Trollheart

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!

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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. *******.

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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.

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The Batlord

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.

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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

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).

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.

Pet_Sounds

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

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Chula Vista

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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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.”

Frownland

My own work has made me cry, but I'm not sure if tears of frustration count.

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Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

on liberty is pretty meh imo, there were some notable sections and quotes but aside from that it was hard to get through.

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The Batlord

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

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