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Paul Quarrington - Whale Music, Civilization
Michael Moore - Stupid White Men
Anything by Douglas Coupland.

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
Joan D. Vinge - The Snow Queen
Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man
L. Ron Hubbard - Fear

Anything by Anne Rice .. she's amazing.

Anything (and I mean ANYTHING) by Stephen King.

And the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind (first book is Wizard's First Rule).

Animal Farm by George Orwell is my personal fave... but anything by him is good

1984 by him is also an awesome book.

yes it certainly is...
another good read is Catcher in the Rye,

Animal is so short. Is it a hard read?

I think i might give that a go after hitch hikers guide to the galaxy which i've heard is really good.

I was just about to recommmend the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

They're great books. Funny too.
If you get them, you best bet it to buy the big hard-cover omnibus with all five books. It's about 40 bucks, but it's definately worth it.

animal farm and 1984 were both great, but did anyone else have no trouble guessing what was going to happen in animal farm after reading 1984? the books were very similar, he just couldn't get a book like 1984 published during america and britains pro stalin period. so he released animal farm as a "fairy tale"

Manuel Puig (favorite.author.ever.): Heartbreak Tango, Kiss of the Spider Woman

Camus: The Stranger, The Plague

Flannery O'Conner: Any of her short stories

Jane Kenyon: Otherwise (poetry)

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card. best historical fiction/fantasy ever

here's a really good one....

A Burning Book - By the Reno Rican himself.

naw, i'm screwing with you book luvin peoples.

The Fall of the Duke of Duval. <-- this shit really happened.
The Bartenders bible <--- tastiest book ever!

edit: damn i'm forgetting another good one.
Che Guevara's guide to gurilla warfare. be for warned, the buying of this book may/maynot put you on an FBI watch list. especially in today's day and age.

su7an wrote:I was just about to recommmend the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

They're great books. Funny too.
If you get them, you best bet it to buy the big hard-cover omnibus with all five books. It's about 40 bucks, but it's definately worth it.

I paid $15 for that...

saman wrote:Enchantment by Orson Scott Card. best historical fiction/fantasy ever

Good, but not his best. I'd go with Ender's Game or Wyrms. But then I'm more into Sci-Fi than fantasy.

Aerin wrote:

su7an wrote:I was just about to recommmend the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

They're great books. Funny too.
If you get them, you best bet it to buy the big hard-cover omnibus with all five books. It's about 40 bucks, but it's definately worth it.

I paid $15 for that...

My copy was $35.95 canadian

Hardover vs Softcover, as well as American vs Canadian $?

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut. I especially enjoyed Cat's Cradle.


I didn't really like 1984 after reading Animal Farm twice. To me, it just seemed like a lot of sex.

And Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger is good, along with his short stories. I don't know why, but I also enjoyed A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, but that is a little bit younger.

Axtech wrote:Hardover vs Softcover, as well as American vs Canadian $?

Hardcover, American. It was on the discount rack at Barnes & Noble. Snatched that puppy up before you could say "cool and froody"!