Frownland

Holocaust survivor and writer. Really uplifting stories about camps.

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grindy

I'm not really into holocaust, but the summary does sound intriguing.

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A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

Frownland

Ja, it's honestly not one of my favourite books to read, but I put it on there because I think everyone should read it, get some perspective of how truly awful it was. You can be told about it at length but the first person details makes it more real.

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Pet_Sounds

I tried to do this and found that I can't really compare fiction and non-fiction. So, I made two lists.

Fiction:

• George Orwell - 1984
• Ernest Hemingway - "The Snows of Kiliminjaro" (short story)
• Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
• Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
• Joseph Heller - Catch-22
• J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
• Richard Adams - Watership Down
• Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
• Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Those are the first ten works of fiction I'd recommend to a friend looking for something to read. I find them all both profound and entertaining. It hurt me to omit my all-time favourite writer, P. G. Wodehouse, but he doesn't have one definitive work.

Non-fiction:

• Viktor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning
• Richard P. Feynman - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• Douglas R. Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
• Plato - The Republic
• The Bible
• The Quran
• Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species
• Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
• Henry David Thoreau - Walden
• Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

The five in the middle are books I've read that I think deserve to be read by everybody, and the other five are personal favourites. A couple of them check both boxes.

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Everybody's dying just to get the disease

Trollheart

Seriously? You think people actually need to read the Bible?? As elphenor would no doubt say, the biggest propaganda production ever released by Christianity?

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Frownland

Know the enemy.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Lonesome Hobo

What would be the name of one of his books Frownland? I've never thought about reading a book about this subject, but the more I think about it, it'd be a great read.

Frownland

Night is autobiographical so I'd go with that one.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.