God looks at you and laughs. "Hah, you didn't read that?"
What books should you read once in your life?
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Anonymous2006-01-24 2:26
Well, the bible, obviously.
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Anonymous2006-01-27 12:00
Three Kingdoms. Bitches.
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Anonymous2006-01-27 12:24
Dante's "The Divine Comedy"
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Anonymous2006-01-27 14:49
I might have said a 1984 or a Lolita, but those are culturally-focused and meaningless to non-Western civilization. See: above.
Everything but philosophy is worthless, and philosophy can only provide what you receive- so determining it to be a 'requirement' for dying is like saying that if you don't understand metaphysics you have done nothing with your life, and no one understands metaphysics.
Nonetheless, I vote Confucius, Nietzsche, et al. All the same. Though a better vote might be towards the greatest scientific texts- which are usually half wrong theories. Knowing even half-facts is much more of an accomplishment than grasping through the darkness of billions of words of speculation and lie.
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Anonymous2006-01-27 22:39
"Space Case" and "The Stand"
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Anonymous2006-01-29 17:36
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
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Anonymous2006-01-29 21:28
"thus spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche
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Anonymous2006-01-30 23:31
American Psycho
Money
Trainspotting
Wuthering Heights
Crime and Punishment
Cancer Ward
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Anonymous2006-02-05 20:48
Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Plato's The Republic
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Anonymous2006-02-07 7:03
Yeah but plato sucks. I mean wtf? wind, fire, earth, water as the four forces of nature? what the fuck is this, captain planet? GTFO PLATO
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Anonymous2006-02-07 13:51
4 elements are analogous to the states of matter- solid, liquid, gas, and energy.
Any Stephen King novel; at least one before dying.
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Anonymous2006-02-08 2:23
>>12 I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE (IT IS MIXING BASIC CHEMISTRY (AGGREGATE STATES) WITH GENERAL RELATIVITY)
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Anonymous2006-02-09 17:53
Any good book. Make it an enjoyable (not necessarily a simple) one if you're going to die soon.
Any novel by Philip K. Dick might be a good choice. The most mystic ones?
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Anonymous2006-02-20 22:29
1984 is meaningless to non-western civilization?
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Anonymous2006-02-21 10:41
A lot of William Burroughs,, preferably scattered out over his carrer's phases, but especilly Naked Lunch and the trilogy Cites of the Red Nights, A Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands (which have to do with death and immortality to boot).
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Anonymous2006-02-21 10:42
Kurt Vonnegut. Cat's Cradle will make you glad to be dead.
I guess a good book to read would be On The Road. If you're young.
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Anonymous2006-03-12 11:47
why not strugle through Robert Jordan's epic "The Wheel of Time"
Its just good enough to make you want to keep reading, but dull enough that you want to burn the damned book.
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Anonymous2006-03-12 14:14
So I hear.
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Anonymous2006-03-24 23:35
If you have the time to go through all the libraries in the middle east and look for the necronomicon, have someone translate it to you if you dont know arameic. At least with that you'll know were you're going after you die.