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brunette
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Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Europe

Maugham 'Far Eastern tales'
Ondaatje 'The English Patient'
Palin 'Sahara'
Golden 'Memoirs of geisha'
by the same author of 'The Beach' - 'The Tesseract'
Saramago 'Blindness'
Hermann Hesse 'Siddhartha'
Camus 'The Fall' ("have you noticed that Amsterdam's concentric canals resemble the circles of hell?")
Eco 'The name of the rose'
Coupland 'Microserfs'
Symmes 'Chasing Che'
Cunninghame 'Mogreb-el-Acksa'

(not all travel books)... I can't think of any more at the moment

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May-31-2003 15:03 Canada

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klingklang77
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: NY & Sydney&Frankfurt&Munich

quote:
Originally posted by DiS

p.s. it still escapes me how Salinger got on that list.

how could you say that^^^^?

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May-31-2003 17:13

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Eu4ea
sticky, sweaty, hot

Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Wicker Park, Chicago

hey ya

thanks heaps everybody, though I've read most of these I have a good list of things to get from border tonight. But damn I wish books weren't so expensive! Please keep more coming.

Esp. anything written by british authors.

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May-31-2003 20:59 United States

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davinox
diving deep into sound

Registered: Dec 2001
Location: you could say i'm from dallas

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May-31-2003 22:37 Tunisia

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fitom tiel
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: down in it

By a British author, although already mentioned before:
'Point Counter Point' by Aldous Huxley,
even more sadisitic than 'Brave New World', if that's possible
'Don't Read this Book if You're Stupid', by Tibor Fischer

otherwise, if you like their style:
'Lullaby', 'Choke', 'Survivor' by Chuck Palahniuk (author of 'Fight Club')

other favorites:
'Prozac Nation' by Elizabeth Wurtzel (made into a movie this year)
It's like an extreme, modern-day J.D. Sallinger novel, with a lot more technicality to it-
'Requiem for a Dream' by Hubert Selby Jr. - tragedy at its best.
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The matriarchal section of Latin American culture, amongst other customs, portrayed in a pessimistic, tragic manner.
Also, anything that relates to forensic medicine; Patricia Cornwell, Jeffrey Deaver.

I dig pessimism.

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May-31-2003 22:48

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fitom tiel
spectacular

Registered: Apr 2003
Location: down in it

davinox, those are a bunch of classics...
including american literature, and just plain historical classics

nice selections, i would recommend those reads, although not all amongst my favorites.

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May-31-2003 23:49

Ortemy
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Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Toronto

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque
Everything is quiet on Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Alchemist - by Paulo Cuelho
Clock Work Orange - Anthony Berdges

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Jun-08-2003 01:00 Russia

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djSlain
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Registered: May 2001
Location: San Diego CA

clockwork orange. SCARY

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The Highroller
ad hoc and ad lib

Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Flying over the cuckoo's nest

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YAH! SERIOUSLY! WOW! Not only the best book. But the best movie ever................

did you read the book cause i know the movie sucked but the book was damn good

Jun-08-2003 02:06

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DJ Chrono
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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: toronto

HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

not a bad book. a little crazy, very short, but worth a read.

Jun-08-2003 03:08 Canada

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Endlesswave
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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Thornhill (Ontario)

Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman - Dragonlance Chronicles Series (First 3)

Click HERE for information (keep in mind look at the Chronicles Trilogy ONLY as some of the other numerous books are good, just not in the same calibre IMO)

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Ortemy
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Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Toronto

quote:
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clockwork orange. SCARY

The movie "Natural Born Killers" is also scary, nevertheless it's really good. Same goes for Clock Work Orange (both movie and the book).

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Jun-08-2003 17:03 Russia

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