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Books that make you think

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Canuker
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I need to pic a book for a independent study in my grade 12 english class. It has to be fiction and critically acclaimed.

I need serious help choosing one! I want to get a book that makes you think about shit. things like religion, society, culture, media, governmant. Ultimately a book that makes you look into things. I was wondering if anyone has any reccomendations.

Mar 23 2011 7:13PM
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TheReverend
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Look up the book "nothing in this book is true, but it's exactly how things are". And all other books by that author, I forgot his name. It's all awesome crazy spiritual stuff.
Mar 23 2011 7:25PM
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Afeld
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everybody poops
Mar 23 2011 7:25PM
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Blurst
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What is the nature of the essay?

Seeing as I just completed the same course (also live in ontario). Is it comparative to shakespeare or another required novel? Or is it just read a book and write an essay about something?
Mar 23 2011 7:27PM
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Canuker
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its not just an essay, we have to look at the book from different point of views, compare it to another book, talk about issue's it adress's amnd a bunch of shit. Its worht 20% of our mark
Mar 23 2011 7:29PM
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alpine_pow
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"Sometimes a Great Notion"

Ken Kesey
Mar 23 2011 7:31PM
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low_fidelity
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We-Yevgeny Zamyatin
Mar 23 2011 8:45PM
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Smuffy
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Catch 22-Joseph Heller

Slaughterhouse 5- Kurt Vonnegut

both are fictional histories, and awesome reads. slaughterhouse 5 is really short too hahaha
Mar 23 2011 8:48PM
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ORDEAL
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In the First Circle by aleksandr solzhenitsyn
serious shit
Mar 23 2011 8:50PM
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Gameboy
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Stephen Hawking is your man
Mar 23 2011 9:27PM
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Blurst
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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood is one that certainly will make you take a look at some stuff.
Mar 23 2011 9:31PM
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Flying~Squirrel
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without any doubt, debate, or argument, your book is
























fight club.
Mar 23 2011 9:31PM
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skiminnesota
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Atlas Shrugged.

without a doubt
Mar 23 2011 9:32PM
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Lucas.B
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cat in the hat
Mar 23 2011 9:34PM
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.newman.
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Where men win glory. Great book about pat tillman, a football player who gave up everything to fight for the us in iraq.
Mar 23 2011 9:37PM
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