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    I would have to say:

    Fear of flying by Erica Yong (made me a feminist)

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    The Three Musketeers by A. Dumas because I was a little kid and I hated reading and this was the first book I remember picking up without being forced to and not being able to put it down.


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    Let's assume we all credit the Bible and the Koran.
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    Guerilla Warfare, introduced me to Che.

    If I Die In A Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien, a memoir of Vietnam

    What Is Communist Anarchism by Alexander Berkman

    Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas, about Castro persecution

    Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein, a collection of all his essays

    Bread and Wine by Ignatio Silone, about Italian Communist posing as a priest while trying overthrow Facist govt.

    many more, have to look over my library.
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    either coming up for air or homage to catalonia (both by george orwell)
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    1984 - By George Orwell
    Manifesto of the Communist Party - By Karl Marx
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    Albert Camus: The Stranger
    Albert Camus: The Plague
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    " Scientific communism"- written by many soviet theoretics

    " How the steel was tempered" by Ostrovsky
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    Everybody Poops

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    lmfao,

    for me it would be "Tom sawyer." I will never wander through caves again in my spare time.

    (Edited by man in the red suit at 1:06 am on June 23, 2002)
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    The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.

    That fucking Gollum thingy gave me endless nightmares, when I was a kid..."what's it's gots in it's pocketses?"
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    Kurt Vonnegut Slaughter House Five...holy shit that book changed my life forever! it completly opened up my mind!
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    Orwell - 1984
    Camus - The Outsider
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    The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life--J.L. Anderson

    Savage Inequalities--J. Kozol

    There Are No Children Here--Kowlitz (I think)

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    Orwell's "1984" and "Homage to Catalonia".
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    All books change your life in some way.

    Chomsky's What Uncle Sam Really Wants informed the most in the begining of the real world wide events.

    And Seuss's Fox in Socks did a number, too.
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    A book called DragonWings... its about a young chinese boy living in san fransico in the early 1900's and the racism he had to deal with while living there.
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    I'm printing out this post and I promise to read all these suggestions (read a few already). Thanks and keep them coming.
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    ...I need a book to change my life and open my eyes, this thread has been helpful to me, thanks
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    The process - Franz kafka
    MEtamorfos - Franz kafka
    And so talked Zaratusta - Nietzche
    Democracy And secrecy - Dr. Oswald Le Winter (ex. CIA)
    Jesus against Jesus - Gérard Mordillat & Jérôme Prieur
    The great Misterys of the secret war- Bernard michal (about spys in WWII)
    The Art of war - Sun Tzu

    And others............

    (still trying to find a translated version of Guerrilla warfare of Che!)
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    Quote: from the anarchist on 10:20 pm on July 18, 2002

    (still trying to find a translated version of Guerrilla warfare of Che!)
    One in english?

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