[NF] What book should every NF read?

[phthalocyanine]

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, or generally anything by Carson McCullers

 

[metaphours]

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, definitely.
also, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

 

[Maldolor]

The sorrows of young werther

 

[wastrd]

I'm positively surprised no one has mentioned Paulo Coelho.

 

[Chloe]

I'm positively surprised no one has mentioned Paulo Coelho.

+1

The Unbearable Lightness of Being--fantastic book giving the T vs. F perspective on intimate relationships with the backdrop of social change.

1984--brilliant and frightening

+1
Kundera is my all time favorite.

+ one hundred years of solitude.

 

[Moiety]

I'm positively surprised no one has mentioned Paulo Coelho.

Yep, was just going to mention him.

 

[thisGuy]

haryy potter?

seems to have a farily high NF appeal

 

[metaphours]

I'm positively surprised no one has mentioned Paulo Coelho.

His books are too sappy and cliche in my opinion.

 

[metaphours]

haryy potter?

seems to have a farily high NF appeal

+9000

 

[Stanton Moore]

Milan Kundera is an NF uber-genius. His writing is so deep and psychological - it feels so rich and good to me, like a beautiful meal. Read anything by him!
I recommend reading Ulysses by Joyce for a shot of tream-of-consciousness mind calesthenics. I can read one page and my mind catches fire from the shear creative bacchanalia of it. Same for Shakespeare. The words!
Lincoln's speeches are inspiring too.

 

[OrangeAppled]

haryy potter?

seems to have a farily high NF appeal

I loathe Harry Potter.

 

[cascadeco]

A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (I believe that's the author's name)
War and Peace - Tolstoy
The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maughm (also Of Human Bondage is good too)
Bleak House - Dickens
Portrait of a Lady - James
Love in the Time of Cholera - Garcia Marquez

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Oh, there are many more!!! (for example, I'm reading Daniel Deronda right now (by George Eliot - who was probably an INTJ) and am really enjoying it; only halfway through though) And sorry, I like long books.

And yes re. Kundera - I'd say he's an INFJ author

 

[CzeCze]

I loathe Harry Potter.

LOL!

I understand.

Madame Bovary!
Tipping The Velvet!


Jacob Have I Loved (it's a young adult novel)
Phantom Tollbooth
The Namesake

the short story collection by jeanette winterson

 

[grasshoppersings]

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

The Four Agreements by that Native American author guy of the Toltec tribe

My favorite book above all others ever written or to be written is by my favorite author. The book is the Bible. A book that actually reads you as you read it. Fascinating.

 

[heart]

I had zero sympathy for Madam Bovary. In the early parts of the book, I wanted to slap her silly! Then when she kills herself I am just stunned thinking what about your child?!?! Epitomy of selfishness.

And I also had very little sympathy for Anna Karenina.

I loathe Harry Potter.

Me too.

 

[demimondaine]

And I also had very little sympathy for Anna Karenina.

ooer, cos i really dug her sometimes when it comes to things i don't like about myself, ha.

but.. on another note, i loathe harry potter as well!

 

[OrangeAppled]

I had zero sympathy for Madam Bovary. In the early parts of the book, I wanted to slap her silly! Then when she kills herself I am just stunned thinking what about your child?!?! Epitomy of selfishness.

And I also had very little sympathy for Anna Karenina.

I had no sympathy for Madame Bovary either. I had only a little for Anna Karenina, but I don't think Tolstoy meant for you to have much. I did enjoy his contrast of her & her brother's affairs (she ends up with sooo many problems from her infidelity, but he keeps messing around while his wife has all the anguish).

I did have much sympathy for Edna in The Awakening though. That's another good NF read.

 

[CzeCze]

I did have much sympathy for Edna in The Awakening though. That's another good NF read.

OMG, did all of us take comp lit in school? LOL

At Heart and Orange ^^ that's exactly why NFs should read Madame Bovary! I just thought it was the awesomest example of "discursive" la la la writing ever! I loved how Flaubert could go on for pages just describing the countryside or someone walking down a field. I wish I were fluent in French to see what it's like in its untranslated glory.

I liked the Awakening. I know a lot of reviewers at the time painted Edna as "selfish" but I thought Chopin was trying to show how she was forced to make this stand and be courageous, but then, that may be my own post-modern feminist (obvious) read on things.

Another one:

Jane Eyre

But seriously if you are NF, I really recommend "Tipping The Velvet" it'll get your Fi/Fe all tickled.

 

[lalalost]

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is pretty epic And other classics like Death of a Salesman, Great Gatsby...

I despise Twilight.

 

[Nonsensical]

Catcher in the Rye. It's a classic, but every young NF should read it. It gives relevency to the "Because I feel like it" aspect of our personality, how we can do things for no particular reason unlike our cousins, those cold blooded NTs.

Even though Holden is probably an ISFP and not an NF, NFs reading the book will find depth in every thing he does and it will all symbolize something, whatever you make it out to be.