Some Recommendations

[Tomodachi69]

I'd like to read a book that's deep, philosophical, and offers alternate views on everyday ideas.

Know of any?

There's one about a wallflower, but the name escapes me :/

[07Janina07]

Ok.

If you haven't read this one may be One hundred years of Solutideby Nobel Prize Winner Columbian Author Gabriel Marquex Garcia.

Very good, filled with awesomeness!

[cavisze]

Well, there is the cult-classic Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. As long as you don't take her messages too seriously, the themes are straight to the point and thought provoking.

[Ileenka]

I know this is 2 months late.

But if you're still looking - I think - you might mean, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

If not, you might like this other book which put me to sleep (if you hadn't read it already).

Different people have different tastes, after all.

Sophie's World by Jostein Gardner

[beautiful_death]

"The History of Sexuality" by Michel Foucault. He's a great theorist on power and sexuality. Or "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Friderich Nietzsche, if you really want to get into philosophy.

[earthforge]

Escape Velocity by Christopher Stasheff. Great book for fantasy lovers as well as science-fiction lovers.

Also, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The movies all suck but the book is amazing.

[cornflakes]

There's one about a wallflower, but the name escapes me :/
Don't think it's what you're looking for, but The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an atmospheric short story about a woman who loses her mind. Powerful stuff.

Otherwise, try The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Samoza. It's supposed to be an ancient Athenian text with translator's footnotes. The text is ostensibly about the murder of an Athenian youth, but there's also a whole hidden layer conveyed by repeated symbolisms and imagery (called 'eidesis'). A story also unfolds in the translator's footnotes. In all, there are some five parallel stories in the book, all hidden but two. Pretty interesting book.

[Tomodachi69]

I know this is 2 months late.

But if you're still looking - I think - you might mean, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

If not, you might like this other book which put me to sleep (if you hadn't read it already).

Different people have different tastes, after all.

Sophie's World by Jostein Gardner

Yes, I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower a short while ago after FINALLY finding it at Borders. Interesting book, I enjoyed it a lot. Are there any more like it, besides The Diary of Anne Frank?

Escape Velocity by Christopher Stasheff. Great book for fantasy lovers as well as science-fiction lovers.

Also, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The movies all suck but the book is amazing.

Read Frankenstein a few years back. I agree, the book is amazing and no adaptation of the character, let alone the book, have done the original justice at all.

Don't think it's what you're looking for, but The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an atmospheric short story about a woman who loses her mind. Powerful stuff.

Otherwise, try The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Samoza. It's supposed to be an ancient Athenian text with translator's footnotes. The text is ostensibly about the murder of an Athenian youth, but there's also a whole hidden layer conveyed by repeated symbolisms and imagery (called 'eidesis'). A story also unfolds in the translator's footnotes. In all, there are some five parallel stories in the book, all hidden but two. Pretty interesting book.

The Yellow Wallflower is weird. I analyzed that short story for 2 weeks in English Lang/Composition AP last year. Iiiinteresting stuff with lots of creepy, intriguing, and though-provoking interpretations of basically every detail. Thanks for the recommendation, btw :]

Also, late thanks and reply to everyone who responded XD

I'll be sure to check out the books everyone recommended:
One hundred years of Solutide (solitude?) - Gabriel Marquex Garcia
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand.
Sophie's World - Jostein Gardner
The History of Sexuality - Michel Foucault
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friderich Nietzsche (ooh, nietzsche, i'll def check this one out)
Escape Velocity - Christopher Stasheff
The Athenian Murders - Jose Carlos Samoza

[beautiful_death]

Oh, and I forgot to add "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. It's a novella that's a subversive critique on morals and good vs. evil. And it's wayyyyy better than the movie.