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There is a four volume translation available of a 14th century Chinese epic called Outlaws of the Marsh.

I'm about halfway through and it's fucking epic.

The Communist Manifesto
Most of the stuff by Dale Brown
Trade Off by Kevin Maney
A Brief History of Time.

The Communist Manifesto
Most of the stuff by Dale Brown
Trade Off by Kevin Maney
A Brief History of Time.

The Giver
The Ilead
The Prydain Chronicles books

At 8/6/13 08:37 AM, Earfetish wrote: The Dice Man
Lord of the Flies
Naked Lunch
Any Orwell classic
American Psycho

You really need to read Orwell and Lord of the Flies if you are to fully understand modern popular culture.

I read 1984, but I haven't read any other of his works. Lord of the Flies is something I should get around to reading as well.

And to the rest of you: thanks again for these suggestions. Keep 'em coming!

It might take me couple of years to read through all these books you guys are suggesting, but I'll probably read at least 85~90% of the suggested books here, if I can get a hold of them.

At 8/6/13 08:24 AM, Elixur wrote: The line between college level and high school is so blurry I won't even pretend to adhere to that ruleset. That being said here's some books to read.

The Collapse of Complex Societies- Tainter
Gravity's Rainbow- Pynchon or V.
The Myth of Sisyphus- Camus
The Maltese Falcon- Hammett
Human, All Too Human- Nietzsche
100 Years of Solitude- Marquez
Invisible Cities- Calvino
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Demons- Dostoyevsky

Nonfiction
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The Republic- Plato
Discourse on Method- Descartes
Essay Concerning Human Understanding- Locke
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions- Kuhn
The Prince- Machiavelli
Leviathan- Hobbes

If you need more suggestions, bump the thread. Give two or three of these a chance and report back.

Many of the books you suggested are of the kind that I will be required to read at some point in my life, since, you know, I'm a philosophy major. :P

I'll tell ya what I think of them when I'm done. Thanks!

The Icemark Chronicles (Trilogy)

Try giving the Artemis Fowl, and Pendragon books a try. Also, I recommend Heir Apparemt.

Heir Apparent is an interesting book about a girl who gets trapped inside a looping virtual reality role playing video game called Heir Apparent.

The Name of the Wind and The Wiseman's Fear, both by Patrick Rothfuss. In my opinion they are two of finest fantasy novels I have ever had the pleasure of reading.

The Wasp Factory By Lain Banks

my favorite book and author...

NeverWhere by Neil Gaiman (the greatest author on earth)

and my second favorite author and book

Haunted by Chuck Palahnuik

well anything by chuck or neil is awesome, but those are my two personal favorites. the wasp factory is wicked cool, twisted and effed up, a real gem.

The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson

It's a book about vikings written in Swedish, but there are decent translations that were done.

At 8/5/13 09:27 PM, Light wrote: Hey there, Newgrounds.

As a 2nd year college student, I've had to do a lot of reading for my classes. Although I love reading most of the textbooks that I'm assigned, it has frequently slipped my mind to read classic literature for leisure.

because fiction sucks.

Read Chivalric and Gothic, nothing else.

two mammoths of history are

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes. A satire and parody of the chivalric romances of the period, it is considered the first modern novel. Originally published as if it were a found ancient piece.

The Castle Of Otranto by Horace Walpole. Orginally published as if it, too, were an ancient piece. This is the first Gothic novel and (although not remotely frightening) by extension the first work of horror. It is very camp and inane and great fun. It establishes many tropes (even the Catholicism as being dark and perhaps evil, hence the love that Goths have for crosses). When it emerged that this book was not, in fact, a work of barbarism, but written by a white Christian male and the cousin of the Prime Minister no less (!) it caused a fairly big scandal.

At 8/6/13 08:32 PM, ChillyMcHotpants wrote: The Wasp Factory By Lain Banks

my favorite book and author...

yeman read The Wasp Factory, it's Iain banks but I guess ChillyMcHotpants got autocorrected

At 8/7/13 08:40 AM, goisgalleh wrote: the Satanic Bible

He wants fiction, not philosophy. Apart from that, I don't rate it. Not only does he rip pieces wholesale from Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard. The book is basically Ranterism, without Jesus, yet with more morality.

Mother Night. Really anything by Vonnegut is more than worth your time.
Ender's Game
Lord of the Rings
The Sun Also Rises. Again, anything Hemingway is a must.
Watership Down is one of my favorite books. I wouldn't call it "college-level," but the themes are pretty mature.
The Dark Tower series. Stephen King is great and this is his best work.

At 8/7/13 09:18 AM, goisgalleh wrote:

At 8/7/13 09:16 AM, ZeroAsALimit wrote:

At 8/7/13 08:40 AM, goisgalleh wrote: the Satanic Bible

He wants fiction, not philosophy. Apart from that, I don't rate it. Not only does he rip pieces wholesale from Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard. The book is basically Ranterism, without Jesus, yet with more morality.

Jesus Christ you don't know what you are talking about, go watch MLP.

Really? The man copied ENTIRE PARAGRAPHS for the book!

Although it would be more truthful to say that he stole from Crowley than from the Ranters, but Crowley, of course, stole from them. Not that there is anything wrong with continuing a philosophical journey, but to regurgitate it and to then call it your own is the worst form of laziness.

"Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved."
I believe LaVey said that. Why then does his work consist of copying and pasting another book?

Hold on a second, I'm just going to Xerox some copies of Leviathan by Hobbes, I'm going to become a philosopher too!

Maybe it is fine to have Rand, Crowley and Redbeard in then one text - just don't call it your own damn work! LaVey was, at best, an over-glorified archivist. He should have stuck to recordings.

At 8/7/13 09:48 AM, goisgalleh wrote:

At 8/7/13 09:35 AM, ZeroAsALimit wrote:

At 8/7/13 09:18 AM, goisgalleh wrote:

At 8/7/13 09:16 AM, ZeroAsALimit wrote:

At 8/7/13 08:40 AM, goisgalleh wrote:

Everyone steals from everyone, their is nothing new under the sun.

I accept that, I don't expect original ideas. What I do expect is a new angle, or, not to pass a work off as your own. I feel that the attacks made on him for being in debt to Ayn Rand are in poor taste, because he does borrow heavily from Objectivism, but he did plagiarise Might Is Right.

I'm not saying that I wouldn't pick up a copy of The Satanic Bible, but I would be more inclined to pick up Might Is Right. I would ideally have both, I do enjoy the Occult.

In prefer traditional devil worship though, because I'm pantheistic. If you are curious, I don't just worship daemons though and my patron deity is Saturn.

Desert solitaire is a good book, so are all of the Walking Dead Novels. Fight Club, Jack Reacher. There's a lot of stuff out there if your open minded.

The Left Hand of God.
Great fantasy book, really worth reading.