Break Me Out Of My Chesterton/lewis/tolkien Fiction Box

[4588686]

She's chatty. Like a woman.

[Era Might]

[quote name='Era Might' timestamp='1313629146' post='2290226']
Jane Austen is NOT girly! lol. I thoroughly enjoy Jane Austen, and I am not afraid to admit it.

Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Short Stories
Beowulf
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Dostoevsky - House of the Dead
Franz Kafka - The Trial
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
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Oh, how could I forget the great Jane Eyre, another book that is totally NOT girly.

[ardillacid]

Stephen king's the dark tower series. :coagulated milk:

[Amppax]

Alright I'll get straight to suggestions:

Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde
Anything by Jules Verne
I'll second Brave New World
anything by Dumas
Sherlock Holmes!
Great Expectations by Dickens (really anything by him, but I really, REALLY, liked this book)
H.G. Wells

Total sidenote, I didn't like Heart of Darkness until I watched Apocolypse Now.

[Laudate_Dominum]

H. P. Lovecraft

[Amppax]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' timestamp='1313630885' post='2290267']
H. P. Lovecraft
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I've never given Lovecraft a try, he's somewhat horror stories, isn't he? If so not my thing, but I've heard a lot of good things, I may have to give him a read.

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1313631036' post='2290268']

I've never given Lovecraft a try, he's somewhat horror stories, isn't he? If so not my thing, but I've heard a lot of good things, I may have to give him a read.
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A story before bed is always fun. This is my main: [url="http://www.amazon.com/H-P-Lovecraft-Library-America/dp/1931082723/"]H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)[/url]

[Wikitiki]

[i]Atlas Shrugged [/i]by Ayn Rand is good for a laugh.

A thousand six-hundred-page-long laugh.

[Amppax]

[quote name='Wikitiki' timestamp='1313635188' post='2290342']
[i]Atlas Shrugged [/i]by Ayn Rand is good for a laugh.

A thousand six-hundred-page-long laugh.
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this

Although, the first time i read it, i wouldn't have said that at all.

Edited August 18, 2011 by Amppax

[MissScripture]

[quote name='Wikitiki' timestamp='1313635188' post='2290342']
[i]Atlas Shrugged [/i]by Ayn Rand is good for a laugh.

A thousand six-hundred-page-long laugh.
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[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1313635573' post='2290348']

this

Although, the first time i read it, i wouldn't have said that at all.
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So, what is this book about anyway? I never had to read it, but my sister-in-law read it for school, and thought it was really good. It makes me sort of nervous now hearing you folks say things like that...

[Amppax]

[quote name='MissScripture' timestamp='1313635741' post='2290353']

So, what is this book about anyway? I never had to read it, but my sister-in-law read it for school, and thought it was really good. It makes me sort of nervous now hearing you folks say things like that...
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its not good fiction nor is it really fiction, imo. But more importantly, it advocates an extreme individualism that is definitely at odds with the Catholic faith.

Edited August 18, 2011 by Amppax

[MissScripture]

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1313636222' post='2290360']

its not good fiction (its not really fiction, imo). But more importantly, it advocates an extreme individualism that is definitely at odds with the Catholic faith.
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Oh. Great. Just the sort of thing I want my sister-in-law liking. (She's still in high school. I feel protective of her, but really have no way of actually doing that)

[Amppax]

[quote name='MissScripture' timestamp='1313636392' post='2290361']
Oh. Great. Just the sort of thing I want my sister-in-law liking. (She's still in high school. I feel protective of her, but really have no way of actually doing that)
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she read that for school in high school? wow i'm shocked that a teacher assigned that (mainly considering its length)

Edited August 18, 2011 by Amppax

[MissScripture]

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1313636650' post='2290363']

she read that for school in high school? wow i'm 1) shocked that a teacher assigned that (mainly considering its length) 2) shocked that she read it all.
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Yeah, I am pretty sure it was required reading over the summer.

[Amppax]

Its basically a philosophical work, expounding Rand's extreme philosophy of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)"]Objectivism[/url].