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Controversial Books that you must read

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-21 17:37

I'll start the list:

1. Lord of the Flies
2. Catcher in the Rye
3. Death of a Salesman

What else?

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-21 17:47

Johnny Got His Gun
The Crucible

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-28 11:20

Catcher in the Rye

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-28 12:13

the bible

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-28 18:05

Catcher in the Rye? Isn't that about  gay farmers?

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-29 8:51

>>5
You know, that question really threw me off guard. I have no idea if you're a troll or not... But only because for five years, until we read it in our senior high school class, I thought it was about beavers.

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-29 12:49

>>3

Fucking seconded. Anything by J.D. Salinger, really!

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-30 8:33

"3. Death of a Salesman"

The sailsman dies!!!

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-30 18:04

The Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
Pique-nique chez Babar

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-31 2:07

The Da Vinci Code was awful.

Angels and Demons was the same book.

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-31 3:15

>>1
Shit OP, all 3 of the books you listed were mandatory reading at my High School. Though I don't think they could honestly be considered controversial anymore.

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-31 14:23

Battle Royale
Anything by Chuck Palahnuik

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-31 15:57

Indeed, anything by Chuck Palahnuik.

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-31 16:22

>>10
But they're still controversial so THE JOKE'S ON YOU

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-02 5:24

The End Of Alice, by A.M.Homes

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-03 2:04

1984, it's the most influential controversial book by far.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-03 15:41

Nothing in this thread is still controversial.

Maybe Palahniuk.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-04 3:01

"The Chronical of Young Satan" holy shit is that controversial

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-05 21:50

The Garden of Eden by Hemingway

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-05 23:11

Why am I the first person to suggest Lolita?

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-06 1:40

>>20
I guess we don't consider it controversial.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-06 4:10

I've read all of >>1 but don't see how people consider them controversial, even though I know they do.

Also, Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller and Thy Neighbor's Wife - Gay Talese

>>2
Johnny Got His Gun was fucking great, but man I hate The Crucible. It's even worse performed.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-06 13:33

fight club
1984
fahrenheit 451

:D

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-15 22:55

fahrenheit 451 was shit it was all "hurr  durrr we burn books for no reason huur durr".

basically it had no moral point watsoever besides "dont watch tv you might go stupid" and in the end everyone died for no reason anyways.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-16 23:42

>>1
How the hell is Death of a Salesman controversial?

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-18 3:12

I raged at Lord of the Flies. Nothing about it was good. It was all just one big, weird, shitty metaphor for something.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-20 10:23

>>26
seconded. i didn't find anything particularly compelling about it, and it wasnt really deep

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-20 14:22

>>26
It was a microcosm for the actual world.

Even putting that aside, I loved the story and the characters. Great book.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-20 16:19

I just read Jewish Supremacism by David Duke. In aboout four hours.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-20 20:59

Love Belly by Kato Hayabusa.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-29 15:11

Controversial? Atlas Shrugged.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-30 8:56

ayn rand is a whore, this was a a controversial book u should read.. right?

ANything by nietzsche is good for your digestion

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-30 18:17

Lolita is a controversial must-read, though the controversy isn't over its quality or artistic merit.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-31 22:41

Dunno how controversial it is, as it seems to be lacking the popularity required to cause controversy, but A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz contains some fairly controversial ideas.  I picked it up before going on vacation, and I ended up spending most of the trip grinding through it.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-04 20:30

Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain - very /b/tard humor and very funny.

The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey - I lol'd.

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson - Obvious.

As you can see, I like satire that pokes fun at religion.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-05 21:27

Breakfast of Champions.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-06 9:22

the Qur'an

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-06 11:48

Ulysses (FUCK YEAH MASTURBATION ON THE BEACH)

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-06 23:11

>Lord of the Flies

I love that book's plot.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-08 3:34

>>38
Hahahaha...no.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-09 20:28

i read lord of the flies. it was pretty much shit.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-10 11:05

>>1

Catcher in the rye sucks ass. We had to read it for school and it bored me to death. I can usually read a book like that in 2 hours, but it took me 2 weeks!!!

I only bothered cause Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex references it.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-11 22:25

>>38
How about Oedipus for the incest?

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-12 13:31

>>40
Congratulations, you've failed at literature.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-12 19:25

>>44
Congratulations, you've recommended a book that even many people who succeed very much at literature consider boring. But it's famous, so it must be good amirite?

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-12 20:27

Congratulations, you're all idiotic high schoolers.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-12 22:13

>>46
Congratulations, you contributed nothing to this thread whatsoever.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-12 22:18

>>47
Congratulations, you're being trolled.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-12 22:19

>>48
Congratulations, you are an uneducated blue collar fagmo.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-13 3:04

>>6

I believe you were thinking of one of the books from the Poppy and Rye series. Good reads.

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