What are great books for boys?

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SHOwnsYou · Sep 24, 2010
How to Win Friends and Influence People is great. It changed a lot for me.
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spydez · Sep 24, 2010
Also H2G2.
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ashleyreddy · Sep 24, 2010
Also Enders Game (fiction)
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ashleyreddy · Sep 24, 2010
Surely your joking Mr. Feynman. This should be required reading for people in this thing of ours.
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tokenadult · Sep 24, 2010
I didn't finish Orwell's 1984
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spydez · Sep 24, 2010
My favorite book as a kid was Lord of the Rings, so I'll recommend that.
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kapilkaisare · Sep 24, 2010
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas : An awesome closeup of revenge
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Willwhatley · Sep 24, 2010
The Book of Five Rings, The Art of War, etc.
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kapilkaisare · Sep 24, 2010
Cosmos - Carl Sagan : I fell in love with science post-reading this book.
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Willwhatley · Sep 24, 2010
The Book of Five Rings, The Art of War, etc.
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Willwhatley · Sep 24, 2010
why not the Narnia books? I loved them
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Willwhatley · Sep 24, 2010
Alice in Wonderland iff still young enough not to think girls are gross.
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