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[Fedora.Pirate]

Post the books which you think everyone should read at least once, just to have read them because they're so significant. This is not meant to be a list of your favourite books. For example you might put Harry Potter down because of it's shear popularity and how often it's referenced in Pop Culture, but not because you thought it was a brilliant read. I hope that makes sense.
For me it'd be:
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. The number of time this has been referenced in this forum alone should be enough. If you haven't read this, you've made writing Essays for English twice as hard for yourself, you can reference this for almost anything political.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Such a confronting novel, the film is often referenced in Popular Culture, now see where it all started. If nothing else you'll at least come out with an arsenal of interesting quotes.

I'm sure there's more, I just can't think of them at the moment.

[kimbanator]

I Love his dark materials by Phillip Pullman!!!!!!!!! :

last year, My history teacher sang the song in Animal Farm in the middle of class!!! (shudder) but it's also a very good book.

I suggest reading Khaled Houseini's the Kite Runner, its comming out as a movie soon too . But i reccomend reading the book. It gives an insight to the political turmoil that has occured in Afghanistan for decades or since the dawn of time by the way you look at it, and the importance of standing up for what you believe in no matter the status quo, but also the wayn in which culture and the status quo bars us from or descriminates society.

But I would say if you can hack the hard core language, Give Frankenstein by Mary Shelley a chance as it tells of the importance of not letting ambitions take over you and that sometimes different scientific research should be left alone. But most importantly it conveys that those who are descriminated in society are alone because no one accepts their differences, and this creates conflict. Frankentstein (the scientist) rejects his monster who comes after him to revenge the neglect he was shown from the moment he woke up because of his sheer ugliness.

This post has been edited by kimbanator: Jun 7 2007, 03:37 AM