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The Pub's Unofficial Must Read Book List. * 1
    #10358702 - 05/18/09 01:38 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

List your must read books, maybe I'll combine all of 'em into one list, and sort them with a poll once we get a bunch of them.

-In no particular order-

The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
The Dharma Bums
Coming of age in the milky way
the dancing Wu li masters
Dante's inferno
Everyman: From Simple Numbers to the Calculus
the giver
My boyscout handbook:tongue2:
the illuminatus
the hobbit
the lion the witch and the wardrobe
zen mind beginner's mind
starship troopers
the call of the wild
fight club
great expectations
dance of the fallen monk
a peoples history of the world
the age of reason
1984
the art of warfare......I definitely didn't understand the depth of this book the first time through.



They're not the greatest books ever written or anything, but they're all books that made an enormous impression on me at various points in my life. They're the books that I would make sure I had available if I had a kid, and that's the point.

Anyway, that should get the list started.:awesome:


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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: blewmeanie]
    #10358726 - 05/18/09 01:46 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

Insomnia (King)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Foer)

Anthem + Atlas Shrugged (Rand)

A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)

The Hotel New Hampshire (Irving)

those are the faves that I can think of right now


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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: blewmeanie]
    #10358728 - 05/18/09 01:47 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

Siddhartha

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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Gr8fulJ420]
    #10358739 - 05/18/09 01:51 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

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Siddhartha




and the First 3 books of the Don Juan Series


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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Almond Flour]
    #10358742 - 05/18/09 01:52 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

be here now by Ram Dass


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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: blewmeanie]
    #10358757 - 05/18/09 01:56 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

Good List! I'm gonna have to check some of those out as well.  Here are some good ones that I enjoyed:

A Brief History Of Time
The Universe In a Nutshell (I like Hawking)
In Search Of Captain Zero
A Land Remembered (good read if you live in Florida, it might be hard to relate or find interesting for others)
Fight Club
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish (Douglass Adams is good)


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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: CubieMcCuberton]
    #10358763 - 05/18/09 01:57 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

I started hitchhikers guide years ago but never finished it. I keep meaning to go pick up the big anthology they have thats all his books bound together


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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: blewmeanie]
    #10358765 - 05/18/09 01:58 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

Catch-22


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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: blewmeanie]
    #10358770 - 05/18/09 02:00 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

I read that there is an F missing in Unofficial :laugh:.

But, my top books are:

Be here Now

Jitterbug Perfume

"The Book"

The Wondrous Mushroom


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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Set]
    #10358846 - 05/18/09 02:14 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

illuminatus! - if you frequent this site and haven't read it, you're crazy


fiction:
the stand
hyperion (series)
dune
his dark materials (series)

non-fiction:
cosmos
hyperspace
DMT
On Liberty (Mill) - not a book, but it's my favorite piece of philosophical literature

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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: JT] * 1
    #10358852 - 05/18/09 02:15 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

The Giving Tree


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By making his world a little colder.

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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: blewmeanie]
    #10358927 - 05/18/09 02:32 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

"Storming Heaven:  LSD and The American Dream"












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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Learyfan]
    #10358953 - 05/18/09 02:37 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

Add um...

Tao Te Ching
Be Here Now
Catcher in the Rye


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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. *DELETED* [Re: learningtofly]
    #10358982 - 05/18/09 02:43 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: mtw397]
    #10358995 - 05/18/09 02:45 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

Cat's Cradle


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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: blewmeanie]
    #10359006 - 05/18/09 02:48 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

PiHKAL
TiHKAL

I've finished PiHKAL and I'm half way through TiHKAL. Both are incredible books and both have influenced my own thoughts quite a bit. I definitely recommend them.

BTW, seeing as this is a thread about literature, I should probably point out that unofficial is spelt wrong :foreheadslap:.


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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Cepheus]
    #10359149 - 05/18/09 03:16 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

The Hobbit first then the Lord of the Ring trilogy


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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Cepheus]
    #10359182 - 05/18/09 03:23 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

One novel and one non-fiction I'd like to chime in with are

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: blewmeanie]
    #10359329 - 05/18/09 03:51 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

Already mentioned, but DMT: The Spirit Molecule should be at the top of the list.

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Re: The Pub's Unoficial Must Read Book List. [Re: Life_of_a_Cell]
    #10359334 - 05/18/09 03:53 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

Steven Erikson's

A Tale of the Malazan Books of the Fallen series defines the term epic.

Fantasy lovers check it out, first installment is Gardens of the Moon.

Additionally, by Robin Hobb, The Farseer, Liveship traders, Tawny Man and Soldier's Son trilogies are great fantasy reads as well.


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