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Originally Posted by Tarn-Vedra
Oh,and have any of you read Atlas Shrugged? I borrowed a copy from my friend and I'm only a few pages in,and I'm not gettin it.lol So help me out?
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It's a favorite of mine, for what that's worth. As a
caveat, though, it's been my experience that people either love or hate this book; there doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground.
Recommended reading?
One thing any fan of science fiction worth his/her/its salt should read is Isaac Asimov's
Foundation trilogy.
Others (not necessarily sci-fi):
- Mark Twain -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Salman Rushdie -
Midnight's Children and
The Satanic Verses (The latter is what got him in trouble with the Ayatollah Khomeini in particular, and Islamic clerics in general.)
- Joseph Heller -
Catch-22
- Robert Heinlein -
Stranger in a Strange Land and
Friday (forget
Starship Troopers, it's crap)
- Thomas Pynchon -
Mason & Dixon
- Douglas Adams - the
Hitchhiker's Guide books, as well as the Dirk Gently ones (
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul)
- Practically any science fiction short story collections from the '40s and '50s you can get your hands on
That should be enough for a start.
[Edit: code] and to add: read Shakespeare's
Hamlet and
Othello, though not necessarily back-to-back, as I did.