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jolly_magpie
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19 Mar 2007, 12:40 am

Off the top of my head,

Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
The Collapsium - Wil McCarthy
Stalingrad - Anthony Beevor


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19 Mar 2007, 9:18 am

The Book of the Five Rings - Musashi Miyamoto
Bushido the Soul of Japan - Inazo Nitobe
The Shining - Stephen King
Needful Things - Stephen King
Dreamcatcher - Stephen King



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19 Mar 2007, 1:42 pm

Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov



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19 Mar 2007, 2:15 pm

I'm disappointed no one has listed this book yet.

Being There by Jerzy Kosinski

One of the most fantastic books ever written, and something everyone here could probably relate to.



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19 Mar 2007, 6:01 pm

Quatermass wrote:
richie wrote:
"Atlas Shrugged","Anthem" by Ayn Rand
*"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
*"Dune" by Frank Herbert (The sequels and prequels are o.k.)
*"The Lord Of The Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
"The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
"Timescape" by Gregory Benford
"The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich" by William Shirer
"The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
"The Doors Of Perception" by Aldous Huxley (FYI: The 1960s group "The Doors" was named after this book)
"The Way Of The Sacred" by Francis Huxley


I've mentioned the first two asterisked books, and the third was mentioned earlier...


O :oops: PS!!
The books mentioned above are the ones that I read over and over.
I also have the 1953 edition of "The Britannica Great Books" all 54 volumes,
no home library should be without them. Also useful are the 10 volume
"Gateway To The Great Books"
The 11 volume "Story OF Civilization" by Will and Ariel Durant is a "must read".



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21 Mar 2007, 11:13 am

Life After God - Douglas Coupland



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21 Mar 2007, 4:37 pm

Cloud's Rider by C J Cherryh

I enjoyed this book. Humans and horses can talk to each other through telepathic thoughts and each human has a horse. Tranquil community but also shaken up due to evil causing a stir. And the evil is not what you'd expect.


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23 Mar 2007, 6:43 pm

American Gods- Neal Gaiman

The Stand- Stephen King

Too Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee

The Power of One- Bryce


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23 Mar 2007, 6:54 pm

A Confederacy of Dunces-- John Kennedy Toole