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post #76 of 84
3/6/10 at 9:33pm
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Originally Posted by johangrb View Post
My picks:
1. 100 years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I usually read non-fiction, but 100 years of solitude is the best work of fiction I have read to date.
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post #77 of 84
3/6/10 at 9:41pm
1) Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead/Atlas Shrugged/We The Living. Take your pick. Also, I don't subscribe to that whole "OMG Atlas Shrugged is like what is like happening like right now," nonsense. It is just a damn fine book if you ask me.

2) Jane Austen - Emma

3) Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

4) Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov

5) Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop

It was difficult picking these as I have some other authors that I have thoroughly enjoyed in the past.
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post #78 of 84
3/7/10 at 2:49am
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Originally Posted by limpidglitch View Post

Aleister Crowley - Moonchild
Aleister Crowley, who'da thunk it! My favorite is "Magick in Theory & Practice" one of the great DIY books if you're interested. "Any act of will is an act of Magick!"

John Sanford - "Easy Prey"

Clive Cussler - "Inca Gold"

Eric Van Lustbader - "Ninja"

David Gemmell - "Morningstar"
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post #79 of 84
3/7/10 at 4:12am
  • Marcel Proust - All of In Search of Lost Time, but more specifically Swann's Way.
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
  • Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
  • Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Grey
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
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post #80 of 84
3/7/10 at 4:22pm
hardy
lawrence
joyce
beckett
bronte
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post #81 of 84
3/7/10 at 4:57pm
Samuel R. Delany - Dhalgren
Franz Kafka - The Castle
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
William Burroughs - Cities of the Red Night (trilogy)
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
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post #82 of 84
3/7/10 at 5:24pm
William Styron - Sophie's Choice
James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
J.D. Salinger - Portnoy's Complaint
Woody Allen - Without Feathers
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post #83 of 84
3/7/10 at 5:34pm
Great thread! So very hard to pick just five.

This entire thread makes a great reading list/reference.


Here's my top five, no order:

Kurt Vonnegut / Cats Cradle
Douglas Adams / Hitchhiker Series
Tom Robbins / Another Roadside Attraction
Robert Heinlin / Stranger In a Strange Land
Steven King / The Stand

Honerable Mention goes to:

Cormac McCarthy / The Road


PS: I subscribe to the "non-linear" time paradigm
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post #84 of 84
3/7/10 at 9:13pm
These deserve a mention;

Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum

Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose

Robinson Davies- any of his trilogies

These deserve another mention;

John Crowley - Little Big

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
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