- 49 minutes
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Stephen King - The Stand - sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish1 hour
Shogūn (really hope I got that phonetic right) by James Clavell. Even, maybe especially if you’re not a weeaboo.
- 2 hours
The fellowship of the ring, the republic, the history of mathematics, the saga of swamp thing, the invisibles, Macbeth
- 5 hours
The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
All of Discworld.
- 3 hours
I don’t know exactly how much of my warped view on reality is directly attributable to reading the Guide at a young age. I hope most of it.
- 4 hours
I’ve read the series (well only the Douglas authored books). I have a copy of The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which I have not read. Does it make a difference?
- 36 minutes
Much like the TV minseries, book, movie, radio play and audiobooks - all incarnations of The Guide are accurate and complete, especially the parts that contradict… It just depends on which multiverse you have existen been fromme. (Universal relativism weirds language.)
At least that’s what I believe.
- 3 hours
See? Its even more internally consistent than the Bible.
- 3 hours
I only wish we had gotten The Salmon of Doubt.
While the Guide is important, I actually think Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and Long Dark Teatime of the Soul might both be more important. I’m actually often saddened they didn’t get as much love as Hitchhiker’s Guide.
- 3 hours
To me it’s a bit like the Bible. You’ve got the big few books and then so many supporting documents explaining the mindset behind the revelation.
- 4 hours
Excluding religious text~
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Any book written by Cormac McCarthy
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Short stories by Kurt Vonnegut
Do Androinds Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
Definitely lots more
- Vegan_Joe@anarchist.nexusEnglish3 hours
I like where this list is going, having read all those. I’m curious what else you would add to it!
- 6 hours
A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn.
There is so, so much that Americans don’t know that they don’t know.
- 20 minutes
Got some random highlights? I’m curious how many I’ve seen mentioned on Lemmy.
4 hoursReading that right now. Definitely changing my perspective that America was once a good place.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Absolutely beautiful book
