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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 10:11 PM Original message |
50 best cult books |
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realisticphish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. cool |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. Interesting read |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. LOL Dianetics! |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. LOL Ayn Rand's Fountainhead! LOL |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 11:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Atlas Shrugged, Shuddered, and Collapsed in a Sweaty Heap. |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 11:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. lol! |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 11:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I can understand young people reading Ayn Rand... |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 11:40 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I read all of Rand's books by my junior year in high school and it didn't stop me |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 11:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Yeah, I know... |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 10:43 AM Response to Reply #18 |
30. lol! Yes! I read Rand and she didn't touch my soul! |
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CBGLuthier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
5. Read about twenty of those |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 12:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
22. Yeah, I thought Pirsig wrote an honest book with some |
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greyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 12:35 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Now you do. |
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texastoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. Skinny Legs and All |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 06:42 PM Response to Reply #6 |
45. Definitely in my top 5 |
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texastoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 10:48 PM Response to Reply #45 |
50. Don't tell them I forgot |
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texastoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 10:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
49. self-delete |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
7. what? no "johnny got his gun?" n/t |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 11:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. If that was on the list, I would have read 19 out 51! That was an incredible book. |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 11:51 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. yes it was. i still have an old copy--but it's so yellowed and musty |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 10:41 AM Response to Reply #19 |
29. I have long since lost my copy in a move. I do have other books, boxes of them |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 11:40 AM Response to Reply #29 |
34. how fun that she's reading them. do you two talk about the book? |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 02:17 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. She is making her way through all of my Vonnegut's and she loves them. She hasn't |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 02:41 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. my daugher loves to read but she won't go near all my vonnegut |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 11:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
20. Or 'Stranger in a Strange Land'. |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 10:39 AM Response to Reply #20 |
28. OMG! I loved that book! |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
8. I'm disappointed - only read 14 of the 50 |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 11:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Godel Escher Bach is one of my favorites |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 11:07 AM Response to Reply #9 |
31. I was never able to get into the first one; but I really like Metamagical Themas... |
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nomorenomore08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
10. Wow, I am PATHETIC. At the age of 23 I've only read 3 of those. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 10:09 AM Response to Reply #10 |
26. That's all right - you've got plenty of time and they'll be around. |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
12. I've read 18 out of the 50. One of my favorites of the 18 is Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 11:42 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. I love the Prophet |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 10:37 AM Response to Reply #17 |
27. Friendship and Children are my favorite parts of The Prophet. :) |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
21. 24 out of 50 read |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
23. LOTR? Narnia? |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 10:05 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Velikovsky - Worlds in Collision |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
32. Of these, the one that probably influenced me the most was 'Testament of Youth" |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
33. No Philip K Dick, Harlan Ellison, or Herbert Marcuse? |
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Lithos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
35. No Illuminati Trilogy? |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
36. read 5 from the list, but they did miss some great books |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 03:43 PM Response to Reply #36 |
43. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 06:31 PM Response to Reply #36 |
44. Yeah...such a list with no Orwell is odd |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 07:38 PM Response to Reply #36 |
47. Neil Gaiman |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
39. Mein Kampf |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
40. The Bible |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I read fifteen of them.... |
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dawgman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
42. wow I have read alot of those |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
46. Good list of books. I almost didn't read this topic because of the "cult" bit. |
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fed_up_mother (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
48. Being a teen back in the seventies, I've read too many of those LOL |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-25-08 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
51. How about |
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