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Putting together a book collection

Oct 26 2010, 1:49 am
By: Grand_dracolich

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Oct 26 2010, 1:49 am Grand_dracolich Post #1

Like the title says, I'm trying to put together a good collection of classic literature. I'm trying to get some good religious, philosophical and historical works (started with books I got for college courses that I wanted to keep or couldn't sell back to the bookstore for whatever reason). Figure I'd post here to see if anyone had any serious suggestions.

Here's what I have so far:

Gilgamesh*
Confucius - The Analects*
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations*
Plutarch - Fall of the Roman Republic*
Plutarch - The Age of Alexander*
Plutarch - The Life of Alexander the Great*
Plato - Trial and Death of Socrates*
Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War*
Herodotus - The Histories*
Homer - The Iliad*
Homer - The Odyssey*
Vergil - The Aeneid*
Sun Tzu - Art of War*
Holy Bible - New International Version* (DUH!)
John Walton - Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament*
LaSor/Hubbard/Bush - Old Testament Survey*
Song of Roland*
Chronicles of the Crusades*
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince*
Islam Quran
Zoroastrian Gathas
Corpus Juris Civilis/Codex Justinianus
Augustine - City of God
Augustine - Confessions
Rule of St. Benedict
John Milton - Paradise Lost
John Milton - Paradise Regained
Caeser - Conquest of Gaul
Adrian Goldsworthy - Punic Wars
Adrian Goldsworthy - Roman Warfare
Luo Guanzhong - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings*
Tolkien - The Hobbit*
Doyle - The Best of Sherlock Holmes*
Karen Armstrong - The Buddha*
Procopius - History of the Wars of Justinian I - The Gothic Wars
Procopius - History of the Wars of Justinian II - The Vandalic Wars
Procopius - History of the Wars of Justinian III - The Persian Wars
Procopius - The Secret History
Dante - Divine Comedy
Vinland Saga*

(* == What I already have)

Also, curses! SEN doesn't have collapsing spoiler tags! And please don't suggest the Kama Sutra. >_>

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Oct 26 2010, 3:04 am

DavidJCobb Post #2

George Orwell - 1984
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

and BTW you should be aware that Machiavelli's "The Prince" was actually completely sarcastic, and most of his writings were in support of a republic.

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Oct 26 2010, 3:44 am

Decency Post #3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

I really need to get some of Plato's stuff.

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Oct 26 2010, 6:33 am

Jack Post #4

>be faceless void >mfw I have no face

Lord of the Flies.

Red classic.

"In short, their absurdities are so extreme that it is painful even to quote them."

Oct 26 2010, 7:28 pm Grand_dracolich Post #5

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and BTW you should be aware that Machiavelli's "The Prince" was actually completely sarcastic, and most of his writings were in support of a republic.

I got it for class, and we haven't read it, yet.

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