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Four Books You Must Read Before We Get Nuked --- All 4 Books --- Advanced to Extremely Advanced Reading Comprehension

submitted by Jeff_Cajun_Year to books 2.9 years ago (+10/-0)     (books)

Using this thriftbooks links because.. it's not amazon .. etc..

In no particular order

Book 1
War and Peace. Difficulty Advanced
Great Book with lots of French character names to remember. You will be confused for about 200 pages then it takes off and gets really good. It's about war.. and then peace.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/war-and-peace-by-leo-tolstoy/261057/all-editions/?resultid=6ba90b18-670b-48aa-a641-cd16b460cfa7

Book 2
Les Miserables --- Ok not super hard to ready but it's long and has many
story lines.
Because it is fucking awesome. A must must read. Adventure and a look at the old days. Great book. Forget any movie you ever saw.. it's bullshit.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/les-misrables_victor-hugo/245959/all-editions/?resultid=93d49147-bfdc-4e5e-bc91-7ad54ac4cf62

Book 3
Cryptonomicon Difficulty -- Very Difficult.

This book is great, it has Action, Code breaking. Secret Nazi gold. More code breaking. Throw in some mathematics and some Alan Turing. And underground tunnel secret Nazi gold. So if you like Action Action Action with High level mathematics and Code breaking and more secret underground trapped hidden nazi gold.. this is the book.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/cryptonomicon_neal-stephenson/253851/all-editions/?resultid=b54a8785-4b75-4722-a8a4-239fbe29cea9

Book 4
The Sotweed Factor. Difficulty.. are you out of your fucking mind?

Huge book. Many many many pages. You want to remember characters? Try hundreds.
You will be confused for about 500 pages but then.. slowly you will become enlightened. Set back in the day of Dandy's and Fops . the new World of America is burgeoning.. A complete idiot who nobody likes gets sent to America to become the Poet Laureate of Maryland. They sent him there to get rid of him. He ends up selling tobacco. ( The Book Title is from Olde English. SOTWEED is what they used to call tobacco in the 1780s. Factor is what you call now a " middleman " ..ie. the happy merchant Buys tobacco then " Factors " in his profit , and resells it. So the title reads as such " The tobacco middleman " This Book is 100 percent fucking amazing. At the end it's one of those books you say.. Just fucking WOW.
If you make it to the end. First 500 pages you will struggle and plow through.. filing name in your head to be retrieved at a later date. By page 600 you will not be able to put it down. THIS BOOK IS FUNNIER THAN HELL ONCE YOU REALIZE WHAT IS GOING ON.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-sot-weed-factor_john-barth/288771/all-editions/?resultid=bc200432-c16c-4ed3-9af0-d14ab382a5a3

Every one of these books is The Best of the Best and I could not decide which I like more. You want a challenging read? Each one of these books you will be extremely happy you read it.

Enjoy.


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Stonkmar 0 points 2.8 years ago

Just wanted to let you know I went out and bought The Sot-Weed Factor specifically because of this post. I have about 150 pages to go and it is fantastic; thank you very much for the suggestion. It reminded me, in small part, of the book Middle Passage by Charles R. Johnson. Check it out if you haven't already. Thanks again.