The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

[Anonymouse]

To the list requires an update of books that one should own. I found the reading material for one of my classes to be very interesting, and had a theme running throughout all the books. I highly recommend them.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
-Beyond Good and Evil
-The Gay Science
-On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
-Human, All Too Human Human
Man and Superman by Bernard Shaw
The Dehumanization of Art (essay) by Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
Civilization and It's Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
-Discipline and Punish
-The Order of Things
-The History of Sexuality
One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

[CatWoman]

Currently I'm reading:

-"The Caucasian Knot" about Nagorno Karabakh
-Angelina Jolie's "Notes From My Travels" about her visits with refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan, and Ecuador.... very touching stories

Great books.... I just don't have time to finish 'em with all these school work and this forum isn't really helping lol.

[Anonymouse]

Currently I'm reading:

-"The Caucasian Knot" about Nagorno Karabakh
-Angelina Jolie's "Notes From My Travels" about her visits with refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan, and Ecuador.... very touching stories

Great books.... I just don't have time to finish 'em with all these school work and this forum isn't really helping lol.

One is definitely a celebrity worshiper if you read Angelina Jolie.

[tunot]

Re: The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

Next to everything else that is good for the brain and you enjoy reading, I'm actually surprised that no one has posted an Armenian literary author. As Armenians we should care not to neglect our own authors. There really are some great names out there that are absolutely worth reading if you like fiction. Here's a short list of some of our classic authors. (NOTE: some of them have been translated to English so you have no excuse!):

Gostan Zarian
Hagop Baronian
Yervant Odian
Aksel Bakounts
Khachatur Abovian
Yeghishe Charents
Zabel Yessayan
William Saroyan
Michael Arlen
Raffi
Derenik Demirchian
Shahan Shahnour
Arthur Adamov
Hovhannes Toumanian
Avetik Isahakian
Vahan Totovents

And many, many more. I'd like to hear more from you!

[Anonymouse]

Re: The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

Next to everything else that is good for the brain and you enjoy reading, I'm actually surprised that no one has posted an Armenian literary author. As Armenians we should care not to neglect our own authors. There really are some great names out there that are absolutely worth reading if you like fiction. Here's a short list of some of our classic authors. (NOTE: some of them have been translated to English so you have no excuse!):

Gostan Zarian
Hagop Baronian
Yervant Odian
Aksel Bakounts
Khachatur Abovian
Yeghishe Charents
Zabel Yessayan
William Saroyan
Michael Arlen
Raffi
Derenik Demirchian
Shahan Shahnour
Arthur Adamov
Hovhannes Toumanian
Avetik Isahakian
Vahan Totovents

And many, many more. I'd like to hear more from you!

Thanks for that. Note that I have read Toumanian, as well as Sevak and Shiraz, and Saroyan. I have heard alot of Zarian and would like to make some time to read his stuff as it has interested me for quite a while.

[transience]

Re: The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

Mikael Nalbandian

[tunot]

Re: The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

You'll like Zarian, Mouse.

Nalbandian is a classic as well!

[Quarteria]

Re: The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

The Cloning of the American Mind -- B. K. Eakman (Mouse, I REALLY think you should read this)

All of Denis Miller's "Rant" books

Borstal Boy -- Brendan Behan.

[Anahita]

Re: The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

The Tao of Physics: An exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism Capra, F. {1975/…2000}

REALLY good read...
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[transience]

Re: The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

You're only happy when it's complicated.