Re: A lifetime of must reads
Anyone reading The God Delusion should also read something like Schleiermacher's On Religion or Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments, Either/Or, any of that.
Brothers Karamazov for sure. Also The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy was awesome and it's a short story so you can read it in a day no problem.
Farewell to Arms is a good call but I liked All Quiet on the Western Front better though it wouldn't take too long to just read both.
Vonnegut I really liked God bless you Mr. Rosewater, though Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five are both awesome. I wasn't a huge fan of Breakfast of Champions, though you could read it in a day easily. Any recommendations for other vonnegut?
Also I'm really interested in Russian literature besides the classics Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn.
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