10 Books Everyone Should Read

Trollheart · 12-02-2016, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

The book or the series? I'd say you can't read just one (although the last is only necessary cause by then you've already made it that far so you might as well). Have you read And Another Thing... btw? I assumed it would be a ****ty cash-in, what with Douglas Adams being dead and all, but I actually thought it was a return to form (so to speak) that was surprisingly funny and ended the series on a much better note than the previous book had.

Well I read up to Mostly Harmless. I can't remember what happened that I didn't buy that last one. Thought I had downloaded it. Or maybe it wasn't available. I mean, who wants paper books in this enlightened era?

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Originally Posted by Qwertyy

1984 is my favourite book of all-time. Read it 3(?) years ago, and I've read it once a year every year since. I had to read The Iliad and The Prince for school this year. The Iliad was okay, definitely dragged in a lot of parts though. Diomedes was a total bad ass though. I'm currently in the process of reading The Hitch-Hiker's Guide and I'm absolutely loving it so far.

I re-read 1984 a few weeks ago; got through it in three days. Never read anything so quickly before. I literally could not put it down, even though I'd read it before.

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I've never made it through Atlas Shrugged. Anthem was so on the nose that it became the nose. I read The Fountainhead at 14 and found the writing a lot more interesting and less in your face preachy than the other two. You're not missing out on much though.

Jesus! At 14 I was reading Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Alan Dean Foster! Were you ever even a child??

**Frownland** · 12-02-2016, 01:47 PM

Sometimes. I read House of the Scorpion at 12 and loved it.

Trollheart · 12-02-2016, 02:12 PM

I joined the library at age eight and got The Jungle Book out. I was most upset that there were no dancing bears, crafty snakes or high-and-mighty tigers in it!

The Batlord · 12-02-2016, 02:35 PM

Dude, you need to read all the Hitchhiker's Guide books. The last one might not be great but you still have to read it. *******.

Trollheart · 12-02-2016, 02:37 PM

Yeah, I'm just not sure what's left to tell. I'm also not a fan of reading posthumous books, as it were.

The Batlord · 12-02-2016, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Yeah, I'm just not sure what's left to tell. I'm also not a fan of reading posthumous books, as it were.

It's actually good though. I'd definitely recommend it as a good way to tie up the story after reading the last Adams book.

Rue · 05-20-2017, 12:23 PM

My ten would be:

1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

I listed ten books I thought would be important to read instead of listing my top ten favourites (although it is pretty close to what my top ten favourites would be).

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Dude, you need to read all the Hitchhiker's Guide books. The last one might not be great but you still have to read it. *******.

Fans of Douglas Adams should read his book Last Chance to See. I liked it a lot more than Hitchhiker's (and I liked Hitchhiker's). I wish Adams had written more non-fiction.

The Batlord · 05-20-2017, 12:30 PM

I want a Youtube video of Ken Ham reading On the Origin of the Species out loud.

Pet_Sounds · 05-20-2017, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Rue

My ten would be:

1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Solid list except for A Brief History of Time. Admittedly, I haven't read the books by Chomsky, Foucault, Mill, or Zinsser.

Chula Vista · 05-20-2017, 02:15 PM

Wanna stab yourself in the stomach? Have a kid and then read King's Pet Cemetery a few weeks later.

I made this mistake. Very few books have made me break down and cry. That was one of them.

On The Beach and The Road are two others I can think of right now.

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Wanna stab yourself in the stomach? Have a kid and then read King's Pet Cemetery a few weeks later. I made this mistake. Very few books have made me break down and cry. That was one of them. On The Beach and The Road are two others I can think of right now. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”