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[fredznothere]

My Antonia - Willa Cather

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

Metamorphosis - Ovid

The Iliad - Homer

Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor

Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell

2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke

The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien

Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

As you can see I am on a bit of

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[anonymous]

WOOT! good job!

Recommendations:

Orson Scott Card, because he's one of my favorite authors- Ender's Game is amazing, if a little science-y. The Seventh Son is not so science-y, more fantasy-like. The underlying understanding of human nature is what gets me though.

Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison, because you just mentioned it, and I can still feel the warm salty oil sliding around my tongue from biting into a chunk of the most delicious description of yams ever.

I will give this more thought.

[preciouspudding]

I thought that you posted a book list, I should do the same, therefore telling you what I am reading and giving you recommendations of reading material all in one. Here it is:

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
A Briefer History of Time - Stephen Hawking
The Universe in a Single Atom - Dalai Lama
I Am America (And So Can You) - Stephen Colbert
A Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hasseini
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Wind Done Gone - Alice Randall
Rhett Bulter's People - Donald McCaig

These are all books I have either read excellent reviews of of have wanted to read for a while. It was actually a conincidence, I watched a movie with Dorian Gray in it and then wanted to read the book, added it to the list, and the next day you made a comment about reading it in this journal. Co-ink-i-dink. :)