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Old 01-06-08, 02:18 AM
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R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms series featuring Drizzt Do'Urden.
Old 01-06-08, 09:15 AM
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Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It is the 1st part of a 4part series - all are well worth reading. The first book is being told as a framework-series (like the Canterbury tales), and I loved every minute of it. YMMV of course.
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Old 01-09-08, 09:05 PM
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Good, because that was going to be my next book store purchase.
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Fiction: The Jungle -- Upton Sinclair

Non-Fiction: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded -- Simon Winchester

Biography: Alexendar Hamilton -- Ron Chernow
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Catcher In the Rye

Old 01-10-08, 06:59 PM
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I'll chime in with Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Reason Why. Best history book I've ever read...by far.
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
Fiction: The Jungle -- Upton Sinclair

Non-Fiction: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded -- Simon Winchester

Biography: Alexendar Hamilton -- Ron Chernow
i thought the jungle was non-fiction?
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^--The Jungle is a book about fictional characters

Shogun for me
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Originally Posted by TimeandTide
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Loved this as well, but damn it doesnt get much more depressing...

I would have to say Memoirs of a Geisha.
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The Diamond Age, or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Just because I recently read it... The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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You need to read more books.
Hey now, the Bible is 66 of the best in one convenient package!


For me, the one book that I keep coming back to for the past 30 years is Watership Down.
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Neuromancer - William Gibson
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Baudolino, Umberto Eco
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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
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I'm going to go with The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. It's a story about a boy who grows up in South Africa during WWII, and the effects of the apartheid. It made a huge impression on me when I first read it long ago, and still enjoy it decades later.



And thanks, I added Replay to my Amazon wishlist...

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