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Homer, Ovid, Plato and Aristotle really define the concept of the thinking man, the fathers of Philosophy for me

Metamorphoses is a good read

Aristotle's Poetics is essential to aspiring writers

Dialogues of Plato......

I really have no clue how many books I have read during the course of my life and I am only at the 1/4 mark.....wish I had a photographic memory.....really I do

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re The Professor:

The only reason I name those two particular Rice books, is because they step outside of the box and put a vampire in new situations. A vampire longing to become human again, then does and hates it, is superb. I actually based my vamp app on that premise. Then, mixing 'vampires' and religion (albeit completely whacked IMO) was also a new twist.

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Anything Heinlein.

Starship Troopers: To my knowledge the first use of powered armor, powered armor ftw.

The Sixth Collumn: Best book I have ever read, forming a religion to make an army rules.

Friday: Gene-boosting is soon to come.

Green Hills of Earth: Great collection of Heinlein short stories, protecting a nuke till your last breath is everyone's duty.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

I, Jedi by Michael A. Stackpole

The entire X-Wing series by a variety of authors, as well as the Thrawn trilogy and Hand of Thrawn duology by Timothy Zahn

The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit... everyone knows who they're by

October Sky by Homer H. Hickam Jr.

Darkness at Noon by Aurthur Koestler

Magic Kingdom for Sale: Sold by Terry Brooks

Last but not least, War Letters compiled by Andrew Carroll. Reading this book was one of the most moving experiences of my life... it is a compilation of real letters submitted by families/descendants/museums of soldiers and their families during the Civil War, both World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, and the recent conflicts in Kosovo and Africa. It's an incredible and very personal look into what and how these people felt and thought back then.

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Pali, good call on the Darkness at Noon, thank you high school english. For a while I thought no one was going to mention the Sword of Truth series... a very excellent series, although there are maybe two or three books I feel a bit "eh" about.

Dirty Truths by Michael Parenti - Everyone should read this book, an interesting look into the U.S government and some of the economic and socioeconomic situations that have evolved in the last century.

The Myth series by Robert Asprin is funny.

The Prince by Machiavelli is an excellent look into the different types of rulers and the different ways they can rule and how the outcome of that rule will go, using examples in history.

Honky by Darby Conley - An interesting look into a white male growing up in brooklyn in the late 70's early 80's.

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The day we have a forum thread more than a page long that has no derailings is the day I say that George W. Bush is/was a good president.

3+ pages, suck it. :D

BTW another great book was Eaters of The Dead, the book the movie The 13th Warrior was based on. Finally a movie just as good as the book!

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