Required reading for being a person

[holly_evolving]

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.