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They're short, simple, and funny.
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The idea is to help condense things so that one may find a new idea on what to read more easily.
So, if there is anything anyone mentioned that I missed, let me know, and I'll add it.
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Also a quote from Plato and Platypus walk into a bar...
"Some have argued that because the universe is like a clock, there must be a Clockmaker. As the eighteenth-century British empiricist David Hume pointed out, this is a slippery argument, because there is nothing that is really perfectly analogous to the universe as a whole, unless it's another universe, so we shouldn't try to pass off anything that is just a part of this universe. Why a clock anyhow? Hume asks. Why not say the universe is analogous to a kangaroo? After all, both are organically interconnected systems. But the kangaroo analogy would lead to a very different conclusion about the origin of the universe: namely, that it was born of another universe after that universe had sex with a third universe. "
That's the kind of humor you'll find in the book.
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And I like the Kangaroo Sex Theory.
Gives the Big Bang a whole new meaning.
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Yeah it does. :D
...The Power of One ~ Bryce Courtney......Ishmael ~ Daniel Quinn...
...The Shining ~ Stephen King...
...A Million Little Pieces ~ James Frey...
...A Clockwork Orange ~ Anthony Burgess...
...Lolita ~ Vladimir Nabokov...
...Mental Health Through Will-Training ~ Abraham A. Low M.D. (this one is more of a self-help book)...
...The Sun Also Rises ~ Ernest Hemingway...
...A People's History of the United States ~ Howard Zinn...
...the harry potter series :)...
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Thanks for the recommendations.
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Platy: The People's History book, is there a specific one you want to have on the list? There were a couple with varying titles and I'm not sure which you meant or if you meant the series.
Also, for now I only put the first Harry Potter book. Just to keep things simple. I'll leave adding the rest up to Glodson. We might have all of them on there, but with the first book... I think it's clear you would read the rest as well. Maybe. I dunno.
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I mean, I could choke our shelf with stuff from series, but I don't think that would be a good idea.
Then again, I'm fine with the first of a series, and a significant book in the series, just not every single book. As you said, people who dug the first might read the rest.
Jamie wrote: "Hey, wouldya look at that. They are magically on the list now.Platy: The People's History book, is there a specific one you want to have on the list? There were a couple with varying titles and ..."
...oops, i didn't realize there were others....i meant the 1492-present version...and how you're handling harry potter seems right...
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Jane Bites Back
Ill Wind
Divine by Mistake
thats all i can think of right now.
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Jane Bites Back (other topics)Divine By Mistake (other topics)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (other topics)
Ill Wind (other topics)
Just stuff you want to put in our shelf randomly rather than discuss in depth.