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12-08-2007, 10:33 PM
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Kurt Vonnegut, Barbara Kingsolver, Isabel Allende, Ken Kesey, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russel, Tolstoy, Dosteyevsky- particularly his Grand Inquisiter chapter in the Brothers Karamatsov, Amitov Ghosh,Jorge Amado, The Peoples' History of the U.S., Tom Robins, .....
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12-09-2007, 07:01 PM
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I would think that even if you don't agree with her ideas you'd still be able to enjoy her books. I like 'em anyways.
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Ehhh, I'm certainly biased, but I just genuinely don't enjoy them. Everything is so two-dimensional and melodramatic...
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Kurt Vonnegut, Barbara Kingsolver, Isabel Allende, Ken Kesey, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russel, Tolstoy, Dosteyevsky- particularly his Grand Inquisiter chapter in the Brothers Karamatsov, Amitov Ghosh,Jorge Amado, The Peoples' History of the U.S., Tom Robins, .....
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Good man! How could I leave Bertrand Russell off my list (especially considering he's in my sig!)? Russell is amazing, Vonnegut is amazing, Kesey is amazing, and you're spot on about 'The Grand Inquisitor'... I'm inclined to agree with Freud in calling it one of the peaks of world literature.
As for the others (Tolstoy included  ), I'm afraid I haven't read them. Kingsolver is an alumnus of my school, though  |
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12-10-2007, 08:46 AM
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Which one(s) did you read?
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12-10-2007, 04:39 PM
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Dean Koontz
Piers Anthony
David Eddings
Richard Laymon
John Saul
Terry Goodkind
James Rollins
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12-23-2007, 04:37 PM
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John McPhee
William E. Brown
Richard K. Nelson
Bob Woodward
Jeff Shaara
Richard Heinberg
Joe McGinnis
Khaled Hosseini
Richard L. Proenneke
The list is not exhaustive, but the above are those that readily come to mind.
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12-24-2007, 03:07 PM
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Feast of the Goat is a good historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa about the Dominican Republic. He also wrote a good one about Brazil, and of course a lot about his native Peru, where he even ran for president against Fujimori, who is now being prosecuted, and wrote about it, for me, a dissapointing book Imagining Argentina by ~Lawrence Thornton is a haunting look at the Dirty War in Argentina. Another entertaining Graham Greene book is Travels with My Aunt, which ends up in Paraguay, a little known country where the major industry is contraband, and it continues- a recent president was busted for having a stolen BMW. High priced cars can be bought cheap with good looking papers there I'm told. Ciudad del Este is a wild smuglers town close by the spectacular Iqua Azu waterfalls and the Argentine and Brazilian borders, where the tourist facilities are. Get your pirated stuff cheap in Ciadad del Este.
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12-24-2007, 03:32 PM
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Oh yes, The news from Paraguay- a recent great read about some of Paraguay's interesting history
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12-31-2007, 11:05 PM
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12-31-2007, 11:09 PM
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Dean Koontz
Stephen King
Whitley Strieber
H.G. Wells
any of the "See Spot run" books
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01-01-2008, 03:05 AM
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Isaac Asimov, His foundation series is wonderful, The recent Movie adaptations of his books, Like I, robot are decent movies, but a stretch from the originals,Clifford Simak Is a good one too, Read the werewolf principle if you get a chance
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