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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 03:17 PM
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The 10 most important books everyone should read (according to you)
So, you are assembling a list of 10 books that you think everyone should read, which books are they?

For me:

  1. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
  2. The Prince - Machiavelli
  3. Dune - Frank Herbert
  4. TSOG: The Thing That Ate The Constitution - Robert Anton Wilson
  5. Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
  6. In the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
  7. The Stealer of Souls - Michael Moorcock
  8. Conan - Robert Howard
  9. The Inferno - Dante
  10. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 03:28 PM
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1. Apparently I scared you all by decloaking from lurk mode
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 03:45 PM
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2. In no particular order
And stop stealing my books

Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Art of War by Sun Tzu (The Prince merely as a guide to how others think in matters of conflict)
Letters from Earth by Mark Twain
Dune by Frank Herbert
Foundation by Isaac Azimov
Bad Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
The Panda's Thumb by Stephon Gould
The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmoore
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 04:02 PM
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3. Dude, there's wayyyyyyyyyy too much science fiction and fantasy...
on that list :)
I can deal with "The Art of War", "The Inferno", and "The Prince", but I would replace that magic sword and spaceship stuff with:

"The Meditations" Marcus Aurelius
"Candide" Voltaire
The Oedipus Cycle" Sophocles
"Madame Bovary" Flaubert
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Twain
"The Sound and the Fury" Faulkner
"Sonnets collection" Shakespeare

all you will ever need to know about the human heart's desires and follies
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