Comments on: Cult Book Meme http://www.libertypages.com/cgw/2008/05/09/cult-book-meme/ Musings on Science, Religion and Philosophy Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:31:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Johnna http://www.libertypages.com/cgw/2008/05/09/cult-book-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-457 Johnna Fri, 09 May 2008 22:20:15 +0000 http://www.libertypages.com/cgw/?p=222#comment-457 I was surprised how many were books I've never heard of. And how many of the ones I've read, I haven't bothered to reread in the last 20 years. <strong>Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)</strong> <strong>Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock (1946)</strong> <strong>The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf (1991)</strong> <strong>The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)</strong> <strong>Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)</strong> <strong>The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951)</strong> <em>A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)</em> <em>The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley (1954)</em> <strong>Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)</strong> <strong>The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)</strong> <strong>Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (1973)</strong> <strong>The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)</strong> <strong>Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter (1979)</strong> <em>Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)</em> <strong>I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (1948)</strong> <strong>Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and Russell Munson (1970)</strong> <strong>Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (1962)</strong> <em>The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1923)</em> <strong>Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922)</strong> <em>Story of O by Pauline Réage (1954)</em> <strong>The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)</strong> <strong>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values by Robert M Pirsig (1974)</strong> I was surprised how many were books I’ve never heard of. And how many of the ones I’ve read, I haven’t bothered to reread in the last 20 years.

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock (1946)
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf (1991)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley (1954)
Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (1973)
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter (1979)
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (1948)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and Russell Munson (1970)
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (1962)
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1923)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922)
Story of O by Pauline Réage (1954)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values by Robert M Pirsig (1974)

]]> By: Ben http://www.libertypages.com/cgw/2008/05/09/cult-book-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-456 Ben Fri, 09 May 2008 20:37:45 +0000 http://www.libertypages.com/cgw/?p=222#comment-456 This is ironic that you wrote that about <i> hitchiker's guide to the galaxy </i>, cuz I'm reading it right now. It's ironic because I'm still in college, and I just finished exhausting myself from an intense semester. This is ironic that you wrote that about hitchiker’s guide to the galaxy , cuz I’m reading it right now. It’s ironic because I’m still in college, and I just finished exhausting myself from an intense semester.

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