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Old 06-06-2006, 03:14 PM
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suggest me really good books

im going away to Arkansas on the 17th which is the most boring place on Earth. Not only that but my flights/layovers are going to take forever.
So tell me your favorites because my books have bee read/reread too many times and i need an excuse to go to the bookstore
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ooo didnt know there was another thread.
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JD Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye/To Esme With Love And Squallor

Graham Greene - Brighton Rock

John Osborne - Look Back In Anger

Shelagh Delaney - A Taste Of Honey
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JD Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye/To Esme With Love And Squallor

Graham Greene - Brighton Rock

John Osborne - Look Back In Anger

Shelagh Delaney - A Taste Of Honey
Thank you...ive actually never read The Catcher In The Rye and i have always wanted to.
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Thank you...ive actually never read The Catcher In The Rye and i have always wanted to.
Do it, do it! Everyone says it's this seminal teenage book (which it is), but I didn't read it until I was about 19. And I still re-read it every 3 months or so
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im going to have to get that one...ive always wanted to read it.
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Thank you...ive actually never read The Catcher In The Rye and i have always wanted to.
do it!

it's my favourite book.


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how did i manage to miss out on that one?
i was also thinking of bringing the Divinci Code since everyone and their mother is telling me to read it.
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have you read any kurt vonnegut?
he's highly entertaining and easy to read without being mindless shit like the da vinci code (which is a good airplane read i guess, as it is interesting without being challening at all)
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Nooooooooooooooooooo my friend keeps telling me to read him AND Tom Robbins.
I have "skinny legs and all" and "even cowgirls get the blues"

i realllllllllllllly want to read his one book that of course i cant remember the name of right now. The one that takes place in a pack of camels?
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i haven't read any tom robbins.

i'm not aware of any vonnegut with camels, lol. although he has loads of books.

my faves:

jailbird
deadeye dick
breakfast of champions
slaughterhose five
bluebeard
cat's cradle
sirens of titans
god bless you, mr rosewater

there's loads more, and most bookshops should have slaughterhouse five or breakfast of champions.

ha, when i was at uni i systematically read every vonnegut book they had. one entire shelf
i can't remember all of them though, because he uses a lot of the same characters in his books, so they all sort of blend in my head lol. h's a genius though.
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No, the camel book is tom robbins.
ill pick up some vunnegut too while im at it, hes another one ive always wanted to read.
i think im going to get more poppy z brite as well, i loved Exquisite Corpse
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