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favorite book?
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House of Leaves

House of Leaves
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#32
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If you mean novels, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. If we can stretch the definition a bit, I'll toss in The Odyssey and Macbeth.

If you mean novels, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. If we can stretch the definition a bit, I'll toss in The Odyssey and Macbeth.
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#33
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The Catcher in the Rye

So goddamn good.

The Catcher in the Rye

So goddamn good.
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#34
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MYLESHitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

I had to have read about 30 pages of that but it didn't seem to catch me as anything so amazing. Out of interest, care to explain what it is about the book?

[quote=MYLES]Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy[/quote]
I had to have read about 30 pages of that but it didn't seem to catch me as anything so amazing. Out of interest, care to explain what it is about the book?
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#35
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The wheel of Time

The wheel of Time
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#36
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steppenwolf

steppenwolf
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#37
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i started thinking of what to answer this with. my response got a little long.

Blood Meridian & The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Mrs. Dalloway & Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
100 Years of Solitude & Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Once & Future King by T.H. White
The Castle by Franz Kafka
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni

i started thinking of what to answer this with. my response got a little long.

Blood Meridian & The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Mrs. Dalloway & Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
100 Years of Solitude & Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Once & Future King by T.H. White
The Castle by Franz Kafka
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
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#38
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Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged
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#39
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catcher in the rye

catcher in the rye
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#40
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The Stand for favorite book, the Dark Tower series for best overall.

The Stand for favorite book, the Dark Tower series for best overall.
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#41
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So many classic literary works in these lists, I love it. Now I have tons of suggestions for what to read next as well ^_^

So many classic literary works in these lists, I love it. Now I have tons of suggestions for what to read next as well ^_^
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#42
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ender's game
the old man and the sea

ender's game
the old man and the sea
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Infinite Jest, The Stranger, The Pale King, Gravity's rainbow, and White Noise are all up there. I'd give it to IJ every day of the week though.

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison deserves a mention as well, and as cliched as it is I'd also put Heart of Darkness on any top 10.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, No Exit, and Waiting for Godot for top plays.

Infinite Jest, The Stranger, The Pale King, Gravity's rainbow, and White Noise are all up there. I'd give it to IJ every day of the week though.

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison deserves a mention as well, and as cliched as it is I'd also put Heart of Darkness on any top 10.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, No Exit, and Waiting for Godot for top plays.
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#44
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of my personal favorites.

A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of my personal favorites.
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#45
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Michio Kaku's "Hyperspace" is the best non-fiction I've read so far this year. It's got some REALLY cool theoretical physics that's made as accessible as possible for the average reader. If you like to think about higher dimensions and time travel and parallel universes, Kaku can explain it as well as anyone.

Michio Kaku's "Hyperspace" is the best non-fiction I've read so far this year. It's got some REALLY cool theoretical physics that's made as accessible as possible for the average reader. If you like to think about higher dimensions and time travel and parallel universes, Kaku can explain it as well as anyone.
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#46
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Narn I Chin Hurin. To those that have read it, my name makes a lot more sense.

Narn I Chin Hurin. To those that have read it, my name makes a lot more sense.
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#47
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Slaughterhouse five or Dracula
honorable mention to the tao of pooh

Slaughterhouse five or Dracula
honorable mention to the tao of pooh
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#48
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chuck p books like choke, survivor, pygmy, fight club etc

and american psycho...that book is so fucking good

chuck p books like choke, survivor, pygmy, fight club etc

and american psycho...that book is so fucking good
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#49
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Biff And Chip

Biff And Chip
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#50
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Favorite book is hard
Favorite author(s):
Cormac McCarthy
J.M. Coetzee

Favorite book is hard
Favorite author(s):
Cormac McCarthy
J.M. Coetzee
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#51
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slaughterhouse-five and the westing game are really good books

slaughterhouse-five and the westing game are really good books
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poopboob

poopboob
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#53
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The Silmarillion, or anything from Tolkien's universe

The Silmarillion, or anything from Tolkien's universe
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#54
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Les Miserables

Les Miserables
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Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Also Hitchhikers guide

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Also Hitchhikers guide
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#56
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Littleprince.JPG

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#57
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Toss up between One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, A Canticle For Leibowitz, and Shantaram

Toss up between [u]One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest[/u], [u]A Canticle For Leibowitz[/u], and [u]Shantaram[/u]
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#58
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lincoln the unknown - dale carnegie

lincoln the unknown - dale carnegie
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The Power of One, Once a Runner, Malcolm X's autobiography.

The Power of One, Once a Runner, Malcolm X's autobiography.
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#60
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The Stand, by Stephen King

The Stand, by Stephen King
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