Required reading for being a person

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Any additions to this list are welcome. I will do my best to edit/update anything that gets commented here, as well as adding more when I think of it. People who can't post to my LJ are welcome to email me.

-Heinlein. The Lazarus Long books and Job.
-Gaiman. The Sandman series, available in graphic novel form.
-The Red Tent. author currently escapes my memory.
-Hurston. Their Eyes Were Watching God.
-Burnett. A Little Princess.

Comments

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Heinlein: Stranger.
Spider Robinson, Callahans, lady Sally's and Deathkiller series.
The Tao of Pooh& Te of Piglet
Zen and the art of Mortorcycle Maintenence
The Koran & the Torah. (you can skip the bible it is too corrupted by Imperial Rome et. Al. Though the King James is REALLY pretty)
Thoreau Walden and Civil Disobedience
JS Mill Utilitarianism
Plato The REpublic
Sir Thomas Moore Utopia
RAH (again, and specifically for americans) For Us, The Living (The Masters Utopia)

Re: oooo....

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I really wasn't a fan of the Te of Piglet. It felt to me like Hoff was getting political and angry--railing against injustice...which strikes me as not very Taoist. It was kind of disconcerting for me. Tao of Pooh rocked my hundred-acre wood, though.

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-Gaiman. The Sandman series, available in graphic novel form

What if you didn't like this stuff? Does that make you not a person?

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Of course you're still a person. It was just a silly title...

But you're a demon, not a person. And that's a whole other story.

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Fair enough ...

some more from the Shining Brow

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The Mabinosian (Sp?)
anything by Morgan Llewellyn... "druids" "Lion of Ireland" "1914" "Red Branch" "Finn McCool" teach you alot about proper leadership, and the relationship between legend and reality.

Ann Marsden's books, an excellent fantasy Ireland and Scotland.

"Kings peace" and "kings Law" a reimagining of arthur with the old gods added in equal power...

"Firelord" by parke goodwin... an excellent arthur tale set with a good grasp of rome... much like the movie coming out...

(I am a lending library to those who make it to my house...)

"how the irish saved civilization" and "sun Dancing" speculative history about early christian monks and historical studys

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Let's add Bedlam's Bard. Although the author escapes me.

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misty (mercades) lackey... thou i would reccomend her "last herald mage" series if anything, her urban fantasys are great (bedlams bard being one of them) but Vanyel is the first Gay Fantasy Character... and handled quite well i might say

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Adding more Gaiman. Collaboration with Terry Brooks on Good Omens.

Also the Dawn graphic novel series.