Thought-Provoking Books

[Teiflin]

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Thought-provoking? Definitely "The Giver" by Lois Lowry.

Makes you wonder if extremely peaceful and cooperative lives are really that desirable.

[b|tcH_g0dd3sS]

Aside from 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Milan Kundera.
I would have to say another from him would be 'Identity'

then there's Spin by Robert Charles Wilson... and from that book i got this line "dreams are metaphors gone feral"

[krapzamber]

wow, daghana diay basahunon ui!! kinsa makapaus og alchemist, nahan ko mubasa... plsss.

[makatasawi]

leopold von sacher masoch - venus in furs

nagbarong akng balhibu human nakog basa.

[dwardwarbinx]

Jonathan Livingston Seagull is really, really good IMO.

sorta changed my life. hehe

[makatasawi]

heres another one...
one of the chilling things this ive read re this book says:

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"

[Stargirl]

DUNE by Frank Herbert - payter kaayo! makapa-dagan2x ug lit theories sa akong mind!
Quote: "I shall not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli - young adult book. But every reading brings new things to ponder on. Magical pa jud kaayo ang book.

Fragrant Palm Leaves by Thich Nhat Hanh - Buddhist stuff. Very calming and inspiring.

[absinthe]

Aside from 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Milan Kundera.
I would have to say another from him would be 'Identity'

then there's Spin by Robert Charles Wilson... and from that book i got this line "dreams are metaphors gone feral"

i like that quote too. and when all the stars suddenly died out, it gave me chills. the sequel, Axis, is thought-provoking as well.

[absinthe]

'It is a banana, madam,' said the rogue.
A banana? What on God's good earth was a banana?
'Such a thing never grew in Paradise,' I said.
'Indeed it did, madam,' says he, all puffed up like a poison adder. 'This fruit is from the Island of Bermuda, which is closer to Paradise than you will ever be.'
He lifted it up above his head, and the crowd, seeing it for the first time, roared and nudged each other and demanded to know what poor fool had been so reduced as to sell his vitality.
'It's either painted or infected,' said I, 'for there's none such a colour that I know.'
Johnson shouted above the din as best he could...
'THIS IS NOT SOME UNFORTUNATE'S RAKE. IT IS THE FRUIT OF A TREE. IT IS TO BE PEELED AND EATEN.'
At this there was unanimous retching. There was no good woman could put that to her mouth, and for a man it was the practice of cannibals. We had not gone to church all these years and been washed in the blood of Jesus only to eat ourselves up the way the Heathen do.
- Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Siddharta - Herman Hesse
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffeneger

and, The Bible - various authors

[teagirl]

ANTHEM - Ayn Rand

THE ART OF WAR - Sun Tzu

THE CHOICE - Og Mandino

THE LITTLE PRINCE - Antoine de St. Exupery

THE ROBE - Lloyd C. Douglas

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS - Khaled Hosseini

THE DIVINE COMEDY - Dante Alighieri

THE PROPHET - Kahlil Gibran

THE RED TENT - Anita Diamant

THERESE RAQUIN - Emile Zola

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - Fyodor Dostoevsky