<p>primeminester- Why do you hate the Poisonwood Bible? I thought it was superb!</p>
<p>And what's with the anti-Seprate Peace guy....</p>
<p>oh God....Finny......so.....soo....<em>sigh</em> </p>
<p>he's gone guys</p>
<p>i think he might be gone</p>
<p>The Metamorphosis
No Exit(for the pedant: yes, I know that is not a book)
Freakonomics
To the Lighthouse
Atlas Shrugged
Faust
The Da Vinci Code
Harry Potter books
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Firestarter</p>
<p>Would anyone recommend getting the book "The World is Flat"?</p>
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<p>He went to UofC!! </p>
<p>The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath. I saw myself ending up like the main character, and it was really scary...in a good way.</p>
<p>I would recommend getting "the world is flat"- although "the lexus and the olive tree" is better. Thomas Freidman is a smart man with a killer moustache.</p>
<p>The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath. I saw myself ending up like the main character, and it was really scary...in a good way.</p>
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<p>That is pretty scary. Isn't the MC a reflection of Sylvia Plath's life?</p>
<p>Kite Runner</p>
<p>I am reading The Republic by Plato. That one is pretty good. He has some neat ideas and that form theory thing knocked my sox off. Of course I can't read the ancient greek, so I have to settle for the second peguin edition. Although maybe after the U of C I could read it in the original. Man could this guy write diologue.</p>
<p>I'm reading the Virgin Suicides</p>
<p>Grad06, Thomas Friedman oversimplifies. Also, a good birds-eye view of the side effects, or perhaps the main effects, of globalization: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins.</p>
<p>I like:
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
The Lake House by James Patterson</p>
<p>Right now, I'm reading Predator by Patricia Cornwell, and I like it.</p>
<p>I am reading the satanic verses for school. I have only read a little but so far I like it. Of course all Rushdie sort of seems the same to me. He has a very distinctive writing style.</p>
<p>I saw Rushdie at the Chicago Humanities fest.<<very cool! I loved Midnight's Children and Haroun and the Sea of Stories</p>
<p>War and Peace--Leo Tolstoy
One Hundred Years of Solitude--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Anna Karenina--Leo Tolstoy
The Sorrows of Young Werther--Johann W. von Gothe
Vanity Fair--William Thackery
Song of Solomon--Toni Morrison
The Red and the Black--Stendhal
The Sound and the Fury--William Faulkner</p>
<p>And although he's not the greatest of novelist, Thomas Hardy is the master of the tragedy.</p>
<p>scrapiron215, Plato's Republic is very awesome...and very applicable still. How should a government be effectively run? Specialization, equality, gender roles, etc...</p>
<p>Ahhh, Garcia Marquez is one of the greatest writers of all time. I love his books. The russian novels (or epics) are a ***** to read due to the sheer number of characters.</p>
<p>Everyone needs to read stuff by Harry Turtledove, who specializes in alternative historical fiction. He has this series on what would ahve happened if the south has won the Americal Civil War. I must say that the writing is too great, but the idea is pretty cool, not that I would have wanted to south to have won, but it provides an interesting viewpoint. </p>
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<p>John Updike's East of Eden and the Grapes of Wrath
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Poisonwood Bible
The Wheel of Time series (fantasy stuff)
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard (this is the dude who invented scientology)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje</p>
<p>huh? did you mean John STEINBECK'S East of Eden and the Grapes of Wrath.</p>
<p>Although John Upidike's Rabbit Angstrom Quartet was simply amazing.</p>
<p>Oh man that was a slip of the mind right there, of course I meant Steinbeck. I've only read Updike's short stories in the New Yorker.</p>
<p>anyone read a million little pieces?</p>
<p>YES!!! Well actually I'm about 20 pages into it after purchasing it not too long ago. :o</p>