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Originally Posted by nomadicfollower
Seriously though, if you really want a fun and exciting read get, The Sickness Unto Death by Kierkegaard.
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you are clearly out of your skull.
acousticrock87 has good taste in books, and i'll second the anthem recommendation for a quick read (i finished it in one sitting). if you ever get some time on your hands you really should try to get through atlas shrugged and/or the fountainhead . . . even if you don't entirely agree with them they will get you to see things in an entirely different light.
also, if i may, gilgamesh is a surprisingly good read for being so damn old (as in, sumerian). looking at my bookshelf, here are my choices for shorter works:
camus's the stranger
faulkner's as i lay dying
huxley's brave new world
voltaire's candide
beowulf
wells's the war of the worlds
kesey's one flew over the cuckoo's nest
potok's the chosen
steinbeck's of mice and men (which you've probably already read)
shelley's frankenstein
also, if you're up for slightly longer works try the following:
dostoevsky's the idiot
wright's native son
stoker's dracula
sinclair's the jungle (i hate the ideas in the book but it's still a good read)
tolkien's the lord of the rings
(i was about to recommend the koran but i don't think there's any danger of
that book being foreign to you . . .)
i also second the recommendations for the picture of dorian gray, catch-22, and dante's inferno. (as you can see i'm big on "heavy" reads . . .
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