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[kobayashi-maru]

Have to say I'm happily surprised by the Colbert references.

For me:

The classics like, Jane Eyre, Sherlock Holmes, everything by Sophocles (was drama geek as kid) and the early Stephen King & Dean Koontz. Never get the love for The Green Mile though, I bought it when it first started as a multi part book series and never really got into it.

My current favourites though are Running with scissors by Augusten Burroughs and House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski.

Modifié par kobayashi-maru, 30 mars 2013 - 10:20 .

[mickey111]

Marley and me by John Grogan definitely made me appreciate my dog more.

[IllusiveManJr]

I tried reading Atlas Shrugged but it will be some time before I'm ready for a book like that.

[EpicBoot2daFace]

The Lusty Argonian Maid.

[Neoleviathan]

Hard to choose... Moby-Dick, the Sunlight Dialogs, Mean Spirit, Ceremony, Fields of Fire, The Forever War, Mother Night, Roots, Sometimes A Great Notion. I think the majority of fiction and nonfiction out there is by nature powerful, even a poorly written book can have its moments.

The most recent powerful book for me was one of those free sci-fi novels Amazon offers called Neptune's Crossing, powerful because reading it changed my mind about ebooks & helped me expand. I wouldn't have been able to enjoy many of the other ebooks I have found like Wool, or the short stories Scalzi & David Morrell put out if I hadn't given it a chance.

Modifié par Neoleviathan, 31 mars 2013 - 10:56 .

[FireAndBlood]

Twilight.










Yes I am trolling.

[KingJason13]

the Dune novels.

[Giga Drill BREAKER]

Probably the first 3 Dune novels, it really affected how I look at religion.

[DukeOfNukes]

Oh man, Dino, all the ones Frank Herbert wrote were amazing. I actually prefer the later 3, but you're probably right that they didn't make as much of an impact.

Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin.

[Giga Drill BREAKER]

I never said I didn't like them all, but I prefer the first 3 and I even like some of Brian's work, I like the Butlerian Jihad novels and the novels about the events preceding the first Dune book.

[BouncyFrag]

The Lusty Argonian Maid, all volumes.

Modifié par BouncyFrag, 01 avril 2013 - 04:14 .

[BadgerladDK]

Well, this is gonna end well, it always does when I bring it up, but here we go: Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged. It didn't so much change my life as it reaffirmed what I'd always felt to be true.

Of course, having the Zombie Surival guide on hand is also essential. And for complete preparedness, you need these two classics as well: To keep you warm and sheltered and of course to enhance your ocean-based safety, you need this

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Neofelis Nebulosa wrote...

Anything from Isaac Asimov.

Indeed. Good sci-fi novels and scientific (astronomy, chemistry, physics) books.

In Sci-fi, Arthur C. Clarke is as good as him.

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In politics I suggest reading books or essays (or sayings) of this thinkers:
Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Fichte, Hegel, British Socialists, Giovanni Gentile, Spengler and Leo Strauss.
I think there is a void in my political knowledge and my preference in it.. Nevermind.

[Reikilea]

Pretty much many. But these most.

Master and Margareta by Michail Bulgakov. Because I love Russian satire.

Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling. That´s the best cyberpunk (I am even sure it´s cyberpunk) book ever.

Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome. I love the writing. Finally started to read it in english. I want to write like this. Best observatory writing and subtle humour ever.

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Because when you put those two together.

And especially the moment when you discover Terry Pratchett´s Discworld series as teenager. It´s like whole new world opened to me.

[VoiceOfPudding]

The horrible histories books pretty much got me into history, which lead to me reading LoTR and other fantasy books with strong worlds

[Beerfish]

[EpicBoot2daFace]

Then I stopped reading books.

[Giga Drill BREAKER]

EpicBoot2daFace wrote...



Then I stopped reading books.

God I hope your trolling.

[Ramillete]

Dune saga, 6 books in total by Frank Herbert