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Recommend books you feel every well rounded person should read!

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MiniThug

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Well now that is summer, between summer classes, work and just hanging out Im finding myself with a lot of free time. I've decided I could spend some of that time by doing some reading. In your opinion, what are some books that you feel every well rounded person should read? Thanks
 
Animal Farm
1984
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
All Quite on the Western Front
Killer Angels
The Grapes of Wrath
The Prince
Fast Food Nation

And of course the complete Hitchhikers Guide "Trilogy" in order:

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, The Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish
Mostly Harmless
 
I was thinking of picking up Plato's The Republic since I just finished a course in Philosophy and thought it may be interesting. Anyone read this? Any other philosophical works worthy of reading?
 
The Sunflower - Simon Wiesenthal
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
One Hundred Years of Solitude ("Cien anos de soledad") - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 
I've read Plato's Republic, and it's a good read, as long as you are into that kida stuff, as you've said.

In that same line, I recommend reading Nikomachian Ethics by Aristotle, it's a bit more dry then Republic, but some good points are raised.

Dantes Inferno is an okay read as long as you can seperate that it's was more or less a spiteful attempt by Dante at getting revenge on the church for screwing him over, and can be very harsh is some sections.

"Night" is an EXCELLENT account of the Holocaust, I BELIEVE the author was Ellie Weisel, but I'm not 100% sure.

 
Originally posted by: shinerburke
Animal Farm

And of course the complete Hitchhikers Guide "Trilogy" in order:

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, The Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish
Mostly Harmless
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i will have to agree with that... others on my list:

To Kill A Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
The Iliad
A Tale of Two Cities

and some Shakespeare:
A Comedy of Errors
The Tempest
Macbeth (sp?)
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
 
Originally posted by: MiniThug
I was thinking of picking up Plato's The Republic since I just finished a course in Philosophy and thought it may be interesting. Anyone read this? Any other philosophical works worthy of reading?
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I read that in school last year (as a senior in HS). You WILL die of boredom. It's probably one of the most important political, social and philosophical books ever written, but it's not engaging to me at all.

That said, people should also read A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
 
Catch-22

I'm not a religious nut or anything, but if you still haven't - read the Bible -especially the old testament it's common to many religions. Every well rounded person should.
 
oooh oooh!

"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn
"Catcher In The Rye" by J.D. Salinger
"The Little Prince" by Antoine Saint-Exupery
"Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse
"Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"The Stranger" by Albert Camus
"Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig
"Contact" by Carl Sagan
"On The Road" by Jack Kerouac
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand


hmmm... lots more but that's a start anyway. 🙂

l2c

Edit: Oh yeah, I definitely second the nomination for anything writen by Joseph Campbell. "The Power Of Myth" is both engaging and enlightening.
 
Originally posted by: MiniThug
I was thinking of picking up Plato's The Republic since I just finished a course in Philosophy and thought it may be interesting. Anyone read this? Any other philosophical works worthy of reading?
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Descartes' Meditations, Locke's works concerning government-can't remember the name right now, but it's pretty interesting stuff, and Kant (which I haven't read yet) is widely regarded as necessary reading material
 
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