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RE: Book Recommendations?
January 20, 2015 at 7:22 pm
So no one's gonna suggest any Tolkein for fiction?

Shameful bunch of non-beleiving scum, the lot of you. :p
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January 21, 2015 at 10:08 am
I wouldn't want to subject her to that fucking Tom Bombadil...
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January 21, 2015 at 10:18 am (This post was last modified: January 21, 2015 at 10:24 am by Alex K.)
(January 20, 2015 at 7:22 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: So no one's gonna suggest any Tolkein for fiction?

Tolkien!

Sorry, it hurts mine eyes because it's pronounced the same in English but not in my mother's tongue.

How about some Asimov?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Book Recommendations?
January 21, 2015 at 1:25 pm
Ooh, Asimov is good!
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RE: Book Recommendations?
January 21, 2015 at 1:34 pm
Heinlein, H.G. Wells, Asimov, and Bradbury are all staples for the young mind.

Also, read Cosmos by Carl Sagan.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce is a great read. I read it when I was 14, and loved it.

I also echo the sentiments of previous posters: Hitchens, Dawkins, and Harris are excellent. I prefer Dawkins when he is teaching science. Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True might be the most palatable book on evolution of them all.
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January 21, 2015 at 1:59 pm
(January 21, 2015 at 1:34 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce is a great read. I read it when I was 14, and loved it.

I can't agree strongly enough. It's a great book! Have you read Ulysses?

I'm currently making my way through Plutarch. For readers with a yen for ancient Greece and Rome, it's fun stuff.
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January 21, 2015 at 2:01 pm
I tried Finnegan's Wake once.

Heh.
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January 21, 2015 at 2:06 pm
(January 21, 2015 at 2:01 pm)DeadChannel Wrote: I tried Finnegan's Wake once.

Heh.

Lol. I feel you. That's one book I have reluctantly crossed off my to-do list, much as I wish I had the tools to get through it.
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January 21, 2015 at 2:23 pm (This post was last modified: January 21, 2015 at 2:25 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(January 21, 2015 at 1:59 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:
(January 21, 2015 at 1:34 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce is a great read. I read it when I was 14, and loved it.

I can't agree strongly enough. It's a great book! Have you read Ulysses?

I'm currently making my way through Plutarch. For readers with a yen for ancient Greece and Rome, it's fun stuff.

I have read Ulysses. I do love me some Joyce. Portrait is the reason why Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt was so good for me. It had this odd way of taking me back to when I was 14. If you haven't read Angela's Ashes, it's a Pulitzer winner that deserved every bit of that award.
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January 21, 2015 at 2:30 pm
(January 21, 2015 at 2:23 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:
(January 21, 2015 at 1:59 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: I can't agree strongly enough. It's a great book! Have you read Ulysses?

I'm currently making my way through Plutarch. For readers with a yen for ancient Greece and Rome, it's fun stuff.

I have read Ulysses. I do love me some Joyce. Portrait is the reason why Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt was so good for me. It had this odd way of taking me back to when I was 14. If you haven't read Angela's Ashes, it's a Pulitzer winner that deserved every bit of that award.

Yeah, I read Angela's Ashes and loved it (thanks, Mom, for the great B-Day gift!). Did you read 'Tis? It lacks the impact of its predecessor but was a good read nonetheless.

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