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Sep 6, 2017 2:55 AM
ksewright
93811
1987
131
Edit: Wow been lurking forever, can't believe this! Send me nudes and pick ups lines :)
MajorPubes
Cats Cradle over SH5, but that's just me
boopysnoot
I read Neuromancer, at least I covered one of them.
Parrotkick
The foundation series of books by Issac Asimov (the grand daddy of sci fi) is worth reading without a shadow of a doubt!
sauceysauce
Heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad
cowfucker
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
CakeDaySenderKit
Happy Cake Day!
LadyOfSpaceAndTime
Alchemist... Really?
iwasmadetobelievetherewouldbeflan
Most of these are for teens/pre-teens. Not that surprising. :-/
fierybrowniechick
Thanks for putting this up! I love a good reading list!
BrokeMyFunnyBone
It's a pretty meh list
fierybrowniechick
It's not that exciting but there are a few books I haven't read on there. You got a better one?
uponstrangeshores
I couldn't stand 1984. It's world has more holes in it than a net. Catch 22 now, that is a bloody excellent novel.
MrHaynies
Animal farm is not really that good of a book, but that's just my opinion.
Understopper
To be honest, Frankenstein frustrated me. I expected more. Not that I could do better, but I thought it’d deliver more.
zee14
Brave New World scared the shit out of me
HenryFondle
Read BNW: Revisited. https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/
GuffTheTough
I've been wanting to re-read it. I read it in high school but don't remember much from it...just "orgy porgy"...
SometimeLurker
The Things They Carried is one of the best books I read last year!
threepwood007
Read that in high school; woof, what a book
Executor32
It's your cake day? It's MY cake day! Let's celebrate!
Milkboy101
Ah, Lord of the Flies... Read it 3 times because every new school I went to had it for a different grade- always the one I was entering.
metalchef72
I actually just read Enders Game, fantastic book
ChrisCostasBeard
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
HenryFondle
Denial of Death by Ernst Becker. Ties in heavily with Campbell, Frued, psychology and philosophy. "Every man creates for himself his own
HenryFondle
heroic narrative."
Rc4d3
ACTUAL books that blew my mind were: Metro 2033, Ready Player One (Dutch version), and a game of thrones is also decent.
Awolfspittingfire
GoT is just loads of waffling, they weren't bad but take out the pointless shit and they're halved. Metro was decent though
Rc4d3
Yea true, loads of waffling. I have alot of free time to deal with that.
barnwolf
Ready Player One was just boring and elitist pop culture references, combined with a fairly unoriginal plot and overly edgy characters.
Rc4d3
Did u read it in dutch though? I Tried reading it in english and i did not like it. When i switched to dutch it was amazing.
barnwolf
Nope, just in English.
TimeMuffinReloaded
For those who are looking for an actual life-changing read try "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Iamlesbian
It is a basic list, but even so, how come more people aren't't freaking out about 1984 coming true.
Svartlebee
Because it hasn't come true.
EmporerDragon
Because society is drifting more towards Brave New World than 1984.
Iamlesbian
Interesting response. And I actually agree! That was an odd one. I read it a few times and couldn't't find a character to connect with!
MerToo
because they didn't understand the book, didn't read/understand the appendices Orwell wrote and can't bear feeling so helpless and doomed.
BrokenAnimal
May I suggest "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski? One of my absolute favorites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves
CmdrEngineer
I'm finding deathworlders on humanity fuck yeah website to be a good sci go read
DontDoWhatDonaldDontDoes
The problem with reading books is that it spoils movies that you haven't seen yet
theoriginaljfizz
Aaand "50 Shades of Grey"...
Polygrammar
Thank god Atlas Rising isn't on there. Whenever people want to sound smart they always talk about Ayn Rand like she's a fucking rockstar.
TheTentaclePope
I think you mean "Atlas Shrugged", but you seem angry about it, so what do I know?
Galhaar
Anyone who unironically likes ayn rand is a fucking moron. An "antistatist" who leeched off welfare then bitched about "muh gubbmint"
barnwolf
I don't get the hate for that book. It's fiction... people get to obsessed about her philosophy and hate on her book because of it.
barnwolf
That said, I thought the book was boring. Too long, too many monologues about stupid shit.
MerToo
Ayn Rand is worse than 3rd degree burns on the skin cancers caused by AIDS, because at least the burns might help kill the tumours...
NiskanensBureaucrats
The alchemist was SHIT! God that book was a HUGE letdown. It did not help that the lady who sold it to me was fucking extatic about it.
GuffTheTough
One of the worst books I've ever read. When I moved, I think it was one of like two books I didn't even bother taking with me.
BrokeMyFunnyBone
ecstatic*
NiskanensBureaucrats
If it was good enough for John Cleland in 1749, it's good enough for me!
WhichIsIt
"Formerly tatic"
AwhatNwhatAwhatMwhatE
Hooray! I finally found someone else who doesn't like it!
NiskanensBureaucrats
"It's life changing!" Why? Why would it be? What could you possibly gain from it. There's no life lesson there. There's no smart philosophy.
NiskanensBureaucrats
Sorry, but I just felt like ranting at an audience that might agree with me. :-P
AwhatNwhatAwhatMwhatE
Right?! Anyone can be all zen if they just abandon their life, but most of us can't afford that
ampwyo
The Alchemist is a great book if you're stupid. Its a good book to recommend to your new age hippy cousin into healing crystals
NiskanensBureaucrats
Got my upvote!
Sc00ba5teeve
Ender's Game was good; Speaker for the Dead was great.
