5 fav books ....

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Moz

Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë

Animal Farm George Orwell

Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë

Lord of The Flies - William Golding

Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck

I took English Lit at school an enjoyed it til I dropped out at 16 ..lol
 
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I read "Ishmael" and "The Story of B" by Daniel Quinn and they totally knocked me sideways. I spent two years on Prozac thinking about them and processing it all, and even today sometimes wished I'd never read them.

Another book I like is "The Third Chimpanzee" by Jared Diamond.
 
The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac
Clan of the cave bears Jean m Auel
Long walk to freedom Nelson Mandela
Nineteen Eighty-four George Orwell
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
I'll change my mind later ;)
 
notb665
these books what was it that knocked you sideways was it the story, thinking behind it or depth of charactors ... ? a lil resume would help ;)
 
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Animal Farm - George Orwell
Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
Macbeth - Shakespeare
The Sins of our Fathers - Gilda O'Neill

Not necessarily in that order.
 
Moz said:
notb665
these books what was it that knocked you sideways was it the story, thinking behind it or depth of charactors ... ? a lil resume would help ;)
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They are fiction stories and they are not good stories, but that isn't the point of the books. The objective is to point out certain things about how and why humans have got to where they are. Also they explain certain things like religion, food, agriculture, crime, racism, schooling etc etc. At some points during the books, I felt it so important and so enlightening I could not put it down.

I have always been cynical and never gullible, that is why it took two years to process all this stuff. I questioned and questioned what I had read, and extrapolating and interpolating came to my own conclusions and realised what is in the books is largely undeniable. It is sad really, hence again the Prozac.

Before reading those books is all a blur. After reading them a lot of things and aspects of what we do are very very clear. Like I said, I don't always wish they were: ignorance is bliss.

Since then I have read anthropological books about humans and have come to terms with a lot of stuff I have thought about.
 
notb665
I fully understand where your coming from ,
I Know Im a drunken fool but I love to soak in knowledge , I spend hours reading on other sites about allsorts ....



I have seen .. some wonderful films ,BBC4 sat nite an my local picture house show some crackin foreign films ,

an those books ...in my list

I mentioned , reading those then having to empathize with characters, an write 5k words , well my old teacher , Miss Spenser said I was doing well for Gcses
til I left school to be a plumber ..lol


the only lad she had in her E/Lit class

which I got loads of sh*t for , but books an films were my love ..an all the swotty nice gals helping me .. ;)
 
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer

Money - Martin Amis

The Classical Style - Charles Rosen

Stalingrad - Antony Beevor

etc
 
His Dark Materials - Philip Pulman
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Organon of Medicine - Samuel Hahnemann
 
:D Such a simple little book, but so cleverly written and so heart-warming! Know someone with Asperger's and its spot on. Hollywood'll be making a film out of it some day and if it does hope it does it justice.
 
My five top books : Bones of the master

Long walk to freedom

Clowns of God

David copperfield

The Alchemist

The four noble truths
I have read hundreds of books and picking five as special is no easy task. for instance my favorite author is Wilbur Smith. I have read all his printed work. I have also read many books on Buddhism,(I'm a Buddhist).
I read auto biographies and philosophy by the bucket load. Andy Mc Nab, Chris Ryan. Tom Clancy. I should stop there before you all fall asleep.
 
well... go ahead and roll your eyes....I'm not a reader of books.
I love reading/looking at cook books, gardening, and "know how-diy type articles) Sounds like a bio .....don't have the concentration needed to read a book in its entirety. :LOL:
 
at the moment I'm reading "before the dawn" Gerry Adams" for the second time, I always read a book twice and am always surprised that I missed alot of it in the original read.
 
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