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AngryBlacksmith
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 Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:23 pm Post subject: Favourite Book(s)? |
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I used to read at least one book a week, but lately I've been having trouble finding books that interest me, so what is/are your favourite book(s)?
My favourite varies depending on which I have read most recently...
A Farewell To Arms-Hemingway
Slaughter House Five- Vonnegut
And a mention to "The Great Brain" by John D. Fitzgerald, by far my favourite series as a kid.
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Sister Golden Hair
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Here are a few across the board:
Nixon Agionistes by Garry Wills.
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Chaneysville Incident - David Bradley
Dune - Frank Herbert
Ubik - Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
Miami Blues - Charles Willeford
City Primeval -- Elmore leonard |
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| I like ray bradbury books. Recently im getting into cormac mccarthy books, tho i usually read "old" books such as the divine comedy, the stranger, the idiot ect ect. |
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| Just re-read Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan for about the fourth time. One of my favs. |
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| I love David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. I love King Arthur books as well. I highly recommend the Pendragon Cycle by Stephen Lawhead. |
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| Contact - Carl Sagan |
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| Albert Camus's. Murakami's novels are pretty decent. |
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Foucalt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon |
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flowers for algernon
the kite runner
dogeaters |
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Phil Jackson "The Last Season" 
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| Stephen Baxter - The Time Ships |
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| Watchmen - Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons |
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| Loved all of Frank Herbert's Dune Series----Hated all the movie attempts...when I get rich I'm gonna do those books some justice |
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Anything written by Jim Butcher, Megan Whalen Turner, or Lois McMaster Bujold. Those are more scifi/fantasy bent.
For regular fiction Life of Pi and the Kiterunner were excellent. As was Steigg Larsons GwaDT series.
Nonfiction 1776, (bleep) my dad says, and Malcolm X. |
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Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson
The Boys of Summer by Roger Khan |
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2012-2013 Los Angeles Lakers program.
In all seriousness though, Come As You Are: The Nirvana story by Michael Azerrad. |
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| Captain Underpants 5: Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman |
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| Stephen Ambrose - Band of Brothers |
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| boys in the boat |
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East of Eden (Steinbeck)
Notes from Underground (Dostoyevsky)
Last Night in Montreal (St John Mandel)
City of Thieves (Benioff) |
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