I'll go first: I really loved God and The State by Bakunin, but the number one spot goes to a book in my language, translated the title is 'The Feather And The Rose'.
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ziq wrote
kore wrote (edited )
I study dusty old books, so:
- Daodejing
- Canterbury Tales
- Oedipus the Tyrant
videl wrote
changes somewhat often but right now they are:
Evil of Banality by Elizabeth Minnich
Technopoly by Neil Postman
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Screwfly Solution by James Tiptree aka Alice Sheldon
The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
that Crimethinc piece called We Are All Very Anxious
LostYonder wrote (edited )
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
throwaway OP wrote
Neat picks.
Make two spaces at the end of a line to start a new ;)
LostYonder wrote
Thanks for the reminder...
throwaway OP wrote
No problem, markup can be confusing.
zzuum wrote
I've never been so engrossed in a book as when I was reading House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
GaldraChevaliere wrote
Politically? I'm not that well read. But books influenced my thoughts a lot, and I never really developed a preference for 'high' literature over 'pulp'. So, if we're talking things I grew up with, Elric of Melnibone taught me that all nobles are lying bastards, no exceptions, and when a system is broken beyond salvation, sometimes the best thing to do is to take the leap and shatter it no matter what happens to you for doing so. Dragonlance taught me about what it means to be actually noble and righteous through Sturm's character arc, and I cried for days when he died.
edmund_the_destroyer wrote
Cyrano de Bergerac
fjones wrote (edited )
"Port of Saints", W.S. Burroughs' most tender teen gay love memoir.
"Howl" Allen Ginsberg
"Paterson", W.C. Williams
"Leaves of Grass", Whitman's incredible walk through s. jersey.
undersc0rezer0 wrote
The Holy Bible KJV.... Seriously maybe Civil War Badlands. Indulgently Dark Tower Series.
0w0 wrote
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.