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<3 <3 <3 I LOVE YOU MARRY ME NOW. Seriously, I HATE Salinger and Catcher and I don't understand why everyone likes it so much. It's really god-awful prose. Also, I hate the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Hobbit (to a lesser extent), and ESPECIALLY the Silmarillion. Though, the last isn't...

She doesn't want Eastern European or vintage, gosh! Anyway, I despise Salinger, so I can't help you there...BUT, you can read A Clockwork Orange by Burgess. That's a combo of modern and vintage depression. And its funny.

I know how much you all love philosophy, so what are your favorites? What can you can recommend to people? What totally sucks and should be avoided always? I love David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (still plowing through it, but GOD ITS SO GOOD MY EYES ARE BLEEDING ARRG), so everyone...

Yup, maybe see Media Control before going into HorS. It's shorter and you can read it in a snap. Then, you must tell me what you think!! ;) “No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International Relations Since Machiavelli" <-- That sounds intriguing.

Blasphemy! Miss_Misery, don't listen to him, read Crime and Punishment. Even if you completely hate it (which I HIGHLY doubt), at least you'd have the satisfaction of knowing you read a world classic. Anyway, Catcher is one of my least favorite books. I mean WHY would anyone like Holden, he is...

Why won't you read biased works? That's like saying the middle road is the best one; it makes little sense. Anyway, if you can handle the biases of George Orwell, you can handle Noam Chomsky. Read Hegemony or Survival; it has some nice historical tidbits.

If you liked Rand, you might like Nietzsche. She's basically the female version of him, except ten times more obnoxious.

Daniel Keys' Flowers for Algernon, Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Llife of Ivan Denisovich, and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby are all really great and very easy reads.

You must read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, or if you're looking for something shorter, his Notes from the Underground. Both are absolutely fabulous and are about 94758379275637565^20 times better than The Catcher in the Rye.

"I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, I don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not being treated, and never have been, though I respect medicine and doctors. What's more, I'm also superstitious in...

Did you read William Faulkner: the Man and the Artist? That, I thought, was a great biography...but, it isn't like I have read too many biographies of him either. Anyway, The Sound and the Fury; just finished, loved it lots A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; excellent, so far The...