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20 books you should read before you die
Oct 31, 2013, 6:34 PM
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1. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
2. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
3. Mythology – Edith Hamilton
4. Why America Slept – Gerald Posner
5. The Emperor’s Children – Claire Messud
6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
7. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
8. 1984 – George Orwell
9. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
11. The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
12. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
13. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
14. The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
15. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
16. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
17. Night – Elie Wiesel
18. Watership Down – Richard Adams
19. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
20. Ulysses – James Joyce
add more to the list!
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Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf
Oct 31, 2013, 6:45 PM
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by Ben Hogan
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CU Medallion [60464]
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reading this book^^ in high school made me a scratch golfer
Oct 31, 2013, 6:51 PM
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reading the rest of those on your list didn't do d*ck for me.
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Harry Potter***
Oct 31, 2013, 6:47 PM
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Boom, went there.
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it said before you die, not before you hit puberty***
Nov 1, 2013, 9:57 AM
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Oculus Spirit [82288]
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DIAF***
Nov 1, 2013, 10:07 AM
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Re: Ball Four by Jim Bouton
Oct 31, 2013, 6:56 PM
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Stories of Mickey Mantle beaver hunting are tough to beat
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Oculus Spirit [83606]
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And you can't beat the Seattle Pilots.***
Oct 31, 2013, 8:46 PM
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Re: Those uni's were worth the price of admission***
Oct 31, 2013, 8:58 PM
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I've read 5 of them. But Life of Pi was the most recent.
Oct 31, 2013, 6:56 PM
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Great book. Decent movie adaptation.
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A few more
Oct 31, 2013, 7:08 PM
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Call Of The Wild
Walden
Slaughterhouse Five
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Fountainhead
Ragtime
Dharma Bums
Stranger In A Strange Land
Lonesome Dove
Self-Reliance
The Teachings Of Don Juan; A Yaqui Way Of Knowledge
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Call of the Wild, awesome and Lonesome Dive 900+ pages
Oct 31, 2013, 8:49 PM
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of brilliance.
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Lot o points [183817]
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'The Shack'
Oct 31, 2013, 7:11 PM
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For anyone having trouble believing there is a God.
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110%er [6735]
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got it on my shelf right now
Oct 31, 2013, 8:47 PM
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been meaning to read it.
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The Bible-Perry Noble***
Oct 31, 2013, 7:12 PM
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The Danny Ford Years at Clemson: Romping and Stomping
Oct 31, 2013, 7:14 PM
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by Larry Williams
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Pilgrim on Tinker Creek by Annie Diilard
Oct 31, 2013, 7:16 PM
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Oh and 50 Shades of Bacon - a cookbook
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Atlas Shrugged, Jurassic Park, Fooled by Randomness*****
Oct 31, 2013, 7:58 PM
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I'm just a range ball in a box of Titlest
Oct 31, 2013, 8:16 PM
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Gary McCord
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Re: 20 books you should read before you die
Oct 31, 2013, 8:21 PM
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Collected works of Mark Twain
Collected works of Edgar Allen Poe
Moby #### - Herman Melville
Candide - Voltaire
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
All The Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
American Pyscho - Brett Easton Ellis
Notes from the Underground - Dostoyevsky
Gravities Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Just to start...
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Re: 20 books you should read before you die
Oct 31, 2013, 8:49 PM
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yeah I was trying to leave some of the more popular ones off, like twain, Fitzgerald & etc. forgot about Faulkner though.
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Lot o points [165374]
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance***
Oct 31, 2013, 8:51 PM
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The Collected Works of Penthouse Forum.
Oct 31, 2013, 9:06 PM
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By: Lots of people.
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Oculus Spirit [83606]
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I'll add Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and
Oct 31, 2013, 9:15 PM
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Island's in the Stream, Bonfire of the Vanities by Thomas Wolfe, The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren.
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Doyle Brunson's Super System
Oct 31, 2013, 9:27 PM
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Although I enjoyed Harrington's books more.
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Re: 20 books you should read before you die
Oct 31, 2013, 11:59 PM
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Dead Souls- Gogol
Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky
Discworld Series- Pratchett
Alas, Babylon- Frank
Lord of the Rings- Tolkien
Blackhawk Down- Bowden
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Oculus Spirit [76593]
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I read all 7 Dark Tower books.
Nov 1, 2013, 12:20 AM
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I haven't finished a book since.
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All-TigerNet [11373]
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Oculus Spirit [76593]
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This thread inspired me to go ahead and finish
Nov 1, 2013, 8:38 AM
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Does the Noise in My Head Bother You and start on The Wind Through the Keyhole
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Re: What are the Dark Tower books?***
Nov 1, 2013, 10:10 AM
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Epic series by Stephen King, chronicling the tales of a Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his Ka-Tet. Ties together a handful of other books and includes the Man in Black (who appears in a great number of King's novels).
Good series, definintely worth reading.
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Some off the wall ones
Nov 1, 2013, 8:05 AM
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth - Buckminster Fuller
The Illuminati Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson
Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer - John C. Lilly
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
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World War Z
Nov 1, 2013, 9:35 AM
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The Aubrey/Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
I like LOTR, always have, always will.
Don't care for either Steinbeck or Hemingway, if you've read Rapes of Gath and For Whom the Bell Tolls you've done them.
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James Hornfischer
Mere Christianity and Til We Have Faces by CS Lewis
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Deliverance, On the Road, and if you're from the South,....
Nov 1, 2013, 9:53 AM
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Prince of Tides.
Btw,a7xgates, the best topic I've seen in these parts for quite sometime. You just reminded me of several books I have never read, but meant to at some point in my life.
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Many of these were assigned to me to read.
Nov 1, 2013, 9:58 AM
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I hope that counts.
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Have you died yet?
Nov 1, 2013, 11:02 AM
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I think that was the only qualification.
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I tried to read Ulysses once***
Nov 1, 2013, 10:06 AM
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If you're into Sci-fi/Fantasy, The wheel of Time
Nov 1, 2013, 10:46 AM
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by Robert Jordan (and Brandon Sanderson, after Jordan's death) is a FANTASTIC series, though it clocks in at 15 books heavy and is a pretty good read.
That takes up a lot of my reading time these days. Also, the Song of Ice and Fire series (you'll know it by the first book, The Game of Thrones) by George R. R. Martin.
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Acts, Romans, Ephesians, Titus***
Nov 30, 2018, 9:56 AM
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Confederacy of Dunces, On The Road, Catch-22, Rum Diary***
Nov 1, 2013, 12:30 PM
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