be be obvious that I also highly recommend the "sprawl" trilogy (Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Count Zero) by the William Gibson Wink

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AutoPilate · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:59 pm Post subject:

Ah, speaking of Gibson, his more mature work is pretty interesting too, although of them I'd only recommend Pattern Recognition.
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White Oleander - Janet Fitch
My Sister from the black Lagoon - Laurie Fox
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AutoPilate · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:02 pm Post subject:

I liked Idoru too, but it ties in too much with Virtual Light and All Tomorrow's Parties to be read alone, I think.
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