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    Posted: 21 Dec 2009 at 10:48pm
Originally posted by CarloThunder

 
And i liked the goosebumps series and several Roald Dahl books like Charlie and the chocolate factory, the great glass elevator, james and the giant peach from when i was a kid. Smile


haha, i loved those books then i was about 8.

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the analyst - john katzenbach

oh and to make myself seem intellectual i once bought Sartre's Being and Nothingness... I now use it as a doorstop (anyone who's been unfortunate enough to see it will know why Wink)
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My favourite books include:
 
The darktower series - read the first two and currently reading the third.
The Shining - what suprised me here is that the book and the film are very different like the ending and other things.
 
Of Mice and men is another fav of mine as well.
 
And i liked the goosebumps series and several Roald Dahl books like Charlie and the chocolate factory, the great glass elevator, james and the giant peach from when i was a kid. Smile
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*Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood by Dr Richard Hallowell and Dr John Ratey (I have ADHD)
*Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig -(Great philosophy book for the non-philisophical mind)
*Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know -Dr. Meg Meeker (Recommend for ANY father of a daughter)
*On the Road - Jack Kerouac (A classic. If you have not read this, you have not read anything)
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Originally posted by DEVIL_Dragov

I read many books... i like Rimbaud,Voltaire,Maupassant,Christie...
 
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I read many books... i like Rimbaud,Voltaire,Maupassant,Christie...
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Crispin: The Cross Of Lead by Avi
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The Catcher in the Rye Clap
...it's really the only book that's kept my interest from start to finish.

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A list of books that I definitely enjoy:

The Handy Space Answer Book by Phillis Engelbert & Diane L. Dupuis
The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel
The Complete Guide To Mysterious Beings by John A. Keel
Cosmic Voyage by Courtney Brown, PH.D
Cosmic Explorers by Courtney Brown, PH.D
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader by James Luceno
The Davinci Code by Dan Brown
Wise Guy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Urantia Book
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has anyone read The Tommyknockers by Stephen King? it's a really good science fiction novel. 
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Daybreak by Nietzsche not all of it , just some of it
 Meditations of First Philosophy by Descartes
 Leviathan and De Cive by Thomas Hobbs
 Crito by Plato
 The Discourses by Rousseau
Dantes Inferno

Oh God, looks too much like my Philosophy exam I just took today Dead
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i am not a big reader (damn ADD) but my favorite book is Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
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Originally posted by Fluffy Fluffington

...Han Im surprised you of all people don't heed his warning. Or Perhaps you disagree wih his most central Thesis.
Since we cover the book for ~ two week in PHI, you definatly know more than I.  Are you talking about his warning of "sovereign" taking action without a social contract?   I'm not quite sure...  I agreed with the vast majority of what we read in the cla**. 
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Originally posted by Zellot

Daybreak by Nietzsche not all of it , just some of it
 Meditations of First Philosophy by Descartes
 Leviathan and De Cive by Thomas Hobbs
 Crito by Plato
 The Discourses by Rousseau
Dantes Inferno

A couple of years ago i tried getting into philosophy so I bought and read two Friedrich Nietzsche books. 
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Originally posted by HanFei

Originally posted by Zellot

Daybreak by Nietzsche not all of it , just some of it
 Meditations of First Philosophy by Descartes
 Leviathan and De Cive by Thomas Hobbs
 Crito by Plato
 The Discourses by Rousseau
Dantes Inferno
Although I've only read the leviathan, we've discussed the other authors.  +10 respect for Zellot. haha
dude my minor use to be philosophy until realise that most of my cla**es were like a f***ing book club and i was paying some teacher to tell me what book to buy and read when i can read any philosophy book i want and save like thousand of dollars and analyse the **** myself
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Originally posted by HanFei

Originally posted by Zellot

Daybreak by Nietzsche not all of it , just some of it
 Meditations of First Philosophy by Descartes
 Leviathan and De Cive by Thomas Hobbs
 Crito by Plato
 The Discourses by Rousseau
Dantes Inferno
Although I've only read the leviathan, we've discussed the other authors.  +10 respect for Zellot. haha
 
I took an entire couse on Hobbesian Doctirne ... Leviathan's central message is very complex. Han Im surprised you of all people don't heed his warning. Or Perhaps you disagree wih his most central Thesis.
 
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
One flew over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Tool
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Davinci Code (guilty Pleasure)
 
Anything by Hunter S Thompson, Umberto Eco, Chuck klosterman, and David Sedaris.
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Originally posted by Zellot

Daybreak by Nietzsche not all of it , just some of it
 Meditations of First Philosophy by Descartes
 Leviathan and De Cive by Thomas Hobbs
 Crito by Plato
 The Discourses by Rousseau
Dantes Inferno
Although I've only read the leviathan, we've discussed the other authors.  +10 respect for Zellot. haha
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Daybreak by Nietzsche not all of it , just some of it
 Meditations of First Philosophy by Descartes
 Leviathan and De Cive by Thomas Hobbs
 Crito by Plato
 The Discourses by Rousseau
Dantes Inferno
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i understand why people like 1984, i'm just not into it.

some good cla**ics are:
When The Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 
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lol your opinion, not mine. 
Censorship in China, along with detention of civil and human rights activists make a "case and point."
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A novel that i recommend is Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 
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lol your opinion, not mine. 




??Never said it was your opinionSmile
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lol your opinion, not mine. 
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lol they make kids ages 11-13 read 1984 in school. 

All The Pretty Ponies by Cormac McCarthy
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
That's nice to hear, it (1984) should be required reading from the time a child is able to read up through college imo.  1984 is just as relevant today as when it was first published. 
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lol they make kids ages 11-13 read 1984 in school. 

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