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Title: Required Reading...... Post by: dystopia on January 05, 2007, 05:38:58 PM So we had a lot of fun with this spontaneous thread a few weeks ago,
Required Viewing for Movie References for this Forum (and/or Generation) (http://www.golfhos.com/topic-966.html) I was wondering what a comparable book list would be like, but I'm going to phrase the question differently. Say you only had a week to live, and you had an infant son/daughter/grandchild, whatever, and wanted to leave for them a list of books you'd like them to read when they got older. You can interpret this thread however you'd like, books that have influenced you or shaped you into the person you've become, or books that you think all people should have read by the time they become an adult. The idea is just to create a thread of recommended books like we did in the movie thread. You don't need to post a list, feel free to just throw titles out as you think of them like in the movie thread. Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Teed on January 05, 2007, 05:48:17 PM The DaVinci Code
The Bible - And let them make their own decision Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Fuzzy on January 05, 2007, 05:50:59 PM This is cool...There are so many but here's a start:
Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged Catcher in the Rye One Fish Two Fish (among others from the Seuss stable) Goodnight Moon Sonnets from the Portugese Fahrenheit 451 To Kill a Mockingbird The Not So Big House author: Sarah Susanka The Farmhouse author: Jean Larson Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Uisce Beatha on January 05, 2007, 05:54:22 PM Cool. Book thread. I live to read.
"Dune" - 'cuz it's the best novel ever written. Ecology, politics, religion, philosophy, noble purpose of man, etc. Flat out rocks. The rest of the series has its moments. Brilliant man. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - so I can laugh while you pretend to get it. No other reason and it's a lameass read but still... Mark Frost's "The Greatest Game Ever Played" and "The Grand Slam" - fantastic golf books with a history lesson built in. George Smiley trilogy - best dialogue in print. Throw in "The Night Manager" while you're at it. Foundation series. Great sci-fi. Out of print sleeper - "The Book of Kells" by R.A. MacAvoy. Other books with Irish themes - "Trinity" by Uris (named my son after the protagonist); "The Tenants of Time" by Flanagan; "The Story of the Irish Race" by Macmanus. "Atlas Shrugged". No matter how you swing it's thought provoking. I'm missing some favorites I'm sure. May have to append later. ;) Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Aske on January 05, 2007, 06:18:00 PM 1984
Animal Farm Heart of Darkness Gravity's Rainbow Catcher in the Rye The Magus Ulysses Crying of Lot 49 Vinland Slaughterhouse 5 The Metamorphosis American Psycho Rules of Attraction The Art of War The Prince Fahrenheit 451 The 120 Days of Sodom Le Monde L'Homme Discours de la méthode Attack upon Christendom Either/Or L'Existentialisme est un humanisme L'être et le néant Novum_Organum Leviathan The Age of Reason Common Sense An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Two Treatises of Government Utilitarianism A System of Logic Das Kapital The Communist Manifesto On the Geneology of Morals Ecce Homo Beyond Good and Evil Thus Spake Zarathrustra Wealth of Nations Lectures on Jurisprudence Candide, ou l'Optimisme Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes Emile The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right Iliad Oddysey Aplogy Crito Phaedo The Republic Nicomachean Ethics Rhetoric Lord of the Rings , Hobbit Lords Of Chaose: The Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground Quantum Mechanics, V1+V2 The Origin of Species Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: spacey on January 05, 2007, 06:22:03 PM Off the top of my head:
The Count of Monte Cristo Nineteen Eighty-Four Connecticut Yankee in King Aurthur's Court Letters From the Earth Catcher in the Rye Raise High The Roof Beams Carpenter/ Seymour and Introduction Franey & Zooey Nine Stories Pillars of the Earth The Winds of War War and Remembrance Shogun I'll post more as I remember... Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Aske on January 05, 2007, 06:24:55 PM ps, if you read the list i posted, you'll probably turn into an ASKE
[sm_shock] Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: stroh on January 05, 2007, 06:25:08 PM I don't raed.
Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: JDerion on January 05, 2007, 06:35:12 PM ps, if you read the list i posted, you'll probably turn into an ASKE It's a great f-ing list. I would add Discourses on Livy as a companion to The Prince, and Tocqueville's Democracy in America is a must add as well. [sm_shock] Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: stroh on January 05, 2007, 06:38:52 PM ps, if you read the list i posted, you'll probably turn into an ASKE [sm_shock] What's wrong with that? Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Fuzzy on January 05, 2007, 06:39:05 PM Aske's list Nice......I love this thread. You've named about 10 that I should have added to mine. Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: dyno on January 05, 2007, 09:00:40 PM Tom Wishon's Common Sense Clubfitting
Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Aske on January 05, 2007, 09:36:55 PM Aske's list Nice......I love this thread. You've named about 10 that I should have added to mine. [sm_hide] [sm_thumbsup] Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Aske on January 05, 2007, 09:45:05 PM ps, if you read the list i posted, you'll probably turn into an ASKE [sm_shock] What's wrong with that? most people would say... " a lot " Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Aske on January 05, 2007, 09:47:10 PM ps, if you read the list i posted, you'll probably turn into an ASKE It's a great f-ing list. I would add Discourses on Livy as a companion to The Prince, and Tocqueville's Democracy in America is a must add as well. [sm_shock] hmmm, #1 is read, #2 isn't then again, I also made the list from memory and a bit of help from the interwebs as I couldnt remember the french titles of a few [sm_shock] Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: stroh on January 05, 2007, 10:04:26 PM ps, if you read the list i posted, you'll probably turn into an ASKE [sm_shock] What's wrong with that? most people would say... " a lot " I see a couple on that list, that are "classics" of American Literature. You have a doctorate. What's wrong with wanting to be like Aske? Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Aske on January 05, 2007, 10:08:10 PM aske is a godless libtard troll who hates 'merka
:o Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: stroh on January 05, 2007, 10:11:27 PM aske is a godless libtard troll who hates 'merka :o Well, yeah, but.........I've loved ya' for years. ;) Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: stroh on January 05, 2007, 10:11:57 PM You have taught me many!
Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Torpedo on January 06, 2007, 08:27:13 AM The Bible. :)
Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: spacey on January 06, 2007, 09:02:30 AM aske is a godless libtard troll who hates 'merka :o Yes, but besides that... [sm_dontknow] Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Aske on January 06, 2007, 09:24:05 AM true
Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Eagleone on January 06, 2007, 09:48:03 AM On War
Makers of Modern Strategy Alternate Generals Dereliction of Duty Lincoln on Leadership Once a Warrior King The Anatomy of Courage This Kind of War The Art of War The Third World War The Hill The Last Run The Rise of Babylon The Expendables Black Hawk Down America's First Battles Six Armies in Tennessee When God Says War is Right Abaddon Dead Air The Search for the Perfect Club This Present Darkness The Visitation Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: spacey on January 06, 2007, 10:36:42 AM Some more favorites:
The Gnostic Gospels Reason & Responsibility Why I am not a Christian Don Qixote Oryx and Crake Brave New World The Discoverers Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison not HG Wells) Jude the Obscure A Gathering of Old Men The Godfather QB VII A Confederacy of Dunces Good Omens A Distant Mirror Tao Te Ching A Clockwork Orange The Stranger Stil thinking... Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Aske on January 06, 2007, 10:38:56 AM Some more favorites: Brave New World i figured someone else here would have mentioned that one Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: campy on January 06, 2007, 10:47:03 AM A few:
East of Eden Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Moby *8==>* To Kill a Mockingbird The World According to Garp Cannery Row The Grapes of Wrath A Farewell To Arms The Sea-Wolf Of Mice and Men The Shipping News Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Uisce Beatha on January 06, 2007, 10:47:27 AM Forgot my Heinlein
* Job: A Comedy of Justice * Stranger in a Strange Land * Time Enough For Love * The Cat Who Walked Through Walls A very quick scan shows no mention of War and Peace. And you won't get it from me. For a book often rated the best novel of all time I find it dreadful. Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Dunk on January 06, 2007, 10:49:34 AM Lord of the Rings
Crime and Punishment Harvey Penick's Little Red Book The Inner Game of Golf Great Expectations Isaac Asimov's Guide to the Bible Anna Karenina Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Salamander on January 06, 2007, 12:44:58 PM Off the top of my head: Anything by Tom Robbins, J.R.R.Tolkien, Lord Dunsany, Douglas Adams. Edgar Allan Poe, Emile Zola, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas Pere, The Brontë Sisters, Charles *8==>*ens, and the most notable works of Jane Austen. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Salamander on January 06, 2007, 12:47:10 PM And that's w'out throwing any Greeks into the equation; Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, and of course Homer and Sappho.
Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Salamander on January 06, 2007, 12:49:43 PM Oh, and for those of use who do not read the Bible, Celsus's "True Discourse" and Porphyry's "Adversus Christianos".
Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Blader on January 07, 2007, 12:21:06 PM The Origin of Species (make up your own mind)
Heller's Catch 22 campy's list, esp the Steinbeck All of Updike's work, esp The Centaur and The Coup Shelby Foote's Civil War trilogy Love in the Time of Cholera (Garcia Marquez) Speer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich The Prince of Tides-Conroy, esp if you golf in the low country My Best Day in Golf Vonnegut Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Torpedo on January 08, 2007, 08:04:58 AM Off the top of my head: What's that one about? ;) :D Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: spacey on January 08, 2007, 09:55:01 AM Off the top of my head: What's that one about? ;) :D Far too disturbing for delicate sensibilities. Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Dunk on January 08, 2007, 11:30:31 AM Off the top of my head: What's that one about? ;) :D Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: E-A-G-L-E! on January 08, 2007, 12:52:45 PM Hmm...
Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth 1 & 2 Samuel 1 & 2 Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obediah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Romans 1 & 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians 1 & 2 Thessalonian 1 & 2 Timothy Titus Philemon Hebrews James 1 & 2 Peter 1, 2, & 3 John Jude Revelation (the above also known as the 66 Books in the Bible) The Answers Book: 20 Most-Asked Questions About Creation, Evolution, and the Book of Genesis, Answered! (Ken Ham, Jonathan Sarfati, Carl Wieland) Fast Facts on False Religions (Ron Carlson, Ed Decker) Fast Facts on Islam (John Ankerberg, John Weldon) I Left the Lodge (Dale A. Byers) The Garden at the Edge of Beyond (Michael Phillips) My Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers) Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: Aske on January 08, 2007, 01:36:58 PM http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592402917/ref=cm_cd_tb_rt/105-2626234-0906809?ie=UTF8&cdForum=Fx20HURY0QMLE4B&s=generic&cdItems=10
Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: E-A-G-L-E! on January 15, 2007, 08:12:51 PM Fighting for Dear Life (David Gibbs)
Title: Re: Required Reading...... Post by: TFT on January 15, 2007, 08:15:51 PM Biscuit Gets a New Kennel.
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