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Some of my favorites along the way:
Milan Kundera - The Joke, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Hemingway - just about everything. My favorite is probably For Whom the Bell Tolls
Steinbeck - about anything he wrote (though I haven't read everything yet)
Ghandi's autobiography
The Remains of the day (excellent, excellent subtly poignant book)
The THings they Carried by Tim O'Brien (excellent series of related short stories about the Vietnam War)
poetry by Charles Bukowski (even if you never really like poetry you might like this stuff)
Just for starters.
and just to prove I'm human, the book that I haven't read since the 5th grade, that made me cry: WHere the Red Fern Grows
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Interesting. But I wouldn't call these classic page turners. Would you? Some of them I'd have to work to get through. That's me, though. |
More like "some of my favorite books."
Let's see, books that I couldn't put down. "the Godfather" by Puzo. Of course that might have been because I was a hormone-laden high school junior at the time. More recently "Davinci Code" I read pretty much straight through.
Non-fiction humor, read "Spook". Author's investigation of the science of proving the existence of an afterlife. Fun read. |
I edited my post while you were responding to it.
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