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    Mark Twain- Tom & Huck. Also "The Innocents Abroad"
    Joseph Wambaugh- "The Choirboys"
    W.E.B. Griffin- "The Corps" series

    That's as of today.

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    "Novels"
    1. China Mieville--The Scar
    2. Charlie Huston--Six Bad Things
    3. Terry Pratchett--Night Watch

    Non-Fiction
    1. John Stuart Mill--On Liberty
    2. Howard Zinn--A People's History of the United States
    3. Al Franken--Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

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    1. Rand is an excellent choice.
    2. Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
    3. Cervantes: Don Quixote

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    Quote Originally Posted by Freud View Post
    1. Rand is an excellent choice.
    2. Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
    3. Cervantes: Don Quixote

    Hemingway - alcoholic misogynist pig.... God I love him too.

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    1. Jerzy Kosinski - The Painted Bird
    2. Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
    3. George Orwell - 1984

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    Chuck Palahniuk, everything that he has published but Choke and
    Rant stand out for me.

    Katherin Dunn, Geek love (my favorite book of all time)

    Hunter S. Thompson, Hells Angles.

    There are more but its late and I'm sleepy.

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    Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

    Raymond Chandler's novels

    Conan Doyle's Complete Sherlock Holmes which I've read and re-read for my whole life .... same with the two above choices.

    I'm almost finished with Don Quixote now. At the part where Sancho has become governor of the island.

    Mark Twain, Jack London, M R James and HP Lovecraft... Agatha Christie spins a good yarn. Nothing terribly intellectual or with a political ax to grind.
    Be careful how you treat people on your way up, you may meet them again on your way back down.

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    Thomas Pynchon - Vineland (can't wait to read his new one Inherent Vice)
    Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
    Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian

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    1. Renaldo Arenas "Before Night Falls" (not the movie)
    2. Emile Zola "Germinal"
    3. Thomas Pynchon " The Crying of Lot 49"


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    Cool My favourites:

    Count of Monte Cristo- Alexander Dumas
    Any book written by Stephen King, However I would heavily recommend my Top 10 by him which would be the 7 book Dark Tower Series- Vastly superior to any other huge series imho and puts dumb books like Harry Potter and that of whom will not be named ( well i guess i have to now.....) Twilight series in their graves were they belong, Firestarter which was the first Stephen King book i ever read so it warrants a lifelong position in my favorites and finally The Stand: Complete and Uncut edition.

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