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Old 11-28-2016, 12:50 PM   #61 (permalink)
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A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (not perfect or even unbiased, but informative and shows a different perspctive. It also discusses how history is decided and recorded in great detail)
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan (a wonderful insight on skepticism and science)
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Old 11-28-2016, 01:14 PM   #62 (permalink)
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Two more

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (not perfect or even unbiased, but informative and shows a different perspctive. It also discusses how history is decided and recorded in great detail)
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan (a wonderful insight on skepticism and science)
That second one is great. Stuff like that should be read in schools.
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Old 11-28-2016, 04:54 PM   #63 (permalink)
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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.
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A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (not perfect or even unbiased, but informative and shows a different perspctive. It also discusses how history is decided and recorded in great detail)
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan (a wonderful insight on skepticism and science)
I can't believe I have yet to read both of these classics. Adding to my list immediately; thank you.
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Watership Down - Richard Adams
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - PKD
Metamorphosis - Kafka
Animal Farm - Orwell
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
95 Poems - e.e. cummings
Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
The Sunset Limited - Cormac McCarthy


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HOW!? HOW DID I FORGET TO PUT THIS ON MY LIST!?

That should have been the goddamn first thing. It shaped me to who I am today.
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HOW!? HOW DID I FORGET TO PUT THIS ON MY LIST!?

That should have been the goddamn first thing. It shaped me to who I am today.
Me too. I guess you took after Hobbes.
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You should read David Copperfield for a highly relateable coming of age material, you ignoramuses.

























































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