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12-09-2009, 08:31 PM #141Meat Tornado
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12-10-2009, 12:19 AM #142psicobolche
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The Communist Manifesto
"Of course we spent our money in the good times. That's what you're supposed to do in good times! You can't save money in the good times. Then they wouldn't be good times, they'd be 'preparation for the bad times' times."
"Every country in the world owes money. Everyone. So heere's what I dont get: who do they all owe it to, and why don't we just kill the bastard and relax?"
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12-11-2009, 03:37 AM #143Senior Member
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Well, I wouldn’t go quite that far, but it’s probably my favorite series; unfortunately with Martin’s involvement in the HBO production and everything else, it looks like a long wait for the next book. Screw the HBO series, I want him to finish the books.
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I tried to find Narnia when I was a kid, searching in closets, the attic, the basement... Originally Posted by ayoitsStepho
Seriously? Those are the least 'satanic' books ever. How sad
Those books spurred my imagination.
As for Narnia being Satanic, how do you even begin to respond to something like that?Last edited by evilrobot; 12-11-2009 at 07:47 PM.
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12-11-2009, 05:36 AM #144mountain surfing
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great college reading Originally Posted by tcda
The Communist Manifesto
you have to sell out eventually though
its a cruel cruel world we live in
maybe the next generation can make it better
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12-11-2009, 09:10 AM #145psicobolche
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not sure, where I live there's a lot of trade union activism. the CM was just the start for me. Originally Posted by Modern Nomad
"Of course we spent our money in the good times. That's what you're supposed to do in good times! You can't save money in the good times. Then they wouldn't be good times, they'd be 'preparation for the bad times' times."
"Every country in the world owes money. Everyone. So heere's what I dont get: who do they all owe it to, and why don't we just kill the bastard and relax?"
-Tommy Tiernan, Irish comedian.
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12-11-2009, 09:33 PM #146Member
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The World According to Garp by John Irving
Wonder Boys by Micheal Chabon
I read both of these novels during the same summer. Both opened up a world of literature that I never new about. Wonder Boys, in particular, doesn't have a false note or a boring paragraph in it.
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07-27-2010, 06:50 PM #147Senior Member
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*Bump*
I'm going to try and find my list and look at my library tommorrow to answer this better, just for now I want to mention:-
The Fear of Freedom by Eric Fromm
Fabian Socialism by GDH Cole
The Bible with RCC commentary
Fiction:-
Tim Powers, The Drawing of The Dark, The Anubis Gates
Michael Swanwick, Jack Faust, The Iron Dragons Daughter
PKD, Time Out of Joint, The Man in The High CastleAll for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
Chapter IV, p. 448. - Adam Smith, Book 3, The Wealth of Nations
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07-27-2010, 06:53 PM #148Doesn't Read Your Posts
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People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
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07-27-2010, 07:01 PM #149Starcrossed Seafarer
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I can't remember if I have posted in this thread yet, but it's a good one!
For me the big ones I can think of right now are:
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Racial Contract - Charles Mills
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Also many scholarly articles.Masquerading as a normal person day after day is exhausting.
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07-27-2010, 07:08 PM #150Artisan Conquerer
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(1) The Kama Sutra
(2) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
(3) Confessions of a S.O.B.
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