BOOK REQUEST

Feb 02, 2006 13:46

TELL ME 3 BOOKS THAT YOU LOVE OR THAT CHANGED YOUR LIFE ( Read more... )

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anonymous February 2 2006, 20:21:50 UTC
i don't know about life changing, but:

Non-fiction:
Jane Jacobs - Death and Life of Great American Cities
Germaine Greer - The Female Eunuch
John Ralston Saul - Voltaire's Bastards

Fiction:
Tom Robbins - Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Vonnegut - Bluebeard
Arthur Nersesian - The Fuck-Up

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pubeparty February 2 2006, 20:40:36 UTC
Who is this?

I'm just curious to know whose taste I'm blindly trusting?

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igotarock February 3 2006, 15:07:09 UTC
that was me

i don't know why it was anonymous...i thought i was always signed in

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random American suggestions: anonymous February 2 2006, 20:47:35 UTC
Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Anything Vonnegut

Poetry: Fear of Dreaming by Jim Carroll (also includes essays and prose)

I hope you enjoy-

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dykeparty February 2 2006, 22:22:19 UTC
the bible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jk

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hellofadoll February 2 2006, 23:37:40 UTC
the time traveller's wife-audrey niffenegger (this looks like a "girl" book, but it's not so don't be turned off by the cover)

life of pi-yann martel (how obvious am i?)

the red tent-anita diamant

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epic_crayon February 2 2006, 23:51:53 UTC
#1: Piers the Ploughman by William Langland
#2: Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
#3: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
#4: The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

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kissingamemory February 3 2006, 18:19:23 UTC
Piers Ploughman...oh so ambitious, I'm reading that for school right now and...GUH. Anyway...

1. Linden Hills - Gloria Naylor
2. The "Rabbit" series ie. Rabbit, Run; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest - John Updike
3. War Against the Animals - Paul Russell
4. American Pastoral - Philip Roth

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