To date, I've read maybe 2 good books, and those were 'Stranger in a Strange Land' and 'Confederacy of Dunces'. I'm currently reading 'City' and 'Atlas Shrugged'.
Is any book as genius as 'City', as smooth as 'Stranger in a Strange Land', or as powerful as 'Atlas Shrugged'?
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Anonymous2008-07-17 19:07
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I haven't ready any of those so I can't answer your question, but how have you managed not to read anything else good?
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Anonymous2008-07-17 19:46
Atlas Shrugged? Powerful?
I hope you mean powerfully bad; that shit is terrible.
Try reading something with actual characters instead of walking strawmen.
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Anonymous2008-07-17 21:28
I'm going to say "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, but I think I have a philosophical bias for liking that book. There are still some parts that are absolutely beautiful, like when Meursault bummed a ride off a trolley during sunset.
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Anonymous2008-07-17 22:21
>>3 I hope you mean powerfully bad; that shit is terrible.
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw
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Anonymous2008-07-17 22:27
There really is no way of truly determing that, as it would greatly depend on the time and mood. The genre, tone, setting, plot... any might not sit well with a reader at any time.
But I'm being a stiff. I'll put my vote down for Catch-22.
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Anonymous2008-07-17 22:28
Gilgamesh.
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Anonymous2008-07-17 22:33
The Butter Battle, by Doctor Seuss.
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Anonymous2008-07-18 21:07
The Da Vinci Code
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Anonymous2008-07-19 21:24
The End of Faith, by Sam Harris.
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Anonymous2008-07-20 7:17
The Sound and the Fury
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Anonymous2008-07-25 1:49
1984
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Anonymous2008-07-25 3:58
The Sound and the Fury
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Anonymous2008-07-25 4:20
Anything by Chuck P., author of fight club.
Also read Survivor and Choke. Mind-Blowing.
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Anonymous2008-07-28 8:41
Single book? Probably Good Omens by Terry Pratchet (not one of the Discworld series). It seemed to explain the way I feel about angels and daemons a little too closely for comfort sometimes.
It was as if he'd litterally looked inside my head and taken my beliefs and put them on a page, with his usual twisted humour.
Single Non-fiction? The sign and the seal, It's Douglas Hancock's search for the Holy Grail and the Arc of the Covenant. It's not a story at all but a diary of his investigations and is rivetting from cover to cover.
Series? Well, I know I'm bound to get stick for it, but I really love Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books.
In my own opinion they are just as well written, thought out and historied as Tolkiens work and, if you stick by it through the more complicated and brain scratcher parts, everything slowly starts to come together.
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Anonymous2008-07-28 11:14
The Sound and the Fury
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Anonymous2008-07-28 16:46
Quicksilver
The Confusion
System of the World
Read them now.
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Anonymous2008-07-29 14:11
Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present, by Joanna Bourke