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by **Army of GOD** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:13 am

keiths31 wrote:The Game - by Ken Dryden
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f*ck, I just lost

by **AndyDufresne** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:09 pm

I'd rather just have someone read Catch-22 By Joseph Heller 5 times. It is always a great read, even upon subsequent readthroughs, and it helps add to the Catch-22 feeling by reading it again and again. It is by far my favorite novel.

--Andy

by **nietzsche** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:15 pm

AndyDufresne wrote:I'd rather just have someone read Catch-22 By Joseph Heller 5 times. It is always a great read, even upon subsequent readthroughs, and it helps add to the Catch-22 feeling by reading it again and again. It is by far my favorite novel.

--Andy

I was wondering if nobody was gonna include it in the list. I didn't because I'd rather read non-fiction but that book is absolutely brilliant.

by **AndyDufresne** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:29 pm

nietzsche wrote:
AndyDufresne wrote:I'd rather just have someone read Catch-22 By Joseph Heller 5 times. It is always a great read, even upon subsequent readthroughs, and it helps add to the Catch-22 feeling by reading it again and again. It is by far my favorite novel.

--Andy

I was wondering if nobody was gonna include it in the list. I didn't because I'd rather read non-fiction but that book is absolutely brilliant.

It is brilliant, yes. It is one of the few novels that actually makes me laugh, as if I was watching a film or a tv show or something. There is a sequel which I picked up at a bargain bookstore that I haven't yet read. I don't know how good it is though.

--Andy

by **nietzsche** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:11 pm

Ok. Which one do I read first, Siddharta or Demian?

by **Symmetry** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:14 pm

nietzsche wrote:Ok. Which one do I read first, Siddharta or Demian?

The Glass Bead Game, you might like, haven't read Demian, but Siddartha isn't the best intro to his stuff.

by **Army of GOD** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:27 pm

Catch-22 is a good book but I feel like it isn't as...macroscopic...I guess as the other books I mentioned.

by **Symmetry** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:37 pm

Army of GOD wrote:Catch-22 is a good book but I feel like it isn't as...macroscopic...I guess as the other books I mentioned.

That's a pretty good way of looking at it- it focuses on the small absurdities. My favourite joke in the book is when Yossarian describes one of his dreams to a doctor and another patient (Orr?) confirms it to be true.

How did he know? He was in the dream too.

Catch 22 is all about the little things. Nothing macroscopic.

by **saxitoxin** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:41 pm

Symmetry wrote:
nietzsche wrote:Ok. Which one do I read first, Siddharta or Demian?

The Glass Bead Game, you might like, haven't read Demian, but Siddartha isn't the best intro to his stuff.

I haven't read The Glass Bead Game, but I agree with Symmetry on Siddhartha. Demian is a little faster paced, though both are pretty short and can be read quickly.

If Demian were made into a film, Wes Anderson would direct it. So, if you like Wes Anderson films, but wish they were a little darker, you would like Demian.

by **jonesthecurl** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:10 pm

So...

Without too much thought, I'd say

Robert Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy
TH White's The Once and Future King
Colin Wilson's Origins of the Sexual Impulse
Larry Gonicks's Cartoon History of the Universe
Alton Brown's Good Eats

I could be persuaded to change my mind about which Heinlein (maybe The Moon is a Harsh Mistress instead), which Colin Wilson (maybe An Introduction to Phenomenological Existentialism instead), and which Gonick (maybe Cartoon History of the New World instead), and for a food book I might go with Pat Chapman's Vegetarian Curry bible instead, in a different mood.

by **nietzsche** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:19 pm

saxitoxin wrote:
Symmetry wrote:
nietzsche wrote:Ok. Which one do I read first, Siddharta or Demian?

The Glass Bead Game, you might like, haven't read Demian, but Siddartha isn't the best intro to his stuff.

I haven't read The Glass Bead Game, but I agree with Symmetry on Siddhartha. Demian is a little faster paced, though both are pretty short and can be read quickly.

If Demian were made into a film, Wes Anderson would direct it. So, if you like Wes Anderson films, but wish they were a little darker, you would like Demian.

Uh Oh.

Some movies by Wes Anderson are good, some are awful.

by **Symmetry** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:25 pm

nietzsche wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:
Symmetry wrote:
nietzsche wrote:Ok. Which one do I read first, Siddharta or Demian?

The Glass Bead Game, you might like, haven't read Demian, but Siddartha isn't the best intro to his stuff.

I haven't read The Glass Bead Game, but I agree with Symmetry on Siddhartha. Demian is a little faster paced, though both are pretty short and can be read quickly.

If Demian were made into a film, Wes Anderson would direct it. So, if you like Wes Anderson films, but wish they were a little darker, you would like Demian.

Uh Oh.

Some movies by Wes Anderson are good, some are awful.

The words of a true sage.

by **Neoteny** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:41 pm

Catch-22!

I dunno if I want to come up with four more. I <3 all the books. So I'm just going to pick ones off my bookshelf that I think make me look smart.

f*ck Heinlein (not really): Asimov's Foundation
Sagan's Demon-Haunted World
Preston's The Demon in the Freezer
Watterson's Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'

by **maxfaraday** on Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:44 pm

"Les Fleurs du Mal" ("The Flowers of Evil") - Baudelaire.

Also I agree with everyone who suggested Asimov, haven't read Foundation (yet), but his short stories are beautiful.

by **Gillipig** on Wed Oct 24, 2012 4:26 am

The Swarm - Frank Schätzing
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Candide - Voltaire
Free Will - Sam Harris
On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin

Good reads for those who are interested in biology, religion and free will.

"Candide" and "Free Will" can be read in a few hours. It's the type of book you read again and again because with each reading you notice something new.
"The Swarm" is a massive book, close to nine hundred pages, yet I have read it from start to finish three times. Something as odd as an Eco Thriller has to be read to be understood! The book ignores the common rule of having only a few main characters. This book is stuffed with main characters and they're all being explored deeply. Thereof the immense number of pages. If you also have an interest in biology, this book is a must read!
"On the Origin of Species" and "The God Delusion" deals with evolution. Darwin's book laid the foundation for everything written on the subject. Dawkins takes Darwin's theory and showcase more clearly the implications it has on religion. More than anything his book displays the futility of religios belief. If you think a certain religion is true or that it's useful, he has a few words to say about that

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