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#2 rawsavon
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The Count of Monte Cristo -Alexander Dumas
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#3 blackngold29
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Good question. I don't know.
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The Count of Monte Cristo -Alexander Dumasrawsavon
Read it. Loved it. My contribution: Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Miller. Literaly changed my life.
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#5 nZiFFLe
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Probably The Hobbit.

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#6 ferrari2001
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Probably The Hobbit.

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Yep, this or Lord of The Rings (I consider the trilogy as a whole)
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The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan.

Probably The Hobbit.

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I wouldn't say it's a necessary read, but I do find the Hobbit to be one of my favorite books.
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#8 Wolls
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[QUOTE="rawsavon"]The Count of Monte Cristo -Alexander Dumas

Cant i just watch the movie? :(
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#9 ferrari2001
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[QUOTE="rawsavon"]The Count of Monte Cristo -Alexander DumasWolls
Cant i just watch the movie? :(

No it's no where near as good and interesting as the book is.

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watchmen- alan moore

100 years of solitude- gabriel garcia marquez

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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#12 rawsavon
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[QUOTE="Wolls"][QUOTE="rawsavon"]The Count of Monte Cristo -Alexander Dumas

Cant i just watch the movie? :(

NO! The movie is garbage
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
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[QUOTE="rawsavon"]The Count of Monte Cristo -Alexander DumasBreakTheseLinks
Read it. Loved it. My contribution: Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Miller. Literaly changed my life.

I read that recently. Don't get the hype.
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#15 GrandJury
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LOL I remember that brown bear book. I thought this was an interesting read.

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Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

It can at times be a challenging read, but I loved it overall.

Or read The Left Behind Series, they are such great books. Loved em.

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#17 Agent-Zero
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The Bible....*runs* Seriously Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. No, Prisoner of Azkaban. Yeah Prisoner of Azkaban
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[QUOTE="BreakTheseLinks"][QUOTE="rawsavon"]The Count of Monte Cristo -Alexander DumasTheokhoth
Read it. Loved it. My contribution: Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Miller. Literaly changed my life.

I read that recently. Don't get the hype.

*shrugs* I've met quite a few people that felt it didn't have much of an iimpact on them. I dunno.
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Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.

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[QUOTE="Theokhoth"][QUOTE="BreakTheseLinks"] Read it. Loved it. My contribution: Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Miller. Literaly changed my life.BreakTheseLinks
I read that recently. Don't get the hype.

*shrugs* I've met quite a few people that felt it didn't have much of an iimpact on them. I dunno.

One thing is that it's really confusing. Was Socrates a real person or something? If so, then the story is difficult to believe at best. I just don't think the "tell-it-as-a-story" route was the best way for the author to go if he was trying to tell a history.
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#21 BreakTheseLinks
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Another book I think is great is Ishmeal.

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#22 SteverXIII
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Do androids dream of electric sheep?

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A good. basic World Religions textbook. Everyone has so many misconceptions about so many various religions, that I believe it should be mandatory in high school that there not only be a world religions course, but have the entire text as required reading.

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The Foundation books.
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[QUOTE="BreakTheseLinks"][QUOTE="Theokhoth"] I read that recently. Don't get the hype.Theokhoth
*shrugs* I've met quite a few people that felt it didn't have much of an iimpact on them. I dunno.

One thing is that it's really confusing. Was Socrates a real person or something? If so, then the story is difficult to believe at best. I just don't think the "tell-it-as-a-story" route was the best way for the author to go if he was trying to tell a history.

I'm certain he was a real person. The experiences they have do seem a bit embellished, though.

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#26 Theokhoth
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Another book I think is great is Ishmeal.

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Is that the Southworth book?
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Don't read that much :(
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HOLY BIBLE

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#30 BreakTheseLinks
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[QUOTE="Theokhoth"][QUOTE="BreakTheseLinks"]

Another book I think is great is Ishmeal.

Is that the Southworth book?

Are you asking who the author is? It's by Daniel Quinn.
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The Bible.

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#32 Theokhoth
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[QUOTE="BreakTheseLinks"][QUOTE="Theokhoth"][QUOTE="BreakTheseLinks"]

Another book I think is great is Ishmeal.

Is that the Southworth book?

Are you asking who the author is? It's by Daniel Quinn.

Oh. I was thinking of another book written in the nineteenth century. Very good book, too.
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"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" Steven Chbosky

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#34 ToppledPillars
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There isn't a specific one, just avoid Ayn Rand

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
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#36 Aquat1cF1sh
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Harry Potter. Or Holes. Or Hoot.
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#37 sogni_belli
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GrandJury

This book was great. It was my introduction to the concept of relativity at the age of eight.

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The Count of Monte Cristo -Alexander Dumasrawsavon
Excellent suggestion. I'd also add the Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost.

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#39 GrandJury
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[QUOTE="GrandJury"]

sogni_belli

This book was great. It was my introduction to the concept of relativity at the age of eight.

Yeah it was great. I remember it being one of the school choosen books that I could actually stand lol.

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[QUOTE="bededog"]The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan.

Probably The Hobbit.

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I wouldn't say it's a necessary read, but I do find the Hobbit to be one of my favorite books.

You took mine... :lol:
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Hmm...may I count Vergil's Aeneid?

I don't expect everyone to learn Latin to read it in its original text, though of course that's best, but it's just...phenomenal. Reading it for the first time is probably the most enriching literary experience I've had thus far.


(my favorite English translation)

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It taught me what left and right was. :P

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The Crucible

Arthur Miller

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#44 SaMmY_SaMmY_SaM
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I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne

I couldn't put it down!

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The Great Gatsby

By: F.Scott Fitzgerald

Some people find it boring, but I couldn't stop reading it.

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It would improve society SO much.

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Beyond good and Evil :twisted:
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#48 ferrari2001
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A good. basic World Religions textbook. Everyone has so many misconceptions about so many various religions, that I believe it should be mandatory in high school that there not only be a world religions course, but have the entire text as required reading.

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This! In High School I had to study not only catholicism but Islam, Buddism, Judaism, Mormonism and Protestantism. Saying people have misconceptions is an understatement.
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The Great Gatsby

By: F.Scott Fitzgerald

Some people find it boring, but I couldn't stop reading it.

Shadow4020
I had to read that in high school it was alright
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To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies-WIlliam Golding