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What are your "Must Read" books

Posted on 10/01/2010 8:36:26 PM PDT by MNDude

Everyone's opinion, what would be three books that every adult should read?

How about three books every kid should read?

(besides the Bible, since that's a given for most)


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To: MNDude

My mother was a reading specialist. Summer vacation was a stack of books and reading on the beach. I could not possibly come up with the 3 best books.

Atlas Shrugged- I took senior novel class as a sophomore in high school. I thought she was a horrible writer, but made a point. The bigger question- why was everyone else in class assigned The Fountain Head?

Iron Coffins- a book about German U boats in WWII from the diary of a captain. It was outstanding, and I’m a woman. I couldn’t put it down.

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett

The Great Influenza

The Stand

And some other book about Bio warfare written by a Russian scientist that defected.

(I’m a nurse, what can I say? LOL)


81 posted on 10/02/2010 8:33:56 AM PDT by pops88
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To: skintight buffoonery

“The Gulag Archipelago, by Solzhenitsyn.”

I think that’s in my denial vault. Definitely a must read.


82 posted on 10/02/2010 8:42:08 AM PDT by pops88
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To: MNDude

For anyone, but especially a mature and motivated teen:
Chronology of the World by Isaac Asimov
Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare (along with an annotated volume of Shakespeare’s works)
The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich


83 posted on 10/02/2010 8:42:10 AM PDT by Humbug (we regret to inform you that this freeper is too busy at the moment to bother with taglines)
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To: MNDude
Some of the books I enjoyed as a teenager:
84 posted on 10/02/2010 10:53:53 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: MNDude

John Calvin’s INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION is an essential work, it’s one of the few books that has literally “shook” the world, and shaped western civilization.


85 posted on 10/02/2010 11:23:27 AM PDT by Biblical Calvinist (Soli Deo Gloria !)
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To: MNDude
"The Theory of Moral Sentiments" by Adam Smith

"The Book of the Courtier" by Baldassare Castiglione

"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu

86 posted on 10/02/2010 11:28:59 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The Doctrine of Nachofication: The belief that everything tastes better with melted cheese.)
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To: ExSoldier

“Remember the professor and the books HE squirreled away?”

Is that the scene of wrapping books — mostly reference and technical — in plastic and burying them in septic tank?


87 posted on 10/02/2010 11:40:30 AM PDT by Bhoy
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To: FreeKeys

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The Road - Cormack McCarthy

AnimAl Farm - Orwell


88 posted on 10/02/2010 11:41:52 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: MNDude

Lord of the Flies
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress


89 posted on 10/02/2010 1:15:04 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: Bhoy
Is that the scene of wrapping books — mostly reference and technical — in plastic and burying them in septic tank?

Yep. I would have included in that a copy of The Way Things Work as well.

90 posted on 10/02/2010 1:57:54 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Zombie Hunters: We make dead things deader.)
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To: ExSoldier

Hey thanks for remnding me as i have thought of that scene often. I used to read sci-fi a a lot & then got silly.


91 posted on 10/02/2010 3:06:19 PM PDT by Bhoy
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To: MNDude; All
Seek out and consume any novels written by the late, great Ross Thomas. The man had an absolute genius for laying bare the machinations of liberals and unions in general and the Democrat Party in particular. Try The Yellow Dog Contract, China's Chance and The Money Harvest

Also any of P.J. O'Rourke earlier works. Particularly, Republican Party Reptile, Give War A Chance and Parliament Of Whores


Jack.
92 posted on 10/02/2010 3:52:14 PM PDT by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
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To: MNDude
Some of these books I have listened to on audio as well as having read. > Witness by Whittaker Chambers for sure. I think his other, less well known book, Cold Friday, is also very good.
Answer As A Man by Taylor Caldwell is as timely as Atlas Shrugged in that history is repeating itself and Caldwell wrote it in 1980. She was a prolific writer and took great pride in the amount of research she did for each book. For fun there is the Miss Julia series by Ann B. Ross and the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters.
One that lingers in my mind because it was well researched and gave insight into college students and their campus life is, I Am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe. Children would relate to Black Beauty and Beautiful Joe very early on. Good stories and an important introduction to kind treatment of animals.
93 posted on 10/02/2010 4:25:24 PM PDT by mountainfolk (God Bless the United States of America)
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To: mountainfolk

How could I forget Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton? I read it every once in awhile and am now listening to it on tape while walking etc. A must read for college students.


94 posted on 10/02/2010 4:41:21 PM PDT by mountainfolk (God Bless the United States of America)
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To: MNDude
“Chronicles of Narnia” - C.S. Lewis
“A Wrinkle in Time” - Madeleine L’Engle
“Fellowship of the Ring” - J.R.R. Tolkein
“The Hobbit” - J.R.R. Tolkein
95 posted on 10/02/2010 5:02:05 PM PDT by ProvenWays
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To: mountainfolk
As A Man by Taylor Caldwell is as timely as Atlas Shrugged in that history is repeating itself and Caldwell wrote it in 1980. She was a prolific writer and took great pride in the amount of research she did for each book.

Oh, yes -- you reminded me -- Taylor Caldwell's "A Pillar of Iron" -- based on the life of statesman, orator, dictatorship opponent Marcus Tullius Cicero -- was incredible. Sends chills up my spine just remembering it.

96 posted on 10/02/2010 5:11:42 PM PDT by FreeKeys (COPY EVERYTHING IN THE BOX ON MY PROFILE PAGE AND SEND IT TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK !!)
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To: MNDude

Anything by:

CS Lewis

or

Martin Buber


97 posted on 10/03/2010 9:36:55 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2589165/posts)
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To: GOPJ

Atlas Shrugged
The Gulag Archipelago
Dostoyevski


98 posted on 10/07/2010 8:27:29 PM PDT by Lynne
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To: Yet_Again
Animal Farm free, book or audio book

http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks

99 posted on 12/10/2010 11:47:23 AM PST by bigjoesaddle (HEADLINE: Spoiled Brat Man-Child Poops in Potty....Wins Nobel Prize!)
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