Originally posted by shavixmirGee Shav go to a library. Get out of the pop lit section.
I'd rather have a red hot poker stuck up my arse than have to read Atlas shrugged...
Anywho...
Catch 22
Lord of the Rings
Foucault's pendulum
The ragged trousered philanthropists
Trinity (Leon Uris)
The search for Robbie Howett (obviously).
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As a child, I enjoyed the following: Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter, Warlord of Mars series; Piers Anthony's the Magic of Xanth series, Michael Moorecock's Elric of Melnibone series; Stephan King's "The Shining," Thomas Dickens' "Great Expectations," anything with Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian; a gigantic biography on Babe Ruth (a famous American baseball player), unfortunately, I can't remember the author.
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterIf you read 1984, than I'm sure you can comprehend the threat of a Republican police state.
"1984" and "The Fountainhead" had a huge impact on me. I don't read contemporary fiction, however, I made an exception for "Fight Club" and was quite impressed with it. Also, Stendhal's "The Red and the Black," and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" round out my top five.
Originally posted by scherzoAu contraire my little cabbage, the police state detailed in 1984 was a pastiche of left-wing dictatorships; therefore, it had more in common with the direction today's Democrats want to take us. For a preview, read Mary Anastasia O'Grady's column in today's Wall Street Journal about the abuses Dictator-For-Life Hugo Chavez is heaping upon the Venezuelan people:
If you read 1984, than I'm sure you can comprehend the threat of a Republican police state.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121841234666728385.html
Originally posted by Bosse de NageI guess I need to qualify that list, which should come under the heading of "Literature." In my youth, I read a lot of "fiction," including the usual stuff boys read: Conan, Magic of Xanth, Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter, many Stephan King and Clive Barker novels and collections, and anything by Jim Thompson and James Ellroy.
How far back do you stop?
After college I made an extensive study of the American classics: Theodore Drieser, Hemingway, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Conner, John O'Hara, Richard Wright, Truman Capote, Nabokov and James Dickey. With the exception of Palahniuk's "Fight Club," I guess the newest thing I've read fiction-wise is James Dickey's "Deliverance."
Now however, I don't read much fiction or literature at all and probably haven't since the mid-1990s.