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Mannyisthebest
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 Must reads by everyone... what certain films or essays or short stories do you think everyone should read because of their importance on our way of thinking, our morality and our culture...
I think some of the classics like...
Lord of The Flies, 1984, The Great Gatsby, To kill a Mockingbird and most importantly...
and Orwells essay "Politics and the English Language"....
never read something so true...
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: Must reads by everyone... Ishmael. (Check out some of the 835 customer reviews on Amazon...)
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DP07
Homo Dperious
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Re: Must reads by everyone... Mannyisthebest wrote: and Orwells essay "Politics and the English Language"....
never read something so true... I very strongly disagree.
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Corpse
Don't Dream It, Be It
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Re: Must reads by everyone... "The Canterbury Tales" - Geoffery Chaucer
"Beowulf" - Unknown
"Wuthering Heights" - Emily Bronte
"The Raven" - Edgar Allan Poe
"Romeo and Juliet" - William Shakespeare
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Argos
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Re: Must reads by everyone... Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann.
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Caius
A very honest-hearted fellow
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Re: Must reads by everyone... Argos wrote: Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann. Have you read The Magic Mountain? I'd like to try it, but have no time until the summer.
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Argos
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Re: Must reads by everyone... KidRock69x wrote: Argos wrote: Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann. Have you read The Magic Mountain? I'd like to try it, but have no time until the summer. Parts.
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Tyler
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Re: Must reads by everyone... Ulysses, by James Joyce.
Farts, sex and exhilarating, cultured prose.
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Argos
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Re: Must reads by everyone... Sun Ra wrote: Ulysses, by James Joyce.
Farts, sex and exhilarating, cultured prose. Reading Ulysses is minor pleasure.
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"Der Lebenslauf des Menschen besteht darin, dass er, von der Hoffnung genarrt, dem Tod in die Arme tanzt."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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LeSamuraiDeL'Ombre
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
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Re: Must reads by everyone... Argos wrote: Sun Ra wrote: Ulysses, by James Joyce.
Farts, sex and exhilarating, cultured prose. Reading Ulysses is minor pleasure. A lie. _________________
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Re: Must reads by everyone... LeSamuraiDeL'Ombre wrote: Argos wrote: Sun Ra wrote: Ulysses, by James Joyce.
Farts, sex and exhilarating, cultured prose. Reading Ulysses is minor pleasure. A lie. No, true, as the reality it needs to correspond with in order to be true is, in this case, my personal experience.
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"Der Lebenslauf des Menschen besteht darin, dass er, von der Hoffnung genarrt, dem Tod in die Arme tanzt."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Algren
now we know
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Re: Must reads by everyone... Lord of the Flies and The Bible.
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David
Pure Phase
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Re: Must reads by everyone... Just a personal list. I do not care if it matches the canonical status quo or not:
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Complete Poems of John Keats
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Maurice by E. M. Forster
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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LeSamuraiDeL'Ombre
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
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Re: Must reads by everyone... iliasodysseiadonquixotefausthamlethyperionmadamebovaryjenseitsvongutundbösedaskapitallesfleurdumalprestupleniyeinakazaniyebrat'ja karamazovywojnaimirheartofdarknessderprozessvoyageauboutdelanuitulyssesl'étrangerlolita.
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Riggs
We had our time together
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Re: Must reads by everyone... What a surprising list.
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LeSamuraiDeL'Ombre
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
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Re: Must reads by everyone... I've heard those are boring.
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Riggs
We had our time together
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Re: Must reads by everyone... Then I'll skip them.
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Algren
now we know
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Re: Must reads by everyone... That's far from a list 
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