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Recommend a book you think everyone should read.


C is for Corpse. By Sue Grafton

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The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh

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Fight club or The Switch by Elmore Leonard.

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Fight Club is my favorite movie but the book, to me was a little so so. I've even heard that Chuck Palahniuk said the movie is better. 😀

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I love both. I do think the movie is better also. Ive read the book a few times.

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You should check out the switch. They made it into a movie called life of crime. The movie is pretty average but the book is great. I don't know how they made such a mediocre movie. When I was reading it all I was thinking was how it would make such an awesome movie.

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Thanks!

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Chuck is a very interesting person. Heard an interview with him on Tim Ferris blog. He likes to say things that he knows are very wrong when at big name parties. Relishes watching people judge him.

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Dersu the Trapper by V.K. Arseniev

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Master of the Senate : The Years of Lyndon Baines Johnson by Robert Caro

So well written and researched, that it will ruin all other biographies your read.

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I, Claudius by Robert Graves.

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The BBC video series is really great too.

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Yes!!! I rewatched it again just recently, amazing acting from first class actors!

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Yeah, I love that one and the Rome miniseries too, but even without any effects the BBC series is better I think.

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I view I Claudius as a stage play, I'd love to see a new adaption with more money someday.

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Yes, I, Clvdivs was like a play, utterly charming and with great acting.

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omg that is such a favorite!

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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

For non-fiction, The Three Uses of the Knife by David Mamet.

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That David Mamet one sounds interesting.

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A Confederacy of Dunces is a great choice.

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A Confederacy of Dunces is a great novel.

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Comanche Territory, by Arturo P. Reverte. His experience as a war correspondent in the Bosnia War. I read it twice in a row, it's that good.

A Grief Observed, by CS Lewis. No book has ever moved me like this one.

The White Goddess, by Robert Graves. A very thought provoking book about the Pagan Myth in European culture.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon. A masterpiece.

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