A lifetime of must reads

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Gödel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

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i also read this when i was fifteen and was also like "whooooah dude that is fkin awesome" [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Very fun & mind-expanding, kinda like drugs at that age....

some personal favs, with a distinct literary fantasy/scifi bent:
The Name of the Rose / Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
If This Is a Man/The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
The Once & Future King - TH White
Narcissus and Goldmund - Herman Hesse
Gormenghast series - Mervyn Peake
Don Quixote - Edith Grossmann translation
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley