got any good reads?

Raine · 08-09-2006, 10:12 PM

I'm reading the Aeneid and the Illiad and Dante's Inferno

it helps that I've read all of these before

Spike*Spiegel · 08-09-2006, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Raine

I'm reading the Aeneid and the Illiad and Dante's Inferno

it helps that I've read all of these before

im reading the inferno right now, too. it bores me. illiad is good.
also reading Phantom by Terry Goodkind

just finished with 1984. i highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good book

Raine · 08-09-2006, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Spike*Spiegel

im reading the inferno right now, too. it bores me. illiad is good.
also reading Phantom by Terry Goodkind

just finished with 1984. i highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good book

George Orwell always knew how to write a great book

The Illiad is my favorite out of that The Odyssey and the Aeneid.

And the Inferno is a great read. It's probably one of my favorite epics of all time.

~~i get high sometimes~~ · 07-22-2007, 11:31 PM

atlas shrugged- ayn rand
lies my teacher told me- james lowen
on the road- jack kerouac

all great books, the first one is hefty and difficult to read but definitly a life changing book if you can manage to finish it.
lies my teacher told me is a critique of the Disney version of American history that they teach you in schools
and on the road is the semi-autobiographical story of kerouacs cross country trips with neal cassady

all three are must reads, if you like lies my teacher told me then you should check on some of Noam Chomsky's political science books and Howard Zinns A Peoples History of the United States. Good stuff.

Frances · 07-22-2007, 11:40 PM

I've slowed on the reading front.

Still plowing through the Bukowski collection.

cardboard adolescent · 07-23-2007, 01:52 PM

i just posted this in the other thread but dhalgren (samuel r delany) owns big time. unlike, say, ayn rand.

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Raine Full-Time Hellion Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: PA Posts: 1,531	I'm reading the Aeneid and the Illiad and Dante's Inferno it helps that I've read all of these before __________________ A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

07-22-2007, 11:31 PM	#104 (permalink)
~~i get high sometimes~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 240	atlas shrugged- ayn rand lies my teacher told me- james lowen on the road- jack kerouac all great books, the first one is hefty and difficult to read but definitly a life changing book if you can manage to finish it. lies my teacher told me is a critique of the Disney version of American history that they teach you in schools and on the road is the semi-autobiographical story of kerouacs cross country trips with neal cassady all three are must reads, if you like lies my teacher told me then you should check on some of Noam Chomsky's political science books and Howard Zinns A Peoples History of the United States. Good stuff.

07-23-2007, 01:52 PM	#106 (permalink)
cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,503	i just posted this in the other thread but dhalgren (samuel r delany) owns big time. unlike, say, ayn rand.