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some of those books are really awful. i expected it to be all lit, but a lot are junk - which begs the question, wtf do les brits think is a classic?
13 out of 50. bit of a show off but i have been around more than most of you;
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951)
Chariots of the Gods: Was God An Astronaut? by Erich Von Däniken (1968)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (1968)
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (1962)
On The Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson (1971)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám tr by Edward FitzGerald (1859)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda (1968)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1883-85)
Most influential at the time of reading were, Siddhartha and the Teaching of Don Juan and The Stranger.
after that i digressed and liked Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Rubaiyat, Chariots of the Gods, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Labyrinths were my father's books.
also interesting; nothing made the list from last +,- 30 years
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some of those books are really awful. i expected it to be all lit, but a lot are junk - which begs the question, wtf do les brits think is a classic?
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Hoz.box, it is cult classics, not classics.
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13 out of 50. bit of a show off but i have been around more than most of you;
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951)
Chariots of the Gods: Was God An Astronaut? by Erich Von Däniken (1968)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (1968)
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (1962)
On The Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson (1971)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám tr by Edward FitzGerald (1859)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda (1968)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1883-85)
Most influential at the time of reading were, Siddhartha and the Teaching of Don Juan and The Stranger.
after that i digressed and liked Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Rubaiyat, Chariots of the Gods, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Labyrinths were my father's books.
also interesting; nothing made the list from last +,- 30 years
nicely read. I think they forgot "the Art of War" - that's a true cult classic. Ah well.
i think the art of war is meant for a different kind of cult - the cult of money, atp.
Well i only had 11. I feel far less sophisticated now.
Hmm. although i would change the list a bit.
I've only finished 5, but I've started 13 more and wasn't interested enough to finish them. I'm flighty.
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