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19 years ago 02/25/2005 3:08pm EST

re: S-854

S-854 wrote:
Not in any order.
The First Circle - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Youth - Joseph Conrad
Narcissus and Goldmund - Herman Hesse
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
A Light in August - William Faulkner
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
The Magus - John Fowles
The Secret Miracle - Jorge Luis Borges
The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Of Mice and Men - John Stienbeck
A Short History of Nearly Everything
And of course, Once a Runner - John L. Parker
Some authors deserved more than one book.

Amazing coincidence, I've read 17 out of that list of 20...what are the odds?

19 years ago 02/25/2005 3:17pm EST

re: Mr. Smartypants

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Sam Harris)

19 years ago 02/25/2005 3:37pm EST

re: Pre Fan12322

In no particular order:

Atlas Shrugged--Ayn Rand

A Prayer for Owen Meany--John Irving

A Map of the World--Jane Hamilton

The Wizard's Tide--Frederick Buechner

Banner in the Sky--James Ramsey Ullman

19 years ago 02/25/2005 3:44pm EST

re: NealH

Only read one of them.

John Irving just hasn't been himself the last 10 years.

19 years ago 02/25/2005 3:59pm EST

re: NealH

If I had to chose a John Irving book with a life lesson in it, I think "The World According to Garp" would be it. Serious cringe factor.

19 years ago 02/25/2005 4:00pm EST

re: Nobby Nomates

1. Owen Meaney

2. Cider House Rules

3. Garp

in that order.

19 years ago 02/25/2005 4:08pm EST

re: Mr. Smartypants

19 years ago 02/25/2005 4:26pm EST

re: jas

Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'self reliance' changed my beliefs... it made me realize that I don't owe anyone else anything.

19 years ago 02/25/2005 4:51pm EST

re: Mr. Smartypants

I would agree, both with your order, and that he hasn't been the same. I think the most recent of his books that I've read is Son of the Circus--that was just too weird.

Of the books on my list, perhaps the last "Banner in the Sky" has ultimately had the most influence (though not on morals or beliefs) of any one book. While not a masterwork of fiction (it's a book about a 16 year old climbing a mountain that I read when I was probably in 5th or 6th grade), it gave a kid growing up in Buffalo, NY who had never really seen a mountain before a love of the mountains that has never waned.

19 years ago 02/25/2005 4:55pm EST

re: NealH

Whatever happend to Green Eggs and Ham? That one always comes up but not on this thread.

What gives? Has Dr. Seuss fallen out of favor with you cocksuckers?

Out.

19 years ago 02/25/2005 5:03pm EST

re: Kilgore

All of the Frog and Toad stories. Were they gay?

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