The Pavilion Book Club

[Big Rick Cook]

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I recommend Atlas Shrugged. The Fountainhead slightly lesser, but Objectivism is displayed on a world scale quite well in Atlas Shrugged.

[The_Real_Crunk]

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Ive read like maybe 2 REAL books since I got out of highschool.

[John Mora]

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God, I know like a dozen people who are just crazy about Rand, but every time I look at one of those books I just have no desire to open them.

People said the same thing about Rand. HEYO

[Vanilla Iced Tea]

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In my university's library, there's a copy of Atlas Shrugged that contains a plaque with my name on it! I'm a very important person.

I'm always quick to suggest Bradbury in situations like this. He's really easy to read and his stories are always interesting. Unless you hate science fiction, pick up Martian Chronicles or The Illustrated Man.

[JPS]

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If you're like Crunk and only read a few...if any books since you got out of high school, you need to start getting back into it slowly, otherwise you'll get overwhelmed by too many things all at once.

May I recommend this?

[Alex]

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How's your local library? I've been able to search for any book I want on the library's website and they'll deliver it to the nearest location and email me when it's ready to pick up. I don't think I'll ever need to buy a book again.

Also, you're most likely not going to enjoy any book that your teacher makes you read.

[John Mora]

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If you ARE slowly getting back into reading, I STILL recommend graphic novels! x3~~

[Toaster]

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If you're like Crunk and only read a few...if any books since you got out of high school, you need to start getting back into it slowly, otherwise you'll get overwhelmed by too many things all at once.

May I recommend this?

OLOL BERNSTEIN BEARS

And as far as Graphic Novels are concerned Smurtle's reccomendation looks charming. I hear the Death Note manga is good. I don't know much else, though.

[John Mora]

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Fables, Death Note, PLANETES, Monster, Watchmen, anything and everything Osamu Tezukaaa!!!

[The_Real_Crunk]

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Ive got the hardcover versions of the Punisher MAX series. Thats a book right?

[Translucid]

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All of Ayn Rand's characters are just idiotic vessels for her crappy philosophy.

[Vanilla Iced Tea]

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Fables, Death Note, PLANETES, Monster, Watchmen, anything and everything Osamu Tezukaaa!!!

I bought the first three Fables trades and I thought they were alright, but they didn't really inspire me to get the rest. I've started picking up Y: the Last Man, though, and I really like it so far.

I think every comic fan is an incomplete person without having read The Sandman.

[John Mora]

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But noooooooooooooo

[Perversion]

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If you've never read Ayn Rand before, and want to check out her writing without making a 1000+ page commitment, I HIGHLY recommend reading Anthem first so you can get an idea of her style. It's quite short (compared to the other two mentioned), and you can probably blow through it in one long sitting (no more than 3-5 hours, depending on how quickly you read). Reminds me of 1984 and Brave New World to some extent, and there's NOT a lot of Objectivism philosophising (is that even a word?)in it. It's just a quick, enjoyable read that you do not have to concentrate or think too hard to get through. I would hate to see you pick up one of her other books first, and immediately get turned off. So Anthem is my recommendation.

[Gustaff 13]

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Mora: in one of the long buried suggest-a-books you said you'd just finished a graphic novel and claimed it was one of the best things you've ever read. What was it again?


I've read quite a bit of William Kotzwinkle's novels. A contemporary American humorist/wonderist. He uses perspectives of animals and children to get an unbiased document of events and interactions. It's really neat.
Check out The Fan Man, Doctor Rat, The Exile.

Not many know that Emily Carr wrote volumes of semi-autobiographical "word-sketches" in her later life. Every description whisks you away to misty BC. What separates her from being just another precocious Laura Ingals Wilder are the touches of dark, grave reality, and an early questioning and perhaps renouncing of her faith.
Definitely look at Klee Wyck and The Book of Small.