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American Psycho , I worry about the bloke who wrote that
Adrian mole
One Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest
Jaws is quite a dark novel
1984
Black Swans (non-fiction, about life and indoctrination China)
Nothing to Envy (non-fiction, about life and indoctrination in N Korea)
Sapiens
A Clockwork Orange
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Im Westen Nichts Neues (English title: "All Quiet On The Western Front")
Zonenkinder (English title: "After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next", non-fiction)
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown.
A history of the American west - from the Native American point of view.
Non-fiction.
Harrowing at times.
2 that spring to mind:
All Hell Let Loose - Max Hastings (because of its refreshingly different angle on WW2)
A Life Too Short - Ronald Reng (About Robert Enke's suicide. A desperately hard but worthwhile read)
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
A very short but bitterly powerful satire written in 1729 that proposes different ways of eating babies to solve the 'overpopulation' (aka poverty) problem in Ireland. Told with dry, economic reasoning from beginning to end. Devastating.
David Copperfield
Grapes of Wrath
1984
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
Fahrenheit 451
East of Eden - in fact anything by Steinbeck (To a God Unknown, The Red Pony)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Coming Up for Air
100 Years of Solitude
White Hotel by D. M. Thomas
Way of the Peaceful Warrior and Return of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman, both books labelled as the book that changes lives; they did.
Chimp Paradox is a good read and stays with you in the sense that it explains we are made up of very different parts, some of which being the human side and the more primitive ape or chimp that basically just wanted to eat, survive and have sex. We've all got this chimp aspect and having read the book you recognise the chimp aspect at work.
Recommend the book a lot.
Ronnie O'Sullivan recommends the book and anybody that has seen Ronnie play barefoot or his latest argument around the table will understand that Ronnie's chimp side bares all quite a bit.
Enemy At The Gates
Horrific account of the battle of stalingrad
Quite a few books on the subject , several of which are distressing to read
Accounts of young soldiers on both sides literally freezing to death , cannibalism , torture , really graphic
What those young men went through was unbelievable, all because of mad ideology
There are some books out there on the horrors inflicted on people of German descent living in the formerly nazi occupied Eastern lands by partisans as the war ended . Nasty stuff.
And of course the rape and massacre of Eastern Europe by the advancing red army isn't pleasant bedtime reading either
The Wasp Factory. Creepy as ****.
Life and Fate by Vassilly Grossman followed by The Master and Margarita by Michael Bulgakov( if anyone can let me know what this book is about let me know).
Of Mice and Men. Great book, read it in year 10/11.
Shame someone wrote 'George shoots Lennie' on the inside of the front cover.
My 10 year diary
That reminds me of a story I read when one of the Harry Potter books came out, hundreds of kids were queuing up outside a bookstore in London at midnight to get the first copies, and one of the first ones in told the others that Dumbledore dies in the book. I wonder how old that kid is now and what kind of person he is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwZRFA0cLaM
Don't know how to embed youtube, but this is Homer doing the same thing