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Bertrand Russell - "Why I am not a Christian"
Golding - "Lord of the Flies"
Mark Twain - "Roughing It"
Sunzi - "The Art of War"
Stephen Jay Gould - "Leonardos' Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms"
- "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory"
Paul Reps - "Zen Flesh Zen Bones"
Voltaire - "Candide"
Will and Ariel Durant - " The Story of Civilization"
W. Shakespeare - His Histories, Tragedies, and Comedies, am not a big fan of his sonnets
J.R.R. Tolkien - "The Hobbit" and his Trilogy
Hoffman and Rosencrantz - "Substance, its Nature and Existence"
James A. Michener - "Alaska"
August Wilson - "The Piano Lesson"
David Hume - "An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding"
C.S. Forester - The Hornblower Series
Ayn Rand - "Anthem"
There are more, these just come more quickly to mind. / and, of course, my two volumn set of "The Oxford English Dictionary", and my old Marine Corps Handbook
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I'm glad to see there are other Ayn Rand fans! I confess to sometimes being a closeted Rand fan! I've read all her novels, though - and I just love them! Well, I didn't care for "We the People" but that's because it was too depressing for me.
I'm loving everyone's responses! It looks like I might find some great new reading material!
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch inspired me to stop postponing and waiting until more financially secure in case death came first, to buy a house in Florida.
Now I'd like to kill him but he's already dead.
Thomas R.: I hear ya concerning Isaac Asimov. His 'Foundation Trilogy' is one of the best things I have ever read, absolutely captivating. It is absolutely the best sci-fi I've ever read. I can't recommnd it highly enough!
I read anything thats sci-fi, fantasy or alternate history and has at least 1000 pages in the series. To me, it's basic human nature to draw inspiration and lessons from stories of every kind. I hold writers in the highest respects as profession. In that vain, book banners/burners are the most evil people on earth. The Bible or Balzac, access to the written word should be a global fundamental right.
All this sci fi talk has got me thinking... I've only read a few - but they were some of the most though provoking books I've ever read. I'm afraid my sci fi reading has been very limited - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin and a couple of Margaret Atwood books that I think would qualify as sci fi. Atwood is one of my favorite authors - and lately, she has been writing end of the world type books. Maybe I should give this Asimov guy a try!
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