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[imported_CaseClosed326]

I am only a teenager so there is not much.
In no order:

Shawshank Redemption - "Get busy living or get busy dying"

1984 - Changed my outlook on government and the way things are.

Everclear - Father of mine - I can relate to that song alot and listened to it constantly when I was younger. Helped me out a great deal.

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wow. you couldn't be more offbase. ... although both are related, and cover some of the same concepts from assumedly the same perspective, neither one implies the content of the other completely.

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Which is why I called it essentially 1 1/2 books rather than 2 books from different perspectives. Yeah, that's "way off base".

[RJT]

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OFOtCN- As I have stated in other threads, I believe it is the most perfect piece of lit ever written. It has helped me inspect our society and the American Dream. Has a profound impact on me as a writer. I can read this book over and over again. There are very few pieces of art that have given me more enjoyment. I think I like this novel more than most people [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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I could have written this same paragraph about Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." Especially, the last sentence.

[RJT]

I think Bob Dylan said this first:

In his song“It’s Alright Ma, (I’m Only Bleeding)” Bob Dylan writes, “he not busy being born is busy dying.”

Which leads to another great work of art: the movie "Easy Rider" (the song is used in it).

p.s To another poster, it is hard to leave off Huck Finn, true.

[Georgia Avenue]

To the OP:
You asked about literature, not philosophy so:

1)Paradise Lost--Milton
2)Birds--Aristophanes
3)Changing Light at Sandover--James Merrill

And many more. The Bible and the Dialogues of Plato lie somewhere in between genres but it seems more like your question was: "Name some great novels you like," so here is an alternative answer...

Book of the New Sun--Gene Wolfe
Hard Times--Dickens
Light in August--Faulkner

[KaneKungFu123]

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In no particular order (and mood dependent):

On the Road- Kerouac
Siren's of Titan- Vonnegut
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Kesey

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Dammit.

OTR and OFOTCN are two of my favorite novels.

for me:

the catcher in the rye

on the road (really, just the last paragraph)

so as i sit on the old broken down river peer looking over the long long skies of nj....i think of dean moriarty.

so much passion and energy for life. god dammit.

vernon god litte

the virgin suicides

have you read sometimes a great notion? ive been meaning too. everyone says its great

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ROFL...finished reading the thread.

[Subfallen]

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1. Bible
2. Chosen By God by R.C. Sproul
3. ?

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Lollers, your 2 is quite possibly the stupidest, most mangled, most ill-researched book ever written. (Yes, I've read it.)

[mackthefork]

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You know I'm only a teenager.

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That's fine. You are young and should take St. Aquinas warning to heart and not let your views of life and death, etc., be forged by just one book. Read on, young man, and keep your mind open.

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Good advice.

Mack

[mackthefork]

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1. Bible
2. All of C.S. Lewis - not even close after the Bible.
3. Tolkien

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CS Lewis is fantastic, I guess he brings bible stories to the masses via furry talking animals, but no complaints here about that.

Mack

[VoraciousReader]

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CS Lewis is fantastic, I guess he brings bible stories to the masses via furry talking animals, but no complaints here about that.


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Darn it all, two of my three are taken.

Grapes of Wrath...Steinbeck: First book that genuinely took me out of my upper-middle class suburban upbringing.

Voyage of the Dawn Treader...C.S.Lewis: I read and loved and was influenced by all of the Chronicles, but that one especially spoke to me, with Reepicheep's pure faith and vision, Eustace's (correct name?) redemption and Aslan telling Lucy "No one is ever given to know what 'would have happened'". I'm probably butchering the quote.

The Crucible...Arthur Miller: Along with other events and history, instilled in me a mistrust of the hysteria of the masses, a concern for the rights of the accused, and a vigilance in monitoring those in power.

Edit: Honorable Mention: The Bible, Siddhartha, One (Richard Bach), A Course in Miracles, Aesop's Fables. These are in a slightly separate but relevant category.