TheUltimatePunMaster
Honestly yeah it gave so much more depth to the characters
barnwolf
Ya those two really stuck out to me. I barely remember the rest of the series.
aninjasbeer
I liked the first 2 books so much that I read the entire series, despite the quality not holding up for all of them. 3 months of bliss.
Mintyo
i just finished both of those and now im reading xenocide :)
schwegc
Should read Ready Player One
Sc00ba5teeve
On my list.
WardSharlow
Good book, but nothing to do with Ender.
ottoe57
They mention Ender's game in it. :)
nafun
I always think "Speaker for the Dead would make a great movie that no one but me would want to see."
Sc00ba5teeve
Better as a TV series IMO, too many simultaneous storylines.
KiyaSeraphia
Whole series ranges from good to excellent. I'm sad I don't see more love for the Ender's Shadow books though. They're good, if different.
octikitten
It almost lost me with the first one (Enders shadow) but boy was I glad I kept going, it was epic
UsuallySpecial
Some of that is because they’re after Card came out as a full on loony right winger (not “alt right” but anti gay, women, immigration etc)
Sassmachine
My heart breaks every time this discussion comes up.
Pookie55
I honestly prefer the parallel series about Bean. Nothing wrong with the Ender series, but Bean's was more fast paced.
pukeachew
100%
SwarthyAlloy590
read most of these in school. not all of them are bad, but too much George Orwell for my taste.
Vaanhalen
Ah yes, Orwell, the Socialist left winger that was demonized by other left wingers as a "right winger". Try Road to Wigan Pier its on YT.
bawfuls
Homage to Catalonia is his best imo
Awolfspittingfire
You mean Down and out in Paris and London
heyh0
There's two Orwell's.
SirDoober
Did he stutter?
Tnt03038mx
Added to my favs. Anyone you suggest to start with?
GiantMoron
Dune
MerToo
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett.
HenryFondle
Catch 22 is a *really* funny read.
barnwolf
1984 and Brave New World are fun to read back to back, sort of opposite views on dystopian futures. Also fairly short books.
HitlersWeiner
Child 44
Uplinkdsanrok
The Jungle, it covers just about every evil humans can commit.
Uplinkdsanrok
Seriously if you can get through that most of the reading material on that list is a cake walk.
exlurker42
This is....pretty basic. Hell most of it was required reading in high school
TheToiletPaperThatRippedWhileYouWereWiping
In need to read four of these just for my British literature class this year.
Melkbos
Thinking fast and slow was required reading?
SaltoftheEarthSailor
But be honest, how often did you actually read those books when you were supposed and how awesome were they when you read them later?
exlurker42
Yes and varies greatly by book.
canyouthriveat35
Gulliver's Travels was the most hated book on my school reading list for me. I hated the book, the movie and the remake.
Tk842
1984, farenheit 451, lord of the flies, animal farm, all required reading in my highschool, along with alot of Steinbeck. California.
exlurker42
uuuuugh. I hate Steinbeck. Didn't like a lot of the required reading, though. It all seems so painfully heavy-handed.
Epleskrott
Was about to say the same. I remember we had to read and do essays about 7 of these books. It's great books all of them
ShitHasHitTheFan
I live in wisconsin and only two were required.
angrybook
Flowers for Algernon was middle school and lord of the flies was in high school. Only two on the list for me.
EmporerDragon
For me, 3 of those were required in High School (only 2 per person as you chose between Lord of the Flies or 1984), and 1 in Middle School.
raikkoi
Why the hell is the alchemist on that list?
TicoGuy
I know right. It's so overrated. Everything Paulo Coehlo is incredibly overrated.
iamtiredofmakingnewusernames
Yeah like where's the really mindfucked shit like Michael Slade or Thomas Covenant
TheRicM
Those books still blew my mind though
TakWriterOfWorlds
I wish I went to your High School. There isn't a single required book from my school on that list.
Herecomesjohnny
you never read lord of the flies in school? that's so fucking uncanny
bizon1829
Mine had 5 for sure, but i know there were more based on what I saw being read in other English classes
ImgurisluvImgurislife
Fahrenheit 451 is the only one on the list from my high school
Baromian
I wish I had a teacher who handed us a copy of Watchman. Instead I got Brave New World and had that teacher who wanted symbolism instead of
IDoTyposNotEvenSorryButYouCanCallMeNotAGator
Same, in Qc, Canada, we had a book of Mary Higgins Clark and a poor funding for the library... Nothing to make you appreciate reading rly xD
SaltoftheEarthSailor
You should probably go to a different school then
TakWriterOfWorlds
If I went to any school I'd probably be asked to leave. They frown on people just kind of showing up these days.
Damngoodstuff
Did you go to school in Utah?
drickanderson
I did, and I read most of these either in Jr. High or High School.
Damngoodstuff
I'm surprised, a lot of my Utah friends hadn't read a lot of the books I read in school, many on this list. From California for reference.
TakWriterOfWorlds
Ohio. Lord of the Flies was required for certain English classes, but not the "college prep" ones.
Wombatish
Dang, Ohio DoE sample text guide has more of these than that. That's the problem with giving schools freedom - can be used for good or bad.
unappropriate
What would you suggest for a non basic mind blowing book?
RandomActOfConfusion
I would have recommended to you George R.R. Martin's stuff before the show came out and ruined the surprises.
AdolfOlivarBush
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Rules-World-Noam-Chomsky/dp/162779381X
TheRicM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Courtier
TheRicM
The Book of the Courtier, if you want to learn about sprezzatura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprezzatura