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Old 08-09-2006, 10:12 PM  
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I'm reading the Aeneid and the Illiad and Dante's Inferno

it helps that I've read all of these before
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Old 08-09-2006, 10:22 PM  
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I'm reading the Aeneid and the Illiad and Dante's Inferno

it helps that I've read all of these before
im reading the inferno right now, too. it bores me. illiad is good.
also reading Phantom by Terry Goodkind

just finished with 1984. i highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good book
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Old 08-09-2006, 11:08 PM  
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im reading the inferno right now, too. it bores me. illiad is good.
also reading Phantom by Terry Goodkind

just finished with 1984. i highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good book
George Orwell always knew how to write a great book

The Illiad is my favorite out of that The Odyssey and the Aeneid.

And the Inferno is a great read. It's probably one of my favorite epics of all time.
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Old 07-22-2007, 11:31 PM  
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atlas shrugged- ayn rand
lies my teacher told me- james lowen
on the road- jack kerouac

all great books, the first one is hefty and difficult to read but definitly a life changing book if you can manage to finish it.
lies my teacher told me is a critique of the Disney version of American history that they teach you in schools
and on the road is the semi-autobiographical story of kerouacs cross country trips with neal cassady

all three are must reads, if you like lies my teacher told me then you should check on some of Noam Chomsky's political science books and Howard Zinns A Peoples History of the United States. Good stuff.
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Old 07-22-2007, 11:40 PM  
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I've slowed on the reading front.

Still plowing through the Bukowski collection.
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i just posted this in the other thread but dhalgren (samuel r delany) owns big time. unlike, say, ayn rand.
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