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moogoob:
1. The Diamond Age or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
Nanotech, Victorians, and a strangely believable vision of humanity in eighty years from now. It's also being made into a miniseries, though I don't know whether that's good or bad.

2. Dune by Frank Herbert
I mean, come on. :D

3. Battlefield: Earth by L. Ron "Scientology" Hubbard
For teaching me how tastes in books can change over so few years. I used to love this book... now I cringe whenever I look at it.

4.Cryptonomicon... errr, well, ANY book by Neal Stephenson
Sure it takes him years between books, but his stuff is uniformly awesome. Diamond age (above) is still my favourite, but Cryptonomicon's a close second. "Fractally Detailed" is how I'd describe it. A book you can get lost in, and it's not even fantasy.

5. Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
Usually his (somewhat preachy) SF stories tend to have atheistic aliens/Neanderthals/ghosts/etc. who think it funny that himans beleive in gods of any kind. In this book, he subverts his own trope by featuring a race of alien Theists on a galactic quest to search for god, and an atheistic human who befreinds one of them.

Anyways, my list.

Alarra:

--- Quote from: Valrus on 04 Feb 2007, 20:44 ---
5. Faith of the Fallen, by Terry Goodkind, for helping me realize that a series that I had once loved a lot had turned to shit, and therefore that I must have developed actual taste in literature somewhere along the way.

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Hear hear. Although I don't know that I'd say I loved the series a lot....However...I did read it through faith of the fallen, at which point I learned there was no coming back from the shit he just did and I'd be best off chucking the whole series and why was I reading this anyway? Didn't I give book 1 a bad review on amazon? And I still kept coming back? But I have never read a more preachy series and how the hell did it manage to gain massive popularity while stealing huge segments of other books almost word for word? *mutters*

Anyway....as for my own list....this will require a lot of thought. Can you go around again and come back to me?

magnanimusman:
1 the Great Gatsby: a shinning example of all we could and shouldn't be.  this one strikes close to home as I live on what was called west egg.
2 Animal Farm: an example not to be a sheep
3 Nichomachean Ethics: It is dense but it has essentially given me my morality
4 The Prince: Machiavelli is of utilitarian function: consider him as a tool and he has the potential to help one do great things.
5 A heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: no joke this  book taught me the value and potential of honesty.  Eggers might be a megalomaniac but he caught onto somthing.

eveisdawning:
Oh goodness. I don't know that I have five, but I do have some. Books play too important of a role in my life.

1) 1984, no doubt. It's amazing. I.. don't know what to say about it. Just, wow.
2) Ishmael - Daniel Quinn. It's an environmental book that really got me questioning the roots of our society, and how we came to act the way that we do toward the earth. Amazing book, and I highly recommend it.
3) The Catcher in the Rye - I know a lot of people hate this book, but I loved it. I read it in tenth grade and it was exactly what I needed.
4) A Midsummer Night's Dream - alright, so it's not a book, but it really, really got me into Shakespeare and reading in general. Everyone else I knew hated reading Shakespeare, and this play taught me that I, in fact, love it.
5) Ariel - Sylvia Plath- It's a book of poetry, and it probably wouldn't change anyone else's life, but it made me want to write poetry in high school, which was good for me. Got me through some rather tough years. I love Sylvia Plath to this day, she writes beautifully and with a unique and amazing style. I can't rave about her writing enough.

KID:
I really didn't like "A day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Just putting it out there.

anyways,
1) The Hitchhiker's trilogy. made me think quite a bit.

2) THe Hobbit. It made me read a lot.

3) Catch-22. Also made me think.

4) Flyboy: Action Figure Comes With Gasmask. Just because.

5) Magic: The Gathering: Time Spiral. Reminded me of my theory on time, which consistently keeps me up all night thinking. It ether confuses you or explodes your mind.

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