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Old 03-13-2008, 05:33 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Gilgamesh's Epic
Homer's Iliad
Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
Kleist's Penthesilea
Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
Wedekind's The Awakening of Springtime
Joyce's Ulysses
Miller's Sexus
Salinger's Franny & Zooey
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Old 03-20-2008, 03:07 PM   #42 (permalink)
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I liked George RR Martin
and John Grisham
and Orson Scott Card has always been good
many more if I ever remember
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Old 04-30-2008, 09:23 AM   #44 (permalink)
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Old 04-30-2008, 09:43 AM   #45 (permalink)
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I'm reading John Adams right now. It is my first book by McCullough and just from my reading so far I think I'll probably end up getting 1776 and maybe a few others. I definitely like him so far.
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Old 05-10-2008, 01:39 AM   #46 (permalink)
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Just read Freedom at Midnight. Great history. Amitov Gosh is a great Indian author, and The Glass Palace is about Burma. Larry McMurtry's trilogy The Last Picture Show, Texasville, and Duane's Depressed had my attention, and in a weird and disturbing way helped me better understand Bush2. For religion, my favorite is The Grand Inquisitor chapter of Dostoyevsky's, The Brothers Karamazov. Bangkok8 and Tatoo are a couple of Bangkok detective stories that are a must read for any interested in Thailand, which Tom Robbins has included in his latest couple of novels, along with beautiful Laos. Isabel Allende continues with good reads. Howard Zinn's The People's History of the United States is an interesting take on the thread of our history that I always like to keep in mind.
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Old 05-10-2008, 02:06 AM   #47 (permalink)
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Old 05-11-2008, 12:01 AM   #48 (permalink)
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George Bernard Shaw. He has extensive social commentaries, not just in the plays, but in his attached comments about them. I'm attempting to recall his play dealing with health care and doctors. A lot of what he says about misplaced incentives applies here {US} and now, but has already been corrected in Britain.
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I don't read a lot of fiction though. Stories don't usually entertain me as much as reality.
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Old 05-16-2008, 12:25 AM   #50 (permalink)
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Catfish and Mandela. About a young Vietnamese/American refugee who bicycles around Viet Nam and tells his story
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