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Started by Selkie, October 28, 2008, 02:20:28 PM

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Quote from: skylark on October 28, 2008, 03:37:04 PM
You should read The Fountainhead :D if you haven't yet...
I really like Ayn Rand, but reading The Fountainhead for a paper I did in high school nearly killed me... It's just so long, and having a time limit diminished its enjoyability a bit.

Do Catch 22 Selkie

Skylark

Quote from: Flying Circus on October 28, 2008, 06:33:29 PM
I really like Ayn Rand, but reading The Fountainhead for a paper I did in high school nearly killed me... It's just so long, and having a time limit diminished its enjoyability a bit.

Do Catch 22 Selkie


I read it during the summer for school and I didn't enjoy writing on it but I really loved the book. I think it portrays it's message (and it's a very good one, too!) in such a great way. It doesn't try to push it down your throat but isn't so subtle that it might be lost in the text.
Also, I love Roark.
the book of right on

russell

anything by Dostoevsky; something by Lovecraft if you like gothicy 1920's fantasy; Thomas Pynchon if you want to be mindfucked but also read amazing fiction; or good ol' Dick for easy and good sci-fi.

Houdini

Quote from: skylark on October 28, 2008, 03:37:04 PM
You should read The Fountainhead :D if you haven't yet...
I think you missed the part about maturity and intellectual merit.

famy

Quote from: Bassir on October 28, 2008, 02:29:28 PM
I Am America And So Can You.
aaaa i had to read that not too long ago  OuO


read The Autobiography of Malcolm X whitey

Hiro


Meyer Lansky


The artist formally known

The Stranger if you want something short, easy, but awesome.

About a guy who gets sent to prison and finally death about a murder because of the way he reacted to things, mainly his mother's passing.

Skylark

Quote from: reefer on October 29, 2008, 12:34:50 AM
The Stranger if you want something short, easy, but awesome.

About a guy who gets sent to prison and finally death about a murder because of the way he reacted to things, mainly his mother's passing.


I second this recommendation. It is very good.
the book of right on

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