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One of the best books I've ever read.



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people still read books!!!! lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



xbebop said:

One of the best books I've ever read.

I've read this one not too long ago and then read this one:

The Three Musketeers and 20 years after (the sequel)

Dumas is an amazing storyteller! Milady is such a great vilain too.



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Genre: Biography

I usually hate autobiographies but im a MMA fan and Chuck is an absolute legend of the sport, the book is good it gives an insight to the sport and to chucks mind and his beginnings as an athlete. It's also pretty funny. 8/10

I also had to read that

Political Philosophy

Michael Walzer

for my course at University it's about the philosophical view of the legal war, and his statist communitarian position., i completely disagree with douchebag that wrote it, he contradicts himself too much. 6/10



By Stephen King and Peter Straub it is a dark fantasy novel.

I rate this book 10/10 one of my all time favorites.

This book charts the adventure of a young teen boy named Jack Sawyer. The adolescent hero sets out from Arcadia Beach, New Hampshire in a bid to save his mother, who is dying from cancer, by finding an enchanted crystal called "the Talisman."



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Well wasn't recent but something I read for Political Theory. It's called Nichomachean Ethics by that of Aristotle. Really a great read if you want to learn about virtue ethics. Aristotle, like many Greeks of the time, believed in a teleological view of the world. Everything is focused towards some end which he calls "the good". For him of course, "the good" is God. Every man therefore needs to achieves which he defines as "right action". By obtaining virtues you get closer to the good which is happiness of course. Of course he knows not everyone will be able to achieve this which is why he considers political science to be the master science. It needs to be done in society for the masses and that is what political science allows. Thus political science is the good of man as it is the last step before you can obtain "the good".

Very unique way of looking at things but shouldn't be too surprising to a lot of people. Christianity adopted much of what Aristotle taught and incorporated it into their own religion. Anybody that is a Christian could very easily relate to him such as a transcendent notion of human nature or that we have a little bit of "god" in us all that allow us to try and achieve our maximum human potential.

Really a great book for anyone looking to further their knowledge on political science, which judging by political discussing here, might be a good thing.



One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 

The Sound and The Fury

Uncle Tom's Children

The Great Gatsby

 

I'm not going to bother rating them, they're all masterpieces.  The Sound and the Fury is the most challenging book I've ever read, by far.



Sorry kicks, I'm not that much a reader :p

But I thought Life of Pi was ok when I was forced to read it.



Oryx and Crake

It is about blue penises. The film adaptation was called "Watchmen." I give it 10 out of 10.



tarheel91 said:

The Sound and the Fury is the most challenging book I've ever read, by far.

Have you ever read Gravity's Rainbow? I haven't read The Sound and the Fury (yet) but I have a hard time believing any book is more mind-rattling than Gravity's Rainbow. Pynchon is fucking insane.




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