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Old 05-29-2014, 04:16 PM   #71 (permalink)
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^sounds perfert

and a huge DERP on my part....i just assumed the Running with Scissors was some Bill Burroughs book i had never heard of
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Old 05-29-2014, 04:58 PM   #72 (permalink)
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Fiction tends to be very preference-based and isn't necessarily good for humanity so... nonfiction all should read:

Carl Sagan- Broca's Brain
Rene Descartes- Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
David Hume- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Robert Jay Lifton- The Nazi Doctors
Niccolo Machiavelli- The Prince
Jean-Paul Sartre- Existentialism and Human Emotions

All these will humble you.

Edit: Except The Prince and Nazi Doctors, those will empower and shock you, respectively. You might not want to read them unless you plan on being a heartless dictator-doctor someday.
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Old 05-29-2014, 05:06 PM   #73 (permalink)
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Nonfiction's definitely a must, excellent choices!
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Stardust >>>>>> all other Gaiman anything. dudes married to an ableist *******
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Whenever I hear about anime fans saying that manga is more mature than American comic books I always first think of Sandman. The creativity of the stories and the art outstrip just about anything I've ever seen come out of Japan.
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The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius
The History of the Kings of Britain - Geoffrey of Monmouth
Unloved - Peter Roche
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
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The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius
The History of the Kings of Britain - Geoffrey of Monmouth
Unloved - Peter Roche
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt

Angela's Ashes was outstanding. What a gut wrenching tale. It was certainly worthy of a pulitzer as well as {Tis} The follow up book. I worked out Crown Books when it came out and it was on the best seller for forever and a day.
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Reminded me of a fiction that really tugged at the ol' shredded heartstrings.... 'Lovely Bones'
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Reminded me of a fiction that really tugged at the ol' shredded heartstrings.... 'Lovely Bones'

I really thought I was going to hateit but I was so wrong. The one she wrote about being raped in college is really good too, I think it's called Lucky? I have a weird thing for memoirs.
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I really thought I was going to hateit but I was so wrong. The one she wrote about being raped in college is really good too, I think it's called Lucky? I have a weird thing for memoirs.
I'll have to check it out, and me too dude.
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