"A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN"----there are alot of "Jonny Nolins" out there, always dreaming but never doing. A very thought provoking novel, it could relate to JW way of thinking about the future.
What's the most thought-provoking novel you've ever read?
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OldSoul
I agree with Quentin on Thomas Paine, and Blondie on To Kill A Mockingbird.
When it comes to thought provoking I have to include Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno and the play (if that's allowable) Inherit the Wind based on the Scopes (Cates) trial.
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neverthere
Oryx and Crake is the first Atwood novel I have read. I only got it cause the characters are supposed to be Aspie. I am having a hard time getting into the book.
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Mamacat
PaulJ--I read Odd Thomas about a month ago. I really enjoyed it!
I'd say Dickens' Great Expectations for me. It makes you realize how just one small thing could change your life and it's outcome forever. -
RunningMan
hummm....have alot of books to list but the most thought-provoking would be Joesph Conrad-Heart of Darkness.
I just read this for the very first time and I was dumbfounded by the prose--it was astonishingly wonderful. How often does something live up to its reputation like this book did?I loved it. the language is delicious.
T
I found the same thing about his prose, and marvelled, because English was not his mother tongue. His real name was Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski. He was Polish, and learned English later.
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Sunspot
"A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN"----
Oh-----I had forgotten that one! I read it twice as a youngster! I loved it.
I was glued to "The Diary of Anne Frank" and have read it a few times from childhod to adulthood. It set me on a path that still continues; of devouring anything about the holocaust. I lived here 20 years before I knew that there was a "safe haven" that housed the refugees from that time period!
One of my daughter's brought a book home from the school library and I ended up reading it. It turned out to be one of my very favorite books, for personal reasons. It was called "The Dollmaker" by Harriet Arnow. It was made into a TV movie (which didn't really capture the flavor of the book) starring Jane Fonda.
I had a frightening experience because of reading a book----I forget if it was Scott Turo or Anne Rule that wrote it, but it was all about Wayne Gacy (complete with pictures) and his doings and his artwork. We were having siding put on the house (the day afer I finished reading this book) and I went out to get the mail.
One of the workers was 4' away from the porch and he turned around and smiled at me----and didn't he look just like Wayne Gacy!!!! No kidding! I'm sure I gasped and my blood felt like it was drained from my body, and I could barely get into the house cuz my legs were like rubber. It was just so eerie!
Annie
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doogie
does anyone read Nicholson Baker? i love his writing style. he could write for pages and pages about something silly like shoelaces and still keep it interesting. my favorite of his is Mezzanine. the entire book is a ride on an escalator.
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tetrapod.sapien
The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Age of Spiritual Machines - Raymond Kurzweil
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Mulan
And have you not read the Celestine Vision?
No, but I've seen it. Aren't there several sequels?
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MerryMagdalene
Can't pick just 1 either (sorry)...
Narcissus and Goldmund, Steppenwolf, Siddartha...Hermann Hesse
Love in the Time of Cholera...Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Galilee...Clive Barker
The Woman Warrior...Maxine Hong Kingston