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Books you should read before you die

Posted on 1/28/20 at 8:26 am
Posted by Lsujacket66
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Posted on 1/28/20 at 8:26 am
What are some books you’d say are important for someone to read before they die.

Any genre fiction or non fiction
Posted by ManBearTiger
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Posted by AllbyMyRelf
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Posted on 1/28/20 at 4:13 pm to
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Posted by ManBearTiger
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Posted by Paul Allen
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Posted on 1/28/20 at 8:36 pm to
Eat
Pray
Love
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 1/28/20 at 9:16 pm to
The Bible
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope
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Posted on 1/28/20 at 9:59 pm to
The King James Bible A.V.
L.O.T.R
The Civil War (Shelby Foote)
The Constitution of the United States of America and The Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence
Robinson Crusoe
Treasure Island
The Federalist Papers
The Conservative Mind
Absalom, Absalom
Moby Dick
The Last of the Mohicans
C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy
On The Incarnation (St. Athanasius)
Confessions (St. Augustine)
Guadalcanal Diary
Instant Replay
Band of Brothers
The Gulag Archipelago
The Abolition of Man
Mere Christianity
The Book of Common Prayer (prior to 1979/80)
Confessions of an Advertising Man
Lanterns on the Levee
Orthodoxy (Chesterton)
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Pilgrim's Progress
Till We Have Faces

This post was edited on 1/29/20 at 2:13 am
Posted by zeebo
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Posted on 1/29/20 at 1:53 am to
Young Men and Fire
By Norman McClean
Posted by Pandy Fackler
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Posted on 1/30/20 at 8:39 pm to
If you ever wanted a sense of what it might be like living in north korea, then read 1984.

For me, Catch-22 is the best anti-war book ever written and a genuinely great american novel.
Posted by Chef Free Gold Bloom
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Posted on 1/31/20 at 1:38 pm to
I’ll continue building a list, but has anyone said Animal Farm yet?
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Posted on 1/31/20 at 2:14 pm to
Off the top of my head so i'll definitely have to edit...

Silmarillion/Hobbit/LOTR
Huck Finn
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Bible (NWT, ASV or non-revised KJV)
Watchmen
The Jungle Book w/ short stories
To Kill a Mockingbird
Psycho


And dont waste your time reading Moby Dick.

Posted by OldTigahFot
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Posted on 2/1/20 at 2:58 pm to
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

In Cold Blood

Candide
Posted by AUveritas
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Posted on 2/1/20 at 8:17 pm to
The Brothers Karamazov
Posted by pvilleguru
Member since Jun 2009
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Posted on 2/2/20 at 7:04 pm to
quote:

LOTR
Yes
quote:

Hobbit
Maybe
quote:

Silmarillion
Definitely not a must read. If you're interested, great. Give it a shot. But this is a difficult book to get into and pales in comparison to the Hobbit and LOTR.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Posted on 2/3/20 at 3:43 pm to
quote:

Definitely not a must read.


It definitely adds to The Hobbit and LOTR. You appreciate both of them a lot more having read The Silmarilion and if you can read something that improves some of the greatest novles of all time, you should read it.

quote:

But this is a difficult book to get into and pales in comparison to the Hobbit and LOTR.



It can be difficult to read at times, it reads more like the bible. But it doesnt pale in comparison and as far as beauty goes, it's hands down the most beautifully written of the entire series and has better love stories. Maybe not, but it just sounds like you tried and couldnt finish it.
This post was edited on 2/3/20 at 3:45 pm
Posted by pvilleguru
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Posted on 2/3/20 at 6:12 pm to
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Maybe not, but it just sounds like you tried and couldnt finish it.
Definitely finished it, but it reads more like a history book than a story.
Posted by samson73103
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Posted on 2/6/20 at 10:39 am to
In Cold Blood
Posted by Macavity92
Member since Dec 2004
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 10:46 pm to
Hamlet
Slaughter House Five
All Quiet on the Western Front
1Q84
Huck Finn
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Pinker
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Alexander Hamilton by Chernow
Burr by Vidal
The Road
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
Posted by pensacola
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Posted on 2/9/20 at 9:57 pm to
Shouldn’t we divide this list into

Before you die
And
After you die?
Posted by dsides
Member since Jan 2013
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Posted on 2/11/20 at 10:22 am to
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