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I liked Absalom Absalom a lot
I'm particularly fond of the Rooskies: Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Pushkin, etc.
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One of my favorite novels.
I'm particularly fond of the Rooskies: Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Pushkin, etc."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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what about Gogol... the Ukrainian semi-fantasist surrealist?
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Haven't read him, yet."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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only Le Carre ive read were Tinker, Tailor and Honourable Schoolboy.Originally posted by Richelieu
Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
Pleading Guilty - Scott Turow
The Russia House - John LeCarre"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Its all about golfOriginally posted by nostromo
I was utterly confused when I read The Sound and the Fury, especially the first chapter.
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Originally posted by molly bloom
'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' James Joyce.
"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.""A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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I can't stand Scarlet Letter or Portrait of an Artist.
Or A Seperate Peace, for that matter.
Hmm... If we're speaking about modern ones, I'll say "Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" off the top of my head. For ones part of the literature canon, possibly "Crime and Punishment", though these are both things that I'll have to think about more.B♭3Comment
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Anything by Tom Clancy.
No, not really."The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
"you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
"I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - DissidentComment
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I only started reading Le Carre recently and then again, only in french. I have to admit that i don't enjoy his earlier work as much as i thought i would.Originally posted by lord of the mark
only Le Carre ive read were Tinker, Tailor and Honourable Schoolboy.What?Comment
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If youre comfortable reading English, you should try reading him in the original. In Honourable Schoolboy, theres a certain amount of interplay between the British and Americans, and the different national (and class -yes among the Americans too) dialects is something he uses to establish charecter, and that would likely be lost.Originally posted by Richelieu
I only started reading Le Carre recently and then again, only in french. I have to admit that i don't enjoy his earlier work as much as i thought i would."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Uh....because I like them?Originally posted by DarkCloud
..May I please inquire How those are your favorites and why?
Anything by Michael Crichton.
I love Michael Crichton as well, but I figured most of his books (Jurassic Park, Lost World, Sphere, Prey, etc, would be classified as sci-fi, and thus excluded from this "poll".
If you want courtroom drama, Turow is the man to read. Grisham isn't 1/10 the writer that Turow is IMO.
Never heard of Turow; I'll certainly have to check him out next time I'm at the library.Comment
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I don't think I've read any books that aren't either sci-fi/fantasy or political (which I don't really feel comfortable categorizing as "best")
Don Quixote is probably as close as it gets, although it's really a fantasy book.Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse
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If you are looking for plain entertainment, try Desmond Bagley or Alistair MacLean. HMS Ulysses and Where eagles dare are good -
just found out Iron Maiden has made a piece based upon that book : http://www.lyricsfreak.com/i/iron-maiden/68038.html - I have difficulties to connect Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and Iron Maiden, but what the heck, I like the lyrics 
More heavy stuff could be Doris Lessing - Shikasta, although it's a boarderline sf book; jonathan swift : Gulliver's Travels - a little old but quite funny.With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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I'm partial to Hemingway and Steinbeck, so I'd say: For Whom The Bell Tolls andGrapes of Wrath."I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!Comment
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