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Mon Sep-29-03 07:44 PM
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5 favorite fiction writers. 5 favorite fiction novels |
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1. Fyodor Dosteovsky 2. Joseph Conrad 3. Graham Greene 4. E.M. Forster 5. William S. Burroughs
1. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky 2. "The Idiot" by Dostoevsky 3. "Lord Jim" by Conrad 4. "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie 5. "The Wild Ass's Skin" by Honore de Balzac
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Mon Sep-29-03 07:46 PM
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1. Dang..I don't read alot of fiction....so I'll say |
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I tried to think of this...but all I read is biographies, social commentary, and history related books....sorry! All I can think of id "A star Called Henry" And "Micro serfs"
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Mon Sep-29-03 07:47 PM
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Catcher in the rye and Misswyoming too!
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Mon Sep-29-03 07:48 PM
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george Orwell 1984 and Animal Farm (Ok so the former is suposed to be fiction not prophecy)
Isaac Asimor, I Robot
Brothers Karamazov, Fiodr Dostoyevsky
Men of Corn, Miguel Angel Asturias
Ben Bova, Jupiter
Weiss and Hickman the first Dragonlance trilogy, yes the whole trilogy
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Mon Sep-29-03 07:49 PM
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1. George Orwell 2. Michael Chabon 3. Chuck Palahniuk 4. Jim Thompson 5. Ernest Hemingway
1. Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Chabon) 2. Fight Club (Palahniuk) 3. 1984 (Orwell) 4. Survivor (Palahniuk) 5. Killer Inside Me (Thompson)
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Mon Sep-29-03 07:51 PM
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1. William Faulkner 2. Flannery O'Connor 3. Vladimir Nabokov 4. Haruki Murakami 5. Zadie Smith
1. Absalom Absalom by Faulkner 2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 3. Wise Blood by O'Connor 4. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Murakami 5. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
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Mon Sep-29-03 07:53 PM
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Edited on Mon Sep-29-03 07:54 PM by curse10
1. Kurt Vonnegut 2. Leo Tolstoy 3. Charles Dickens 4. William Faulkner 5. Vikram Seth
1. Anna Karenina, Tolstoy 2. Wuthering Heights, Bronte 3. David Copperfield, Dickens 4. Player Piano, Vonnegut 5. An Equal Music, Seth
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Mon Sep-29-03 08:00 PM
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we probably have better taste than freepers. congrats!
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Mon Sep-29-03 08:09 PM
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8. READ DAWN BY ELI WEISEL!!!!! |
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Authors 1. Eli Weisel 2. Voltaire 3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4. Toni Morrison 5. Dan Simmons
Books 1. Dawn (Eli Weisel) (Best book ever) 2. Candide (short story “The World as it is) (Voltaire) 3. The Chosen (Chaim Potok) 4. Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison) 5. Endymion (Dan Simmons) Extras 6. The Brothers Karamazov (Big D) 7. 1984 8. A Handmaiden’s Tale 9. Dune 10. Heart of Darkness
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Mon Sep-29-03 08:09 PM
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1. James Joyce 2. Jonathan Swift 3. John Updike 4. Willa Cather 5. Umberto Eco
1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2. Gulliver's Travels 3. Rabbit Redux 4. My Antonia 5. The Name of the Rose
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Mon Sep-29-03 08:11 PM
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1. Thomas Pynchon 2. William S. Burroughs 3. Anthony Burgess 4. Vladimir Nabokov 5. Umberto Eco
1. Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon 2. The Red Night Trilogy, Burroughs (I count them as one since they go together. Hope that's okay.) 3. The Name of the Rose, Eco 4. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace 5. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
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Mon Sep-29-03 08:47 PM
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12. Here's Mine (In no particular order) |
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1. Charles Dickens 2. Jane Austen 3. Edith Wharton 4. The Bronte Sisters 5. J. K. Rowling (I know they're children's books, but I don't care)
1. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte 2. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 3. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 4. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton 5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling
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Mon Sep-29-03 08:55 PM
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13. Good thing you didn't ask for 6. |
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Five I can do. Dostoevsky, Dumas, Conrad, Stevenson, Twain.
Crime & Punishment, Gone With The Wind, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Scarlet Pimpernel, Wuthering Heights.
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Mon Sep-29-03 09:08 PM
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Authors (in no particular order):
Neil Gaiman Frank Herbert Isaac Asimov Kurt Vonnegut Anne Rice/Tom Robbins (tie--OK, not really, but I couldn't get rid of anyone else)
Books (again, in no particular order):
Dune (series) Fast Sofa - Bruce Craven Jitterbug Perfune - Tom Robbins Choke - Chuck Palahuiak Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
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