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Originally Posted by jorgelito
What's wrong with Ayn Rand?
Wait, you only got a library card now?
Anyways, in the "Read Any Good Books Lately" thread there are tons of great recommendations. Go check it out over there or maybe we can merge threads. I don't want to have to relist all the good reads over here.
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I live with two Ayn Rand fans, so I've had plenty of recommendations in regards to her. Any time something remotely Randish comes up, I get the "You should read [insert
Atlas Shrugged or
The Fountainhead here]." I'll get to it, really I will--but my boyfriend has to read
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh,
The Living End by Stanley Elkin, and
White Noise by Don DeLillo first.
As for not having a library card--I just graduated with an English degree. I haven't had a lot of spare time to read literary works for pleasure, cheap romance novels sure, but not more serious things. I had the university library when I needed it, and it's fairly comprehensive when it comes to reading the canon. But I'd like a glimpse outside of that canon. Plus, I'm a complete book whore, but now that I'm poor, I'm not able to buy books outright like I once did.