“You'll never find a dead Christian in a foxhole who didn't pray.”
Eyes – Gray
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Seeking a man, 18 to 25
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway“I thought I hated Hemingway because I'd only read The Old Man and the Sea. Fell in love with this book after 20 pages.”
No Exit and Three Other Plays
Jean-Paul Sartre“Because plays about Hell are always more fun, especially when written by an atheist.”
Catch-22
Joseph Heller“Wait, an absurdist book that's fun to read and doesn't bore you to death with meaningless abstraction and stupid monologues?”
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath“Because sometimes there ARE good female authors, even if they're a little insane. The story and the style resonated when I was in high school”
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley“I've kind of always had this perverse desire to live under a totalitarian dictatorship just so I could romantically join the resistance movement and stage a revolution.”
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré“I'd blame it on the generational thing, but I really just adore this series. I was so disappointed when I didn't get my letter by owl inviting me to Hogwarts.”
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain, M. Thomas Inge, Daniel Carter Beard“I would go back in time just to fall in love with Mark Twain in real life, instead of a century after his death.”
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard“This is like the good version of Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." The characters are more endearing but still very shallow, the message is similar, and it flips one of the greatest works of...” more »
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas père, Robin Buss“Teaches you about poison, revenge, hallucinogens, and sex. The perfect adventure story.”
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.“They need to make a movie out of this, for real. It's freaking awesome science fiction, which practically never happens.”
You Shall Know Our Velocity
Dave Eggers“Heart-wrenching and a little confusing, but mostly just damn good.”
