What do you recomend me to rean next?

[anarhosocijalist]

Do you know any interesting books that I and everybody else could read? Thanks in advance.

[Menshevik]

What have you read already?

[PunkRawker677]

Read Siddhartha. Its an EXCELLENT book. I finished it about two weeks ago and i absolutly love it! I'm really into philosophy, so if your not, don't read it - you probably wouldnt like it. Otherwise, READ IT NOW.. lol lol..
my top five book list consists of -

Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Stalinger
The Soul of Man Under Socialism - Oscar Wilde
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Plato - The Republic

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Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx

[PunkRawker677]

make it 6 -
1984- George Orwell

and while we are at it - 'Repent Harlequin' said the Ticktockman is also really really good.. its a short story, but its great. its by Harlan Ellison.

[anarhosocijalist]

I read Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Demian... Hesse is one of my favourite. Sartre and Steinbeck are Ok too, but I would like to read something else know, good wrighter who presently unknown to me.

[anarhosocijalist]

Hmm.. I will trust you PunkRaw.... and read 1984, I planed to read it some time ago, but I didnt..

[Menshevik]

read anything by Tim O'Brien. Bread and Wine by Ignacio Silone.

Dog Soldiers

The Sparrow

Bret Easton Ellis (specifically American Psycho)

[Kez]

i reckon 1984 is a bit overated

its a bit too heavy in proportion to what its trying to say, as i dont believe it to be a reflective analogy if that is what it is intended to be

However, read the orwell books about the empire they are top shit, all of them

[PunkRawker677]

Tavar, I dont think 1984 is overated, its an amazing piece of literature that attacks totalitarian goverments at the extreme. Even though most people percieve the book to be an attack against communism or socialism, it is not. the "brotherhood" clearly says in the book that the attack is against totalitarian goverments.. either way, i think its a great book.

some other books i have read lately and i have liked are:
Grendel
the I-Ching (amazing but very very very complicated, it should take you months to read)
De La Sierra Maestra Al Escambray by Joel Iglesias Leyva (im not sure if they have this book in english)

i'll list more later!

[Supermodel]

Top ten if you haven't already read them (assume you've read Che):

Off to the library, companero!!

1. :Walden" Henry David Thoreau
2. "Utopia" Thomas More (tough read, birth of some communist thought)
3. "War at the top of the World" Eric S. Margolis (a little dated, pre 9/11, but great summary of all those hosed up nations)
4"Hitler's willing executioners - ordinary Germans and the holocaust" by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
5. "Non Campus Mentis" by Anders Henriksson (you will laugh till you cry)
6. "Wanderlust - a history of walking" Rebecca Solnit
7. "World Hunger- Twelve myths" Frances Moore Lappe
8. "Chasing Che - a motorcycle journey in search of the Guevara legend" Patrick Symmes
9 "Havana Dreams" Wendy Gimbel - biography of naty, Fidel's lover and mother of his bastard daughter
10. "The heights of Macchu Piccu" Pablo Neruda (poetry: spanish on one side, translation on the other. Che loved it.)

[anarhosocijalist]

Interesting list Supermodel.. I ll pick one of them later when I finish 1984.

[marxistdisciple]

I'm going to add "brave new world" by aldous huxley....perhaps not as successful as its big brother 1984, but a good book :) Huxley takes an alternative future where instead of the masses been controlled by brutal opression, they are given a drug called soma (which has been likened to prozac or ecstacy in this age) and it makes them happy without side effects. This allows them to carry on working hard, without questioning the system. He wrote the book back in '35, but it bears so much likeness to modern society, it oft surprises me.

[DORRI]

if you're intrested to hear about other ideas,I recommend you reading Quran - the holy book of muslem. Ihope you'll find it very revolutionary!

[anarhosocijalist]

I try to be open to all ideas, and all perspectives human can look at world..
Quran is good book and I am shure it has many valuable ideas.. I will read it someday...

[Menshevik]

Supermodels list is a must

[abstractmentality]

read walden by thoreau, as supermodel wrote. i have never finished it, but the parts that i have read are amazing. i work at the library, and i have read the first page of that book so many times, and i love it more every time. very interesting read though.

[anarhosocijalist]

I recomend to you all to read Melancholia or Nausea by J.P. Sartre.
That book brought me thinking and brought me to revoolutionary socialism..

[Menshevik]

"L'enfer c'est les autres."