OccultHawk

The Zinn

If you don't think America has always been about money and only money read that book. It's all about greed greed greed.

American Revolution
WW2
Suffrage

The backbone of everything was some kind of money angle.

Frownland

You should read David Copperfield for a highly relateable coming of age material, you ignoramuses.

























































Nah that ****'s great.

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The Batlord

I'm pretty sure I still have some of my old Calvin & Hobbes books actually. A lot of them have been lost over the years though. I'm still sad whenever I remember an old strip but can't find it in my collection cause it's gone.

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Exo

I've lost maybe two but the rest are some of my prized possessions. Calvin and Hobbes was the first thing I "discovered" on my own. I just randomly dug it out of a shelf at the library. Digging for music and films just kind of came natural after that.

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The Batlord

This is totally worth $100.

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Calv.../dp/1449433251

And shout out to Far Side.

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Trollheart

When I was younger I read a ferocious amount, mostly science-fiction and fantasy, but these days I don't seem to have as much time. Still, my list, for what it's worth, in no particular order:

Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Saville (Dan Davies) One of the most chilling and disturbing books I have ever read, not only to read the depth of Saville's crimes but also the culture of personality and the sense of appeasement that allowed him to get away with it for so long. The only book I have ever read where I wished to kill the central character, even though he was dead already.
The Iliad (Homer)
The War of the Worlds (HG Wells)
The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son (Gordon Burn) The life and crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper
The Father of Forensics: How Sir Bernard Spilsbury Invented Modern CSI (Colin Evans)
The True History of The Elephant Man (Michael Howell and Peter Ford)
Charles Dickens: a Life (Clare Tomalin) I think this is the only book where I cried like a baby when he died.
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

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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.

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Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

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.

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The Batlord

Never read Anthem or even heard of it so I have no idea. Atlas Shrugged is **** though. I was a libertarian at the time and even I gave up on it though I loved the preaching. There's an entire chapter that's a metaphor for giving birth that's really just a boring literal train ride. Do with that what you will.

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Frownland

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

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