Required reading for humanity
 

ITT we wax intellectual about books everyone should read before they die. Love them or hate them of course, some books are like eating your vegetables - awful but still good for you.


To start:

Catch-22
The Fountainhead
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Last Exit To Brooklyn

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

I loved Catch-22. And I don't know anyone who didn't like One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Sadly, I have never read The Fountainhead. And I own a copy of Last Exit to Brooklyn; But have not gotten around to reading it for one reason or another.

Sons and Lovers by Lawrence anyone? And I always suggest American Psycho to everyone even though it seems to be pretty much love or hate. I happened to love it.

Modern classics are totally valid. I'd pick Less Than Zero over American Psycho but that's just my preference.

Maus would be one I'd add, just because it changed my perspective on graphic novels and showed me they're worth taking seriously.

itt we continue using MB like reddit.


thanks for bringing quality to the boards.

Yours was a comment especially full of quality, being a dick is definitely good for the boards.

Haven't read Nea's recommendations and I've never made it through anything by Ayn Rand. I just... I can't. Too dull. Maus (along with Love & Rockets) got me into graphic novels, too! Great stuff, I still have it somewhere.

I'll recommend Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.

Basically any book that deals with strategy I think people should read, like A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi and of course, The Art of War by you-know-who.

I personally see applications of the simplest principles in these two books EVERYWHERE, from sports to politics.

Ham On Rye and while I don't like it much, The Bell Jar. Both important memoirs IMO