Literary works that every aspie should read...

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Thank you! Muchly agreed. In fact, everyone should read that book. Here's some more:

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez.

The Idiot, Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment is good to.

Catch 22. Seriously, just read it.
'You're paranoid.'
'I'm not paranoid, thousands of people I don't know are trying to kill me!'
'We're at war.'
'Yeah, and I don't want to die.'
Yossarian is the best character ever, seriously.

Anything and everything by Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams.

Although, most of the books I mentioned are pretty daunting, so if you don't read much, don't go for One Hundred Years of Solitude, because it might well take you a hundred years.

titus andronicus - Shakespeare
The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy- Douglas Adams
Know It all- A.J. Jacobs
The gold Scarab, Berniece- short stories by Edgar Allen Poe

I've been watching the Jane Austen Masterpiece Classic movies a lot lately on PBS...very chick flick I suppose, but I'm a sucker for period pieces. Very interesting to see how different their cultures were, how they interacted socially.

Is Hitchhiker's Guide really worth reading? I enjoyed the TV series and the radio drama, but I can imagine trying to read the book would be like playing Space Quest or Monkey Island without voice acting =/ Maybe that's just me.

From an autistic point of view, I felt I could relate very strongly to Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. Very, very detail oriented, Graham almost seems to be on the spectrum himself. The rest of the series is really good, too (except for Hannibal Rising), you see the phrase "hard to put down, a real page turner" on the backs of books all the time, but these books actually did that to me. I suspect it's because of the Arabian Nights effect, where each chapter leaves you at a cliffhanger, wondering what will happen next (even if you've seen the movies).

=)

When I first started reading him, I wished that he wrote novel-length stories. Now I'm stumbling through The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and regretting that wish It's interesting I suppose, but very plodding...I'd like to get past the huge history recollection and jump into the interesting parts. I usually just skim past those bits, but this one goes on and on.

Eventually I'll get through it ¬_¬

Lovecraft (I am a fan) wrote aspie cautionary tales, I think. Most of his stories are about monomaniacal intellectuals (aspies?) who take their obsession too far and uncover things never meant to be known by man.

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Is Hitchhiker's Guide really worth reading? I enjoyed the TV series and the radio drama, but I can imagine trying to read the book would be like playing Space Quest or Monkey Island without voice acting =/ Maybe that's just me.


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Heresy,
Of cousre I am only slightly biased . Seriously the book is a great read, his other writing is good but I dont think it quite reaches the same level

Hey can someone show me how to quote paragraphs PLEASE

Nadine Gordimer absolutely for insights into "neurotypical racism".

and Henrik Ibsen for the solution.

F-ing loved this book. Am gonna read it when I get home tonight. Can't believe I've held onto it for so long. Thanks for bringing it up.

The curious incident of the dog in the nightime.

Is this related to the video games? The Secret of Monkey Island etc.

Guybrush Threepwood is the main character.

The Revolution: a Manifesto by Ron Paul.

This book explained so much to me about NT society.

Is that the former Republican candidate for president in the US?

My short list of great writers topic

Elie Wiesel
Salinger (mentioned)
Kafka (mentioned)
Sartre (mentioned)
Gogol
Solzhenitsyn (just passed away at age 89)
Kierkegaard
Donna Williams
Alice Munroe
Al Purdy
Nietszche

Edit Jack Kerouac (for Aspies into Zen-like writers)

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Night taught me empathy.

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This is with BBCode disabled. With it enabled it quotes properly. Try it.

Elie empathy topic

I concur.

Book? I was talking about the videogame series by LucasArts.